BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Professor Awi Federgruen

Awi Federgruen is the Charles E. Exley Professor of Management and Senior Vice Dean at the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. Professor Federgruen joined the Columbia University faculty in 1979 after receiving his doctorate in Operations Research at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and after being a Research Fellow at the Mathematical Center in Amsterdam and a faculty member at the Graduate School of Management of the University of Rochester.

Professor Federgruen is a world renowned expert in the development and implementation of planning models for logistical systems, in particular in the areas of production, inventory and distribution planning for supply chain management, and the design and analysis of operations strategies for service systems. He is also a prime contributor to various areas of quantitative methodology, in particular the area of applied probability models and dynamic programming.

He is Departmental Editor for the Department of Manufacturing, Service and Operations of Management Science and Associate Editor of Operations Research, the two flagship journals of his profession. He is also Senior Editor of Management Science and Operations Management, the profession's premier journal in the area of Operations Management. He is the author of various publications, all in the premier journals of his field, and he has authored a book on Markovian Control Problems and numerous chapters for survey textbooks. The recipient of a series of National Science Foundation and ARPA grants, his Ph.D. students are affiliated with some of he most influential university departments and industrial research laboratories (the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, the Simon School of the University of Rochester, the Business and Engineering Schools of Tel-Aviv University, the Business school and Statistics Department of the Hebrew University, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Merck).