Portrait of Maxime Cohen

Maxime Cohen

Associate Academic Member
Full Professor, McGill University
Research Topics
AI and Healthcare
Applied AI
Applied Machine Learning
Operations Research

Biography

Maxime Cohen is the Scale AI Chair Professor of Retail and Operations Management and the Academic Director of the Bensadoun School of Retail Management at McGill University. He is the Chief of AI Strategy of the CIUSSS West-Central Montreal (Jewish General Hospital) and the Scientific Director of the non-profit MyOpenCourt.org. He was a Visiting Professor of Operations Management and a Shubik Fellow at Yale School of Management (2023-2024). He is also a Scientific Advisor in AI at IVADO Labs, and he is actively advising corporations, retailers, and startups on topics related to pricing, retail, and data science.

He has worked on 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 AI, Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, Uber, Waze, Amazon, Expedia, Oracle Retail, IBM Research, Via, Spotify, Aldo Group, Couche-Tard/Circle K, Loblaws, Canadian Tire, L'Oréal, and Staples and he serves on the advisory board of several startups.

His research and teaching have received 40+ awards, including Poets&Quants Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors, RETHINK Retail’s Top Retail Influencers, MSOM Young Scholar Prize, and Best OM Paper in Management Science.