Costis Maglaras

Costis Maglaras is the 16th dean of Columbia Business School, and the David and Lyn Silfen professor of business at Columbia University. He received his BS from Imperial College, London, in 1990, and his MS and PhD from Stanford University in 1991 and 1998, respectively, all in electrical engineering. He moved to Columbia Business School in 1998, joining the decision, risk and operations division. He is a Fellow of INFORMS, an Honorary Fellow of the Foreign Policy Association, a Member of the Economic Club of New York, and a Trustee of Athens College.

His research lies on the interface between data science, economics and engineering, with recent work focusing on fintech and market microstructure of electronic limit order book markets; social networks; design, incentives and control of ride-hailing networks; algorithmic pricing and machine learning. Outside of the Business School, his experience has primarily focused in the technology sector and in quantitative finance.