Co-Director, Center for Transportation and Logistics
Office: 1-229B; Tel: 617 253-3815; Fax: 617 258-5765; E-mail:cynthia_barnhart@mit.edu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D.’88, Transportation/Civil Engineering;
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, S.M’85, Transportation;
University of Vermont, BS’81, Civil Engineering
Professor Barnhart specializes in developing models, optimization methods and decision support systems for large-scale transportation problems. In 1997, she formed the Large-Scale Optimization Group at MIT. It is comprised of graduate students and researchers developing and applying optimization models and algorithms to large-scale problems arising in transportation, telecommunications and other problem domains.