User:Alopesnc/sandbox perakis

NOTE: THIS IS AN EDIT OF MACKINNON ARTICLE ON PERAKIS

Personal Life
Perakis was born and raised in Greece.

Education
Perakis earned a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the University of Athens in 1987, received a master's degree in Applied Mathematics the following year and a PhD in 1993, both from Brown University. Thomas L. Magnanti was Perakis's graduate advisor for her research on "Geometric, interior point and classical methods for solving finite dimensional variational inequality problems."

Career
After graduation, Perakis continued in the Applied Math department at Brown as a visiting assistant professor and joined MIT as a postdoctoral associate at the Operations Research Center in 1995. Perakis was appointed Assistant Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1998, Associate Professor in 2002, Professor in 2009, and has held the title of `William F. Pounds Professor of Management Science' since September 2009.