Robert Vanderbei
Professor in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University, BS in Chemistry in 1976 and an MS in Operations Research and Statistics in 1978 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and his PhD in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University in 1981, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Research Fellow at Mathematics Department at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Team member of AT&T's Advanced Decision Support Systems venture 1984-1990,