Sheldon H. Jacobson

Sheldon H. Jacobson
Alma materMcGill University, Cornell University
AwardsINFORMS Fellow, IISE Fellow, AAAS Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, IISE Award for Technical Innovation in Industrial Engineering, IISE David F. Baker Distinguished Research Award, INFORMS Impact Prize, INFORMS Gass Expository Writing Award, INFORMS Presidents Award, INFORMS Kimball Medal
Scientific career
FieldsOperations Research, Computer Science, Industrial Engineering
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Virginia Tech, Case Western Reserve University
Doctoral advisorLee W. Schruben

Sheldon H. Jacobson is an American educator, noted for contributions that apply operations research to problems related to aviation security, public health, political redistricting, and NCAA basketball. He holds the position of Founder Professor of Engineering in the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.