Thomas MAGNANTI




Thomas Magnanti is the founding President of the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), and Institute Professor and former Dean of Engineering at M.I.T.  He has devoted much of his professional career to education that combines engineering and management, and to teaching and research in applied and theoretical aspects of large-scale optimization.

At SUTD, he has led the development of a university whose mission is to advance knowledge and nurture technically-grounded leaders and innovators to serve societal needs, through a focus on Design and an integrated multi-disciplinary curriculum and multi-disciplinary research.
 
Professor Magnanti has led several centers and programs at M.I.T. including, as a founding co-director, MIT’s Leaders for Manufacturing and System Design and Management Programs and, as founding director, the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART).  He has served as president of three major professional societies and as editor of the journal Operations Research.  He has also headed one third of the MIT Sloan School of Management, and has served on a number of university, corporate and government boards and councils.

Professor Magnanti has received numerous educational and research awards, including four honorary degrees. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  He has an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from Syracuse University, and masters’ degrees in Statistics and in Mathematics as well as a Ph.D. in Operations Research, all from Stanford University.




 


Last Update: September 16, 2014