Michael Trick
Dr. Trick is a researcher and educator in the field of operations research, with a specialization in computational methods in optimization. After receiving his doctorate in industrial engineering from Georgia Tech, Dr. Trick embarked on two years of postdoctoral fellowships, first at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications in Minneapolis, then at the Institut fuer Oekonometrie und Operations Research in Bonn, Germany. He then joined the faculty of the Graduate School of Administration (now the Tepper School of Business) at Carnegie Mellon University where he is now Professor of Operations Research.
From 1998 through 2005, he was also President of the Carnegie Bosch Institute for Applied Studies in International Management, a research institute specializing in research support, conferences, and executive education on international management issues. In that role, he was the inaugural recipient of the Bosch Professorship from 2003-2005. The students of GSIA awarded him the George Leland Bach Award as the top teacher in the program in 1991 and renominated him for that award in 1997,
1998, 2000 and 2008.
In 1995, he was appointed the founding Editor of INFORMS Online, the electronic information service of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, a 14,000 member professional society. In 2002 he was President of that society. Starting 2004, he became Vice-President/North America for the International Federation of Operational Research Societies, an umbrella organization of 46 national operations research societies. In 2007, Trick spent the year at the University of Auckland as a Hood Fellow.
Trick has held many editorial roles for journals in operations research and the management sciences. He is an Area Editor for the journal Operations Research and is co-Editor-in-Chief for the new journal Surveys in ORMS. He has also taken on many leadership roles for conferences, including being General Chair for the 2006 INFORMS conference in Pittsburgh, the largest operations research conference ever at the time with more than 3800 participants.
Trick is the author of more than forty professional publications and is the editor of six volumes of refereed articles. Trick has consulted extensively with the United States Postal Service on supply chain design, with Major League Baseball and a number of college basketball conferences on scheduling issues, and with companies such as Motorola and Sony on machine scheduling.
Trick is a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).