About me
Name: Prof Phebe Vayanos
Title: Associate Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering and of Computer Science
Affiliation: University of Southern California
Bio:
Phebe Vayanos is an Associate Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Southern California where she holds a Viterbi Early Career Chair in Engineering. She is also a Co-Director of CAIS, the Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society at USC and a Co-Director of the ORAI Interdisciplinary PhD Certificate Program in Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research. Her research is focused on Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence and in particular on optimization and its interface with machine learning, causal inference, and economics. Her work is motivated by complex societal problems, such as homelessness, substance use and suicide prevention, and biodiversity conservation. Prior to joining USC, she was lecturer in the Operations Research and Statistics Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a postdoctoral research associate in the Operations Research Center at MIT. She is a TED AI speaker, a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, and the Imperial College Emerging Alumni Leader Award, among others. She is an associate editor for Management Science, Operations Research, Operations Research Letters, and Computational Management Science.
