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Faculty Profile
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Michael Fu
Professor of Management Science
Decision and Information
Technologies Department
Phone: (301) 405-2241
Office: 4305 Van Munching Hall
Email:
mfu at rhsmith.umd.edu
Personal Webpage |
Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, Harvard University
Fu has a joint appointment with the Institute for Systems Research and an affiliate appointment with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, both in the Clark School of Engineering. He was named a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland for 2004-2005. His research interests include simulation modeling and analysis, production/inventory control, applied probability and queueing theory, with application to manufacturing and finance. He is co-author of the book,
Conditional Monte Carlo: Gradient Estimation and Optimization Applications, which was awarded the INFORMS College on Simulation Outstanding Publication Award in 1998. Other awards include the Business School's Allen J. Krowe Award for Teaching Excellence (1995), the Institute for Systems Research Outstanding Faculty Award (2002), the IIE Operations Research Division Award (1999), an Operations Research Meritorious Service Award (1999), and an IIE Transactions Best Paper Award (1998).
He is currently the Stochastic Models and Simulation Department
Editor of
Management Science, was
Simulation Area Editor of Operations
Research from 2000-2005, and has served on the editorial boards of
INFORMS Journal on Computing,
IIE
Transactions, and
Production and Operations
Management. He was also Guest Editor of a special issue on simulation optimization for the
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation. His research has been sponsored by grants from the
National Science Foundation, the
Semiconductor Research Corporation,
International SEMATECH, and the
Air Force Office of Scientific Research. |
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