Rhonda Righter

Professor
Department Chair, UC Berkeley (2008-2011)

Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1986
Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

4173 Etcheverry Hall
E-mail: rrighterieor.berkeley.edu

Photo by Peg Skorpinski

BIOGRAPHY

Curriculum Vitae
Rhonda Righter is a Professor and past Chair of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the University of California, Berkeley. Before coming to Berkeley she taught at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. Her PhD is in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from UC Berkeley, her BS is in applied math and business from Carnegie Mellon. Her primary research and teaching interests are in the general area of stochastic modeling and optimization, especially as applied to service, manufacturing, telecommunications, and grid computing systems. She is an associate editor for the Journal of Scheduling. She formerly served on the editiorial boards of Management Science, Operations Research, Operations Research Letters, and Queueing Systems. She is the past (founding) Chair of the Applied Probability Society of INFORMS.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

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

EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, May, 1986, Operations Research, concentrating in Stochastic Modeling and Optimization.
Minors: Electrical Engineering (Communications) and Statistics.
Research Advisor: Sheldon Ross.
M.S., University of California, Berkeley, June, 1982, Operations Research.
B.S., Carnegie Mellon University, May, 1980, Applied Mathematics/Operations Research with a double major in Administration and Management Science.

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Full Professor, UC Berkeley, since 2003. Courses: service operations, stochastic processes.
Assistant (1987-1993), Associate (1993-1999), and Full Professor (1999-2003), Santa Clara University. Courses: MBA and undergraduate statistics, advanced data analysis, production management, and computer-based decision models
Visiting Researcher, INRIA (Institute Nationale de Recherche Informatique and Automatique), Sophia-Antipolis, France, 8/94-12/94, 4/96-7/96, and 5/99-6/99.
Visiting Researcher, UC Berkeley, 8/93-12/93.
Visiting Lecturer, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley, 7/86-6/87. Course: Signals and Systems.
Visiting Lecturer, Graduate School of Business, University of California, Davis, 1/87. Simulation.
Instructor, UC Berkeley, 6/84-8/84. Introduction to Operations Research.
Teaching Assistant, UC Berkeley, 8/82-12/84. Introduction to Operations Research, Reliability, Quality Assurance, and Stochastic Processes (both graduate and undergraduate courses).
Research Assistant, UC Berkeley 6/83-8/83.
Mathematician, Naval Research Laboratory, 7/82-9/82, 12/82.
Systems Engineer, Bell Laboratories, 11/80-8/81.
Operations Research Analyst, Aust-Agder Sparebank, Norway, 8/80-10/80.
Research Assistant, Carnegie Mellon University, 5/80-7/80.
Assistant Programmer, IBM Federal Systems Division, 5/79-8/79.