Ackerson Hall, Rm. 200 
180 University Avenue
Newark, NJ 07102
Phone: 973-353-5371
Fax: 973-353-5691
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Management Science and Information Systems
(Rutgers School of Business-Newark and New Brunswick)

This department has lead responsibility for the Information Technology major, the Management Science major and the Supply Chain Management major.
 
Professor, Management Science & Information Systems and Director of the Center of Information Management, Integration, and Connectivity (CIMIC), Rutgers Business School. Professor Adam has contributed to journals such as IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, and Information Systems, and edited seven books. Adam is also co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal on Digital Libraries and is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Management Information Systems and the Journal of Electronic Commerce. Professor Adam’s areas of expertise include simulation, scheduling, query optimization, database modeling and objective-based databases.
EDUCATION: B.S., Cairo University; M.S., M. Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University 

CONTACT INFORMATION: 
Office: (973) 353-5239 
E-mail: adam@adam.rutgers.edu

 
Associate Professor, Management Science & Information Systems, Rutgers Business School. His research interests include a software suite of callable C/C++ functions for solving optimization problems with combined linear, convex quadratic and semi definite constraints as well as working on applications of semi definite programming to combinatorial optimization problems, and statistical problems.
EDUCATION:  BS, University of Wisconsin-Madison; MS, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Ph.D.,University of Minnesota. 

CONTACT INFORMATION: 
Office: (973) 353-5488
E-mail: alizadeh@rutcor.rutgers.edu

 
Professor, Management Science & Information Systems, Rutgers Business School. Professor Armstrong’s interests include the theory of network flows, applications, and programming, related to management problems. Armstrong has written several articles, book chapters, and software documentation. He has co-written two books, Contemporary Business Data Processing, and Essentials of Data Processing and Information Systems.
EDUCATION: B.S., Acadia University; M.A., Dalhousie University; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts-Amherst

CONTACT INFORMATION: 
Office: (973) 353-5682 
Home: (973) 535-8884 
Home Fax: (973) 535-8885
E-mail: mprescott@comcast.net

Associate Professor, Management Science & Information Systems, Rutgers Business School. Professor Atluri has published many journal articles, presented at conferences, and contributed book chapters on current issues in computer science. Her interests include information systems security, database management systems, workflow management systems, digital libraries, geographic information systems, and electronic commerce.
EDUCATION: B.S., Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University; M.S., Indian Institute of Technology; Ph.D., George Mason University

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Office: (973) 353-1642 
Office Fax: (973) 353-5003
E-mail: atluri@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Professor, Management Science & Information Systems, Rutgers Business School. Professor Avi-Itzhak is a fellow of  RUTCOR Rutgers Center for Operations Research. He is a consultant or scientific advisor to numerous industrial and public service organizations including the Israel Ministry of Development, Coor Industries and Bellcore. The author of a number of books and many technical papers, Professor Avi-Itzhak is a frequent contributor to a variety of professional journals including Management Science, The Journal of Applied Probability, and Telecommunications Systems.
EDUCATION: B.S., M.S., D.Sc., Israel Institute of Technology

CONTACT INFORMATION: 
Office: (732) 445-5643/3133 
Office Fax: (732) 445-6379/5472 
E-mail: aviitzha@rutcor.rutgers.edu

Professor, Management Science & Information Systems, Rutgers Business School.  Professor Ben-Israel has published 3 books in pure and applied mathematics, and numerous articles in journals such as Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, American Mathematics Monthly, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications and Linear Algebra & Applications. He was a Fulbright Professor in India (1995), held a Distinguished Chair in Mathematics, University of Delaware (1976-1988) and served as Professor and Chairman of Applied Mathematics, Technion (1970-1975). His research interests include mathematical economics, decision under uncertainty, optimization and inequalities.
EDUCATION: B.Sc., M.Sc., Technion-Israel Institute of Technology; Ph.D., Northwestern University

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Office: (732) 445-5631 
Office Fax: (732) 445-5472 
Home: (609) 799-8308 
E-mail: bisrael@rutcor.rutgers.edu

Professor, Management Science & Information Systems, Rutgers Business School. Professor Eckstein has published in numerous journals, including INFORMS/ORSA Journal on Computing, SIAM Journal on Optimization, Mathematics of Operations Research, and Mathematical Programming. His interests include optimization algorithms, parallel computing, and their applications. He has also started some collaborative research on applying stochastic modeling techniques to problems of managing information systems.

