Maxime Cohen

Professor & Advisor, McGill

Maxime Cohen is the Scale AI Chair Professor of Retail and Operations Management and Director of Research at McGill University. He is also a Visiting Professor of Operations Management and a Shubik Fellow at Yale School of Management (2023-2024). He is the Chief AI Officer of ELNA Medical and the Scientific Director of the non-profit MyOpenCourt.org. He is also a Scientific Advisor in AI at IVADO Labs, actively advising corporations, retailers, and startups on pricing, retail, and data science topics. Before joining McGill, Maxime was an Assistant Professor at NYU Stern and a Research Scientist at Google AI. He previously worked as a high-frequency trader and co-founded a real estate investment company.

Maxime’s core expertise lies at the intersection of data science and operations management. He has worked on topics such as retail, ride-sharing, airline, sustainability, cloud computing, online advertising, peer-to-peer lending, real estate, healthcare, and conflict analytics. He has collaborated with many companies, including Google, Waze, Oracle Retail, IBM Research, Via (ride-sharing), Spotify, Aldo Group, Couche-Tard/Circle K, L’Oréal, Cargo, and Staples, and he serves on the advisory board of several startups. In each project, he has worked closely with the company to develop solutions using tools such as optimization, machine learning, stochastic modelling, econometrics, game theory, and field experiments.

He received a Ph.D. in Operations Research, focusing on inventory management and pricing AI applied to management, from MIT. He also has an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and a B.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering, both from Technion.