Michael Trick
Professor of Operations Research
Tepper School of Business
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
B. Math '82 (Waterloo)
PhD '87 (Georgia Tech)

Dr. Trick is a researcher and educator in the field of operations
research, with a specialization in computational methods in
optimization.  After receiving his doctorate in industrial engineering
from Georgia Tech, Dr. Trick embarked on two years of postdoctoral
fellowships, first at the Institute for Mathematics and its
Applications in Minneapolis, then at the Institut fuer Oekonometrie
und Operations Research in Bonn, Germany.  He then joined the faculty
of the Graduate School of Administration (now the Tepper School of
Business) at Carnegie Mellon University.  From 1998 through 2005, he
was also President of the Carnegie Bosch Institute for Applied Studies
in International Management, a research institute specializing in
research support, conferences, and executive education on
international management issues, and the recipient of the Bosch
Professorship from 2003-2005.  The students of GSIA awarded him the
George Leland Bach Award as the top teacher in the program in 1991 and
renominated him for that award in 1997, 1998 and 2000. In 1995, he was
appointed the founding Editor of INFORMS Online, the electronic
information service of the Institute for Operations Research and the
Management Sciences, a 14,000 member professional society.  In 2002 he
was President of that society.  Starting 2004, he became
Vice-President/North America for the International Federation of
Operational Research Societies, an umbrella organization of 46
national operations research societies.  In 2007, Trick visited the
University of Auckland as a Hood Fellow.

Trick is the author of forty professional publications and is the
editor of five volumes of refereed articles.  Trick has consulted
extensively with the United States Postal Service on supply chain
design, with Major League Baseball and a number of college basketball
conferences on scheduling issues, and with companies such as Motorola
and Sony on machine scheduling.  Trick is a Fellow of the Institute
for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

Contact:

Michael Trick
Tepper School of Business
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA USA
15213
Phone: (412)268-3697
Fax:   (412)268-7357
Email: trick@cmu.edu
Web:   http://mat.tepper.cmu.edu/