Testimonial Type: Faculty

I joined the Operations Research Center in 2019 and it immediately became a central part of my “academic family”. Its interdisciplinary and its collegiality make it a truly unique place on campus. The ORC brings together researchers and students working on an impressive range of topics—spanning methods such as optimization, machine learning, stochastic modeling, and…

The ORC has had a special place within MIT for many decades. As an interdepartmental center, it has functioned as a focal point, bringing together faculty from different parts of MIT, with interests in optimization, stochastic models, and applications in many different domains. It has attracted a steady stream of outstanding students who have gone…

My research collaboration with ORC students, both doctoral and master’s, has been the most exciting part of my career at MIT. Together, we have made journeys to many sectors, including public safety (police, fire, and ambulance), sanitation, energy management, transportation, inventory management, homeland security, and many more. Along the way, we have framed and formulated new OR…

When I came to MIT for the first time in 1981 as a graduate student, my initial plan was simply to get a master’s degree, visit a bit the U.S., and then go back to France to work as an engineer. Research and academic careers were absolutely not even part of the thought process. Little…

Starting around two and a half years ago, I began interacting with a young statistician, Rahul Mazumder, about synergies between research in statistics and optimization—two topics that form part of the core of operations research as a discipline. Together with Paul Grigas, a doctoral student at the ORC, the three of us started to explore…