# Andrew B. Whinston

Andrew B. Whinston (born June 3, 1936), is an American economist and computer scientist. He serves as the Hugh Roy Cullen Centennial Chair in Business Administration and works as a Professor of Information Systems, Computer Science, and Economics, and Director of the Center for Research in Electronic Commerce (CREC) in the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.
In the late 1950s, he was Sanxsay Fellow at Princeton University. Whinston received his PhD from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1962, when he also received the Alexander Henderson Award for Excellence in Economic Theory. He then started working at the economics department of Yale University, where he was a member of the Cowles Foundation. In 1964, he became Associate Professor of Economics at University of Virginia. By 1966, he was a Full Professor at Purdue University, where he became the university's inaugural Weiler Distinguished Professor of management, economics, and computer science.
In 1962, Whinston published a research paper in the Journal of Political Economy on how non-cooperative game theory could be applied to issues in microeconomics. In a second paper entitled "A Model of Multi-Period Investment Under Uncertainty", which appeared in Management Science, he used nonlinear optimization methods to determine optimal portfolios over time.

## Publications

Whinston has papers in economics journals such as American Economic Review, Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Financial Economics, and the Journal of Mathematical Economics. He has also written in multidisciplinary journals such as Management Science, Decision Sciences, and Organization Science, in operations journals such as Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Production Research, and Naval Research Logistics. Additionally, he has written in mathematics journals such as Journal of Combinatorics, SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, and Discrete Mathematics, in accounting journals such as the Accounting Review and Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, in marketing journals such as Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, and Journal of Retailing, in the premier journals devoted to information systems— Management Science, Decision Support Systems, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, and Information Systems Research— and in computer science journals such as Communications of the ACM, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, ACM Transactions, IEEE Computing on Internet Technology, and ACM Journal on Mobile Networking and Applications.
His publication record consists of more than 25 books and 400 refereed publications.

## Awards

In 1995, Whinston received an award from the Data Processing Management Association with its Information Systems Educator of the Year Award. In 2005, Whinston received the LEO Award for Lifetime Exceptional Achievement in Information Systems. This award, created by the Association for Information Systems Council and the International Conference on Information Systems Executive Committee, recognizes the work of outstanding scholars on the field.
In 2009, Whinston received with the Career Award for Outstanding Research Contributions at the University of Texas at Austin which recognizes significant research contributions made by a tenured member. In 2009, the INFORMS Information System Society (ISS) recognized Whinston him as the inaugural INFORMS ISS Fellow for outstanding contributions to information systems research.