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Vivek F. Farias is the Patrick J. McGovern Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, affiliated with the Operations Management group. His research is primarily focused on optimization and inference in large-scale stochastic systems, which includes applications in supply chains and protein networks. He is actively involved in the academic community, serving on the editorial boards of Management Science where he co-edits the Data Science area, and Operations Research, as well as the Informs Journal on Optimization. Farias received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, where he was advised by Professor Benjamin Van Roy. Apart from his academic pursuits, he is a co-founder and CTO of Celect, a technology startup that was acquired by Nike. Furthermore, he contributes to various technology startup advisory boards and has experience working in quantitative finance and private equity settings.