BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Professor Otis Jennings

Professor Otis Jennings is a Visiting Faculty, Martin Luther King Fellow at the Sloan School of Management and the Operations Research Center. He is teaching operations management at the Sloan school this year. He taught an introductory probability and statistics course at Georgia Tech and an operations management course at Stanford. He conducted a 1.5 year postdoc at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. He received his masters in Operations Research from Georgia Tech in 1999 and received his BSE (bachelor of science and engineering) from Princeton (magnu cum laude) in Operations Research in 1994.

Publications and current projects:

-A book chapter in preparation entitled, "Stochastic Processing Networks with General Workareas"

with Jim Dai.

-Management of Internet Data Streaming Environments under Peak Rate Pricing, with E. Porteus. Working Paper.
- On the Stability of Multiclass Queueing Networks with Setups. Submitted to Queueing Systems.
- A Modified Offered Load Approximation for Nonstationary Circuit Switched Networks, with W. A. Massey, Select Proceedings of the Third INFORMS Telecommunications Conference (Telecommunication Systems, editors R. B. Cooper and R. Doverspike), 7 (1997) pp. 253-265.  
- Optimal Profit for Leased Lines Services, with W. A. Massey and C. McCalla, Proceedings of the 15th International Teletraffic Congress - ITC 15 (editors V. Ramaswami and P. E. Wirth), June 1997, pp. 803-814.  
- Server Staffing to Meet Time-Varying Demand, with A. Mandelbaum, W. A. Massey and W. Whitt, Management Science, 42:10 (October 1996), pp. 1383-1394.