Biography
Prof. Emanuele Borgonovo
Emanuele Borgonovo is Full Professor and Director of the Department of Decision Sciences at Bocconi University. He is co-editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Operational Research, advisor of the Springer International Series in Management Science and Operations Research, Co-Chair of the Committee on Uncertainty Analysis of the European Safety and Reliability Association, and member of the Scientific Committee of the Fondazione Silvio Tronchetti Provera. He was the president of the Decision Analysis Society of INFORMS in 2020-2022. At Bocconi University he was Director of the Bachelor in Economics, Management, and Computer Science (BEMACS) from 2016-2022, and director of the ELEUSI Research Center from 2008 to 2012, as well as director of the SDA Bocconi Management Science Lab from 2013 to 2016. He holds a Ph.D. in Probabilistic Risk Assessment from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is the recipient of several national and international awards. He is a member of the editorial boards of numerous international journals, such as Risk Analysis, Decision Analysis, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Operations Research Perspectives, the Journal of Business Logistics. He has published more than 100 scientific articles, in journals such as the European Journal of Operational Research, Management Science, Operations Research, Risk Analysis, the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B, Statistics and Computing, the Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification, and worked on international research projects with, among others, the US Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the US Department of Energy, the Idaho National Laboratory, Electricité de France, Charles River Analytics, etc. In his works, he has introduced several new sensitivity analysis techniques. The differential importance measure is part of the NASA Probabilistic Risk Assessment Procedures Guide for NASA Managers and Practitioners. He is the author of the book “Sensitivity Analysis: An Introduction for the Management Scientist.