Arthur F. Veinott Professor Management Science and Engineering Office: Terman 440 | Phone: 650-725-0548 | Fax: 650-723-1614 Email: veinott @ stanford.edu

Biography

Arthur Veinott is a Professor of Operations Research in the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University and has been at Stanford since 1962. He was a founding member of the Department of Operations Research and served as Chair during 1975-85. He took a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and a B.A. in Arts and Science from Lehigh University in 1956 and an Eng.Sc.D. in Industrial Engineering (specializing in operations research) from Columbia University in 1960 under Cyrus Derman. He served in the USAF as a 1st Lieutenant and Operations Analyst during 1960-62. He spent sabbatical years at IBM Research-Yorktown Heights (1968-1969), Yale University (1972-73), and IBM Research-Almaden (1989-90).

His research interests span several areas of operations research and management science including optimization, stochastic systems and competitive analysis. He has been most active in dynamic programming, lattice programming, network flows and supply-chain optimization.

He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (1986), selected as a Guggenheim Fellow (1978-79), and elected a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1970). He was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi at Lehigh.

He has been active in professional societies serving as Founding Editor of Mathematics of Operations Research (1974-1980), Vice President-Publications of the Institute of Management Sciences (1973-76) and Council Member of both the Institute of Management Sciences (1971-73) and the Operations Research Society of America (1983-86).