Gisela Bardossy

M. Gisela Bardossy is a Clinical Professor in the Decision, Operations, Information and Technologies Department at the Robert H. Smith School of Business. She is passionate about teaching statistics and quantitative methods for business decision-making. In Fall 2018, she joined the department from the Merrick School of Business, University of Baltimore, where she taught business statistics and operations research to undergraduate and graduate students. She designed Business Analytics courses and played a key role in the development of a Data Analytics specialization for business students. She is committed to student learning and teaching innovation. She is an active member of the Data, Analytics and Statistics Instruction group from the Decision Science Institute, and the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education.

She earned her Ph.D. degree in Management Science from the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research interest is in the application of decision science and the development of optimization methods to diverse business issues. Most of her research involves linear programming, exact and approximate heuristics, network optimization, and simulation modeling. Her research has appeared in journals such as INFORMS Journal on Computing, Networks, and Discrete Applied Mathematics. She serves as a reviewer for journals such as Computers and Operations Research and European Journal of Operational Research.