Brief Biographical Sketch

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Khosro Moshirvaziri is a Professor of Information Systems, the former Director of Master of Science (MSIS) Program at California State University, Long Beach; and a Research Engineer Scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles. He holds three M.S. and an Engineer Degrees from Stanford University, School of Engineering, School of Statistical Sciences, School of Mathematics, and Computer Sciences, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Los Angeles. His prior work experience includes ten years of scientific research as staff scientist at IBM Scientific Centers and IBM General Product Division where he worked on numerous IBM product developments and on computer performance measurement, evaluation, and simulation of advanced IBM processors, and on Direct Access Storage Devices (DASD) and retrieval systems. He has served the field of math programming; global optimization by providing the scientific community with tools and theory to tackle mathematically intractable problems with potential applications in Engineering Design, Logistics, Business, and Economics. He has served as grant proposal evaluator for NSF and DARPA. He is a full member of INFORMS, currently serves as Vice President of Information Systems for Western Decision Sciences Institute (WDSI), and on Editorial Board of JAMDS, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences, AOR, Advances in Operations Research , and JISE, Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering. He also serves on editorial review/advisory board of several other scientific journals.

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