Retsef Levi

Retsef Levi is the J. Spencer Standish (1945) Professor of Operations Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is a member of the Operations Management Group at MIT Sloan and affiliated with the MIT Operations Research Center. Levi also serves as the faculty leader for Food Chain Supply Analytics. His research focuses on the design of analytical data-driven decision support models and tools addressing complex business and system design decisions under uncertainty in areas such as health and healthcare management, supply chain, procurement and inventory management, revenue management, pricing optimization and logistics. He has been leading several industry-based collaborative research efforts with major academic hospitals in the Boston area and across the U.S. Levi teaches courses on operations management, analytics, risk management, system thinking and healthcare to students from various degree and non-degree programs.

Retsef Levi is a Professor of Operations Management at MIT, specializing in Operations Research, Operations Management, Analytic, Health Care, and Risk Management. His research focuses on developing mathematical models and algorithms to optimize decision-making in complex systems, particularly in healthcare and supply chain management. Levi's work includes stochastic inventory control, assortment optimization, and data-driven approaches for managing demand and risk. His publications explore topics such as probabilistic forecasting, revenue management, and the impact of market integration on agricultural markets. His research emphasizes the development of approximation algorithms and LP-based policies for practical applications.