Ideas Made to Matter
MIT Sloan research about the coronavirus pandemic
The latest working papers from MIT Sloan faculty about the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic.
Faculty
Dimitris Bertsimas is the Boeing Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management, a Professor of Operations Research, and the Associate Dean for the Master of Business Analytics at MIT.
A faculty member since 1988, his research interests include optimization, stochastic systems, machine learning, and their application. In recent years, he has worked in robust optimization, statistics, healthcare, transportation and finance. Bertsimas was a cofounder of Dynamic Ideas, LLC, which developed portfolio management tools for asset management. In 2002, the assets of Dynamic Ideas were sold to American Express. He is also the founder of Dynamic Ideas Press, a publisher of scientific books, the cofounder of Benefits Science, a company that designs health care plans for companies, of Dynamic Ideas Financial, a company that provides financial advice to customers, of Alpha Dynamics, an asset management company, P2 Analytics, an analytics consulting company and of MyA health, a personalized health care advice company.
Bertsimas has coauthored more than 200 scientific papers and the following books: Introduction to Linear Optimization (with J. Tsitsiklis, Athena Scientific and Dynamic Ideas, 2008); Data, Models, and Decisions (with R. Freund, Dynamic Ideas, 2004); Optimization over Integers (with R. Weismantel, Dynamic Ideas, 2005); and The Analytics Edge (with A. O'Hair andW. Pulleyblank, Dynamic Ideas, 2016). He is former department editor of Optimization for Management Science and of Operations Research in Financial Engineering. Bertsimas has supervised 59 doctoral and 31 Master students. He is currently supervising 22 doctorla students. A member of the National Academy of Engineering and an INFORMS fellow, he has received numerous research awards, including the Harold Larnder Prize (2016), the Philip Morse Lecturship prize (2013), the William Pierskalla best paper award in health care (2013), best paper award in Trapsoration (2013), the Farkas Prize (2008), the Erlang Prize (1996), the SIAM Prize in Optimization (1996), the Bodossaki Prize (1998), and the Presidential Young Investigator Award (1991–1996). He has also received recognition for his educational contributions: The Jamieson prize (2013) and the Samuel M. Seegal prize (1999).
Bertsimas holds a BS in electrical engineering and computer science from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, as well as an MS in operations research and a PhD in applied mathematics and operations research from MIT.
Bertsimas, Dimitris, Melvyn Sim, and Meilin Zhang. Management Science. Forthcoming.
Bertsimas, Dimitris, Theodore Papalexopoulos, Nikolaos Trichakis, Yuchen Wang, Ryutaro Hirose, Parsia Vagefi. Transplantation. Forthcoming. github Supplement.
Bertsimas, Dimitris, Jourdain Lamperski, and Jean Pauphilet. Mathematical Programming. Forthcoming.
Dimitris Bertsimas, and Velibor V. Mišić. Management Science. Forthcoming.
Bertsimas, Dimitris, and Iain Dunning. INFORMS Journal of Computing. Forthcoming.
Bertsimas, Dimitris, Jean Pauphilet, and Bart Van Parys. Statistical Science. Forthcoming.
The latest working papers from MIT Sloan faculty about the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic.
Prof. Dimitris Bertsimas and nearly two dozen doctoral students are using machine learning and optimization to find answers and generating accurate real-time insight into the pandemic.
Source: U.S. News & World Report | Education
Why is data such an integral part of how businesses operate? Because numbers don't lie, says Dimitris Bertsimas.
Source: WTNH-TV (Video)
“If you have 10,000 people protesting together, ...the three people infected might become a thousand people infected,” [said Prof.] Bertsimas
Source: The Hartford Courant
Dimitris Bertsimas said Connecticut's reopening has so far been handled “reasonably appropriately."
Source: The New York Times
“We are reasonably certain until approximately June 15 there will be significant measures...After that, God knows.”