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Georgia Perakis is the William F. Pounds Professor of Operations Management, Operations Research, and Statistics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She has been a faculty member at MIT Sloan since July 1998, teaching undergraduate, MSc, PhD, MBA, and EMBA programs. Her teaching has been recognized with several awards, including the Graduate Student Council Teaching Award in 2002 and the Jamieson Prize in 2014. In research, Perakis focuses on analytics and artificial intelligence, particularly in optimization, machine learning applications, pricing, revenue management, supply chain, and healthcare. She has published extensively in leading journals such as Operations Research, Management Science, and Mathematics of Operations Research, and has received various awards including the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation and the PECASE Award from the Office of the President. Perakis has supervised 30 PhD and 59 master's students, receiving the Samuel M. Seegal Award in 2012 for inspiring student excellence. She has held various leadership roles, including the Associate Dean for Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing at the Schwarzman College of Computing and has served as co-director of the Operations Research Center. Perakis is also the editor-in-chief of the Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Journal.
Operations Research Center • MIT
Co-director of the interdepartmental PhD program at MIT.
Schwarzman College of Computing • MIT
Appointed Associate Dean for Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing.
Executive MBA Program • MIT Sloan School of Management
Directed the Executive MBA program.
Operations Management Group • MIT Sloan School of Management
Led the Operations Management group.