Maxime Cohen
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Maxime C. Cohen |
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About
I am the Scale AI Chair Professor of Retail and Operations Management and Director of Research at McGill University. I was a Visiting Professor of Operations Management and a Shubik Fellow at Yale School of Management (2023-2024). 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)
Department Editor for Production and Operations Management – Supply Chain Management Department (2022-2024)
Deputy Editor for Service Science (2024-present)
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 management. 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, 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, optimization, stochastic modeling, econometrics, and field experiments.
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
