Jonathan Bard is a professor of Operations Research & Industrial Engineering at the University of Texas. He holds the Industrial Properties Corporation Endowed Faculty Fellowship and serves as the Associate Director for the Center for the Management of Operations Logistics. He received a D.Sc. in Operations Research from the George Washington University, an M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from Stanford University, and a B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.At The University of Texas, Dr. Bard teaches courses in mathematical modeling, production planning and control, optimization theory, and project management. His research centers on (1) the development of efficient algorithms for problems related to airline operations, vehicle routing, and healthcare delivery; (2) the design and analysis of manufacturing systems; and (3) the use of decomposition techniques to solve large-scale hierarchical planning problems. Prior to beginning his academic career, he worked as a program manager for the Aerospace Corporation and as a systems engineer for Booz, Allen & Hamilton. He is an internationally recognized expert on workforce planning, equipment scheduling, airline operations and bilevel programming, and is an active consultant for a number of government agencies and U.S. corporations. Dr. Bard is the founding Editor of IIE Transactions on Operations Engineering and currently serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Production Research, Computers & Industrial Engineering, the Journal of the Operational Research Society and Computers & Operations Research. He is a fellow of INFORMS and IIE, and a senior member of IEEE, and has held several offices in each of these organizations. His research has been published in the leading technical journals and has won numerous honors and awards. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas.