Benjamin Melamed

Benjamin Melamed is a Professor II in the Department of Management Science and Information Systems, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick, a Research Fellow at the Rutgers Center for Supply Chain Management, and a Member of RUTCOR (Rutgers Center for Operations Research). Melamed received his B.S. degree in mathematics and statistics from Tel Aviv University in 1972, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Michigan in 1973 and 1976, respectively. From 1977 to 1981 he taught in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Science at Northwestern University. He joined the Performance Analysis Department at Bell Laboratories in 1981, and later became an AT&T Fellow. Melamed moved to NEC in 1989 and served there as a Deputy Director, Head of the Performance Analysis Department, and NEC Fellow. He consulted at Bellcore in 1995 and joined Rutgers University in 1996. Melamed’s research interests include system modeling and analysis (especially supply chains and telecommunications systems), simulation, stochastic processes, and visual modeling environments. He authored or coauthored over 100 papers and coauthored two books: Modern Modeling and Simulation, with R. Rubinstein, (John Wiley and Sons, 1998) and Simulation Modeling and Analysis with Arena, with T. Altiok, (Cyber Research and Enterprise Technology Solutions, 2001). His research has been supported by DARPA and NSF. Melamed was awarded an AT&T Fellow in 1988 and an IEEE Fellow in 1994. He became an IFIP WG7.3 Member in 1997 and was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma in 1998.

Biography Updated on 22 January 2007

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