Field(s) of Expertise/Research Area(s)

Logistics, Applied optimization, supply chain modeling, location theory, healthcare applications of operations research

Courses

202 Probability (Winter)
383 Service Operations Management
490  Special Topics:  Heuristic Algorithms
490  Special Topics:  Models in Healthcare

Biography

My research focuses on supply chain network design in general and facility location models in particular.  I currently am studying reliability in supply chain design as well as closed loop logistics.  I teach courses on:  probability, statistics, operations research, supply chain reliability, location modeling, and heuristic algorithms.

I hold a Walter P. Murphy Professorship in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences of the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University.  I am the immediate past-president of INFORMS, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.  I am also the former chair of the IE/MS Department as well as the former editor-in-chief of IIE Transactions, the flagship journal of IIE, the Institute of Industrial Engineers.  I am a past vice president of publications of INFORMS.  Finally, I serve on a number of editorial boards and am a former editor-in-chief of Transportation Science.

Research

ReVelle, C, Eiselt, H.A, Mark S Daskin (2008). A Bibliography for Some Fundamental Problem Categories in Discrete Location Science. European Journal of Operational Research. 184:3,817-848

Sahyouni, K, R. C. Savaskan, Mark S Daskin (2007). A Facility Location Model For Bidirectional Flows. Transportation Science, 41:4,484-499

Ruffolo, M., Mark S Daskin, A. V. Sahakian, R. Berry (2007). Design of a Large Network for Radiological Image Data. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. 11:1,25-39

Snyder, L. V, Mark S Daskin, C-P. Teo (2007). The Stochastic Location Model with Risk Pooling. European Journal of Operational Research. 179:3,1221-1238

Honors and Awards

• National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award 1984
• Advisor of the year, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University 1998-1999
• Bette and Nieson Harris Professor of Teaching Excellence, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Northwestern University  ( September 2006 - August 2007 )
• Fred C. Crane Distinguished Service Award, IIE, 2005
• Fulbright Research Award 1989-1990
• IIE Fellows Award, 2006
• INFORMS Fellow Award, 2004
• Technical Innovation in Industrial Engineering Award, Institute of Industrial Engineers 2001