Dimitris Bertsimas


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

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