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Georgia Perakis is a Greek-American operations researcher and the William F. Pounds Professor of Operations Research at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her research is primarily in the areas of dynamic pricing, revenue management and inventory control.

Personal life and education
Perakis was born and raised in Greece where she earned a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the University of Athens in 1987. She then joined Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where she received a master's degree in Applied Mathematics in 1988 and a PhD in Applied Mathematics in 1993. She began her doctoral research under the supervision of Stella Constantine Dafermos. Following Dafermos' death in 1990, Perakis went on to work with Thomas L. Magnanti and completed her thesis, titled "Geometric, interior point and classical methods for solving finite dimensional variational inequality problems", under his guidance.

Career
Following her doctoral studies, Perakis continued in the Applied Math department at Brown as a visiting assistant professor. She first joined MIT as a postdoctoral associate at the Operations Research Center in 1995. Subsequently, she was appointed at the MIT Sloan School of Management as an Assistant Professor in 1998. She was promoted to associate professor in the year 2002 and became a full professor at the School in 2009. She holds the title of `William F. Pounds Professor of Management Science' since September, 2009.

Awards and recognition
Perakis has received numerous awards and distinctions over the course of her career, some of which are listed below.


 * 1) The National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2000.
 * 2) The PECASE Award (Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers), 2000, for 'outstanding research on the development of a theory for understanding the nature of traffic equilibria, and for her commitment to undergraduate and graduate education'.
 * 3) INFORMS Elected Fellow, class of 2016.
 * 4) Faculty awards by IBM in 2015 and 2016.