Dorit S. Hochbaum is a full professor at UC Berkeley. She is a
professor of Business Administration and of Industrial Engineering
and Operations Research (IEOR). Professor Hochbaum holds a Ph.D
from the Wharton school of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
Prior to joining UC Berkeley in 1981, Profeesor Hochbaum held a
faculty position at Carnegie Mellon university's GSIA. Her research
interests are in areas of supply chain management, efficient utilization
of resources, computer algorithms and discrete optimization. She
did work on locations of plants and bank accounts; on movement
of robots; on routing and distribution problems; on feasibility
of VLSI designs; on distribution of data bases on computer networks;
on clustering problems and on layout and scheduling problems among
others. She has contributed to the analysis of heuristics and approximation
algorithms in the worst case, and on the average, and to the complexity
analysis of algorithms in general, and nonlinear optimization algorithms
in particular. Her recent applications work is on problems related
to the semiconductor industry in layout, scheduling and testing,
in production planning and supply chain streamlining for high tech
industries and in logistics and planning problems in various industries.
Recent theoretical work focuses on particularly efficient techniques
for network flow related problems and inverse problems, with applications
varying from medical prognosis, error correction, financial risk
assessment and prediction, to group rankings and decision problems.
Professor Hochbaum served as the chair of the Manufacturing and
Information Technology group at the Haas School of Business. She
is the founder and director of the UC Berkeley Supply Chain Initiative.
She is the founder and co-director of the RIOT project.
Professor
Hochbaum is the author of over 90 papers that appeared in the Operations
Research, Management Science and Theoretical Computer Science literature.
She serves as department editor for Management Science department
of Optimization and Modelling and on the editorial board of Networks
and on the advisory board of Algorithms and Operations Research.
She served in the past on the editorial boards of Operations Research
and Operations Research Letters.
Professor Hochbaum was recently
named as one of two honorary doctorates of Sciences of the University
of Copenhagen, for her work on approximation algorithms. The title
was conferred, at an annual event at the University, in the presence
of the Queen of Denmark.