Professor Eckstein writes the following about himself:
     My research interests fall into two related areas. The first area is quite broad: I am interested in the practical, effective use of parallel computing technology to solve realistic numerical optimization problems. My publications in this area have concentrated on parallel branch and bound algorithms for mixed integer programming, but include other topics. In general, I am interested in practical results on computer systems that have a large number (at least several dozen) processors and lack shared memory; these systems present the greatest implementation challenges.
     My other area of interest is in proximal algorithms for convex programming, and the related theory of monotone operators. Monotone operators are rather under-appreciated in the optimization community. In my view, their theory is quite elegant, and they provide great insights into otherwise confusing topics such as convex programming duality. My work relating to monotone operators has mostly concerned various kinds of proximal algorithms.
EDUCATION: A.B., Harvard, S.M., Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Office: (732) 445-3596/0510 
Office Fax: (732) 445-5472 / 6329
E-mail: jeckstei@rutcor.rutgers.edu

 
Richard Goodwin 
Adjunct Member, Management Science & Information Systems, Rutgers Business School.  Dr. Goodwin is a Manager at Semantic e-Business Middleware group at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. His group specializes in developing and applying advanced computer science and artificial intelligence techniques to business intelligences, decision support and business integration problems.
EDUCATION: B.A.Sc., University of Waterloo; M.S., Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Office: (914) 784-7608 
Office Fax: (914) 784-6807
E-mail: rgoodwin@us.ibm.com

 

Associate Dean and Associate Professor, Management Science & Information Systems, Rutgers Business School. Professor Jones’ expertise includes mathematical and applied statistics, stochastic processes, psychometrics, Bayesian methods, computerized psychological and educational testing, non-parametric methods, and survey sampling designs.
EDUCATION: B.S., Florida Atlantic University; M.S., Ph.D., Florida State University

CONTACT INFORMATION: 
Office: (973) 353-5033 
Home: (732) 505-1923
E-mail: dhjones@rci.rutgers.edu

 
mnk1.gif (60050 bytes)Professor, Management Science & Information Systems, Rutgers Business School. Professor Katehakis is a frequent contributor to a variety of journals including Mathematics of Operations Research, Probability in the Engineering and Information Sciences, Annals of Applied Probability, Advances in Applied Probability, Management Science, Advances in Applied Mathematics, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. He is the winner of the 1992 Wolfowitz Prize and a member of the editorial boards of the American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences and the Journal of Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences. His research interests include dynamic programming, estimation and control under incomplete information, stochastic modeling and optimization, mathematical programming, computer simulation, applications in queuing systems, reliability, maintenance and finance.
EDUCATION: M.A., University of South Florida; M.S., Ph.D., Columbia University

CONTACT INFORMATION: 
Office: (973) 353-5476 
Email: mnk@andromeda.rutgers.edu
 

Associate Professor, Management Science & Information Systems, Rutgers Business School. Professor Lei has published in many refereed academic journals including the Journal of The Operational Research Society, ORSA Journal on Computing, Management Science, IIE Transactions, and European Journal of Operations Research. Lei’s areas of expertise include supply chain  logistics network optimization, time-window constrained cyclic scheduling, constrained project scheduling with convex time-cost trade-off functions, vehicle dispatching with routing and the time-window constraints.  She is currently a leading Professor for Supply Chain Management at Rutgers and the director for Rutgers Center for Supply Chain Management. She has received a number of best teacher awards at Rutgers Business School.
EDUCATION: M.S., Dalian Institute of Technology, China (1983); Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison (1989)

CONTACT INFORMATION: 
Office: (973) 353-5185 
Office Fax: (973) 353-5003 
Home: (732) 548-8071 
Home Fax: (732) 548-8071
E-mail: llei@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Professor, Management Science & Information Systems, Rutgers Business School. Professor Melamed has published in the areas of queuing networks, stochastic processes, modeling and simulation (primarily of telecommunications systems), and decision support environments.
EDUCATION: B.S., Tel Aviv University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Michigan

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Office: (732) 445-3128 
Office Fax: (732) 445-6329
E-mail: melamed@rbs.rutgers.edu

Rosa Oppenheim
Associate Dean and Professor, Management Science & Information Systems, Rutgers Business School. Dean Oppenheim is the author of Quality Management: Tools And Methods For Improvement and has published articles on total quality management, statistical process control, time series analysis and forecasting, the mathematical analysis of literary styles, and integer programming. She has also won numerous teaching awards.
EDUCATION: B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Polytechnic University; M.A., Rutgers University

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Office: (973) 353-5128 
Office Fax: (973) 353-1345 
Home: (201) 652-2343 
Home Fax: (201) 652-2343
E-mail: roppenhe@andromeda.rutgers.edu 

 

Associate Professor, Management Science & Information Systems, Rutgers Business School. Professor Papayanopoulos has published in journals including Computers and Operations Research and Annals of Dynamic Games. His interests include management of information systems, voting, game theory, power majority games, apportionment/reapportionment, computer aided instruction, electronic classrooms, location theory, and networks.
EDUCATION: B.S., Cornell University; M.S., New York University; Ph.D., Columbia University

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Office: (973) 353-5828 
Office Fax: (973) 353-5003 
Home: (973) 731-0274 
E-mail: papayano@rutgers.edu

