Lawrence M. Wein

Wein

Lawrence M. Wein, PhD

  • Jeffrey S. Skoll Professor of Management Science
  • CISAC Affiliated Faculty Member

Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-5015

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Biography

Lawrence Wein is the Jeffrey S. Skoll Professor of Management Science at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, and an affiliated faculty member at CISAC. After getting a PhD in Operations Research from Stanford University in 1988, he spent 14 years at the Sloan School of Management at MIT, where he was the DEC Leaders for Manufacturing Professor of Management Science. His research interests include mathematical models in operations management, medicine and biology.

Since 2001, he has analyzed a variety of homeland security problems. His homeland security work includes four papers in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, on an emergency response to a smallpox attack, an emergency response to an anthrax attack, a biometric analysis of the US-VISIT Program, and an analysis of a bioterror attack on the milk supply. He has also published the Washington Post op-ed "Unready for Anthrax" (2003) and the New York Times op-ed "Got Toxic Milk?", and has written papers on port security, indoor remediation after an anthrax attack, and the detention and removal of illegal aliens.

For his homeland security research, Wein has received several awards from the International Federation of Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), including the Koopman Prize for the best paper in military operations research, the INFORMS Expository Writing Award, the INFORMS President’s Award for contributions to society, the Philip McCord Morse Lectureship, the Frederick W. Lanchester Prize for best research publication, and the George E. Kimball Medal. He was Editor-in-Chief of Operations Research from 2000 to 2005, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2009.   

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Journal Articles
April 2013

Analyzing Screening Policies for Childhood Obesity

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March 2013

Ready-to-use food-allocation policy to reduce the effects of childhood undernutrition in developing countries

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September 2010

Analyzing Evacuation Versus Shelter-in-Place Strategies After a Terrorist Nuclear Detonation

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In The News

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Gimme Shelter: The need for a contemporary civil defense program

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Lawrence Wein awarded 2008 Frederick W. Lanchester Prize

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Neither Snow, Nor Rain, Nor Anthrax...

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