Soulaymane Kachani

Sen. Soulaymane Kachani serves as the Senior Vice Provost of the University and a professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. He oversees the development of Columbia’s teaching, learning, and innovation strategies. He led the establishment of the Columbia Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), the Provost’s Teaching and Learning Grants program, the Science of Learning Research (SOLER) Initiative, and Columbia+, Columbia University’s online platform to engage alumni and learners from around the world through non-degree non-credit courses, events (live-streamed and recorded), and podcasts.

Professor Kachani focuses on propelling Columbia’s excellence as a global university, working to enhance existing international academic partnerships and develop new ones, and to make its campuses ever more welcoming to students and scholars from around the world. He also works on many aspects of academic management.

Professor Kachani conducts research in the fields of dynamic pricing, revenue management, machine learning, logistics, supply chain management, algorithmic trading, statistical arbitrage, traffic flow modeling, and transportation analysis. He received a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also holds a Master of Science in Operations Research from MIT and a Diplôme d’Ingénieur in Applied Mathematics from École Centrale Paris. His book (with Bill Eimicke and Adam Stepan) Leveling the Learning Curve: Creating a More Inclusive and Diverse University, published in October 2023, is an exploration of the digital higher education landscape in the post-pandemic era.