James B. Orlin
Author
1953 –
Who is James B. Orlin?
James Berger Orlin is an American operations researcher, the Edward Pennell Brooks Professor in Management and Professor of Operations Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Orlin did his undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, receiving a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1974. He earned a masters degree in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 1976, and a Ph.D. in operations research from Stanford University in 1981 under the supervision of Arthur Fales Veinott, Jr. He joined the MIT faculty as an assistant professor in 1979, and became the Brooks Professor in 1998.
He is the author of the book Network Flows: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications, for which he and his co-authors were the recipients of the 1993 Frederick W. Lanchester Prize of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. He is also a Fellow of INFORMS and a Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT's highest teaching honor.
We need you!
Help us build the largest biographies collection on the web!
- Born
- Apr 19, 1953
- Also known as
- James Orlin
- Education
- Stanford University
- University of Pennsylvania
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
Citation
Use the citation below to add to a bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"James B. Orlin." Biographies.net. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 27 Apr. 2024. <https://www.biographies.net/people/en/james_b_orlin>.
Discuss this James B. Orlin biography with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In