Vivek Farias

Dr. Farias is the Chair of the Data Committee of Seer’s Scientific Advisory Board. He is the Patrick J. McGovern (1959) Professor at the MIT Sloan School, affiliated with the Operations Management and Operations Research Center at MIT. His research focuses on optimization and inference from large-scale stochastic systems (ranging from supply chains to protein networks). He serves on the editorial boards of the journals Operations Research, Management Science, and the Informs Journal on Optimization. He is also Chief Technology Officer of Celect, a company focused on advanced analytics solutions for supply chains. Dr. Farias received his B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Arizona, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.