Georgia Perakis
John C Head III Dean (interim), Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management; Associate Dean, Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing; Co-Director, MIT Operations Research Center
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Georgia Perakis is the John C Head III Dean (interim) and the William F. Pounds Professor of Operations Research and Statistics and Operations Management at MIT Sloan, associate dean of Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing in the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, and co-director of the MIT Operations Research Center. She co-chairs the GenAI Dean’s Oversight Group at the MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium. She investigates the theory and practice of analytics (optimization and machine learning) with applications in pricing, revenue management, supply chains, healthcare, logistics and energy applications. Perakis is an elected fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) and a recipient of an NSF Career Award, a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, and faculty awards from Adobe and IBM. Her teaching honors include MIT’s Jamieson Prize and MIT Sloan’s Teacher of the Year award. She earned a BS in mathematics from the University of Athens, and a PhD in applied mathematics from Brown University.
Selected Publications
- Tsiourvas, A., & Perakis, G. (2024). Overcoming the optimizer’s curse: Obtaining realistic prescriptions from neural networks. In Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning, Vienna, Austria. PMLR 235.
- Tsiourvas, A., Sun, W., Perakis, G., Chen, P.-Y., & Zhu, Y. (2024). Learning optimal projection for forecast reconciliation of hierarchical time series. In Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning, Vienna, Austria. PMLR 235.
- Tsiourvas, A., Sun, W., & Perakis, G. (2024). Learning optimal projection for forecast reconciliation of hierarchical time series. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2024, Valencia, Spain. PMLR: Volume 238.
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- January 6, 2025: MIT News, Richard Locke PhD ’89 named dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management
- Oct 31, 2024: MIT Sloan, AI Expert Spotlight: Georgia Perakis