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Robert M. Oliver is Professor Emeritus of Operations Research and Engineering Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He was recently inducted into the National Academy of Engineering for his leadership in the development of financial engineering and for the application of operations research to important public problems. He received a Fulbright Scholarship to the University of London in 1953 and his doctorate in Physics and Operations Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1957. He was appointed Director, Management Science Division, Broadview Research Corporation in 1958 and jointly with A. Samuel in 1963, was awarded the Lanchester Prize of the Operations Research Society of America.
At Berkeley, he taught courses in forecasting, prediction, risk assessment and decision-making models. He was Chairman of the Department of Operations Research 1964-1969, Director of the Operations Research Center 1972-1975 and Associate Dean of the College of Engineering from 1985-1990. He was awarded the University of California Berkeley Citation in 1993.
He is a past President of the Operations Research Society. In 1985 he was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Fair Isaac Corporation and was named Chairman of the Board in 1995. He is a former trustee of the Mathematical Science Research Institute and was formerly chairman of the Board of Directors of the ANSER Corporation of Arlington, Virginia and The Homeland Security Institute for the Department of Homeland Security.
He has held numerous appointments as technical advisor and consultant to corporations and the U.S. government and is the author of over 100 papers and journal articles in prediction and decision-making models of operations research. Publications include articles on predicting rare events including nuclear reactor accidents, mid-air collisions, the detection of fraudulent transactions and risk scoring as well as the design of acquisition and risk management strategies in retail credit banking operations. | 