Scholar
Phebe Vayanos
Google Scholar ID: -hUBf0gAAAAJ
Associate Professor at University of Southern California; Co-Director of Center for AI in Society
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,640
H-index
23
i10-index
37
Publications
20
Co-authors
9
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of the NSF CAREER Award
- Imperial College Emerging Alumni Leader Award
- USC Viterbi Junior Research Award
- TED Speaker
- Participant at the Time 100 Impact Dinner for Extraordinary Women Shaping the Future of AI
- Students have received prestigious awards including NSF GRFP and USC Discovery Scholar Prize
- Associate Editor for Operations Research, Management Science, Computational Management Science, and Operations Research Letters
- Member of the INFORMS AI Roadmap Adhoc Committee
- Chair of the Committee on Stochastic Programming (COSP), 2023–2025
- Previously served as COSP member, INFORMS AI Strategy Advisory Committee member, and VP of Communications for INFORMS PSOR Section
Background
- Associate Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering and of Computer Science at the University of Southern California
- Co-Director of the CAIS Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society
- Founding Co-Director of the NSF NRT ORAI Interdisciplinary PhD Certificate Program in Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research
- Andrew and Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair in Engineering
- Aims to advance integer, stochastic, and robust optimization and their integration with machine learning, causal inference, and economics to develop robust, interpretable, and fair predictive and prescriptive models for high-stakes settings
- Committed to applying research methods to create positive societal impact
