| James B. Orlin | |
| Birth Date: | 19 April 1953 |
| Fields: | Operations research |
| Workplaces: | MIT Sloan School of Management |
| Alma Mater: | University of Pennsylvania (BS 1974) California Institute of Technology (MS 1976) University of Waterloo (MMath 1976) Stanford University (PhD 1981) |
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| Doctoral Advisor: | Arthur Fales Veinott |
| Awards: | INFORMS Fellow (2006) |
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James Berger Orlin (born April 19, 1953)[1] is an American operations researcher, the Edward Pennell Brooks Professor in Management and Professor of Operations Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management.[2]
Orlin did his undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, receiving a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1974. In 1976, he earned two master's degrees, an MSc from California Institute of Technology and an MMath from University of Waterloo.[3] Orlin received his Ph.D. in operations research from Stanford University in 1981 under the supervision of Arthur Fales Veinott Jr.[1] [2] [4] He joined the MIT faculty as an assistant professor in 1979, and became the Brooks Professor in 1998.[1]
He is the author of the book Network Flows: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications (with Thomas L. Magnanti and Ravindra K. Ahuja, Prentice Hall, 1993), for which he and his co-authors were the recipients of the 1993 Frederick W. Lanchester Prize of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.[5]
He is also a Fellow of INFORMS[6] and a Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT's highest teaching honor.[7]