Rhonda Righter

Professor

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

4173 Etcheverry Hall
(510) 643-0321
E-mail: rrighterieor.berkeley.edu

Photo by Peg Skorpinski

BIOGRAPHY

Curriculum Vitae
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.

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.