Irwin Greenberg
Professor Irwin Greenberg received the B.I.E. and Eng.Sc.D. degrees in
industrial engineering from New York University, the former degree in
1956, the latter in 1964. In 1960 he received the degree of M.S.
(Mathematics and Physics) from Northeastern University. He has held
full-time faculty appointments in the Department of Industrial
Engineering and operations Research at New York University (1960-1973)
and the Department of Management Science at the University of New Haven
(1976-1977) prior to joining the faculty at George Mason University in
1979. At George Mason he has been a member of the Department of Decision
Sciences in the School of Business Administration and the Department of
Systems Engineering and Department of Operations Research and Applied
Statistics in the School of Information Technology and Engineering and
has served as Departmental chair of the first two. Currently he holds
the title of Professor in both the Department of Applied and Engineering
Statistics and the Department of Operations Research and Engineering.
He has also had adjunct faculty appointments at the Polytechnic
University of New York, the Graduate School of Public Administration
of New York University and the Graduate School of Business of Pace
University. During the 1966-67 academic year he received a Fulbright
grant to serve as a Visiting Research Scientist in the Department of
Mathematics of the Technische Hoogeschool Delft (Netherlands). His
non-academic positions include weapon systems analyst at AVCO Research
and Advanced Development Division, traffic research analyst at the
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and Director of the Statistics
Research Center of the MATHTECH Division of MATHEMATICA, INC. He has
consulted for a number of companies and governmental agencies and is
currently a consultant to RAND. His major research interests are
centered on quality control and on mathematical modeling, particularly
stochastic models; their construction, calibration, verification and
application. He is co-author of Cases and Readings in Management
Science (Second Edition) published by Allyn and Bacon and his papers
have appeared in most of the leading journals of probability, statistics
and operations research. He has been an associate editor of Management
Science, a contributing editor of Interfaces and is currently a
contributing editor of International Abstracts in Operations Research
and an associate editor of the ORSA Softback Series. He is a member
of the Operations Research Society of America, The Institute of Management
Sciences, the Washington Operations Research - Management Sciences Council
(where he served as a Trustee in 1989- 1990) and the Decision Sciences
Institute.
