Professor Dimitris Bertsimas
Co-Founding Partner at Interpretable A
Professor Dimitris Bertsimas
Co-Founding Partner at Interpretable A
Professor Dimitris Bertsimas, is currently the Co-Founding Partner at Interpretable AI, Associate Dean of Business Analytics, Boeing Professor of Operations Research and faculty director of the Master of Business analytics at MIT. He received his SM and PhD in Applied Mathematics and Operations Research from MIT in 1987 and 1988 respectively. He has been with the MIT faculty since 1988. 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 200 scientific papers and four graduate level textbooks, with the most recent one being Machine Learning under a Modern Optimization Lens co-authored with another Co-Founding Partner Jack Dunn. He is the editor in Chief of INFORMS Journal of Optimization and former department editor in Optimization for Management Science and in Financial Engineering in Operations Research. He has supervised 66 doctoral students and he is currently supervising 25 others. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering since 2005, an INFORMS fellow, and he has received numerous research and teaching awards.