Retsef Levi
J. Spencer Standish Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
Retsef Levi is the J. Spencer Standish (1945) Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Levi is affiliated with the MIT Operations Research Center and is the MIT Sloan co-director of the leaders for Global Operations (LGO) Program. His current research focuses on the design of analytical decision-making models and tools for areas of great uncertainty, including in healthcare management, supply chain, procurement and inventory management, revenue management, pricing optimization and logistics. He is interested in the theory underlying these models and algorithms and their computational and organizational applicability in practical settings.
Before coming to MIT, he was a postdoc at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, an intelligence officer with the Israeli Defense Forces, and a business development consultant. He earned a BS in mathematics from Tel-Aviv University and a PhD in operations research from Cornell University.
Selected Publications
- Hu, K., Levi, R., Yahalom, R., & Zerhouni, E. G. (2025). Supply chain characteristics as predictors of cyber risk: A machine-learning assessment. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 1–10.
- Sun, C. L. F., Copenhaver, M. S., Zenteno Langle, A. C., Viscomi, B., Raeke, E., Daily, B. J., Dunn, P. F., & Levi, R. (2025). Improved intrahospital transport time via proximity-based staff assignments. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 32(8), 1255–1266.
- Levi, R., Magnanti, T., & Shaposhnik, Y. (2024). Scheduling with Testing of Heterogeneous Jobs. Management Science, 70(5), 2934–2953.
Media
- February 19, 2025: MIT News, J-WAFS: Supporting food and water research across MIT
- : MIT News, MIT scholars awarded seed grants to probe the social implications of generative AI
- December 11, 2023: MIT News, MIT Generative AI Week fosters dialogue across disciplines