Huneke Research Fellow, Business Analytics

Associate Professor, Business Analytics

PhD in Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan

MS in Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan

BS in Mathematics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Sequential decision making under uncertainty

Logistics

Sports Analytics

Master of Business Analytics Instructor of the Year: Core - Tippie College of Business, 2022

Strategic Innovation Faculty of the Year - Tippie College of Business, 2010

Dean's Teaching Award - Tippie College of Business, 2009

Finalist, Case Competition Prize Winner - INFORMS, 2008

Finalist, Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice - Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, 2008

Iowa MBA Instructor of the Year - Core, 2006

Young Researcher Roundtable - INFORMS, 2005

George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award - INFORMS, 2004

Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2003

Bertazzi, L. & Ohlmann, J. (2020). Direct k-Routing Versus Cross-Docking: Worst-Case Results. Optimization Letters. 15 (5). DOI: 10.1007/s11590-019-01507-9.

Zhang, S., Ohlmann, J., & Thomas, B. W. (2020). Multi-Period Orienteering with Uncertain Adoption LIkelihood and Waiting at Customers. European Journal of Operational Research. 282 (1) pp. 288-303. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2019.09.023.

Bertazzi, L., Lagana, D., Ohlmann, J., & Paradiso, R. (2020). An Exact Approach for Cyclic Inbound Inventory Routing in a Level Production System. European Journal of Operational Research. 283 (3) pp. 915-928. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2019.11.060.

Bigsby, K., Ohlmann, J., & Zhao, K. (2019). Keeping It 100: Social Media and Self-Presentation in College Football Recruiting. Big Data. 7 (1).

Bigsby, K., Ohlmann, J., & Zhao, K. (2019). The Turf is Always Greener: Predicting Decommitments in College Football Recruiting Using Twitter Data. Decision Support Systems. 116 pp. 1-12. DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2018.10.003.

Zhang, S., Ohlmann, J., & Thomas, B. W. (2018). Dynamic Orienteering on a Network of Queues. Transportation Science. 52 (3) pp. 691 - 706. DOI: 10.1287/trsc.2017.0761.

Gavin Bigsby, K., Ohlmann, J., & Zhao, K. (2017). Online and Off the Field: Predicting School Choice in College Football Recruiting from Social Media Data. Decision Analysis. 14 (4) pp. 261-273.

Goodson, J. C., Thomas, B. W., & Ohlmann, J. W. (2017). A Rollout Algorithm Framework for Heuristic Solutions to Finite-Horizon Stochastic Dynamic Programming. European Journal of Operational Research. 258 (1) pp. 216-229.

Gavin Bigsby, K. & Ohlmann, J. W. (2017). Ranking and Prediction of Collegiate Wrestling. Journal of Sports Analytics. 3 (1) pp. 1-19. DOI: 10.3233/JSA-160024.

Shetty, B., Ohlmann, J. W., & Gaeth, G. J. (2016). Analysis of Monday Night Football Viewership. Statistical Analysis and Data Mining. 9 (5) pp. 326--337.

"Model-Based Capacitated Clustering with Posterior Regularization," Accepted Speaker at Metaheuristics International Conference, Cartagena, Colombia, July 2019.

"Identifying Causal Patterns of Binary Events in Process Event Logs," Guest/Invited Speaker at University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy, July 2018.

"A Heuristic for the Period Vehicle Routing Problem with Inventory," Accepted Speaker at Metaheuristics International Conference, Barcelona, Spain, July 2017.

"Decomposition Heuristic for Inbound Lean Logistics," Accepted Speaker at INFORMS Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 2013.

"Daily Routing for Customer Relationships in Pharmaceutical Sales," Guest/Invited Speaker at University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy, May 2013.

"A Rollout Policy Framework with Application to Vehicle Routing," Guest/Invited Speaker at University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy, April 2013.

"Sports Draft Analytics," Guest/Invited Speaker at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2011.

"Approximate Dynamic Programming for Dynamic Optimization Problems," Guest/Invited Speaker at University of Calabria, Rende, Italy, June 2024.

"Approximate Dynamic Programming for Stochastic Dynamic Problems in Transportation," Guest/Invited Speaker at University of Calabria, Rende, Italy, May 2023.

"Analytics and Armchair Quarterbacking: What Call Would Sports Analytics Make?," Guest/Invited Speaker at University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, September 2022.

Ohlmann, J. (Co-Principal), Principal Investigator(s): Jones, P. & Thomas, B. Instructional Improvement Award. University of Iowa. Funded. January 2007 - June 2007.

Co-Director, Undergraduate Studies, Business Analytics, University of Iowa

Advisory/Consulting Editor, Interfaces - Special Issue: Analytics in Sports, May 2010 - May 2011.

Associate Editor, Journal of Heuristics, January 2006 - January 2016.

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, June 2005.