Center Co-Director
agirard@noblis.org
Andrew M. Girard is a fellow at Noblis where his experience includes network design and optimization problems within telecommunications. His research interests include optimization problems in telecommunications and finance, applications of geometry and mechanics to biological and mechanical systems as well as control theory. He received a doctorate in applied mathematics from the University of Maryland.

Center Co-Director
khoffman@gmu.edu
http://iris.gmu.edu/~khoffman/
Karla Hoffman is a Professor in the Systems Engineering and Operations Research Department of the School of Information Technology and Engineering of George Mason University. Dr. Hoffman’s primary area of research is combinatorial optimization. She consults to the FCC on auction design and testing for package-bidding auctions and is responsible for the design of a real-time scheduling algorithm for the concrete industry. She has developed scheduling algorithms for the airline industry, consults to the military on a variety of routing and scheduling problems and has advised the telecommunications industry on capital budgeting. Her research focuses on the development of new algorithms for solving large modeling problems arising in industry.

mfischer@noblis.org
Martin J. Fischer is a senior fellow at Noblis where his experience includes network design and performance analysis in telecommunications, and he has published approximately 40 articles in refereed journals. He received a doctorate in operations research from Southern Methodist University.

david.garbin@noblis.org
David A. Garbin is a senior fellow at Noblis where his interests include telecommunications technology, networking, network design and optimization, economic analysis, voice communications, and data communications. He received an MSEE from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

dmasi@noblis.org
Denise M. Bevilacqua Masi is a senior principal engineer at Noblis. Her research interests include queueing theory and simulation applied to telecommunications networks. She received a doctorate in information technology and engineering from George Mason University.

jshortle@gmu.edu
John F. Shortle, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of Systems Engineering at George Mason University. His experience includes developing stochastic, queueing, and simulation models to optimize networks and operations. His research interests include simulation and queueing applications in telecommunications and air transportation. He received his doctorate degree in operations research from UC Berkeley.

jsoltys@noblis.org
James R. Soltys is a manager at Noblis where his experience includes pattern classification, neural network design, and telecommunications systems design. His research interests include genetic algorithms, neural networks, and mathematical programming as applied to pattern classification and telecommunications network design. He received his doctorate degree in systems engineering from the University of Virginia.

kwunderl@noblis.org
Karl E. Wunderlich is a fellow at Noblis where his experience includes simulation analysis, dynamic programming/shortest path techniques, and operations research. He received a doctorate in industrial and operations engineering from the University of Michigan.