Airplane Fleet Assignment and Extensions: A New Model and Solution Approach

Professor Cynthia Barnhart

Co-Director, Operations Research Center

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cynthia Barnhart is an Associate Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department and serves as Co-Director of the Operations Research Center. At MIT, she has developed and teaches courses including Transportation Systems Analysis, Optimization of Large-Scale Transportation Systems and Airline Schedule Planning. Her research activities have focused on the development of planning models and algorithms to improve carrier operations, particularly airlines. Her work has been published in several books and scholarly journals. She is serving or has served as an Associate Editor for Operations Research, Transportation Science and Management Science, as a Board member for INFORMS, and as a liaison between the INFORMS Transportation Science Section and the INFORMS Aviation Applications Special Interest Group. She has been awarded the Mitsui Faculty Development Chair, the Junior Faculty Career Award from the General Electric Foundation and the Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation. In 1992 Professor Barnhart joined the faculty of MIT, where she received the M.S.T. in 1985 and the Ph.D. in 1988. She was an Assistant Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1988-92 before returning to MIT.