Georgia Perakis

Georgia Perakis is the William F. Pounds Professor of Management and Professor of Operations Management and of Operations Research and Statistics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She has been on the faculty at MIT Sloan since July 1998. Perakis teaches courses and performs research in analytics and AI, particularly in the intersection of optimization and machine learning with applications in pricing, revenue management, supply chain, and healthcare. She has taught in various programs at MIT, including undergraduate, MSc, PhD, MBA, and EMBA. For her teaching, she has received the Graduate Student Council Teaching Award in 2002, the Jamieson Prize in 2014, and the Teacher of the Year award in 2017. Her research focuses on the theory and practice of analytics, with applications in pricing, revenue management, supply chains, healthcare, and energy. She has published in flagship journals such as Operations Research, Management Science, and M&SOM. She has received the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation and the PECASE Award from the Office of the President on Science and Technology. Perakis has also served as co-director of the Operations Research Center and as associate dean for SERC.

Georgia Perakis is a William F. Pounds Professor of Operations Management and Operations Research at MIT. Her research focuses on Pricing and Revenue Management, Supply Chain Management, Optimization, Equilibrium Problems, and Analytics. Her work explores the impact of demand uncertainty, consumer subsidies, and dynamic pricing strategies in various contexts. She has published extensively on topics such as the newsvendor model, robust optimization, and data-driven approaches to pricing and inventory control. Her research also addresses the efficiency of price-only contracts and the price of anarchy in supply chains. Perakis emphasizes the application of analytics to real-world problems, including forecasting demand and designing incentives for sustainable technologies.