Vivek F. Farias

Vivek F. Farias is the Patrick J. McGovern (1959) Professor and Professor of Operations Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the development of new methodologies and applications for large scale dynamic optimization. He received his PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 2007. Farias has been recognized with several awards, including the INFORMS MSOM Student Paper Prize (2006), the NSF CAREER award (2011), MIT Sloan’s Outstanding Teacher award (2013), and the MIT Jamieson Prize for Excellence in Teaching (2020). His work has also been acknowledged with the Wagner prize (2022) and has been a finalist for the Pierskalla Award (2011). Outside of academia, Farias has cofounded and served as CTO of Celect (2014-19; acquired by Nike) and has contributed to technology startups and quantitative finance.

Vivek Farias is a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, focusing on decision-making under uncertainty and algorithmic fairness. His work explores the interplay between fairness and efficiency in resource allocation, particularly in healthcare and economics. Farias investigates dynamic pricing, probabilistic forecasting, and optimization under constraints, with applications in organ allocation, ICU management, and market mechanisms. His research also addresses the trade-offs between fairness and efficiency in systems involving limited data and strategic behavior. Farias employs mathematical models and computational techniques to analyze complex decision problems, emphasizing robustness and adaptability in uncertain environments.