Kimon Drakopoulos

Kimon Drakopoulos is an Assistant Professor in the Data Sciences and Operations department at USC Marshall School of Business. His research focuses on the operations of complex networked systems, epidemics, social networks, stochastic modeling, game theory and information economics. Kimon, prior to joining USC, completed his PhD at the Laboratory for Information and Decision systems at MIT focusing on the analysis and control of contagion processes on networks. Since June 2020 he is the Data Science and Operations advisor to the Greek Prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis with emphasis on deploying data-driven strategies for the containment of the epidemic.