Andrew Schaefer

I am an Associate Professor and Wellington C. Carl Faculty Fellow in the Department of Industrial Engineering at The University of Pittsburgh. I also hold secondary appointments in the Departments of Medicine and Bioengineering.

I graduated with a double-major in Computational and Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Economic Analysis from Rice University in 1994. I also received a Masters in Computational and Applied Mathematics from Rice in 1994. I received my PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2000.

My research papers are available here. Descriptions of my current and previous federally funded grants may be found here.  

My colleagues and I were recently awarded a Veterans Engineering Resource Center (VERC) to apply operations research models to the Veterans Administration.

Meet my current and former PhD students. Congratulations to Oguz Alagoz, who recently won an NSF CAREER award. Rob Koppenhaver is currently seeking a faculty position.

I teach undergraduate courses in discrete event simulation and engineering the service sector. I teach a masters course in logistics and supply chain management. I teach PhD courses in integer programming, computational optimization, therapeutic optimization, stochastic programming, and advanced Markov decision processes.

My CV (as of October 2009) can be found here

Please send emails regarding graduate assistantships to our graduate secretary.

Contact Information:

Andrew Schaefer
Department of Industrial Engineering
1048 Benedum Hall
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15261

412-624-5045 (Voice) 412-624-9831 (Fax)

schaefer (at) ie (dot) pitt (dot) edu