Oded Berman

Bio

Oded Berman is the endowed Sydney Cooper Chair in Business and Technology and a former Associate Dean of Programs at the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, the University of Toronto.  He received his PhD (1978) in Operations Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Oded has published over 240 refereed articles and has contributed to several books in his field.  His main research interests include operations management in the service industry, location theory, network models, and stochastic inventory control.  He is a Fellow of the Institute of Operations Research, a winner of the 2012 Canadian Operations Research Society (CORS) Award of Merit and a winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the INFORMS''s Section on Location Analysis.

Academic Positions

Jan 2003-present  Sydney C. Cooper Chair in Business and Technology; Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

July 2000-present  Full Professor; Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

July 1995-July 1996  Associate Dean Programs; Faculty of Management, University of Toronto

July 1993-July 1994  Associate Chair; Division of Management and Economics, University of Toronto at Scarborough

July 1992-July 1995  Area Coordinator, Operations Management Area; Faculty of Management, University of Toronto

July 1990-Present  Full Professor; University of Toronto, Division of Management and Economics at Scarborough and Faculty of Management

Sept 1989-Aug 1991  Full Professor; University of Massachusetts, College of Management

Sept 1986-Aug 1991  Chair, Management Sciences Department; University of Massachusetts at Boston

Sept 1984-Aug 1985  Visiting Professor; Faculty of Industrial and Management Engineering, The Technion, Haifa, Israel and Faculty of Management, Tel- Aviv University

July 1981-July 1983  Chair, Management Science and Information Systems; Faculty of Management, University of Calgary

July 1980-July 1986  Associate Professor; University of Calgary, Faculty of Management

July 1978-July 1980  Assistant Professor; University of Calgary, Faculty of Management

Honors and Awards

2014  Distinguished Scholarly Contribution Award; Rotman School of Management

2014  Best Application Paper - Scheduling and Logistics award for the paper The Maximum Covering Problem with Travel Time Uncertainty co-authored by D. Krass with I. Hajizadeh; IIE Transactions

2014  For the paper - H. Abouee Mehrizi, O. Baron, O. Berman and Vahid Sarhangian, Allocation policies in blood transfusion, Vahid Sarhangian was selected as the runner up for the CORS Student Paper Competition (Open Category); CORS

2014  For the paper - O. Baron, O. Berman, D. Krass and J. Wang, Using strategic idleness to improve customer service experience in service networks, Jeff Wang won the CORS Queuing Special Interest Group student competition; CORS

2012  Canadian Operations Research Award of Merit

2012-2017  Research Grant for Combined Location Problems; Natural Science and Engineering Research Council, Canada

2012  Co-Winner, Lifetime Achievement in Location Analysis Award; SOLA

2011  Fellow; Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

2007  Honorable mention of the paper Inventory-Location Models for Remote and Direct Retailing with Time-Sensitive Demand, by O. Berman, D. Krass and M. Menezes; 2007 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management

2007-2012  Research Grant for Strategical Tactical Issues in the Service Industry; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Canada

2002- 2007  Research Grant for Strategic and Tactical Issues in the Service Industry; Natural Science and Engineering Research Council, Canada

2003-present  Sydney Cooper Chair in Business and Technology; Rotman School of Management

1998- 2002  Research Grant for Strategic and Tactical Issues in the Service Industry; Natural Science and Engineering Research Council, Canada

2000  Roger Martin and Nancy Lang Award for Excellence in Research; Rotman School of Management

1994- 1998  Research Grant for Strategic and Tactical Issues in the Service Industry; Natural Science and Engineering Research Council, Canada

1997  Equipment Grant for Laboratory for Manufacturing Research (with S. Sethi and D. Krass); Natural Science and Engineering Research Council, Canada

1997  Principal''s Research Award; University of Toronto at Scarborough

1994-1995  Equipment Grant for Laboratory for Manufacturing Research (with S. Sethi and D. Krass); Natural Science and Engineering Research Council, Canada

1991-1994  Research Grant for Strategic Issues in the Service Industry; Natural Science and Engineering Research Council, Canada

1985  Levin Award, for the best paper (co-author D. Simchi-Levi); The Israeli Society of Operations Research

1984-1985  International Collaborative Research Grant; Natural Science and Engineering Research Council, Canada

1982-1985  Research Grant for Planning for and Management of Service Networks; Natural Science and Engineering Research Council, Canada

1981-1982  Research Grant for Planning for and Management of Service Networks; Natural Science and Engineering Research Council, Canada

1980-1981  Research Grant for Information System for Service Network Planning and Management; Natural Science and Engineering Research Council, Canada

1979-1980  Grant awarded to Analysis of Transfer Lines; University of Calgary

1979-1980  Grant awarded to Proposal for the Development of a Fire Research Centre in Alberta; Government of Alberta

1972  The Lapid Award for the best student in the Department of Statistics; Tel-Aviv University