Costis Maglaras

Costis Maglaras is dean and the David and Lyn Silfen Professor of Business at Columbia Business School. He received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College, London and holds MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. An expert in operations research, data analytics and quantitative finance, Dean Maglaras has served as chair of the Decision, Risk & Operations Division; as faculty director for the Risk Management course administered through Executive Education; and as a member of the Executive Committee of Columbia University's Data Science Institute. He has received both the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence and the Dean's Award for Teaching Innovation. Prior to joining the School in 1998, Dean Maglaras was a research scientist at Canon Research Center America.