J. G. "Jim" Dai
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE)

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

• Ph.D. in Mathematics, Stanford University, 1990
• M.S. in Mathematics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 1985
• B.S. in Mathamtics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 1982

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

• Professor of ISyE and of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1998--present
• Associate Professor of ISyE and of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1996--1998
• Assistant Professor of ISyE and of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1990--1996
• Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Fall 1991

CURRENT FIELD OF INTEREST

• Performance analysis and scheduling of stochastic processing networks that arise from computer communication systems and manufacturing systems

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

1. Associate Editor, Queueing Systems , 1994--present.
2. Associate Editor, Mathematics of Operations Research , 1996--present.
3. Associate Editor, Operations Research , 1996--present.
4. Associate Editor, Management Science , 1998--present.
5. Member, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 1989--present.
6. Member, the Applied Probability Section of INFORMS, 1989--present.
7. Member, Institute of Mathematics Statistics (IMS) , 1991--present.

AWARDS

• NSF Young Investigator (NYI) Award, National Science Foundation , 1994.
• Bergmann Memorial Research Grant Award, US-Israel Binational Science Foundation, Jerusalem, Israel, July 1995.
• The Best Paper Award, Georgia Tech Chapter of Sigma Xi , May 1996.
• The Best Publication Award, the Applied Probability Section of INFORMS, May 1997.
• The Erlang Prize, the Applied Probability Section of INFORMS, April 1998.