Office: E40-147; Tel: 617-253-6606; Fax: 617-258-9214; E-mail: jorlin@mit.edu
University of Pennsylvania, BA '74, Mathematics; California Institute of Technology, MA '76, Mathematics; University of Waterloo, Math '76; Stanford University, Ph.D. '81, Operations Research
Professor Orlin specializes in network and combinatorial optimization. With two colleagues, he has written a graduate-level text, Network Flows: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications (1993). This text was the winner of the 1993 Lanchester Prize for the best English language publication in Operations Research. He is also interested in applications of network optimization and combinatorial optimization to logistics and vehicle routing.
He is a co-director of the MIT Operations Research Center.