Bio.

Léonard Boussioux is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management at the University of Washington, Foster School of Business, with an adjunct position at the Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering and an affiliation with Harvard's Laboratory for Innovation Science. He earned his Ph.D. in Operations Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

His research combines operations research with artificial intelligence. Through his research group, the Human-AI Operations Lab, he works to accelerate problem solving and innovation with Generative AI, and to understand how such technology is reshaping the future of work. He emphasizes multimodal frameworks and data-driven, explainable decision tools, especially in healthcare, climate, and sustainability.

He delivers AI education to over 800 students annually and has created new generative AI courses built on novel teaching methodologies. This work has been recognized by Poets & Quants, which named him to its 40 Under 40 Best Business Professors, by eight teaching awards at the Foster School of Business, and by three awards from MIT, including the Goodwin Medal, the institute's highest teaching honor for a graduate instructor. He was also named to the Puget Sound Business Journal's 40 Under 40 for his impact on Seattle's ecosystem. He has contributed to the MIT Universal Artificial Intelligence initiative, which brings state-of-the-art technological insights to wide audiences, and he currently serves on the AI task force at Foster.

Earlier, he worked with Oxman to explore nature's intelligence through AI, was a PhD resident at Google X, the Moonshot Factory, visited Mila with Prof. Yoshua Bengio, and studied at the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology at UC Berkeley. He also conducted research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and earned his Master of Science in Applied Mathematics from Centrale Paris (now CentraleSupélec).