Maxime Cohen is the Scale AI Chair Professor and the Academic Director of the Bensadoun School of Retail Management at McGill University. He serves as Chief AI Scientist at the CIUSSS West-Central Montreal (Jewish General Hospital) and Scientific Director of the non-profit MyOpenCourt.org. He is also a Scientific Advisor in AI at IVADO Labs, and actively advises corporations, retailers, and startups on topics related to AI, pricing, retail, and data science. Before joining McGill, he was a faculty member at NYU Stern and a scientist at Google AI. He is also the author of the book Pricing in the Age of AI (MIT Press, 2026).
Professor Cohen has collaborated with leading organizations including Google AI, Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, Uber, Waze, Amazon, Expedia, Oracle Retail, IBM, Via, Spotify, Zoom, Aldo Group, Circle K, Loblaws, Canadian Tire, L’Oréal, and Staples, and serves on the advisory board of several startups. His research and teaching have received 40+ awards, including recognition as a Top 2% Most Cited Author, Poets&Quants Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors, RETHINK Retail’s Top Retail Influencers, the MSOM Young Scholar Prize, and Best OM Paper in Management Science.