MIT Sloan School of Management Faculty Biography

Contact Information

Office: E52-476
Tel: 617-253-8997
Fax: 617-258-6617
E-mail: rfreund@mit.edu

Support Staff

Name: Margaret Lo
Tel: 617-253-7151
E-mail: marglo@mit.edu

Area

Management Science

Group(s)
  • Statistics
  • Operations Management
  • System Dynamics

Robert Freund

Theresa Seley Professor of Management Science

Professor of Operations Research

Robert Freund's research is in the area of large-scale mathematical models that optimize or improve the performance of management systems, such as personnel scheduling, capacity planning, transportation and routing, and portfolio selection. His practice-oriented research focuses on applying large mathematical models to complex management and engineering problems, while his more theory-oriented research concerns the underlying mathematical structure of optimization models in general.

Some of Freund's most recent studies have looked at real-time computer pattern recognition, cluster analysis in data mining and dynamic conjoint analysis for new product development …

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