James B. Orlin
James B. Orlin | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 19, 1953 |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania (BS 1974) California Institute of Technology (MS 1976) Stanford University (PhD 1981) |
| Awards | INFORMS Fellow (2006) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Operations research |
| Institutions | MIT Sloan School of Management |
| Doctoral advisor | Arthur Fales Veinott |
| Doctoral students | Charu C. Aggarwal |
| Website | jorlin |
James Berger Orlin (born April 19, 1953)[1] is an American operations researcher, the Edward Pennell Brooks Professor in Management and Professor of Operations Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management.[2]
Biography
Orlin did his undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, receiving a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1974. He earned a masters degree in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 1976, and a Ph.D. in operations research from Stanford University in 1981 under the supervision of Arthur Fales Veinott, Jr.[1][2][3] He joined the MIT faculty as an assistant professor in 1979, and became the Brooks Professor in 1998.[1]
Selected works
He is the author of the book Network Flows: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications (with Thomas L. Magnanti and Ravindra K. Ahuja, Prentice Hall, 1993), for which he and his co-authors were the recipients of the 1993 Frederick W. Lanchester Prize of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.[4]
Honors and awards
He is also a Fellow of INFORMS[5] and a Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT's highest teaching honor.[6]
References
- ^ a b c Curriculum vitae, accessed 2011-03-05.
- ^ a b Faculty biography, Sloan School, accessed 2011-03-05.
- ^ James Berger Orlin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- ^ Award recipients: James B. Orlin, INFORMS, accessed 2011-03-05.
- ^ INFORMS Fellows: Class of 2006, accessed 2011-03-05.
- ^ Thibault, Marie Y. (March 6, 2007), "MacVicar Day Celebrates Learning, MIT Professors", The Tech.