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Portrait of Mark S. Daskin, Clyde W. Johnson Professor, Emeritus, Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan.

 

His research focuses on supply chain network design in general and facility location models in particular. He currently is studying reliability in supply chain design as well as sustainability issues associated with supply chains. Daskin is also studying problems in health care operations research with a current focus on transplantation problems and the assignment of residents and interns to patients. He has taught courses on: probability, statistics, operations research, supply chain reliability, location modeling, health care operations research, service operations management, and heuristic algorithms. Currently, he is teaching a course on service operations management for upper level undergraduates and MS students.

 

Mark Daskin holds the Clyde W. Johnson Collegiate Emeritus Professorship in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering of the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. He is a past-president of INFORMS, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. He is also the former chair of the IE/MS Department as well as a past editor-in-chief of IIE Transactions, the flagship journal of IIE, the Institute of Industrial Engineers. He is a past vice president of publications of INFORMS. Finally, he serves on a number of editorial boards and am a former editor-in-chief of Transportation Science. In 2017, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. In 2021, he received the Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Award from the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers.

 

Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Michigan he held a Walter P. Murphy Professorship in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences of the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University.

 

Tuesday, December 12, 2023

 

 

Photo by Marcin Szczepanski/Lead Multimedia Storyteller, Michigan Engineering

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