Maxime Cohen
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Education
Ph.D., operations research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.S., electrical engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Summary of Experience
Professor Cohen’s expertise lies in the intersection of data science and operations management. His research has examined the retail, ridesharing, airline, sustainability, cloud computing, online advertising, peer-to-peer lending, real estate, and health care industries, and he has collaborated with many companies, including Google AI, Microsoft, Meta, Uber, Waze, Spotify, and L’Oréal. Professor Cohen has been retained as an expert witness and testified at deposition in cases involving user data, pricing practices, and trade secrets. He frequently consults to corporations, retailers, and startups on topics related to data-driven pricing, retail management, AI technologies, and data science. As an advisory board member of several startups, Professor Cohen has helped develop and deploy solutions to business problems using techniques in machine learning, optimization, stochastic modeling, econometrics, and field experiments. He was listed in Poets&Quants’ 40-Under-40 Best MBA Professors and RETHINK Retail’s Top Retail Influencers and was awarded Management Science’s Best Paper Award in Operations and Supply Chain Management. He has coauthored several books, as well as numerous academic papers in leading journals. Professor Cohen serves as the chief AI officer of ELNA Medical, the scientific director of the nonprofit MyOpenCourt, and a scientific advisor in AI at IVADO Labs. Before joining the faculty at McGill University, he was an assistant professor of technology, operations, and statistics at the NYU Stern School of Business and a research scientist at Google AI.