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Thodoris Lykouris is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at MIT Sloan School of Management. His research focuses on data-driven sequential decision-making, encompassing areas such as machine learning, dynamic optimization, and economics. Prior to his current position, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research in New York City, where he was part of the machine learning group. Thodoris's dissertation was a finalist for the George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award, and he has had papers recognized as finalists in various competitions, including the INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group paper competition and the INFORMS Nicholson Applied Probability Society student paper competitions. He has been awarded the Google PhD Fellowship and the Cornell University Fellowship. Thodoris holds a diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in Greece and a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University, where he was advised by Éva Tardos.