Vassilis Digalakis Jr
PhD Candidate in Operations Research
Operations Research Center
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
â–ª Analytics â–ª Machine Learning â–ª Optimization â–ª Renewable Energy Integration â–ª
Strangers from distant lands, friends of old... Welcome!
I am a final-year PhD candidate at MIT's Operations Research Center, advised by Prof. Dimitris Bertsimas.
I am broadly interested in analytics, machine learning, and optimization, focusing on their application to sustainability and renewable energy integration. In terms of methodology, my work leverages optimization, particularly mixed-integer, robust, and convex, and aims at developing scalable algorithms that address central problems in machine learning and big-data analytics. In terms of applications, my focus is on sustainability and, specifically, renewable energy integration; click here to find out more about the above, as well as other applications I have worked on.
Besides MIT, my journey has included the Alexa Entertainment Spoken Language Understanding team at Amazon Science, where I spent the 2021 summer as a Research Scientist Intern, and the Technical University of Crete, Greece, where I earned my Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2018(Valedictorian). I am originally from the beautiful city of Chania, Crete, Greece (see header image).