Nikos Trichakis

Nikos Trichakis has received four honors from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), including one shared with Dimitris Bertsimas:

First, Trichakis won the 2023 Sanjay and Panna Mehrotra Research Excellence Award from the INFORMS Health Applications Society. This award recognizes a mid-career researcher for significant contributions to the practice of health applications through operations research and management science modeling and methodologies. This honor is specifically in recognition of Trichakis’s body of theoretical and practical work on affecting the national transplantation policy in the United States.

He also had 3 other paper honors:

Trichakis, along with MIT Sloan colleague Dimitris Bertsimas, was runner-up for the 2023 INFORMS Pierskalla Best Paper Award, which recognizes research excellence in the field of health care management science. The honored paper, co-authored with Bertsimas, Theodore Papalexopoulos (2022 MIT PhD in Operations Research), Darren Stewart (NYU Langone Health), and James Alcorn and Rebecca Goff (both of United Network for Organ Sharing), is entitled “Reshaping National Organ Allocation Policy.”

Trichakis also was a finalist for the 2023 Management Science Best Paper Award in Operations Management, which recognizes outstanding contributions to operations management among all operations papers published in Management Science over the past three years. “On the Financing Benefits of Supply Chain Transparency and Blockchain Adoption,” co-authored with Jiri Chod (Boston College), Gerry Tsoukalas (University of Pennsylvania; Boston University), Henry Aspegren (Meta; 2018 MIT MEng), and Mark Weber (IBM Research; MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab), was a finalist for this award the past two years in a row.

Finally, Trichakis was a finalist for the 2023 MSOM (Manufacturing and Service Operations Management section of INFORMS) iFORM (Interface of Finance, Operations, and Risk Management) Special Interest Group Best Paper award, which considers publications in all INFORMS journals in the prior three years, for “Platform Tokenization: Financing, Governance, and Moral Hazard” (Management Science), co-authored with Jiri Chod (Boston College) and S. Alex Yang (London Business School).

Nikolaos Trichakis has won the 2020 INFORMS Koopman Prize. Along with co-authors David Simchi-Levi (MIT) and Peter Yun Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University), Trichakis was honored for the paper, “Designing Response Supply Chain Against Bioattacks.” The Koopman Prize is given for the outstanding publication in military operations research of the previous year.

Nikos Trichakis won third place for the 2018 INFORMS TIMES (Technology, Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship Section) Best Working Paper Award, for “Blockchain and the Value of Operational Transparency for Supply Chain Finance,” co-authored with Jiri Chod (Boston College), Gerry Tsoukalas (Wharton), Henry Aspegren (MIT MEng grad; Tsinghua University), and Mark Weber (MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab).

Nikolaos Trichakis, Andrew Lo, Miro Kazakoff, Joseph Doyle, Kristin Forbes, Arathi Mehrotra, Adrien Verdelhan, and Sean Willems have each won a 2021 Teaching with Digital Technology Award from MIT for their work teaching on campus and/or remotely. These student-nominated awards recognize faculty and instructors who have used digital technology to improve teaching and learning for MIT students. This recognition also gives the MIT community the opportunity to learn from their innovative practices.

The awards are co-sponsored by MIT Open Learning and the Office of the Vice Chancellor. This year students submitted a total of 230 nominations for 104 faculty and instructors, and 23 winners (35% from MIT Sloan) were selected by Dean for Digital Learning Krishna Rajagopal and Vice Chancellor Ian Waitz, in partnership with a panel of MIT students.  

Nikos Trichakis won the 2018 INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Optimization Society Young Researchers Prize. This award recognizes one or more outstanding paper(s) in optimization published by, or forthcoming in a refereed journal within the previous four years, authored by a young scholar (having obtained their last degree within the past eight years).  Trichakis’s winning paper, co-authored with Dan A. Iancu (Stanford), is entitled, “Pareto Efficiency in Robust Optimization” (Management Science, Vol. 60, No. 1 (January 2014): 130-147).

Nikos Trichakis won second prize for the 2018 POMS (Production and Operations Management Society) HOCM (Humanitarian Operations & Crisis Management) Best Paper Award, for “Designing Response Supply Chain Against Bioattacks,” co-authored with David Simchi-Levi and Peter Yun Zhang (both at MIT).

Nikolaos Trichakis and co-authors won the 2021 Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM) Interface of Finance, Operations, and Risk Management Best Paper Award (First Prize) for the paper "On the Financing Benefits of Supply Chain Transparency and Blockchain Adoption." Published in Management Science, the paper's co-authors were Jiri Chod (University of Rochester), Gerry Tsoukalas (University of Pennsylvania & Boston University), Henry Aspegren (MIT), and Mark Weber (IBM Research; MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab).

Nikos Trichakis won the INFORMS 2018 MSOM (Manufacturing and Service Operations Management) iFORM (Interface of Finance, Operations, and Risk Management) SIG (Special Interest Group) Best Paper Award. His winning paper, co-authored with Dan A. Iancu (Stanford) and Gerry Tsoukalas (Wharton), is entitled, “Is Operating Flexibility Harmful Under Debt?” (Management Science, Vol. 63, No. 6 (June 2017): 1657-2048).