Andrew J. Schaefer
Noah Harding Chair and Professor of Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research
Andrew Schaefer joined the Rice faculty in 2015 after spending 15 years with the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. His most recent position there was as the John A. Swanson Chair in Engineering and prior to that, as the William Kepler Whiteford Professor of Industrial Engineering. He was named the Outstanding Young Engineer by the Rice Engineering Alumni association in 2013. In 2007 he received the Outstanding Young Industrial Engineering Education Award from the Institute of Industrial Engineers. In 2006, he won the NSF CAREER Award and has won numerous other awards and prizes. He earned a Ph.D. in industrial and systems engineering from Georgia Tech and a master’s degree in computational and applied math and a B.A. in the same discipline from Rice University.
Education
- Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology, (2000). - MA Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University, (1994).
- BA Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University, (1994).
Membership on National Advisory Committees
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United States Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation, 2011- 2018.
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Simulated Allocation Models Improvement Subcommittee, which reports to the United States Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients Technical Advisory Committee, 2011-Present.
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Committee Co-Chair, United States Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation
Kidney Paired Donation Workgroup.
Primary Academic Appointments
- Noah Harding Chair and Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University, August 2015-Present.
- John A. Swanson Chair in Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, April 2015-July 2015.
- William Kepler Whiteford Professor of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, September 2012-March 2015.
- Professor with tenure, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, September 2011-July 2015.
- Associate Professor with tenure, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 2006-2011.
Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 2000-2006.
Honors & Awards
- Best Paper Award, IIE Transactions on Operations Engineering for Eckman et al. (2016).
- Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni Award, Rice University, 2013.
- Meritorious Referee, Operations Research, 2013.
- Outstanding Young IE – Education Award, Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), 2007.
- CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2006.
- University of Pittsburgh School of Engineering Board of Visitors Faculty Award, 2006.
- Best Paper Award, Service Science Section of INFORMS, for Kurt et al. (2010).
- Second Prize, University of Pittsburgh School of Engineering Diversity Award, 2003.
- Honorable Mention, Best Paper Award, INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group, 2003 for Smith, Schaefer and Yen (2004).
- IIE Transactions 2009 Best Applied Paper Prize in Operations Engineering and Analysis for Kreke et al. (2008).
- Faculty Honor Roll for Teaching Excellence, University of Pittsburgh, 2002.
- John H. Morris Graduate Fellowship, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech.
- INFORMS Doctoral Colloquium, 1999.
- President’s Fellowship, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1995-1999.
- President’s Honor Roll for five of eight semesters, Rice University, 1990-1994.
- Board of Governor’s Scholarship, Rice University, 1990.
- National Merit Scholar, 1990-1994.