Retsef Levi
J. Spencer Standish (1945) Professor of Operations Management, Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Retsef Levi is the J. Spencer Standish (1945) Professor of Operations Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and affiliated faculty at the MIT Operations Research Center. Between 2015 – 2024 he served as the MIT Sloan Faculty Co – Director of the Leaders f or Global Operations (LGO) program, and he currently serves as the Faculty Director of the MIT Sloan Food Supply Chain Analytics and Sensing (FSAS) Initiative, and as the faculty co – lead of the Machine Intelligence for Operations & Manufacturing (MIMO) effort.

Levi is a world expert and a thought leader in risk management, safety and the applications of advanced data – analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence within large healthcare and public health systems, food and agriculture supply chai ns, manufacturing environments, biologic drugs manufacturing and supply chains, epidemiologic modeling, cybersecurity, as well as logistics, procurement, retail and inventory management. With over 70 articles in top leading journals, his research has had significant methodological contributions, as well as a major impact on practice.

In particular, he has over 20 use cases of field implementations of his research output. Levi received numerous awards including the NSF Faculty Early Career Development award, the 2008 INFORMS Optimization Prize for Young Researchers and the 2013 Daniel H. Wagner Prize, the 2016 Harold W. Kuhn Award, the 2020 MSOM Responsible Research Award, and the 2023 MSOM Practice – based Paper Competition.