Scholar
Vassilis Digalakis Jr
Google Scholar ID: 6yf89q0AAAAJ
Assistant Professor of Operations & Technology Management, Boston University
Citations & Impact
Citations
391
H-index
7
i10-index
5
Publications
13
Co-authors
7
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published 'Slowly Varying Regression under Sparsity' in Operations Research, 2024
- Published 'Decarbonizing OCP' in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM), 2024
- Published 'Where to locate COVID-19 mass vaccination facilities?' in Naval Research Logistics, 2021
- Recipient of the 2024 Harold Kuhn Award
- Finalist in the 2023 M&SOM Practice-Based Research Competition
- Recipient of the 2021 INFORMS Pierskalla Award
Research Experience
- Assistant Professor at HEC Paris, France (2 years)
- Worked with the Alexa Natural Language Understanding team at Amazon Science
- Collaborated with a major U.S. hospital system to build structurally stable interpretable ML models (e.g., decision trees) for clinical deployment
- Partnered with OCP (world’s largest phosphate producer) to develop an ML- and robust optimization-based framework guiding a $2B investment in solar and batteries for decarbonizing fertilizer production
- Collaborated with FEMA during COVID-19 to design an equity-aware predictive and prescriptive model for vaccine allocation and mass vaccination site placement across U.S. states
