Les Servi

Les Servi most recently served as the chief scientist for Cyber Operations Research at The MITRE Corporation, where he led major efforts in cyber resilience, critical node analysis, health analytics, and social media analytics. His work included the development of a patented algorithm at the core of MITRE’s Social Radar capability. He joined MITRE in 2009 after serving in leadership roles at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and GTE/Verizon Laboratories, where he received the company’s highest technical award from CEO Charles Lee.

Servi holds a Ph.D. in engineering from Harvard University and a combined Sc.B.–Sc.M. in applied mathematics from Brown University. He is currently authoring a book titled Mission Dependency Network Analysis (Springer Nature), scheduled for publication in late 2025.

Servi has provided extensive service to the U.S. Department of Defense through multiple Defense Science Board task forces and was recognized with a Certificate of Appreciation from Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he led modeling and optimization of a multi-tier medical supply chain for the Joint Acquisition Task Force under the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment.

A Fellow of both INFORMS and the Military Operations Research Society (MORS), Servi served as president of MORS (2021-2024), spent eight years on the INFORMS Board of Directors, and chaired four INFORMS subdivisions: Boston, Applied Probability, Social Media Analytics, and Telecommunications. He has served as associate editor for Operations Research, Management Science, and INFORMS Journal on Computing, and was a keynote speaker at the 2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting.

Deeply committed to education and mentorship, Servi has served on advisory and thesis committees at MIT, Harvard University, Boston University, and George Washington University. He currently co-chairs the Data Science Executive Advisory Committee at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He has also served for five years on the Board of Directors of Notre Dame Cristo Rey High School, a private school for low-income students, where he mentored several students, including the first from the school to attend MIT.