MIT Professor Dimitris Bertsimas, an operations research expert, delivered the 54th James R. Killian Faculty Achievement Award Lecture, describing his past and current work.

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MIT Professor Dimitris Bertsimas delivered the 54th James R. Killian Faculty Achievement Award Lecture, summarizing four decades of work in operations research and AI. His contributions include robust optimization techniques applied to Panama Canal shipping logistics, school bus allocation in Boston, and hospital patient flow improvements at Hartford HealthCare — reducing average patient stays from 5.38 to 4.93 days, enabling over 5,000 additional patient stays per year. He also discussed his role as MIT's vice provost for open learning, where he aims to reach a billion learners through online courses and is developing AI tools for education including content condensation and multilingual translation.

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