MICHAEL O. BALL

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

Michael Ball is the Orkand Corporation Professor of Management Science in the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. He also holds a joint appointment within the Institute for Systems Research (ISR) in the Clark School of Engineering. He is currently Director of Research for the Smith School and is former chair of the Department of Decision and Information Technologies. Dr. Ball received his PhD in Operations Research in 1977 from Cornell University. His research interests are in network optimization and integer programming particularly as applied to problems transportation systems and supply chain management. He is co-Director of NEXTOR, the National Center of Excellence for Aviation Operations Research, and he leads the NEXTOR Collaborative Decision Making project. He is, or has been, associate editor for Operations Research, Transportation Science, IIE Transactions, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Operations Research Letters and Networks. He is currently area editor for transportation for Operations Research.