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	Jeffrey W. Ohlmann Associate Professor Huneke Research Fellow
	Management Sciences S372  John Pappajohn Bus Bldg The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1994	Ph: 319-335-0837 Fax: 319-335-0297 E-mail: jeffrey-ohlmann@uiowa.edu

Academic History

• PhD in Industrial & Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, 2003
• MS in Industrial & Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, 2001
• BS in Mathematics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1998

Expertise

• Heuristic Search
• Logistics & Fleet Management
• Operations Research in Agriculture
• Sports Analytics

Awards

• Strategic Innovation Academy Faculty of the Year, 2011-2012, Tippie College of Business, April 2012
• Nominee for President & Provost Award for Teaching Excellence, Council on Teaching, January 2012
• Finalist, Elevator Pitch Competition, John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center, November 2010
• Strategic Innovation Faculty of Year, 2009 - 2010, Tippie College of Business, April 2010
• Finalist, Elevator Pitch Competition, John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center, May 2009
• Dean's Teaching Award, 2008 - 2009, Tippie College of Business, April 2009
• Finalist, Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, November 2008
• Finalist, INFORMS Case Competition, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, November 2008
• MBA Core Faculty of the Year, 2005 - 2006, Tippie College of Business, April 2006
• Young Researcher Roundtable, INFORMS Conference on O.R. Practice, April 2005
• George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award, INFORMS, October 2004

Selected Publications

• Rollout Policies for Dynamic Solutions to the Multi-Vehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic Demand and Duration Limits, Justin C. Goodson, Jeffrey W. Ohlmann, Barrett W. Thomas, Operations Research, vol 61, 2013, 138-154
• Cyclic-Order Neighborhoods with Application to the Vehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic Demand, Justin Goodson, Jeffrey W. Ohlmann, Barrett W. Thomas, European Journal of Operational Research, vol 217, 2012, 312-323
• An Integer Programming Model for Optimal Pork Marketing, Jeffrey W. Ohlmann, Philip C. Jones, Annals of Operations Research, vol 190, 2011, 271-287
• A Randomized Delaunay Triangulation Heuristic for Euclidean Steiner Tree Problem in R^d, Jon W. Van Laarhoven, Jeffrey W. Ohlmann, Journal of Heuristics, vol 17, 2011, 353-372
• An Agent-Based Stochastic Ruler Approach for a Knapsack Problem with Competition-Induced Uncertainty, Matthew R. Gibson, Jeffrey W. Ohlmann, Michael J. Fry, Computers & Operations Research, vol 37, 2010, 598 - 609
• Resource-Constrained Management of Heterogeneous Assets Exhibiting Independent Stochastic Behavior, Jeffrey W. Ohlmann, James C. Bean, European Journal of Operational Research, vol 199, 2009, 198 - 208
• Route Design for Delivery of Electronic Voting Machines in Hamilton County, Ohio, Michael J. Fry, Jeffrey W. Ohlmann, Interfaces, vol 39, 2009
• Long-Range Timber Supply Planning for a Vertically Integrated Paper Mill, Philip C. Jones, Jeffrey W. Ohlmann, European Journal of Operational Research, vol 191, 2008, 557-570
• Route Design for Lean Production Systems, Jeffrey W. Ohlmann, Michael Fry, Barrett W. Thomas, Transportation Science, vol 42, 2008, 352-370
• A Player Selection Heuristic for a Sports League Draft, Michael J. Fry, Andrew W. Lundberg, Jeffrey W. Ohlmann, Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, vol 3, 2007
• A Compressed Annealing Approach to the Traveling Salesman Problem with Time Windows, Jeffrey W. Ohlmann, Barrett W. Thomas, INFORMS Journal on Computing, vol 19, 2007, 80 - 90
• Convergence in Probability of Compressed Annealing, Jeffrey W. Ohlmann, James C. Bean, Shane G. Henderson, Mathematics of Operations Research, vol 29, 2004, 837-860
• Operations Research Methods Applied to Workflow in a Medical Records Department, S.-Y. Edna Chan, Jeffrey W. Ohlmann, Steven Dunbar, Charlene Dunbar, Sarah Ryan, Paul Savory, Health Care Management Science, vol 5, 2002, 191-199

Working Papers

• Restocking-Based Rollout Policies for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic Demand and Duration Limits, Justin C. Goodson, Barrett W. Thomas, Jeffrey W. Ohlmann
• Daily Routing for Customer Relationships in Pharmaceutical Sales, Shu Zhang, Jeffrey W. Ohlmann, Barrett W. Thomas
• A Rollout Policy Framework for Dynamic Programming Approximations, Justin C. Goodson, Barrett W. Thomas, Jeffrey W. Ohlmann

