Jaap Wessels
| Jaap Wessels | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 19, 1939 Amsterdam |
| Died | July 30, 2009 (aged 70) |
| Alma mater |
Eindhoven University of Technology University of Amsterdam |
| Doctoral advisor | Jacques F. Benders |
| Doctoral students | Eric van Damme |
Jacobus (Jaap) Wessels (January 19, 1939 – July 30, 2009) was a Dutch mathematician and Professor of Stochastic Operations Research at the Eindhoven University of Technology., known for his contributions in the field of Markov decision processes.
Born in Amsterdam, Wessels started to study Mathematics and Physics at the University of Amsterdam in 1956, where in 1963 he received his MA. He graduated in 1968 at the Eindhoven University of Technology advised by Jacques F. Benders with a thesis entitled "Decision rules in Markovian decision problems with Incompletely known transition probabilities" about Markov decision processes.
In 1960 Wessels started his academic career at the University of Amsterdam as assistant to Jan Hemelrijk, an authority in the field of . During his doctoral research, Wessels was employed as Research Assistant at the Technical University of Eindhoven. In 1973 he was appointed Professor of Applied Probability Theory at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science. In 2000 he retired from the Eindhoven University of Technology. He kept participating in International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and EURANDOM. On July 30, 2009 he died in Veldhoven.
Among his doctoral students were Jacob Wijngaard, Jo van Nunen, Kees van Hee, Jan van der Wal, Henk Zijm, Eric van Damme, Wil van der Aalst, Ivo Adan and Geert-Jan van Houtum.
Wessels was president of the Vereniging voor Statistiek (VVS), and has contributed to the foundation of the National Network Mathematical Decision Making (LNMB), the research school BETA, and (EURANDOM).
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