BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Professor Michael Rothkopf

Michael H. Rothkopf is a Professor at Rutgers University’s Business School and RUTCOR, its PhD program in operations research. He is also a consultant on electricity auctions to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Professor Rothkopf received his BA in mathematics from Pomona College, MS from the Sloan School, and his PhD from MIT Operations Research Center. After receiving his PhD, he worked for Shell in research and in planning for nine years. He also worked at Xerox PARC for nine years. Professor Rothkopf headed the Energy Analysis Program at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory before moving to Rutgers in 1988. He is an applied mathematical modeler who has published research on scheduling, queuing, energy economics, a wide variety of OR applications, and extensively on modeling auctions. He has served as the founding area editor of the OR Practice section of Operations Research and as editor of Interfaces. He is President-Elect of INFORMS.