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Patrick Jaillet holds a joint appointment in the Operations Research Statistics Group at the MIT Sloan School and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is the Dugald C. Jackson Professor and has been a member of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems and the Operations Research Center at MIT. He served as Co-Director of the Operations Research Center from 2010 to 2025 and was the Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT from 2002 to 2009. Previously, he was a Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where he chaired the Department of Management Science and Information Systems and co-founded the Center for Computational Finance. Jaillet has extensive academic training, receiving a Diplôme d'Ingénieur in France (1981), an SM in Transportation (1982), and a PhD in Operations Research (1985). His research interests include online optimization, learning, machine learning, and decision-making under uncertainty, and he has secured funding from various federal sources, including NSF and ONR. His teaching encompasses machine learning, algorithms, mathematical programming, and network science.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, MA
Leading the Operations Research Statistics Group, focusing on research and teaching in operations research.
Operations Research Center, MIT • Cambridge, MA
Overseeing research and educational programs in operations research.