Speaker Profile

Professor of Management Sciences, Yale School of Management Edward H. Kaplan is the William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of ManagementSciences at the Yale School of Management, Professor of Public Health at the YaleSchool of Public Health, and Professor of Engineering in the Yale School of Engineeringand Applied Science. He is an expert in operations research, mathematical modeling andstatistics. His research on topics as varied as counterterror intelligence operations, HIVprevention, suicide bombings, and bioterror preparedness has been recognized withnumerous research awards and widely reported in the media. Kaplan is also known forhis mathematical models of NCAA basketball pools. Over the past three years, he hastaught Mathletics: Modeling Thru Sports at Yale where he has eschewed his professorialtitle in favor of Coach K. Credentials: Member, National Academy of Engineering Member, Institute of Medicine Fellow, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences Winner of numerous awards in operations research and public health for originalresearch in HIV prevention, epidemiology, and counterterrorism Author of more than 130 refereed academic journal publications Over 25 years of experience teaching applied probability modeling and statisticscourses at Yale, including Mathletics: Modeling Thru Sports Visiting professor at other leading management schools including Stanford, MITSloan, Columbia GSB, and the TechnionIsrael Institute of Technology Three masters degrees (in mathematics, operations research, and city planning)in addition to his PhD, all from MIT For details visit http://faculty. som. yale. edu/EdKaplan/