Maxime Cohen

Work Experience

• Yale University, New Haven, CT (2023-2024)
  Visiting Professor of Operations Management and Shubik Fellow

• McGill University, BSRM and Desautels Faculty of Management, Montreal, Canada (2019-present)
  Full Professor of Retail and Operations Management (with tenure)
  Scale AI Chair in Data Science for Retail
  Director of Research at the Bensadoun School of Retail Management
  Co-Director of the Retail Innovation Lab (2019-2022)
  Bensadoun Faculty Scholar (2019-2022)
  Associate Member, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (by courtesy)
  Member of CIRRELT - Research on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation
  Member of GERAD - Group for Research in Decision Analysis

• ELNA Medical, Montreal, Canada (2022-present)
  Chief AI Officer

• Intégral, Montreal, Canada (2023-present)
  Director of Artificial Intelligence

• IVADO Labs, Montreal, Canada (2020-present)
  Scientific Advisor in AI and Data Science

• Conflict Analytics Lab, Canada (2018-present)
  Associate Director for Strategy and Partnership
  Research in Data Science and AI

• MyOpenCourt.org, Canada (2020-present)
  Scientific Director
  

• Turbodega, Intelligems, Leav, Cherre, Supplyve, Tote, EcoPrice, Silverback.ai (2017-present)
  Advisor or Member of Advisory Board

• Google/Waze, U.S. and Israel (2018-2021)
  2019-2021: Research Collaborator
  2018-2019: Advisor at Google (via Adecco) - Pricing and Incentives Lead at Waze

• Aldo Group, Montreal, Canada (2019-2020)
  Strategic Advisor in Pricing and Data Science

• Sarona Ventures, Tel Aviv, Israel (2017-2021)
  Advisor

• New York University, Stern School of Business, New York, NY (2016-2019)
  Assistant Professor of Technology, Operations, and Statistics

• Google AI, New York NY (2015-2016)
  Postdoctoral Research Scientist - Research Team
  Conducted research across multiple areas including market algorithms, pricing, auctions, cloud computing, and optimization. Worked on products related to cloud computing, contracts for online advertising, and Internet domain names.

• IBM Research, Watson Research Center (Summer 2012)
  Research Intern - Business Analytics and Math Sciences
  Worked on improving pricing and promotion strategies by incorporating social and influence data. Proposed a practical formulation that allows efficient computation of the optimal pricing strategies while considering network and influence effects.

• Oracle Corporation, Burlington MA (Winter 2012 & 2013)
  Research Scientist Intern - Retail Global Business Unit
  Analyzed and designed different methodologies to solve dynamic pricing optimization and promotion planning for retail environments.

• Eurolaxo Ltd, Israel (2007-2011)
  Co-Founder and Partner
  Private real estate investment company.

• Matrix ABC (GHF group), Israel (Spring 2009)
  Trader
  High-frequency trading of futures in the short-term interest rate European market (Euribor).