{"id":19932,"date":"2026-01-27T09:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=19932"},"modified":"2026-01-27T09:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:13:07","slug":"vassilis-digalakis-jr","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/profile\/vassilis-digalakis-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Vassilis Digalakis, Jr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vassilis Digalakis Jr is an Assistant Professor of Operations &amp; Technology Management at Boston University\u2019s Questrom School of Business.\u00a0He 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.\u00a0He 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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2014at the interface of machine learning and optimization\u2014and applied, including collaborations with FEMA on vaccine allocation and OCP in renewable energy capacity planning. His\u00a0research has been published in journals such as\u00a0Operations Research\u00a0and\u00a0Manufacturing &amp; Service Operations Management, and has received awards, including the\u00a0INFORMS Pierskalla Award and the Harold Kuhn Award.<\/p>\n<p>Research Interests:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Theoretic and Algorithmic Foundations of Data Science<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Computational Optimization, Decision, and Control Systems<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Big Data Knowledge Discovery, Management, and Mining<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Application Domains:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Digital Health and Rehabilitation Sciences<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Biostatistics and Public Health<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Business Intelligence and E-commerce<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vvdigalakis.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=6yf89q0AAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Scholar<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20865,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19934,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19932\/revisions\/19934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}