Faculty

Daron
Acemoglu
MIT Institute Professor
Economics
(617) 253-1927
E52-446
Political economy
Development economics
Applied game theory
Search theory
Networks

Saurabh
Amin
Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
(617) 253-8003
1-241
Control and optimization
Applied game theory
Networks
Infrastructure Resilience

Sinan
Aral
David Austin Professor of Management, IT, Marketing and Data Science; Director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (IDE)
Sloan School of Management
(617) 324-7535
E62-414
Social contagion
Product virality and measuring
Social networks and productivity
Consumer demand
Viral marketing

Navid
Azizan
Esther & Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Assistant Professor
LIDS; ME; IDSS
(617) 715-4273
32-D726
Machine Learning and Al
Non-convex and Networked Optimization
Learning for safety-critical systems
Networks and Dynamics
Energy and smart grid

Hamsa
Balakrishnan
William E. Leonhard (1940) Professor
Aeronautics & Astronautics
(617) 253-6101
33-328
Air transportation
Air traffic management
Airport operations
Environmental impacts of transportation systems
Air traffic control and surveillance

Arnold
Barnett
George Eastman Professor of Management Science; Professor of Statistics
Sloan School of Management
(617) 253-2670
E62-568
Probability modeling and statistics
Transportation systems
Criminal behavior
Health
Risk analysis and perception

Cynthia
Barnhart
Provost
Civil & Environmental Engineering
(617) 253-3815
E62-561
Large-scale optimization
Planning and operations of networked systems
Transportation systems design under uncertainty and competition

Dimitris
Bertsimas
Boeing Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management; Associate Dean for Business Analytics
Sloan School of Management
(617) 253-4223
E62-560
Analytics
Discrete, convex and robust optimization
Statistical learning under a modern optimization lens
Personalized medicine

Guy
Bresler
Associate Professor
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
(617) 324-1549
32-D672
Graphical Models
High-Dimensional Statistics
Applied Probability

Victor
Chernozhukov
Professor of Economics
Economics
(617) 253-4767
E52-524
Econometrics
Mathematical statistics
Machine learning

Costis
Daskalakis
Avanessians Professor of EECS
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
(617) 253-9643
32-G694
Algorithmic game theory
Computational biology
Applied probability

Richard
de Neufville
Professor of Engineering Systems
Civil & Environmental Engineering
(617) 253-7694
E17-369
Real options
Decision analysis
Engineering systems design
Airports

Joann
de Zegher
Maurice F. Strong Career Development Professor; Assistant Professor of Operations Management
Sloan School of Management
(617) 324-0627
E62-585
Mechanism design for social good
Innovations in developing economies
Sustainable supply chains
Large-scale field work and controlled experimentation
Data-driven decision-making

Joseph
Doyle
Erwin H. Schell Professor of Management and Applied Economics
Sloan School of Management
(617) 452-3761
E62-515
Economics
Heath Economics
Measuring Healthcare Quality
Child Welfare

Vivek
Farias
Patrick J. McGovern (1959) Professor
Sloan School of Management
(617) 253-7659
E62-566
Reinforcement Learning
Inference
Approximation Algorithms
Commerce Platforms

Gabriele
Farina
X-Window Consortium Career Development Assistant Professor
LIDS, EECS
32D-560
Game solving
Decision making under uncertainty
Online optimization

Joseph
Ferreira
Professor
Urban Studies & Planning
(617) 253-7410
9-532
Analytic methods
Computer-based modeling for urban planning and policy analysis

Robert
Freund
Theresa Seley Professor in Management Science
Sloan School of Management
(617) 253-8997
E62-567
Optimization theory
Optimization algorithms
Data science
Statistical/machine learning
Complexity guarantees

Daniel
Freund
Class of 1947 Career Development Professor
Sloan School of Management
(617) 324-7442
E62-584
Optimization
Applied Probability
Transportation
Online marketplaces

David
Gamarnik
Nanyang Technological University Professor of Operations Research
Sloan School of Management
(617) 253-7779
E62-563
Discrete Probability
Optimization
Statistics and Machine Learning
Quantum Computing
Quantum Computing

