Vassilis Digalakis Jr

Vassilis Digalakis Jr is an Assistant Professor of Operations & Technology Management (OTM) at the Questrom School of Business at Boston University (BU). He is also affiliated with the Systems Engineering Division (SE) at the College of Engineering, the Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE), and the Hariri Institute for Computing, Computational Science and Engineering. Prior to joining BU, Vassilis spent time at HEC Paris as an Assistant Professor of Operations Management and the Alexa Spoken Language Understanding team at Amazon Science as a Research Scientist Intern. He completed his Ph.D. in Operations Research at the Operations Research Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), advised by Prof. Dimitris Bertsimas, and his Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Technical University of Crete (TUC), Greece.

Vassilis works on trustworthy AI: how to design AI systems that behave reliably, transparently, and appropriately for their context of use. He combines machine learning, optimization, and operations research to build such systems and to study how their deployment and governance shape adoption, downstream decisions, and real-world outcomes, particularly in healthcare and sustainability. His research has been published in journals such as Operations Research, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, and has received awards, including the INFORMS Pierskalla Award and the Harold Kuhn Award.