Brian Denton, PhD

Brian Denton is the Stephen M. Pollock Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) at the University of Michigan. His research interests are data-driven decision-making and optimization under uncertainty with applications to healthcare delivery, public health, scheduling, supply chain management, and other industrial systems. He has a cross-appointment in the School of Medicine Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation (IHPI) member at the University of Michigan. He was a visiting professor and fellow at Oxford University from September 1, 2023, to August 31, 2024. He served as department chair of IOE from 2018-2023. Before joining the University of Michigan, he worked at IBM, Mayo Clinic, and North Carolina State University. His honors and awards include the INFORMS George Kimball Medal, National Science Foundation Career Award, the INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Prize, the Institute of Industrial Engineers Outstanding Publication Award, and the Canadian Operations Research Society Best Paper Award. He has served on editorial boards for Health Systems, IISE Transactions, Interfaces, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Medical Decision Making, Operations Research, Optimization in Engineering, and Production and Operations Management. He served as the founding Medical Decision-Making Department Editor for IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering from 2008-2015. He has co-authored over 140 journal articles, conference proceedings, book chapters, and patents. He is an elected Fellow of INFORMS and IISE, past Chair of the INFORMS Health Applications Section, Secretary of INFORMS, and President of INFORMS.