Stanley
Gershwin
Senior Lecturer
Mechanical Engineering
(617) 253-2149
35-210
Manufacturing systems
Applied operations research
Probability and stochastic processes
Queueing theory
Control theory

Michel
Goemans
Department Head; RSA Professor of Mathematics Algorithms, Combinatorics & Optimization
Mathematics
(617) 253-2688
2-474
Combinatorial optimization
Theoretical computer science
Mathematical optimization

Negin
Golrezaei
KDD Career Development Professor in Communications and Technology; Associate Professor of Operations Management
Sloan School of Management
715-2622
E62-577
Machine learning
Statistical learning theory
Mechanism design
Optimization algorithms
Game theory

Steven
Graves
Professor, Post Tenure; Abraham J. Siegel Professor of Management Science
Sloan School of Management
(617) 253-6602
E62-579
Supply chain modeling and optimization
Online retailing
Manufacturing, distribution and service systems

Swati
Gupta
Assistant Professor
Sloan School of Management
(617) 324-6165
E62-582
Optimization
Machine Learning
Algorithmic Fairness

Tommi
Jaakkola
Thomas Siebel Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
3-0440
32-G470
Machine Learning
Probabilistic Modeling
Computational Chemistry

Alexandre
Jacquillat
Associate Professor of Operations Research and Statistics
Sloan School of Management
617-715-4848
E62-586
Stochastic optimization
Data-driven decision-making
Analytics for social good
Large-scale Optimization
Transportation

Patrick
Jaillet
Dugald C. Jackson Professor of EECS; Codirector, Operations Research Center
EECS; LIDS
(617) 452-3379
32-D624
Online optimization and learning
Machine learning
Sequential decision making under uncertainty

Stefanie
Jegelka
Associate Professor
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
(617) 324-6748
32-G472
Machine Learning
Combinatorial and Continuous Optimization
Computer Vision
Materials Design
Biology

Jónas
Jónasson
Associate Professor of Operations Management
Sloan School of Management
(617) 715-5109
E62-588
Healthcare delivery operations
Global health
Health modeling
Analytics

Jonathan
Kelner
Professor of Applied Mathematics
Computer Science; Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
(617) 253-4344
2-344
Combinatorial optimization
Mathematical programming
Spectral graph theory
Distributed computing
Geometry and topology

Richard
Larson
Professor Post Tenure, Data, Systems, and Society
Civil & Environmental Engineering
(617) 253-3604
E17-365
Queues
Epidemics
STEM Education
Scientific Workforce
Location Theory

Retsef
Levi
J. Spencer Standish (1945) Professor of Management; Co-Director of Leaders for Global Operations Program
Sloan School of Management
(617) 253-4155
E62-562
Analytics
Algorithms
Food
Health
Agriculture

Andrew
Lo
Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor; Director of the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering
Sloan School of Management
(617) 253-0920
E62-618
Financial engineering
Mathematical finance
Computational finance
Statistics
Econometrics

Thodoris
Lykouris
Mitsui Career Development Assistant Professor
Sloan School of Management
(617) 253-3313
E62-590
Data-driven Sequential Decision-making
Machine Learning
Reinforcement Learning
Dynamic Optimization
Economics

Thomas
Magnanti
Institute Professor
Sloan School of Management
(617) 253-6604
32-D610A
Mathematical programming
Network optimization and design
Telecommunications
Supply chains

Rahul
Mazumder
Robert G. James Career Development Associate Professor
Sloan School of Management
(617) 253-2652
E62-583
Machine learning
Machine learning Modeling
Convex and discrete optimization
First order methods
Stochastic and large scale optimization

Eytan
Modiano
Richard C. Maclauring Professor in Aeronautics and Astronautics
Aeronautics & Astronautics
(617) 452-3414
32-D628
Communications
Networks
Network control
Stochastic networks

James
Orlin
E. Pennell Brooks (1917) Professor in Management
Sloan School of Management
(617) 253-6606
E62-570
Network optimization
Combinatorial optimization
Algorithms
Computational complexity

