From enhancing international business logistics to freeing up more hospital beds to helping farmers, MIT Professor Dimitris Bertsimas SM '87, PhD '88 summarized how his work in operations research has helped drive real-world improvements, while delivering the 54th annual James R. Killian Faculty Achievement Award Lecture at MIT on Thursday, March 19. Bertsimas also described how artificial intelligence is now being used in some of his scholarly projects and as a tool in MIT Open Learning efforts, which he currently directs ' another facet of a highly productive and lauded career over four decades at the Institute. The Killian Award is the highest prize MIT gives its faculty. At MIT, Bertsimas is the vice provost for open learning, associate dean for online education and artificial intelligence, Boeing Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management, and professor of operations research in the MIT Sloan School of Management. He also served as the inaugural faculty director of...
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