Maxime Cohen is the Scale AI Chair Professor of Retail and Operations Management and Director of Research at McGill University.
He was a Visiting Professor and a Shubik Fellow at Yale School of Management (2023-2024) and the Chief AI Officer of ELNA Medical (2022-2024). He is also a Scientific Advisor in AI at IVADO Labs, the Scientific Director of the non-profit MyOpenCourt.org, and he is actively advising corporations, retailers, and startups on topics related to AI, pricing, and data science.
He has collaborated with many companies including Google AI, Microsoft, Meta, Uber, Waze, Oracle Retail, IBM Research, Via, Spotify, Aldo Group, Couche-Tard/Circle K, Loblaws, Canadian Tire, L'Oréal, Cargo, and Staples and he serves on the advisory board of several startups.
His research and teaching have received 30+ 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.
He holds a Ph.D. from MIT and a B.S. & M.S. from the Technion.