Robert H. Smith, School of Business Michael O Ball  

MICHAEL O. BALL

Orkand Corporation Professor of Management Science
 Decision and Information Technologies Department

E-Mail   : mball@rhsmith.umd.edu
Phone  : 301-405-2227   Fax : 301-405-2227
Offices: 4471 Van Munching Hall       3443 AV Williams Bldg   

                                                    

Systems Engineering Faculty Member of the Year (1996), Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland.

Supervised thesis of Robert Hoffman, which was awarded Honorable Mention (2nd Place) in the INFORMS Transportation Science Dissertation Prize Competition (1997).

“Advanced Available-to-Promise” project funded by, and jointly carried out with, Toshiba Corporation received “the Outstanding Contribution to Business Performance Award” from the Director of Toshiba Corporate Manufacturing Engineering Center (CMC), June, 2003.

Best Paper in Traffic Flow Optimization at the 5th USA/Europe ATM 2003 R&D Seminar (paper co-authored with T. Vossen, R. Hoffman and M. Wambsganss).

Supervised thesis of Thomas Vossen, which was awarded first place in the INFORMS Transportation Science Dissertation Prize Competition (2003) and honorable mention in the INFORMS Aviation Applications Section Dissertation Prize Competition (2003).

Named INFORMS Fellow, October, 2004.

Best Paper in Traffic Flow Optimization at the 6th USA/Europe ATM 2005 R&D Seminar (paper co-authored with D. Lovell, R. Hoffman and A. Mukherjee).

Best paper in Metrics and Performance Management at the 6th USA/Europe ATM 2003 R&D Seminar (paper co-authored with D.Lovell, A.Mukherjee, A.Odoni and G. Zerbib).