Emanuele Borgonovo
Full Professor
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
- 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
