Biography
Magnanti received an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from Syracuse University (1967) and master's degrees in both Statistics (1969) and Mathematics (1971) from Stanford University, where he also received his doctorate in Operations Research (1972).
Dr. Magnanti is Institute Professor and former Dean of the School of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has served on thesis committees for approximately 70 doctoral students, supervising over 25. He is slated to be the president of Singapore's fourth university, Singapore University of Technology and Design when it opens in 2011.
Magnanti has been Editor-in-Chief of the journal Operations Research.
Magnanti is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was a founding co-director of MIT's Leaders for Manufacturing Program (now the Leaders for Global Operations program) and the System Design and Management (MIT) program. He is a past President of the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA) and of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).
He has received honorary doctorates from Linköping University, the Université de Montréal, and the Université Catholique de Louvain. He has also won the MIT Billard Award and ORSA George E. Kimball Medal for distinguished service.
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