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Faculty Profile
Ph.D., Operations Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bruce Golden received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the
University of Pennyslvania and his masters and doctoral degrees
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined the
faculty of the University of Maryland Business School in 1976
and served as a Department Chairman from 1980 to 1996.
Currently, Bruce is the France-Merrick Chair in Management
Science in the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the
University of Maryland. His research interests include heuristic
search, combinatorial optimization, networks, and applied
operations research. Bruce has received numerous awards,
including the Thomas L. Saaty Prize (1994 and 2005), the University of
Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award (2000), the INFORMS
Award for the Teaching of OR/MS Practice (2003), and the INFORMS
Computing Society Prize (2005). He was named an INFORMS Fellow
in 2004. Since 1999, Bruce has served as Editor-in-Chief of
NETWORKS. Before that, he was Editor-in-Chief of the INFORMS
Journal on Computing.
In addition, Bruce has received numerous contracts and grants,
has consulted for a wide variety of organizations, and has
served on the Board of Directors of several high-tech companies
based in Maryland. In 1980, he founded a management consulting
company with several colleagues. The focus was on business
logistics. Clients included IBM, UPS, the U.S. Postal Service,
the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Army, Federal Express, Toyota,
DuPont, and many others. In the late 1980’s, Bruce co-founded a
second company, specializing in the design and sales of vehicle
routing software. He and his partners successfully grew these
companies and sold them in late 1998. |
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