Sheldon Howard Jacobson,
Ph.D.
University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Program Director, Operations
Research, National Science Foundation (Fall 2012 –
Summer 2014)
Treasurer (Elected), Institute
of Operations Research & the Management Sciences (INFORMS) (1/1/2015–12/31/2016)
Sheldon's teaching responsibilities are in the areas of discrete
event simulation and stochastic modeling (probability, stochastic processes,
and queueing theory), at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He also
has teaching experience in the areas of applied statistics and management
science.
Sheldon has been an active contributor to the INFORMS Simulation
Society (I-SIM), having served as its Treasurer from 7/1994 to 6/1996, on its
outstanding publication award committee from 1997-1999, and the Ph.D.
Colloquium Coordinator at the 1993 and 1994 Winter Simulation
Conferences. He also served as the Advanced Tutorial Track Coordinator at
the 1994 and 1995 Winter Simulation Conferences, and
the Modelware/Software Track Coordinator at the 2002
and 2003 Winter Simulation Conferences. He has also served on the INFORMS
I-SIM membership committee (2000-2002) and the INFORMS Health Applications
Section Bonder Scholarship for Applied Operations Research in Health Services
review and selection committee (2006-2007, 2018). He is a member and
elected Fellow of the Institute for
Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS),
member and elected Fellow of the Institute
of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), and members of the Society for
Applied and Industrial Mathematics (SIAM), the American Society for Engineering
Education (ASEE), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science
(AAAS). He served as the IISE Transactions Focused Issue Editor
for Operations Engineering and Analysis (2009-2018) and serves as an Editor
for the Journal of Transportation Security (2007-Present). He has also served as an Associate Editor for
the International Journal of Applied
Metaheuristic Computing (IJAMC) (2008-2016),
as an associate editor for Operations Research (2001-2005), as a guest
editor for the IIE Transactions Special Issue on Homeland Security
(2005-2006), as a senior editor for Flexible Services and Manufacturing
(FSM) Journal (2007-2009), and on the OR/MS Today Committee
(2007-2009). In addition, he serves as a regular reviewer for several
operations research, industrial engineering, and
applied mathematics journals. He served
as the (elected) Treasurer for the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) (2015-2016)
He briefed personnel within the Office of Science and Technology Policy (in the Executive Office of
President George W. Bush) (August 2002, Washington, DC) on issues related to
aviation security and assessing the cost and benefit of checked baggage
screening strategies. He briefed the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice
(ACIP) on a web-site he co-developed for designing optimal pediatric vaccine
formularies (October 2001, Atlanta, Georgia.)
He served on committees for the National Academies, including the
National Research Council Committee on Airport Passenger Screening:
Backscatter X-Ray Machines
(2013-2015), the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Standing Committee
for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Division of Strategic
National Stockpile (2015-2017), and
the organizing committee for A
Workshop on Medical-Product Shortages: Effects on Patient Health and
Opportunities to Predict, Prevent, and Respond to Them (2018). He led the NSF-Funded workshop (May 2016,
Arlington, VA), Setting a Broader Impacts
Innovation Roadmap, in creating new pathways for enhancing Broader Impacts
in the Engineering Directorate at the NSF. and as a Program Director in the Division of Civil,
Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation at the National Science Foundation
(2012-2014).