Emanuele Borgonovo

Full Professor
Knowledge groupEconomics, Politics and Decision Sciences
Research domainsDecision Analysis
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Emanuele Borgonovo

Biography

Emanuele Borgonovo is Full Professor and Director of the Department of Decision Sciences of Bocconi University. He is a Research Affiliate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering. He is co-editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Operational Research, member of the editorial board of several international journals, advisor of the Springer International Series in Management Science and Operations Research. He has been President of the Decision Analysis Society of INFORMS 2020-2022. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Fondazione Silvio Tronchetti Provera, Co-Chair of the European Safety and Reliability Association, Technical Committee on Uncertainty Analysis, and a fellow of the Bocconi Institute for Data Science and Analytics. He holds a Ph.D. in Probabilistic Risk Assessment from MIT. He is the recipient of several national and international awards, has published over 100 scientific articles in top international journals. He has worked in international research projects with institutions such as the US Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), the Idaho National Laboratory, the US Department of Energy, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Electricité de France, Charles River Analytics, etc. His research interests concern Sensitivity Analysis, Decision Analysis, Risk Analysis, and Uncertainty Quantification. In his works, he has introduced several new sensitivity analysis techniques, like the differential importance measure, which has been introduced in the NASA Probabilistic Risk Assessment Procedures Guide for NASA Managers and Practitioners. He is the author of the books: “Sensitivity Analysis: An Introduction for the Management Scientist”, and “Quando ai Manager danno i Numeri”. At SDA Bocconi, he is responsible for the Artificial Intelligence and Data Science for Executives course, has been director of the Management Science Lab from 2013 to 2017, and teaches at the SDA MBA and DBA programs.

Recent Publications

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  • 2026
    Fifty years of decision analysis in operational research: A review
    BORGONOVO, E., V. R. R. JOSE, M. KNOWLTON, R. SHACHTER, J. U. SIEBERT, C. ULU, "Fifty years of decision analysis in operational research: A review", European Journal of Operational Research, 2026, vol. 329, no. 2, pp. 355-377
  • 2025
    A framework for global sensitivity analysis in long-term energy systems planning using optimal transport
    NICOLI, M., E. BORGONOVO, V. DI COSMO, D. MOSSO, E. PLISCHKE, L. SAVOLDI, A. R. DE QUEIROZ, "A framework for global sensitivity analysis in long-term energy systems planning using optimal transport", Energy, 2025, vol. 338, pp. 138788
  • 2025
    A global sensitivity analysis framework for guiding the design improvement of new concepts of small modular reactors
    MARCHETTI, S., F. DI MAIO, E. ZIO, E. BORGONOVO, E. PLISCHKE, "A global sensitivity analysis framework for guiding the design improvement of new concepts of small modular reactors", Nuclear Engineering and Design, 2025, vol. 444, pp. 114398
  • 2025
    Convexity and measures of statistical association
    BORGONOVO, E., A. FIGALLI, P. GHOSAL, E. PLISCHKE, G. SAVARÉ, "Convexity and measures of statistical association", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B - Statistical Methodology, 2025, vol. 87, no. 4, pp. 1281-1304
  • 2025
    Direction of impact for explainable risk assessment modeling
    BORGONOVO, E., M. BAUCELLS, A. DE ROSA, E. PLISCHKE, J. BARR, H. RABITZ, "Direction of impact for explainable risk assessment modeling", Risk Analysis, 2025, vol. 45, no. 8, pp. 2157-2182
  • 2025
    Global sensitivity analyses for test planning with black‐box models for Mars Sample Return
    CATALDO, G., E. BORGONOVO, A. SIDDENS, K. CARPENTER, M. NADO, E. PLISCHKE, "Global sensitivity analyses for test planning with black‐box models for Mars Sample Return", Risk Analysis, 2025, vol. 45, no. 8, pp. 2300-2322

Grants & Honors

  • Informs Data Mining Society, 2024 Best Paper Award, Runner up with the paper Trustworthy Feature Importance Avoids Unrestricted Permutations with Cynthia Rudin (Duke University); Xuefei Lu (SKEMA Business School); Elmar Plischke (Clausthal University of Technology); Francesco Cappelli (Bocconi University), 2024

  • The 2023 Clemen-Kleinmuntz Decision Analysis Best Paper Award for the work “Information Density In Decision Analysis”, with Gordon B. Hazen and Xuefei Lu, 2024

  • Outstanding Service Award, Decision Analysis Society, INFORMS, 2022

  • Excellence in Research Award, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2020

  • Excellence in Teaching Award, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2020

  • Teaching Excellence Award, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2015

  • IBM Faculty Award, 2015

  • Best Risk Analysis Paper Award, from 'Risk Analysis, an International Journal' for the paper: "Uncertainty in Climate Change: Can Global Sensitivity Analysis be of Help?", with B. Anderson, M. Galeotti and R. Roson, SRA - Society for Risk Analysis, 2014

  • Best Reviewer Award 'Reliability Engineering and System Safety', 2013

  • Best Reviewer Award 'European Journal of Operational Research', 2013

  • Best Reviewer Award 'Risk Analysis', 2013

  • Best Reviewer Award 'Environmental Modelling and Software', 2012

  • Research Excellence Award, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2012

  • Best Research Paper Award from the journal 'Economia & Management', SDA Bocconi School of Management, 2012

  • Best Reviewer Award 'European Journal of Operational Research', 2011

  • Research Excellence Award, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2011

  • Research Excellence Award, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2010

  • Research Excellence Award, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2009

  • Research Excellence Award, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2008

  • Research Excellence Award, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2007

  • Research Excellence Award, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2006