Maxime Cohen

Assistant Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences at Leonard N. Stern School of Business

Scale AI Chair Professor at McGill Executive institute

Biography

Leonard N. Stern School of Business

Biography

Maxime Cohen joined New York University Stern School of Business as an Assistant Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences in September 2016.

Professor Cohen’s research explores the intersection of data analytics and operations management. He is interested in pricing applications such as retail, sustainability and cloud services.

Before joining NYU Stern, Professor Cohen was a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Google NYC and has collaborated with companies such as Oracle Retail, IBM Research and Accenture. In each research project, Maxime worked closely with the company to identify a practical operational problem and helped guide practitioners through pricing decisions using such tools as optimization, machine learning, stochastic modeling and game theory. He previously worked in finance as a high-frequency trader and co-founded a private real-estate investment company.

He received his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Research Interests

  • Data analytics
  • Operations management
  • Pricing applications

Academic Background

Ph.D., Operations Research
Massachussetts Institute of Technology

M.S., Electrical Engineering
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

B.S., Aerospace Engineering
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

McGill Executive institute

Education

  • Ph.D Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2010 — 2015)
  • MS Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (2006 — 2009)
  • BS Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (2002 — 2006)
  • Summer School Harvard University (2002 — 2002)

Companies

  • Advisor Leav (2021)
  • Scale AI Chair Professor McGill University (2021)
  • Advisor Intelligems (2021)
  • Member of the Advisory Board Tote Inc (2021)
  • Professor McGill University (2021)
  • Advisor Laps (2021)
  • Scientific Advisor in AI and Data Science IVADO Labs (2020)
  • Founder Advisor Turbodega (2020)
  • Scientific Director MyOpenCourt.org (2019)

Courses Taught

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