Spring 2007 Seminar Series

James Orlin is the Edward Pennell Brooks Professor of Operations Research at the MIT Sloan School. He received his BA from University of Pennsylvania in 1974, Master degrees from Caltech and University of Waterloo in 1976, and a Ph.D. from Stanford in 1981. He joined MIT Sloan in 1979, and served as the co-director of the Operations Research Center from 1999 to 2006.

 

His research has focused on both applications and methodological developments of optimization, especially optimization applied to networks. Together with Ravi Ahuja and Tom Magnanti, Professor Orlin co-authored Network Flows: Theory, Algorithms and Applications, which was awarded the 1993 Lanchester Prize for the most outstanding English Language publication in the field of Operations Research. Other awards include the Nicholson Prize, an NSF Presidential Young Fellowship Award, "Fulbright Fellowship" to the Netherlands, and the EXPLOR Award from the American Marketing Association for innovative on-line marketing research. He was elected as an INFORMS Fellow in 2006.

 

His current research interests include network and combinatorial optimization, inverse optimization, approximation schemes and heuristics, including recent work in stochastic optimization.