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Appendix B: Biographies of the Committee
Appendix B: Biographies of the Committee
Pages 128-134
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His research is in the development of quantitative m ethods for making the best use of scarce resources, which is part of the broad category of operations research methods. He works particularly on nonlinear and stochastic optimization methods for both optimization and equilibrium problems, trying both to develop the underlying theory and to find better numerical methods for solving applied problems.
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He is a recipient of the DoD Medal for Distinguished Public Service with Gold Palm, the Department of Veterans Affairs Meritorious Service Award, the Department of the Army Distinguished Civilian Service Award, the Department of the Navy Distinguished Public Service Award, and the National Academy of Public Administration's National Public Service Award. CYNTHIA DWORK is a Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research.
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Strong Professor in Business, and the director of business analytics in the Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of supply chain management and modeling, large-scale production and distribution systems, decision support systems, and applied optimization.
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Her other appointments include head of the Statistical Sciences group at Los A lamos National Laboratory, professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Statistics at Kansas State University, and statistics program director at NSF. For the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Dr.
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He has spent extended visits at the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Microsoft Research, and the National University of Singapore. He is the author of books on relational databases, logic programming, and object-oriented databases, as well as papers in database theory, objectoriented technology, scientific databases, and data pace management.
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He is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and earned a Ph.D. in industrial and organizational psychology from Ohio State University.
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Some of his past research aspired to advance our understanding of the roles played by two central institutions -- firms and contractual agreements -- and how these institutions facilitate the creation of value. Within this broader framework, he has explored firm reputation as a valuable, tradable asset; the effects of contract design and organizational form on firm behavior with applications to outsourcing and privatization; public- and privatesector procurement and award mechanisms; and the determinants of trust.
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