Vassilis DIGALAKIS
Assistant Professor
Information Systems and Operations Management
Biography
Vassilis Digalakis Jr is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at the Information Systems and Operations Management Department at HEC Paris, affiliated with Hi! Paris and GREGHEC. He completed his Ph.D. in Operations Research at MIT in 2023, advised by Prof. Dimitris Bertsimas. His research develops analytics and interpretable machine learning methodologies to facilitate the adoption of data-driven decision support tools in high-stakes applications, primarily in sustainability and healthcare. Vassilis has collaborated, among others, with OCP, the world's largest producer of phosphate and phosphate-based products, to develop an optimization framework that guides their 2 billion USD investment in solar panels and batteries; and with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help them decide on locations for COVID-19 mass vaccination centers and state-level allocation policy.
To find out more, visit Vassilis' personal website https://vvdigalakis.github.io/.
Scientific articles
Operations Research, Forthcoming, (in coll. with D. BERTSIMAS, M. L. LI, O. S. LAMI)
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Forthcoming, (in coll. with D. Bertsimas, R. Cory-Wright)
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, february 2023, vol. 35, n° 2, pp 1541-1553, (in coll. with D. Bertsimas)
Naval Research Logistics, Mars 2022, vol. 69, n° 2, pp 179-200, (in coll. with D. Bertsimas, A. Jacquillat, M. L. Li, A. Previero)
Machine Learning, June 2022, vol. 111, pp 2161-2212, (in coll. with D. Bertsimas)
Health Care Management Science, June 2021, vol. 24, pp 253-272, (in coll. with D. Bertsimas, L. Boussioux, R. Cory-Wright, A. Delarue, A. Jacquillat, D. L. Kitane, G. Lukin, M. Li, L. Mingardi, O. Nohadani, A. Orfanoudaki, T. Papalexopoulos, I. Paskov, J. Pauphilet, O. S. Lami, B. Stellato, H. T. Bouardi, K. V. Carballo, H. Wiberg,)
Working papers
Cahier de Recherche , 2023
Cahier de Recherche , 2022
Cahier de Recherche , 2021
Cahier de Recherche , 2021
Scientific articles
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, february 2023, vol. 35, n° 2, pp 1541-1553, (in coll. with D. Bertsimas)
Machine Learning, June 2022, vol. 111, pp 2161-2212, (in coll. with D. Bertsimas)
Naval Research Logistics, Mars 2022, vol. 69, n° 2, pp 179-200, (in coll. with D. Bertsimas, A. Jacquillat, M. L. Li, A. Previero)
Health Care Management Science, June 2021, vol. 24, pp 253-272, (in coll. with D. Bertsimas, L. Boussioux, R. Cory-Wright, A. Delarue, A. Jacquillat, D. L. Kitane, G. Lukin, M. Li, L. Mingardi, O. Nohadani, A. Orfanoudaki, T. Papalexopoulos, I. Paskov, J. Pauphilet, O. S. Lami, B. Stellato, H. T. Bouardi, K. V. Carballo, H. Wiberg,)
Working papers
Cahier de Recherche , 2023
Cahier de Recherche , 2022
Cahier de Recherche , 2021
Cahier de Recherche , 2021
Education
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Ph.D. in Operations Research, MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - USA
Academic appointments
Academic Responsibilities at HEC
- 2023- Assistant Professor, Information Systems and Operations Management HEC Paris
- 2023- Member of GREGHEC, the joint research laboratory CNRS-HEC Paris, GREGHEC HEC Paris
Scientific Activities
Editorial activities
Conference organisation
Awards & honors
- 2023 MIT ORC Best Student Paper Competition | Honorable Mention for Decarbonizing OCP" with Dimitris Bertsimas Ryan Cory-Wright
- 2023 MSOM Practice-Based Research Competition | Finalist for Decarbonizing OCP" with Dimitris Bertsimas Ryan Cory-Wright by INFORMS