Edward Kaplan

Professor Kaplan''s research has been reported on the front pages of the New York Times and the Jerusalem Post, editorialized in the Wall Street Journal, recognized by the New York Times Magazine''s Year in Ideas, and discussed in many other major media outlets. The author of more than 125 research articles, Professor Kaplan received both the Lanchester Prize and the Edelman Award, two top honors in the operations research field, among many other awards. An elected member of both the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine of the US National Academies, he has also twice received the prestigious Lady Davis Visiting Professorship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he has investigated AIDS policy issues facing the State of Israel. Kaplan’s current research focuses on the application of operations research to problems in counterterrorism and homeland security.

In 2014, he was elected to the presidency of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the world’s largest society of operations research and analytics academics and professionals.  He will serve as President-Elect in 2015, President in 2016, and Past-President in 2017.

Education

• PhD , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984
• SM (Statistics), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982
• SM (Operations Research), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979
• MCP , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979
• BA , McGill University, 1977

Courses

• Probability Modeling & Statistics MGT 403
• Policy Modeling MGT 611
• Sports Analytics MGT 817

Achievements

• Koopman Prize , INFORMS, 2002, 2005, 2011
• Expository Writing Award , INFORMS, 2010
• Philip McCord Morse Lectureship , INFORMS, 2009
• Charles C. Shepard Science Award , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2009
• Fellow Award , INFORMS, 2005
• Elected to the Institute of Medicine , 2004
• Elected to the Technion Board of Governors , 2004
• Elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering , 2004
• Elected to the Academy of Engineering , 2003
• President''s Award , INFORMS, 2002
• Induction to Omega Rho Operations Research Honor Society , INFORMS, 2000
• Ira V. Hiscock Award , Connecticut Public Health Association, 1997
• Lanchester Prize , INFORMS, 1994
• Franz Edelman Award , INFORMS, 1992
• State of Connecticut AIDS Leadership Award , 1991
• Yale SOM Teaching Award , SOM Alumni Association , 1991
• New Haven Foundation Ivy Award , 1991
• Goodwin Medal for Conspicuously Effective Teaching by a Graduate Student , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983

Selected books

Quantitative evaluation of HIV prevention programs E. H. Kaplan and R. Brookmeyer Yale University Press 2002

No time to lose: getting more from HIV prevention M. S. Ruiz, A. R. Gable, E. H. Kaplan, M. A. Stoto, H. V. Fineberg and J. Trussell National Academies Press 2000

Modeling the AIDS epidemic: planning, policy and prediction E. H. Kaplan and M. L. Brandeau Raven Press 1994

Selected articles

The number of undocumented immigrants in the United States: Estimates based on demographic modeling with data from 1990 to 2016

M. M. Fazel-Zarandi, J. Feinstein, and E. H. Kaplan PLOS One 2018

Approximating the First-Come, First-Served Stochastic Matching Model with Ohm’s Law M. M. Fazel-Zarandi and E. H. Kaplan Operations Research 2018

Estimating Aging Effects in Running Events R. C. Fair and E. H. Kaplan Review of Economics and Statistics 2018

Decomposing Pythagoras E. H. Kaplan and C. Rich Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports 2017

A Flow-Based Model of the HIV Care Continuum in the United States G.S. Gonsalves, D. A. Palatial, P. A. Cleary, M. J. Gill, M. M. Kitahata, P. F. Ribeiro…E.H. Kaplan Journal of Aquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome 2017