Testimonial Type: Alumni

I completed my PhD in Operations Research from MIT in 2017. My thesis, entitled “From Data to Decisions in Healthcare: An Optimization Perspective,” was supervised by Professor Dimitris Bertsimas. My research explored applications of optimization and machine learning to data-driven problems in the design and analysis of clinical trials and personalized diabetes management. After graduating…

When I came to the ORC open house, I immediately felt at home. I longed for a graduate program to work on important, multidisciplinary problems in society, but also on a day-to-day basis incorporating my love of solving challenging theoretical problems I found in my engineering undergraduate studies. Operations Research was exactly what I was…

I was born and raised in Athens, Greece. I received my Diploma (a 5-year degree) from the Electrical and Computer Engineering School of the National University of Athens, Greece in June 1991. Just before I graduated I got a phone call from Prof. Bertsimas inviting me to join the ORC. And I did arrive in…

Basic background information on yourself, perhaps where you came from, former education, etc. I was born in Canyon, Texas but grew up in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.  Before coming to MIT, I attended McGill University in Montreal, and received my BA with Honors in Urban and Economic Geography in 1977.  My goal at that time was…

I studied engineering for my undergraduate degree at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. In my final year, I started thinking hard about what I wanted to do in the future, and as I had really enjoyed the research opportunities I had had to date, I decided to apply to PhD programs in operations…

I grew up in China and Canada, and studied at Duke University for my bachelor’s degree in mathematics and computer science. I obtained a PhD in operations research from MIT ORC in June 2016, under the guidance of Professor Itai Ashlagi, my academic advisor. My PhD research was on prediction and optimization in school choice.…

Tell us about yourself. I am originally from Belgrade, Serbia, and I completed my bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Toronto, both in industrial engineering. What degree did you receive from MIT and when? I received my PhD in operations research (OR) in 2016. Who was your advisor at MIT? What kind of…