Subject to: Karla Hoffman

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Karla Hoffman is a Professor in the Systems Engineering and Operations Research Department at George Mason University (GMU) where she served as Chair for five years. She received her D.Sc. from George Washington University in operations research. Prior to her position at GMU, she worked as a mathematician in the Center for Applied Mathematics of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) where, in 1984, she was awarded the Applied Research Award. Her other awards include George Mason University's Distinguished Faculty Award, the INFORMS Fellows Award, the INFORMS George E. Kimball Medal and the INFORMS Edelman Prize. Recently, she was inducted as a Fellow of IFORS (The International Federation of OR Societies). She served as President of INFORMS in 1999 and has also served on the Executive Committees of ORSA, IFORS, and the Mathematical Programming Society. She has served on multiple editorial boards. Dr. Hoffman’s primary areas of research are optimization and auction design and testing. Her research focuses on the development of new algorithms for solving complex problems arising in industry and government. She serves as a consultant to the FCC on spectrum auctions and has previously consulted to a variety of government agencies including Dept. of Defense, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Internal Revenue Service, the Dept. of Transportation, and the Commerce Department. Her industrial consulting has been in dynamic and real-time routing and scheduling, and in capital budgeting.