Taher Jamshidi - Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering - University of Wisconsin - Madison

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Taher Jamshidi
PhD Candidate

Contact Information

3239 Mechanical Engineering Building	Tel: (608) 265-9226
1513 University Ave	Fax: (608) 262-8454
Madison, WI 53706	E-mail: jamshidi [at] wisc [dot] edu

Program Affiliation

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Research

Title: Betting on Risk: Modeling Preparedness Investment in Cournot Markets
Title: Cost-effectiveness of investments in protection and resilience for critical infrastructure
Title: Modeling Investment in Preparedness in a Cournot Duopoly Market

Teaching

TA for ISyE 516 - Introduction to Decision Analysis
TA for ISyE 313 - Engineering Economic Analysis
TA for ISyE 323 - Operations Research/Deterministic Modeling

Education

M.S., Decision Science/Operations Research, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2007
B.Eng., Geomatics Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Tehran, 2002

Professional Training

Socio-Economic Systems of Engineering, Institute for Research in Planning and Development, 2004

Fields of Interest

Decision Analysis
Risk Analysis
Operations Research
Game Theory
Disaster Preparedness
Systems Analysis

PhD Advisor

Vicki M. Bier

Selected Awards and Honors

Travel Scholarship, Society for Risk Analysis
Graduate Student Travel Award, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Professional Societies

Member of The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
Member of The Society for Risk Analysis (SRA)
Member of The Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)

Curriculum Vitae

CV

Copyright 2012
Date last modified: August 28, 2012