Carol Meyers

I completed my PhD in Operations Research from MIT in June 2006. My adviser was Andreas Schulz from the Sloan School of Management.

I am now employed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in the Systems and Decision Sciences section within the Engineering directorate. I work in the fields of optimization and probabilistic modeling, in support of projects in counterterrorism and stockpile stewardship. My PhD thesis was primarily in the areas of network and combinatorial optimization.

In graduate school, I was supported for three years by the Army Research Office through a National Defense Science and Engineering (NDSEG) Fellowship.

Before coming to MIT, I studied Mathematics at Pomona College in Southern California. Some claim that Pomona is one of the happiest places on earth.

I am originally from the city of Fremont in the San Francisco Bay Area. Fremont is a very diverse and interesting place to grow up. I now live in the town of Livermore, just 40 minutes away. Both towns are surrounded by abundant natural beauty and have fantastic hiking.

For something on the silly side, check out my Urban OR collage. Picture locations are described here.

Check out my thesis page for a copy of my thesis.

For a list of my papers, click here.
My husband Mike and I were married on October 21, 2007. We met during orientation at MIT and managed to graduate at the same time and find jobs in the same place (no easy feat!). He works as a mechanical engineer, also at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Our wedding photos are posted here. After the wedding, we enjoyed a wonderful honeymoon in New Zealand.

We are currently trying to visit all of the parks in the East Bay Regional Park system. Click here for our East Bay Regional Park rankings, and a list of the parks we have been to so far.
On a family note, my mom is a Unitarian Universalist community minister specializing in mental health issues. She has a webpage that gives information on mental health resources, and the role of religion in mental heath. She has also written a curriculum that teaches congregations to be supportive of people with mental disorders, and she recently started producing a TV show on mental health matters.
For pictures of many of the places I have been since 2002, check out my

Photo page.


Carol Meyers
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, L-229
7000 East Avenue
Livermore, CA 94550
Phone: (925) 422-1252
Email: carol@mit.edu