Vassilis Digalakis, Jr

Vassilis Digalakis Jr is an Assistant Professor of Operations & Technology Management at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. He completed his Ph.D. in Operations Research at MIT, advised by Prof. Dimitris Bertsimas, and holds a Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Crete, Greece. He has also spent time at HEC Paris, France as an Assistant Professor and the Alexa Natural Language Understanding team at Amazon Science as a Research Scientist Intern.

His research is on trustworthy AI. He studies how to develop AI/ML models that are trustworthy (e.g., interpretable, robust, stable); how to leverage these properties to increase adoption; and how to deploy models in real operational settings, especially in healthcare and sustainability. His work is both methodological—at the interface of machine learning and optimization—and applied, including collaborations with FEMA on vaccine allocation and OCP in renewable energy capacity planning. His research has been published in journals such as Operations Research and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and has received awards, including the INFORMS Pierskalla Award and the Harold Kuhn Award.

Research Interests:

• Theoretic and Algorithmic Foundations of Data Science
• Computational Optimization, Decision, and Control Systems
• Big Data Knowledge Discovery, Management, and Mining
• Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

Application Domains:

• Digital Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
• Biostatistics and Public Health
• Business Intelligence and E-commerce

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