Retsef Levi
J. Spencer Standish Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
Retsef Levi is the J. Spencer Standish (1945) Professor of Operations 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
- Levi, R., Magnanti, T., & Shaposhnik, Y. (2024). Scheduling with Testing of Heterogeneous Jobs. Management Science, 70(5), 2934–2953.
- Levi, R., Rajan, M., Singhvi, S., & Zheng, Y. (2024). Improving Farmers’ Income on Online Agri-Platforms: Evidence from the Field. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.
- Levi, R., & Schurr, E. (2024). Miscarriage after SARS‐CoV‐2 vaccination: A request to report more details of the regression models and analyses. BJOG an International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 131(9), 1322.
Media
- December 11, 2023: MIT News, MIT Generative AI Week fosters dialogue across disciplines
- September 18, 2023: MIT News, MIT scholars awarded seed grants to probe the social implications of generative AI
- August 18, 2023: MIT News, Artificial intelligence for augmentation and productivity