Sheldon Jacobson Email & Phone Number

Sheldon H. Jacobson is a Founder Professor in Engineering and Director of the Bed Time Research Institute in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois. He has a B.Sc. and M.Sc. (both in Mathematics) from McGill University, and a M.S. and Ph.D. (both in Operations Research) from Cornell University. His research has been reported in the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe, editorialized in the New York Times, discussed in Business Week, Forbes, and Kiplinger, and in person on CNBC's Street Signs and The Closing Bell, Washington Post Radio, and The Osgood Files on CBS radio. The author of over 182 journal research articles and 90 book chapters, conference proceeding papers, and professional and editorial articles, Professor Jacobson received the Aviation Security Research Award, sponsored by Aviation Security International, International Air Transport Association, and Airports Council International, the Outstanding IIE Publication Award, the Award for Technical Innovation in Industrial Engineering, and the David F. Baker Distinguished Research Award (all from the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers,) and a Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is a fellow of both IISE and INFORMS. His research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. He also served as the program director for Operations Research at the National Science Foundation and on committees for the National Academy of Medicine and the National Research Council.

Listed skills include Statistics, Operations Research, Mathematical Modeling, Analysis, and 19 others.

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  Cornell University

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