Maxime Cohen
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Maxime C. Cohen |
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About
I am the Scale AI Chair Professor and the Academic Director of the Bensadoun School of Retail Management at McGill University. I am the Chief of AI Strategy of the CIUSSS West-Central Montreal (Jewish General Hospital) and the Scientific Director of the non-profit MyOpenCourt.org.
I am also a Scientific Advisor in AI at IVADO Labs, and I am actively advising corporations, retailers, and startups on topics related to pricing, retail, and data science.
Before joining McGill, I was an Assistant Professor of Technology, Operations, and Statistics
at NYU Stern and a Research Scientist at Google AI.
I previously worked as a high-frequency trader and co-founded a real estate investment company.
Department Editor for Production and Operations Management – Service Operations Department (2022-present)
Special Issue Editor for MBR on “Competition and Regulation of AI” (2025)
Deputy Editor for Service Science (2024-present)
Department Editor for Production and Operations Management – Supply Chain Management Department (2022-2024)
Special Issue Editor for Service Science on "Impact of AI on Service Design and Delivery" (2024-2025)
Special Issue Editor for POM on "Responsible Data Science" (2022-2024)
Associate Editor for Management Science (2020-present)
Associate Editor for Operations Research (2024-present)
Associate Editor for M&SOM (2021-present)
Senior Editor for Production and Operations Management (2017-2022)
Advisor and Associate Editor for Management and Business Review (2019-present)
Guest Associate Editor for NRL (2018-2021)
Ph.D., Operations Research, MIT
M.S., Electrical Engineering, Technion
B.S., Aerospace Engineering, Technion
My core expertise lies at the intersection of data science and operations. I have worked on retail, ridesharing, airline, sustainability,
cloud computing, online advertising, peer-to-peer lending, real estate, healthcare, and conflict analytics. I have collaborated with many companies including Google AI, Microsoft, Meta, Uber, Waze, Amazon, Expedia, Oracle Retail, IBM Research, Via, Spotify, Aldo Group, Couche-Tard/Circle K, Loblaws, Canadian Tire, L'Oréal, Cargo, and Staples and I serve on the advisory board of several startups. In each project, I have worked closely with the company to develop solutions
using tools such as machine learning, deep learning, optimization, stochastic modeling, econometrics, and field experiments. More recently, I have worked with hundreds of physicians and business managers to guide them on how to responsibly adopt GenAI tools and customized AI agents to boost their productivity.
My research and teaching have received 40+ awards, including Poets&Quants Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors, RETHINK Retail’s Top Retail Influencers, MSOM Young Scholar Prize, and Best OM Paper in Management Science.
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Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University
1001 Sherbrooke St W, Montreal, QC H3A 1G5
