Faculty Profile
Dick Forrester
Professor of Mathematics and Data Analytics (2002)
Contact Information
Data Analytics Chair
Tome Scientific Building
717-245-1668
http://www.dickinson.edu/dickforrester
Bio
His scholarship is at the interface of operations research, computer science, and data analytics. Operations research applies mathematical and computational methods to decision-making, often in scenarios that require optimizing scarce resources. The majority of his research has centered around the development of techniques for solving discrete nonlinear programs. He is also interested in applying mathematical modeling and data-driven approaches to real-world challenges. Recent projects include balancing faculty and student preferences in assigning students to first-year seminars and creating machine learning-based heuristics for solving combinatorial optimization problems. As an applied mathematician, his teaching interests primarily center around data analytics, statistics, operations research, computational mathematics, and computer science.
Education
- B.A., Alfred University, 1995
- M.S., Clemson University, 1997
- Ph.D., 2002