Asuman
Ozdaglar
MathWorks Professor of EECS; Department Head of EECS; Deputy Dean of Academics, Schwarzman College of Computing
EECS; LIDS
(617) 253-4607
38-403
Nonlinear optimization
Convex analysis
Game theory
Network economics and optimization

Pablo
Parrilo
Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
(617) 324-1542
32-D724
Control and identification of uncertain complex systems
Robustness analysis and synthesis
Convex optimization

Georgia
Perakis
William F. Pounds Professor of Operations Research & Statistics and Operations Management; Codirector, Operations Research Center
Sloan School of Management
(617) 253-8277
E40-111
Predictive and prescriptive analytics
Optimization
Pricing
Supply Chain
Healthcare

Chara
Podimata
Assistant Professor of OR/Stat (as of July 1st)
Sloan School of Management
Social Aspects of Computing
Algorithmic Fairness
Machine Learning
Algorithmic Game Theory
Mechanism Design

Manish
Raghavan
Drew Houston (2005) Career Development Professor
Sloan School of Management; Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
(617) 715-5368
E62-459
Algorithmic fairness
Behavioral economics
Algorithmic decision-making
Online platforms
Game theory

Thomas
Roemer
Director, Leaders for Global Operations; Senior Lecturer, Operations Management
Sloan School of Management
(617) 324-6209
E40-319
Product design and development
Operations management
Manufacturing systems
Supply chain management
Applied operations research

Devavrat
Shah
Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
(617) 253-4670
32-D670
Network algorithms
Stochastic networks
Statistical inference
Network information theory

Yossi
Sheffi
Elisha Gray II Professor of Engineering Systems; Director, MIT CTL; Professor, CEE
CTL; CEE
(617) 253-5316
E40-259
Logistics
Supply chain management
Freight transportation
Enterprise resilience and risk management
Corporate social responsibility

David
Simchi-Levi
Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
(617) 253-6160
E17-459
Statistical Learning
Online and Offline Learning
Dynamic Pricing
Learning and Optimizing
Inventory Optimization

Duncan
Simester
Nanyang Technological University Professor of Marketing
Sloan School of Management
(617) 258-0679
E62-542
Marketing
Pricing
Customer segmentation
Machine learning
Game theory

David
Sontag
Professor
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
617-715-5828
32-G464
Machine Learning
Healthcare
Graphical Models
Approximate Inference
Causal Inference

Andy
Sun
Associate Professor in Operations Research and Statistics, Iberdrola-Avangrid Professor in Electric Power Systems
Sloan School of Management
253-7412
E62-559
Multistage optimization under uncertainty
Mixed-integer nonlinear optimization
Electric power system operation and planning
Multi-energy systems optimization
Electrified transportation

Jessika
Trancik
Professor
Institute for Data, Systems and Society
(617) 715-4552
E17-447
Energy systems modeling
Materials optimization for low-carbon energy technologies

Nikos
Trichakis
Associate Professor
Sloan School of Management
(617) 715-4215
E62-576
Analytics
Optimization
Health management
Supply chain management
Finance

John
Tsitsiklis
Clarence J Lebel Professor of Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
32-D726
Stochastic systems
Optimization
Control
Networks

Caroline
Uhler
Professor
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
(617) 253-4181
32-D634
Machine learning
Biomedical Applications
Statistics
Causal inference

Bart
Van Parys
Assistant Professor
Sloan School of Management
(617) 253-6697
E62-569
Operations research
Machine learning
Control and Decision-Making
Optimization
Data analytics

Jiang
Wang
Mizuho Financial Group Professor
Sloan School of Management
(617) 253-2632
E62-614
Models of financial markets
Asset pricing theory
International finance

Roy
Welsch
Eastman Kodak Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management; Professor of Statistics and Management Science
Sloan School of Management
(617) 460-2283
E62-564
Statistics
Data mining
Robust estimation
Finance
Bioinformatics

Y. Karen
Zheng
George M. Bunker Professor; Associate Professor of Operations Management
Sloan School of Management
(617) 253-4512
E62-578
Behavioral operations
Sustainable supply chains
Information transparency
Experimental methods