Assistant Professor, Management Science & Information Systems, Rutgers Business School. Professor Park's primary research interest has been in the area of agent-based systems and their applications to real-world problems, such as electronic commerce, digital libraries, and distributed configuration design.  In particular, her work is focused on design of an agent strategy for a multi-agent auction.  there is a growing need for such a strategy, as more and more auction-based markets become present in electronic commerce.  She continues her work on agent design for auctions and is interested in developing multi-agent based application for electronic commerce.
EDUCATION: Ph.D., University of Michigan

CONTACT INFORMATION: 
Office: (973) 353-5261 
Office Fax: (973) 353-5003 
Home: (908) 306-8888 
E-mail: spark@business.rutgers.edu

Professor, Management Science & Information Systems, Rutgers Business School. Professor Rothkopf is widely published in journals dealing with management science, operations research and economics. He is interested in applied mathematical modeling, energy economics (especially electricity deregulation), and is a leading expert on the modeling of competitive bidding. He is the former editor of Interfaces, a journal dealing with practical applications of quantitative analysis.
EDUCATION: B.A., Pomona College; M.S., Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Office: (732) 445-5632 
Office Fax: (732) 445-5472 
Home: (732) 699-9318 
E-mail: rothkopf@rutcor.rutgers.edu

Professor, Management Science & Information Systems, Rutgers Business School. Professor Ruszczynski’s interests are in the theory, numerical methods and applications of stochastic optimization. He is author of numerous publications in operations research and applied mathematics journals such as Mathematical Programming, Mathematics of Operations Research and Operations Research, and is chairman of the Stochastic Programming Committee of the Mathematical Programming Society.
EDUCATION: M.S., Ph.D., Warsaw University of Technology

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Office: (732) 445-3422 
Home: (609) 520-1717
E-mail: rusz@everest.rutgers.edu

Professor, Management Science & Information Systems, Rutgers Business School. Professor Shanno has written book chapters and has contributed articles to variety of professional journals including the ORSA Journal on Computing. His interests include mathematical optimization, with particular interest in linear and nonlinear programming, numerical analysis and large scale modeling.

EDUCATION: B.A., Yale University; M.S., Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University

CONTACT INFORMATION: 
Office: (732) 445-4858 
Office Fax: (732) 445-5472 
Home: (215) 321-0336 
E-mail: shanno@tucker.rutgers.edu

Dr. Stoumbos is the Chair of the Management Science & Information Systems (MSIS) Department at the Rutgers Business School (RBS).  He is the recipient of the 2003 Jack Youden Prize of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and the American Society for Quality (ASQ) for the best research paper in the physical, chemical, and engineering sciences.  He is also the recipient of the 2004 ASQ Brumbaugh Award for the paper with the greatest single contribution to the development of the industrial application of quality control and statistical process control.  Dr. Stoumbos is twice the recipient of the Paul Nadler Teaching Excellence Award and a recipient of outstanding researcher awards at RBS.
 
Dr. Stoumbos has served as the 2004 Chair-Elect and 2005 Chair of the Quality, Statistics, and Reliability Section of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).  He is a Senior Member of ASQ and of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE).  He is a member of INFORMS, of the American Statistical Association (ASA), and of the International Federation of Nonlinear Analysts (IFNA).  He is a member of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Quality Technology and a member of the Jack Youden Award Committee of the ASA.
 
Dr. Stoumbos is widely published in leading research journals, including Technometrics, Journal of Quality Technology, Journal of the American Statistical Association, IIE Transactions, Nonlinear Analysis, and other journals.  He has served as a scientific advisor and consultant for a large number of major corporations and organizations nationally and internationally.  His research interests include statistical process control, data mining and classification analysis, time series analysis and forecasting, information systems and technology, financial and risk modeling, public-health surveillance, terrorism and bioterrorism preparedness, psychometrics, and supply-chain management. 

EDUCATION: B.S., University of North Carolina; M.S., Ph.D., Virginia Tech

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Office: 973-353-1138 (Newark); 732-445-6849 (Piscataway)
Office Fax: 973-353-5003 (Newark); 732-445-6329 (Piscataway)
E-mail: stoumbos@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Jaideep Vaidya
Assistant Professor, Management Science & Information Systems.  Research areas include:  confluence of Privacy/Security, Data Mining and Databases: Security and Privacy issues raised by data Mining; Data Mining techniques applied to interoperation of heterogeneous information sources; Applied Cryptography and Secure Multi-Party Computation techniques; Use of data mining for enhancing security.
EDUCATION: Ph.D., Purdue University

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Office: (973) 353-1441
Office Fax: (973) 353-5003
Email: jsvaidya@rbs.rutgers.edu

Yao Zhao
Assistant Professor, Management Science & Information Systems.  Research areas include:  Forecasting, production-inventory systems; Information sharing, supply chain integration; Distribution and Logistics; Integration of financial and operational decisions Dynamic programming and optimal stochastic control
EDUCATION: Ph.D., Northwestern University

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Office: (973) 353-5017
Office Fax: (973) 353-5003
Email:
yaozhao@andromeda.rutgers.edu