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Patrick Jaillet is a Dugald C. Jackson Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a member of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems and the Operations Research Center and holds a joint appointment with the Operations Research Statistics Group at MIT Sloan. Professor Jaillet co-directed the Operations Research Center from 2010 to 2015 and headed the Civil and Environmental Engineering department from 2002 to 2009. Prior to joining MIT, he was a professor at the University of Texas in Austin, where he also served as chair of the Department of Management Science and Information Systems at the McCombs School of Business. He co-founded and directed UT Austin's Center for Computational Finance. His academic background includes a Diplôme d'Ingénieur from France, a Master of Science in Transportation from MIT, and a PhD in Operations Research. His research interests encompass online optimization learning, machine learning, and sequential decision making under uncertainty, with research support from various federal sources and prominent technology firms. His teaching focuses on machine learning, algorithms, optimization, network science, and probability. He is an award-winning researcher and educator, recognized as a Fulbright Scholar and as a fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, MA
Dugald C. Jackson Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
University of Texas at Austin • Austin, TX
Chair of the Department of Management Science and Information Systems.