Contact Information

Data Analytics co-chair; on sabbatical Fall 2024

forrestr@dickinson.edu

Tome Scientific Building Room 235
717-245-1668
http://www.dickinson.edu/dickforrester

Bio

His scholarship is at the interface of operations research, computer science, and data analytics. The majority of his research has centered around the development of techniques for solving applications that can be modeled as nonlinear 0-1 programs. He is also interested in modeling and analyzing real world problems. Some recent projects include optimal crop rotation modeling, assigning students to schools to minimize both transportation costs and socioeconomic variation between schools, and balancing faculty and student preferences in the assignment of students to first-year seminars. As an applied mathematician, his teaching interests primarily center around data analytics, statistics, operations research, computational mathematics, and computer science.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

• B.A., Alfred University, 1995
• M.S., Clemson University, 1997
• Ph.D., 2002