- I am a distinguished professor in the MSIS (Management Science and Information Systems) department of the Rutgers Business School Newark and New Brunswick, with my office on the New Brunswick campus. I was department vice-chair July 2008 through June 2011. I am a member of RUTCOR.
- I am the editor-in-chief of Mathematical Programming Computation, 2019-2024
- Until going on sabbatical in the 2014-2015 academic year, I was the original coordinator of Rutgers’ BAIT major. This major graduated its first students in 2014.
- Prior to Rutgers, I spent about four years as a research scientist at the now-defunct Thinking Machines Corporation. The firm produced parallel supercomputers and associated software. Much of its technology was acquired by Sun Microsystems and Oracle (which, very much later, merged together).
- Prior to Thinking Machines, I taught for two years at Harvard Business School.
- Before that, I obtained Masters (1986) and Ph.D. (1989) degrees in Operations Research from MIT, at the Operations Research Center. My dissertation advisor was Dimitri Bertsekas.
- Before that, I worked as a programmer/analyst at Xenergy, Inc (since acquired by another firm). I was the lead developer and designer of two software packages used to perform energy audits of over two billion square feet of commercial building space and over 3.5 million homes.
- My undergraduate degree was in Mathematics, from Harvard University (1980, Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude).
- I am a member of the The Mathematical Optimization Society, INFORMS and its Computing Society, and SIAM.
Awards & Distinctions
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Elected fellow of INFORMS
Elected 2014
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COIN-OR Cup
2006, for open-source software, shared with William E. Hart and Cynthia A. Phillips of Sandia National Laboratories
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Dean's Research Professor, Rutgers Business School
2019-2022
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“My Mark” award
2016
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"Best BAIT Professor"
Awarded by RBGA for the 2013-2014 academic year
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Thomas H. Mott, Jr. award for excellence in teaching
2003, by vote of Rutgers' undergraduate business majors
Courses
- Business Decision Analytics under Uncertainty (undergraduate BAIT)
- Nonlinear Optimization (doctoral)
- Special Topic: Convex Analysis and Optimization (doctoral)
- Analytical Techniques (International Executive MBA)
- (The above are the courses I have taught recently; I have taught a number of others in the past.)