Jonathan P. Caulkins, Ph.D., is Professor of Operations Research and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University’s Qatar campus in Doha and its Heinz School of Public Policy. Caulkins specializes in mathematical modeling and systems analysis with a particular focus on social policy systems pertaining to drugs, crime, terror, violence, and prevention – work that won the David Kershaw Award from the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management. Other interests include software quality, optimal control, airline operations, and personnel performance evaluation. At RAND he has been a consultant, visiting scientist, co-director of RAND’s Drug Policy Research Center (1994 – 1996), and founding director of RAND’s Pittsburgh office (1999-2001).
His most recent book is Optimal Control of Nonlinear Processes: With Applications in Drugs, Corruption, and Terror. (Springer, 2008), with Dieter Grass, Gustav Feichtinger, Gernot Tragler, and Doris Behrens.
Dr. Caulkins received a B.S., and M.S. in Systems Science from Washington University, an S.M. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a Ph.D., in Operations Research both from M.I.T.
