Expert List in Operations Research
Expert List
The expert list in operations research provides press and others with access to OR/MS experts who are ready and willing to comment on pressing issues of the day where their expertise can add clarity.
INFORMS provides expert comentators in the specialites listed below. For experts in other specialties, please contact INFORMS.
| Field | Specialty | Expert | Affiliation |
| Airline Industry | Scheduling, airport congestion | Prof. Cynthia Barnhart |
Past President, INFORMS Cambridge, MA |
| Air Safety | Mortality risk; homicide; war casualties; disease; misuse of statistics | Prof. Arnold I. Barnett | George Eastman Professor of Management Science, Sloan School of Management, MIT Cambridge, MA |
| Crime and punishment | Criminal justice, with a specialty in youthful offenders | Prof. Alfred Blumstein | J. Erik Jonsson University Professor of Urban Systems and Operations Research, the Heinz School, Carnegie-Mellon University, Director, National Consortium on Violence Research Pittsburgh, PA |
| E-Commerce and the Internet | Marketing and online music sites on the Internet | Prof. Peter S. Fader | Professor of Marketing, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA |
| Finance | Risk analysis, current Wall Street crisis | Dr. Dan Rosen |
R2 Financial Toronto, ON, Canada |
| Financial engineering | Prof. John R. Birge | Jerry W. and Carol Lee Levin Professor of Operations Management, University of Chicago School of Business Chicago, IL | |
| Manufacturing | Communication system design; transportation planning; logistics; production planning and scheduling; network design | Prof. Thomas L. Magnanti | Institute Professor, MIT School of Engineering Cambridge, MA |
| Marketing | Marketing science, use of quantitative techniques in marketing | Prof. Eric T. Bradlow | Editor-in-Chief, Marketing Science; K.P. Chao Professor, Professor of Marketing, Statistics, and Education The Wharton School Philadelphia, PA |
| Military | War gaming and modeling; theories of attrition; operations-other-than-war: military interactions with relief agencies and NGO's | Dr. Dean S. Hartley III | Oak Ridge, TN |
| Military | Military logistics, with expertise in Gulf War and Korean Peninsula | Dr. Richard C. Staats | Mitre Corporation McLean, VA |
| Optimization | Optimization and linear programming in industry | Prof. Saul I. Gass | Professor Emeritus of Management Science, Robert H. Smith School, University of Maryland College Park, MD |
| Package Delivery | Supply chain management, role of technology in improving package delivery | Mr. Jack Levis | Senior Project Manager Industrial Engineering Manager, UPS Timonium, MD |
| Public Health and Bio-Terror | Smallpox and anthrax epidemic modeling HIV Prevention and AIDS policy | Prof. Edward S. Kaplan | William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Management Sciences, Yale School of Management; Professor, Public Health New Haven, CT |
| Supply Chains | Supply chain management, including dynamic pricing in supply chain; coordinating production, distribution, and transportation decisions; value of information sharing in supply chain | Professor David Simchi-Levi | Professor of Engineering Systems, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering MIT Cambridge, MA |
| Traffic | Intelligent Traffic Systems | Prof. Hani S. Mahmassani | Editor-in-Chief, Transportation Science; William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transportation, Northwestern University Evanston, IL |
| Transportation and Logistics | Trucking, rail, and air distribution | Prof. Warren Powell | Director, Castle Laboratory, Princeton University Princeton, NJ |