Spring 2005 Seminar Series

Michael Pinedo received the Ir. degree in mechanical engineering from the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands in 1973 and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Operations Research from the University of California at Berkeley in 1978.

He is the Julius Schlesinger Professor of Operations Management and Deputy Chair of the department of Information, Operations and Management Sciences at the Stern School of Business at New York University. From 1982 to 1997 he taught in the industrial engineering and operations research department at Columbia University. He taught at the Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas (Caracas) from 1978 to 1980 and at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1980 to 1982.

His research focuses on the modeling of production and service systems, and, more specifically, on the planning and scheduling of these systems.

He has written or jointly written numerous technical papers on these topics. He is author of the texts "Scheduling: Theory, Algorithms and Systems" and "Planning and Scheduling in Manufacturing and Services", coauthor of a book on "Operations Scheduling with Applications in Manufacturing and Services", coauthor of "Queueing Networks: Customers, Signals and Product Form Solutions", and co-editor of "Creating Value in Financial Services: Strategies, Operations, and Technologies".
He is Editor of Journal of Scheduling. He has been an area editor of Operations Research (covering stochastic processes) and a department editor of IIE Scheduling and Logistics (covering scheduling). He is currently associate editor of Management Science and Naval Research Logistics, associate editor of Interfaces and senior editor of Manufacturing and Services Operations Management.