caption doctoral_advisor death_date death_place work_institution birth_place image_size notable_students field birth_date known_for prizes image article_title academic_advisors name alma_mater
derman at stanford in 1986 kai-lai chung 27 april 2011 carmel , new york columbia university collingdale , pennsylvania 250px eric sheldon m. ross brodheim michael n. katehakis morton klein peter kolesar operations research 16 july 1925 markov decision process stochastic process operations research john , asa , ims von neumann theory prize -lrb- 2002 -rrb- fellow cd4.tif cyrus derman
 herbert robbins ted harris cyrus derman columbia university university of pennsylvania
cyrus derman

cyrus derman -lrb- july 16 , 1925 -- april 27 , 2011 -rrb- was an american mathematician and amateur musician who did research in markov decision process , stochastic processes , operations research , statistics and a variety of other fields .
