Maxime Cohen is the Scale AI Chair Professor and the Academic Director of the Bensadoun School of Retail Management at McGill University.

He is the Chief of AI Strategy of the CIUSSS West-Central Montreal (Jewish General Hospital) and the Scientific Director of the non-profit MyOpenCourt.org. He was a Visiting Professor and a Shubik Fellow at Yale School of Management (2023-2024). He has taught at McGill, MIT, NYU, and Yale. He is also a Scientific Advisor in AI at IVADO Labs, and he is actively advising corporations, retailers, and startups on topics related to pricing, AI, retail, and data science.

He has collaborated with many companies including Google AI, Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, Uber, Waze, Amazon, Expedia, Oracle Retail, IBM Research, Via, Spotify, Aldo Group, Couche-Tard/Circle K, Loblaws, Canadian Tire, L’Oréal, and Staples and he serves on the advisory board of several startups.

His research and teaching have received 40+ awards, including Poets&Quants Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors, RETHINK Retail’s Top Retail Influencers, MSOM Young Scholar Prize, and Best OM Paper in Management Science. He earned a Ph.D. from MIT and a MS and BS from the Technion.