Dan Iliescu
Dr. Dan Iliescu is a Senior Director of Science at Revenue Analytics, where he works on developing, configuring, and testing revenue management systems for the hospitality and travel industry. His expertise includes statistical modelling such as regression, customer behavioural segmentation, time series forecasting, and time-to-event models developing predictive analytics solutions and implementing machine learning algorithms. He is also experienced in applied mathematical programming, including inventory and pricing optimisation problems, and market response models. He has led the data science team that designed, calibrated, and tested the best-in-class revenue management system for Carnival Cruises, which was recognized as an Edelman finalist in 2020.
Dr. Iliescu has over 15+ years of experience collaborating with enterprise travel and hospitality clients and has presented at INFORMS and Revenue Management and Price Optimization Conferences on topics related to the implementation of optimisation and forecasting algorithms, as well as the creation of cloud-based revenue management applications and impact of AI.
He holds an M.S. from the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
