David A. Goldberg joined the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering (ORIE) at Cornell as an Associate Professor in August 2017. Previously, he had been the A. Russel Chandler III Associate Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) at Georgia Tech. He received his Ph.D. in Operations Research at MIT in 2011, and his B.S. in Computer Science (minors in Operations Research and Applied Math) from Columbia University in 2006.
Goldberg's research is in applied probability and stochastic processes, on topics including optimal stopping, inventory and queueing models, combinatorial optimization, and robust optimization. He uses tools from probability to develop novel algorithms and insights into fundamental models previously believed intractable, e.g. due to the curse of dimensionality, arising in many applications.
Research Group MembersProfessor Goldberg runs a large-scale undergraduate research program at Cornell, connecting students to high-impact real-world applications of OR and data science, and providing students training in leadership, communication, and teamwork. Professor Goldberg has also taught undergraduate level courses in probability modeling, statistics, and data science; supply chain modeling; online learning; and dynamic programming. He teaches a 1-credit "Academic Street Smarts" course for first-year PhD students at Cornell ORIE, and has taught PhD courses in stochastic models, real analysis, and more advanced topics including optimal stopping, inventory control, queueing theory, and multi-arm bandits. Professor Goldberg has also taught masters level courses in systems analysis, modeling, and optimization. Goldberg has also advised several Ph.D. students, and is grateful to have been a Class of 1969 Teaching Fellow while at Georgia Tech.
Professor Goldberg is the Director for Undergraduate Studies in ORIE, and faculty advisor for the Undergraduate ORIE Society, through which he has organized several events and initiatives connecting students, faculty, and alumni at Cornell. He is the chair of the INFORMS Applied Probability Society, and serves on the editorial boards of the journals Operations Research, Stochastic Systems, and Stochastic Models. He has also served broadly on many additional committees and initiatives at both Cornell and Georgia Tech, and through INFORMS.
