Thomas Magnanti
| Thomas L. Magnanti | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1945 (age 71–72) |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Operations Research, Management |
| Institutions | Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) |
| Alma mater |
Stanford University (MS, MS, PhD) Syracuse University (BS) |
| Known for | Dean of MIT School of Engineering |
| Notable awards | Frederick W. Lanchester Prize (1993) |
Thomas L. Magnanti (born 1945) is an American engineer and Institute Professor and former Dean of the School of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Magnanti is currently President of the Singapore University of Technology and Design established in collaboration with MIT.
Magnanti received an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from Syracuse University (1967) and master's degrees in both Statistics (1969) and Mathematics (1971) from Stanford University, where he also received his doctorate in Operations Research (1972).
Dr. Magnanti is Institute Professor and former Dean of the School of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has served on thesis committees for approximately 70 doctoral students, supervising over 25. He became the president of Singapore's fourth university, Singapore University of Technology and Design in 2011.
Magnanti has been Editor-in-Chief of the journal Operations Research.
Magnanti is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was a founding co-director of MIT's Leaders for Manufacturing Program (now the Leaders for Global Operations program) and the System Design and Management (MIT) program. He is a past President of the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA) and of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).
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