Jonathan Eckstein

Jonathan Eckstein is a Professor in the department of Management Science and Information Systems at Rutgers University. He has written approximately 50 mathematically oriented research articles in peer-reviewed academic journals and conference proceedings, along with several undergraduate textbooks based on his teaching experience at Rutgers. He also maintains an open-source add-in, called YASAI, for performing Monte Carlo simulations in Microsoft Excel. He completed his Ph.D. in Operations Research at M.I.T. in 1989, and then taught at Harvard Business School for two years. He then spent four years in the Mathematical Sciences Research Group of Thinking Machines, Inc. before joining Rutgers. At Rutgers, he was an initial leader of the effort establishing a new undergraduate major in Business Analytics and Information Technology ("BAIT"). In 2014, he was elected a fellow of INFORMS (the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science).