Degree Programs Offered: Master of Science, Doctor of Philosophy
Director of Graduate Program: Professor
Andras Prekopa, Center for Operations Research, RUTCOR Building, Brett
and Bartholomew Roads, Busch Campus (732-445-5632)
Members of the Graduate Faculty
Susan L. Albin, Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, SE; D.E.Sc., Columbia
Queuing; simulation; quality control and reliability
Farid
Alizadeh, Associate Professor of Management Science and Information
Systems, RBS; Ph.D., Minnesota
Combinatorial optimization; convex
programming; computational biology
Tayfur Altiok, Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, SE; Ph.D., North Carolina State
Production lines; production/inventory systems; queuing networks
Ronald D. Armstrong, Professor of Management Science, RBS/RUTCOR; Ph.D., Massachusetts
Network theory; integer programming and applications
Benjamin
Avi-Itzhak, Professor of Management and Operations Research,
RBS/RUTCOR; D.Sc., Israel Institute of Technology
Stochastic models in
operations research
Adi Ben-Israel, Professor of Operations Research, RBS/RUTCOR; Ph.D., Northwestern
Matrix theory; convexity and optimization; mathematical programming; mathematical economics
Douglas H. Blair, Professor of Economics and Political Science, SAS/RUTCOR; Ph.D., Yale
Microeconomic theory; social choice theory
Endre Boros, Professor of Operations Research, RUTCOR/RBS; Ph.D., Budapest (Hungary)
Discrete and combinatorial optimization; integer programming
Michael
Lee Bushnell, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE;
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon
VLSI design; testing of logic circuits;
computer-aided design
Jonathan Eckstein, Professor of
Management Science and Information Systems, RBS/RUTCOR; Ph.D.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mathematical programming;
parallel computing; convex analysis; proximal methods; applied
combinatorial optimization; information systems
Michael R. Greenberg, Professor of Urban Planning and Public Health, EJBSPPP; Ph.D., Columbia
Environmental planning; public health
Michael D. Grigoriadis, Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Algorithms for network optimization
Vladimir
Gurvich, Visiting Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, SAS;
Ph.D., Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Russia)
Game theory; graph
theory; complexity
Alan Hoffman, Visiting Professor of Mathematics, RUTCOR; Ph.D., Columbia
Combinatorics and optimization; linear algebra
Myong K. (MK) Jeong, Assistant Professor of Operations Research and Industrial and Systems
Engineering. SE;
Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
Data mining, computational intelligence; optimization in data analysis
Douglas
H. Jones, Associate Professor of Management, RBS; Ph.D., Florida State
Psychometrics; integer programming applications to test construction;
optimal experimental design; Bayesian methods; optimal financial
portfolios
Jeffry N. Kahn, Professor of Mathematics, SAS; Ph.D., Ohio State
Matroids; extremal problems in set theory and graph theory; finite geometries
Paul Kantor, Professor of Library and Information Studies, SCILS; Ph.D., Princeton
Information and decision systems; information economics; library and information systems evaluation; system interfaces
Michael N. Katehakis, Associate Professor of Management, RBS; Ph.D., Columbia
Dynamic programming reliability; queuing; sequential statistics; operations management
Alexander
Kogan, Professor of Accounting and Information Systems, RBS/RUTCOR;
Ph.D., Russian Academy of Sciences
Expert systems; logical analysis of
data; Boolean functions; combinatorial optimization; information
systems
Cheng-few Lee, Professor of Finance, RBS; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
Applying econometrics and economic theory in finance and accounting research
Lei
Lei, Associate Professor of Management Science, RBS; Ph.D., Wisconsin
(Madison)
Vehicle scheduling and cyclic scheduling; convex resource
allocation and production planning algorithms; supply chain management
Richard McLean, Associate Professor of Economics, SAS; Ph.D., SUNY (Stony Brook)
Game theory and its applications
Benjamin
Melamed, Professor of Management Science and Information Systems,
RBS/RUTCOR; Ph.D., Michigan
Stochastic processes; modeling and
simulation; telecommunications modeling; programming languages
Joseph I. Naus, Professor of Statistics, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Applied probability; data quality control; clustering
Rosa Oppenheim, Professor of Operations Research, RBS; Ph.D., Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
Mathematical programming; graph theory; forecasting
Andras Prekopa, Professor of Operations Research and Statistics, SAS; Ph.D., Budapest (Hungary)
Stochastic
processes; stochastic optimization; linear and nonlinear programming;
inventory control; applications to engineering design; economics;
finance
Fred S. Roberts, Professor of Mathematics, SAS, and
Director of the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical
Computer Science (DIMACS); Ph.D., Stanford
Discrete mathematical models; graph theory; decision making; measurement theory
Andrzej
Ruszczynski, Professor of Management Science and Information Systems,
RBS/RUTCOR; Ph.D., Warsaw (Poland)
Stochastic programming; financial modeling; risk management
Michael E. Saks, Professor of Mathematics, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Combinatorial optimization and algorithms; extremal set theory; partially ordered sets
Glenn
Shafer, Board of Governors Professor of Accounting and Information
Systems, RBS; Ph.D., Princeton
Expert systems; causal conjecture;
game-theoretic probability; statistics; finance
Eduardo D. Sontag, Professor of Mathematics, SAS; Ph.D., Florida
System and control theory
Dan Stratila, Professor of Operations Research and Management Science and
Information Systems, RBS/RUTCOR; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Discrete optimization, transportation and network problems
William E. Strawderman, Professor of Statistics, SAS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Decision theory; inference; multivariate statistics
Hector J. Sussmann, Professor of Mathematics, SAS; Ph.D., New York
System and control theory
Hiroki Tsurumi, Professor of Economics, SAS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Bayesian econometrics and statistical inference
Robert Vichnevetsky, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Brussels (Belgium)
Numerical analysis; modeling and simulation of systems
Charles A. Weibel, Professor of Mathematics, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Algebraic K-theory; homological algebra; algebraic topology; category theory
Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty
James Abello, Research Professor, DIMACS; Ph.D., California (San Diego)
Computational geometry; visualization of massive data sets; graph mining