thesis_year birth_place nationality field birth_date residence article_title name alma_mater
1969 bozeman , montana usa operations research 1942 united states ward whitt
 ward whitt dartmouth college
ward whitt

ward whitt -lrb- born 1942 -rrb- is an american professor of operations research and management sciences .
he is the wai t. chang professor of industrial engineering and operations research at columbia university .
his research focuses on queueing theory , performance analysis , stochastic models of telecommunication systems , and numerical transform inversion .
he is recognized for his contributions to the understanding and analyses of complex queues and queuing networks , which led to advances in the telecommunications system .