Conference Proceedings

• A Memetic Heuristic for the Co-Clustering Problem, Mohammad Khoshneshin, Mahtab Ghazizadeh, Nick Street, Jeffrey W. Ohlmann, Fifth International ICST Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of network, Information, and Computing Systems, 2010
• Privacy Protection in Published Data Using an Efficient Clustering Method, Md. Manzoor Murshed, Jeffrey W. Ohlmann, International Conference on Infocomm Technologies in Competitive Strategies, 2010

Other Work

• Djinni: A C++ Framework for Heuristic Search, Robert J. Hansen, Tristan D. Thiede, Justin C. Goodson, Jeffrey W. Ohlmann, Barrett W. Thomas, Computational Infrastructure for Operations Research, 2011
• Effective Application of Simulated Annealing, Jeffrey W. Ohlmann, Jon W. Van Laarhoven, Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science, 2011

Review and Editorial Work

• Referee, Asia Pacific Journal of Operational Research
• Referee, Decision Support Systems
• Referee, European Journal of Operational Research
• Referee, INFORMS Journal on Computing
• Referee, INFORMS Transactions on Education
• Referee, Interfaces
• Referee, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications
• Referee, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
• Referee, Mathematics of Operations Research
• Referee, Operations Research Letters
• Referee, Transportation Science

Professional Affiliations

• Associate Editor, Journal of Heuristics
• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports
• Advisory/Consulting Editor, Interfaces, May 2010 - May 2011

Presentations

• Sports Analytics, Sports Business & Law Symposium, St. Louis University, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO, April 2011
• Sports Draft Analytics, Guest speaker, College of Management, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, March 2011
• Operations Research/Management Science in Business Schools, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, November 2010
• A Lean Vehicle Routing Problem, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, November 2010
• Improving Teaching Effectiveness: Tips from Seasoned Faculty , INFORMS Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, November 2010
• Heuristic Approach for Optimizing Sequential Selection Under Competition-Induced Uncertainty, Computing Society, INFORMS, Charleston, SC, January 2009
• Optimization of Player Selections in the MLB Draft, Symposium on Statistics and Operations Research in Baseball, INFORMS, American Statistical Association, New York, New York, July 2008
• And the Seattle Seahawks Are Now On the Clock..., INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, November 2007
• To Market, To Market, To Sell A Fat Pig, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, November 2007
• Vehicle Routing in a Lean Production System, INFORMS International, July 2007
• Route Design for the Delivery of Electronic Voting Machines: A VRPTW Case Study, Computing Society, INFORMS, Coral Gables, FL, January 2007
• A Player Selection Heuristic for a Sports League Draft, Industrial Engineering Graduate Seminar, University of Iowa, November 2006
• Vehicle Routing for Just-In-Time Production System, INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 2006
• A Tabu-based Search Heuristic for Vehicle Routing in a Just-In-Time Production System, Computer Science Departmental Colloquium, University of Iowa, November 2006
• Modeling and Solving a Sports League Draft With Linear Programming, Guest speaker, Mathematics Department, University of Nebraska, October 2006
• What Can O.R. Do For You?, Undergraduate Seminar, University of Nebraska, October 2006
• Vehicle Routing in a Lean Production System, CORS / Optimization Days, May 2006
• Long-Range Timber Supply Planning for a Vertically Integrated Paper Mill, CORS / Optimization Days, May 2006
• Djinni: A C++ Framework for Heuristic Optimization, INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 2005
• Multiple-Penalty Compressed Annealing with Application to the VRPTW, INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 2005
• Raw Material Sourcing Decisions for a Vertically Integrated Paper Mill, IFORS Triennial, July 2005
• Addressing Constrained Combinatorial Problems with Compressed Annealing, Industrial Engineering Graduate Seminar, University of Iowa, April 2005
• Theory and Applications of Compressed Annealing, INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 2004
• Fleet Management with Stochastic Deterioration and Budget Constraints, INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 2004
• Applications of Compressed Annealing in Fleet Replacement and Vehicle Routing, Seminar, Department of Quantitative Analysis and Operations Management, University of Cincinnati, November 2003
• Agent-Based Model of Teamwork and Competition in the NBA, INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 2003

Committees and Professional Service

• Learning Spaces Advisory Board, 2010-current
• Elected Faculty Council, 2010-current
• Tippie College of Business Judicial Board, 2009-current
• Applied Mathematical & Computational Sciences Program, 2008-current
• Management Sciences Graduate Committee, 2005-2010
• INFORMS, 1998-2010
• MBA Committee, 2007-2009
• O.R. in Sports Section of INFORMS, 2004-2008

Additional Training

• Developing Spreadsheet-Based Decision Support Systems, Workshop, INFORMS, 2004
• NSF CAREER Proposal Writing, Workshop, National Science Foundation, 2004
• Integration of Penalty Methods and Heuristic Search, Old Gold Fellowship, University of Iowa, 2004