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. In 1976, he earned two master's degrees, an MSc from California Institute of Technology and an MMath from University of Waterloo.[3] Orlin received his Ph.D. in operations research from Stanford University in 1981 under the supervision of Arthur Fales Veinott Jr.[1][2][4] 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.[5]
Honors and awards
He is also a Fellow of INFORMS[6] and a Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT's highest teaching honor.[7]
References
- ^ a b c Curriculum vitae, accessed 2011-03-05.
- ^ a b Faculty biography, Sloan School, accessed 2011-03-05.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2020-01-25. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
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- ^ James Berger Orlin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- ^ Award recipients: James B. Orlin Archived 2011-01-01 at the Wayback Machine, INFORMS, accessed 2011-03-05.
- ^ INFORMS Fellows: Class of 2006 Archived 2011-01-02 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 2011-03-05.
- ^ Thibault, Marie Y. (March 6, 2007), "MacVicar Day Celebrates Learning, MIT Professors", The Tech.
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