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Faculty Profile
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Michael O. Ball
Orkand Corporation Professor of Management Science
Decision and Information Technologies Department
Phone: (301) 405-2227
Office: 4471 Van Munching Hall
mball@rhsmith.umd.edu
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Ph.D., Operations Research, Cornell University
Michael Ball is the Orkand Corporation Professor of Management
Science in the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the
University of Maryland. He also holds a joint appointment within
the Institute for Systems Research (ISR) in the Clark School of
Engineering. Dr. Ball received a BES in Engineering Science in
1972 and an MSE in Operations Research in 1972 from Johns
Hopkins University and a PhD in Operations Research in 1977 from
Cornell University. He worked for two years at Bell Laboratories
and has had sabbatical appointments at the University of
Waterloo and the University of North Carolina. He is former
chair of the Decision and Information Technologies Faculty Area
within the Robert H. Smith School of Business and former chair
of the Executive Committee of the Institute for Systems
Research. He is currently Director of Research for the Smith
School.
Dr. Ball's research interests are in network optimization and
integer programming particularly as applied to problems in
transportation systems and supply chain management.. He is
Co-Director of NEXTOR, the National Center of Excellence for
Aviation Operations Research. Within NEXTOR, which is funded by
the FAA, NASA and members of the airline industry, he directs
the Collaborative Decision Making research project. The
interdisciplinary nature of his work led to Dr. Ball receiving
the Outstanding Systems Engineering Faculty Award from the ISR
in 1997. He has over 100 publications in the aforementioned
areas and has made over 100 presentations on these topics. He
also has extensive consulting experience, which, in certain
cases, has led to the development and successful implementation
of major software systems.
Dr. Ball is area editor for transportation for Operations
Research and is, or has been, associate editor for Networks,
IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Operations Research,
Operations Research Letters, Transportation Science and IIE
Transactions. He is a member and fellow of INFORMS. |
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