CV

Contact Information

Name Panos Tsimpos
Email ptsimpos@mit.edu

Education

  • 2023 - 2028

    Cambridge, USA

    PhD, Operations Research Center
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Advisor: Professor Youssef Marzouk
  • 2022 - 2022

    Oxford, UK

    Oxford Scholars Visiting Programme
    Oxford University
    Mathematics
  • 2019 - 2023

    New York, USA

    B.A.
    Columbia University
    Double major in Mathematics and Physics, Summa Cum Laude

Talks and Seminars

SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification (UQ26), Mar. 2026: Invited talk: One shot sampling of flow models from first principles
Frontiers of Probabilistic Inference Workshop, NeurIPS FPI 2025, Dec. 2025: Poster: An Eulerian Perspective on Straight Line Sampling
Conference on Learning Theory (COLT), Jul. 2025: Talk: Optimal Scheduling of Dynamic Transport
Oberwolfach Seminar: Control and Machine Learning, Nov. 2025: Chalk talk: Optimal Schedules in Affine Dynamic Transport
Mathematics, Statistics, and Innovation in Medical and Health Care, IMSI, Apr. 2023: Poster: Prediction and Management of Mass Effect in Neurointensive Care

Awards

  • 2024
    Onassis Foundation PhD Scholarship
    Sept. 2024 – May 2027
  • 2024
    George and Marie Vergottis Fellowship
    Sept. 2024 – May 2025
  • 2023
    Theodore Vassilakis Fund Fellowship
    Sept. 2023 – May 2024
  • 2022
    Junior Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Chapter of New York
  • 2022
    Ng Teng Fong Internship Fund Award
  • 2020
    Heinrich Family Global Fellowship
  • 2022
    Dean's List, Columbia University
    2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
  • 2019
    Valedictorian of Class '19, Athens College

Teaching

16.09 Statistics and Probability, MIT, Feb.–Mar. 2024: Teaching assistant for the first half of the core AeroAstro (Course 16) class. Covered basic probability at the post-calculus / pre-measure-theory level, from set-theoretic basics to the Central Limit Theorem. Designed and graded 5 homework assignments and the midterm exam.