Dimitris Bertsimas

Dimitris Bertsimas is an applied mathematician, and a professor in the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Dimitris J. Bertsimas
Born
Athens, Greece
NationalityGreek
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materNational Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known foroptimization
machine learning
AwardsMember of the United States National Academy of Engineering
von Neumann Theory prize
INFORMS President Award
Erlang Prize
Farkas Prize
SIAM Optimization Prize
Scientific career
FieldsOptimization
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
ThesisProbabilistic Combinatorial Optimization Problems (1988)
Doctoral advisorDaniel J. Kleitman
Amedeo Rodolfo Odoni [1]
Doctoral studentsMichel Goemans
Daisuke Nakazato
Garrett van Ryzin
Gina Mourtzinou
Jose Nino-Mora
Chung-Piaw Teo
Yannis Paschalidis
David Gamarnik
Thalia Chryssikou
Ioana Popescu
Jay Sethuraman
Dessi Pachamanova
Sanne de Boer
Adam Mersereau
Karthik Natarajan
Melvyn Sim
Aurelie Thiele
David Brown
Constantine Caramanis
Michele Aghassi
Margret Bjarnadottir
Nikos Trichakis
Dan Iancu
Chaitanya Bandi
Allison O' Hair
Nathan Kallus
Vishal Gupta
John Silberholz
Nataly Youssef
Velibor Misic
Jack Dunn
Sebastien Martin
Daisy Zhuo

Biography

Bertsimas received a Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 1985 and an MS and PhD in Operations Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987 and 1988 respectively. Since 1988, he has been with the MIT faculty. His research interests include optimization, machine learning and applied probability and their applications in health care, finance, operations management and transportation. He has co-authored more than 220 scientific papers and five graduate level textbooks. He is the editor in Chief of INFORMS Journal on Optimization and former department editor in Optimization for Management Science and in Financial Engineering in Operations Research. He is the founding director of the Masters of Business Analytics at MIT. He is currently the Associate Dean of Business Analytics at MIT's Sloan School Management. He has supervised 72 doctoral students and he is currently supervising 25 others. He has been a serial entrepreneur in the areas of financial services, health care, education, machine learning and transportation.

Philosophy

Bertsimas describes his values and his philosophy as an advisor in https://www.mit.edu/~dbertsim/#myphilosophy He further articulates some of his life experiences in https://www.mit.edu/~dbertsim/#lifestories

Awards and honors

Textbooks
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See also
  • Optimization (mathematics)

References
  1. Dimitris Bertsimas at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2016-03-05.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. https://www.siam.org/prizes/sponsored/siagopt.php
  4. http://www.nae.edu/27545.aspx
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