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Thomas
L. Magnanti
Dean, MIT School of Engineering
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Thomas
L. Magnanti is the Dean of the School of Engineering and
one of fourteen Institute Professors at MIT where he has
been a faculty member since 1971. He has devoted much of
his professional career to education that combines engineering
and management and to teaching and research in applied and
theoretical aspects of large-scale optimization.
Professor
Magnanti was a founding co-director of MIT's industry-university
collaborative research and educational program, Leaders
for Manufacturing Program, and its on-campus off-campus
graduate program, System
Design and Management. He has previously served as head
of the Management Science Area (about one-third) of the
Sloan
School of Management and as co-director of MIT's interdepartmental
Operations
Research Center. He is a past President of the Operations
Research Society of America (ORSA) and of the Institute
of Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS)
and has been Editor-in-Chief of the journal Operations
Research.
Dr.
Magnanti currently serves on the International Advisory
Board of Linköping University in Sweden, President's
Council of Olin College, and the advisory boards of the
Harvard Business School and the Stanford School of Engineering.
He has previously served as a member of the National Research
Council's Manufacturing Studies Board and on the board of
the Lemelson-MIT
Prize Committee.
Professor
Magnanti received an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering
from Syracuse University (1967) and master's degrees in
both Statistics (1969) and Mathematics (1971) from Stanford
University, where he also received his doctorate in Operations
Research (1972).
On two
occasions, Professor Magnanti has been a research fellow
at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics at
the University of Louvain in Belgium. He has been a visiting
scholar at the Harvard Business School and has held visiting
scientist appointments at Bell Laboratories and at GTE Laboratories.
He has also previously served as a member of the corporate
manufacturing staff of Digital Equipment Corporation, on
the Science and Technology Council of Inland Steel, and
as a consultant to Sabre Technology Solutions. He currently
serves on the Boards of the Ford Design Institute and Emptoris,
Inc.
Professor
Magnanti's research and teaching interests focus on the
theory and application of large-scale optimization, particularly
in the areas of network flows, nonlinear programming, and
combinatorial optimization. He has conducted research on
such topics as production planning and scheduling, transportation
planning, facility location, logistics, and communication
systems design. Dr. Magnanti has served on thesis committees
for approximately 70 doctoral students, supervising over
25. His publications include co-authorship of two textbooks,
Applied Mathematical Programming and Network Flows:
Theory, Algorithms and Applications, and the co-editorship
of two other books.
In addition
to his editorship of Operations Research, Professor
Magnanti has served on the editorial board and as an advisory
editor of several journals and book series in the fields
of management science, transportation, applied mathematics,
and computer science.
He has
received the MIT Billard Award and the ORSA Kimball Medal
for distinguished service, as well as the Irwin Sizer Award
for significant innovations in MIT education. He has also
received the 1993 Lanchester Prize for best publication
in the field of operations research and has received honorary
doctorates from Linköping University, the University
of Montreal, and the Université Catholique de Louvain.
Professor Magnanti is a member of the National Academy of
Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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