Professor Rhonda Righter

Biography

Rhonda Righter joined the department in July, 2003. Before that she taught at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. She received a PhD in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the UC Berkeley in 1986. Her primary research interests are in the general area of stochastic modeling and optimization, especially as applied to manufacturing and telecommunication systems. She has published more than 40 journal articles, and is an associate editor for Operations Research, Operations Research Letters, Queueing Systems, and the Journal of Scheduling. She is a past associate editor of Management Science and past Chair of the Applied Probability Society of INFORMS.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Stochastic Modeling and Optimization, with Applications to Manufacturing, Service Operations, Computer Communications, and Telecommunications.