MIT Sloan
Executive Education Faculty
Retsef Levi
J. Spencer Standish (1945) Professor of Management,
Associate Professor of Operations Management
Retsef Levi's current research is focused on the design and the performance analysis of efficient algorithms for fundamental stochastic and deterministic optimization models, arising in the context of supply chains, revenue management, logistics and health care. These fundamental, multistage stochastic models are typically very hard to solve optimally, both theoretically and in practice... Read More»
Retsef Levi's current research is focused on the design and the performance analysis of efficient algorithms for fundamental stochastic and deterministic optimization models, arising in the context of supply chains, revenue management, logistics and health care. These fundamental, multistage stochastic models are typically very hard to solve optimally, both theoretically and in practice. Hence, it is important to develop efficient heuristics that provide provably near-optimal policies for these hard models.
Levi has special interest in Cost-Balancing techniques, data-driven (sampling-based) algorithms, and modern Linear-Programming-based approximation techniques applied to models in the above domains. In addition, he is interested in stochastic and combinatorial optimization and mathematical programming in their broad definition, and especially in their intersection with problems that arise in the context of real-life applications.
Prof. Levi is affiliated with MIT's Master of Science Program in Computation for Design and Optimization.
Retsef Levi was born in Tel-Aviv, Israel and served about 12 years as an officer in the Israeli Defense Forces. In 2005, he received the Goldstine Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mathematical Sciences awarded by the Mathematical Sciences Department at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. Close«
Website: http://web.mit.edu/retsef/www/
Group(s):
Operations Management; System Dynamics
Research Center(s):
Operations Research Center
General Expertise:
Applied probability; Business intelligence; Competition; Convergence; Decision making
decision support; Healthcare operations management; Inventory; Logistics; Manufacturing systems; Operations management; Operations research; Optimal control; Optimization; Price fixing; Process control; Production; Project management; Revenue management optimization; Sampling; Statistics; Stochastic modeling; Supply chain management
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Contact Information:
Office: E62-562
Tel: 617-253-4155
Fax: 617-258-7579
Email: retsef@mit.edu
Support Staff:
Name: Michelle Cole
Tel: 617-258-5583
Email: mmcole@mit.edu
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