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Professor Robin Roundy

George Professor Roundy, who came to Cornell in 1983, was graduated magna cum laude from Brigham Young University. He received the Orson Pratt Award, which is given annually to the outstanding mathematics graduate.

He then studied operations research at Stanford University, where he received his doctorate in 1984. In 1984, Professor Roundy won the Nicholson Student Paper Competition, sponsored by the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA). In 1985, he received a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation.

In 1988 he received the Fredrick W. Lanchester Prize of the Operations Research Society of America for the best paper of the year on operations research. He is the author of one of Management Science's 50 Most Influential Papers (2004). He is a two-time recipient of the S. Yau '72 Excellence in Teaching Award, and has won other teaching awards as well. He is a member of The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, and of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, and the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE).