Abraham Seidmann

Xerox Professor of Computers and Information Systems and Operations Management; and Area Coordinator, Computers and Information Systems, Electronic Commerce, and Operations Management Office: CS-3-333C Carol Simon Hall Phone: (585) 275-5694 Email: avi.seidmann@simon.rochester.edu Website: www.simon.rochester.edu/fac/Seidmannav/

Professor Seidmann is the author of over one hundred research articles, which appear in many of the leading scientific journals, and has been the founding department editor on interdisciplinary management research and applications in Management Science for ten years. He is also an associate or area editor for IIE Transactions, the International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, Production Planning and Controls, the Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, the Journal of Management Information Systems and Production and Operations Management. His current research and consulting activities include medical informatics, electronic commerce, online auctions, information systems, health care management, business process design, project management and optimal resource allocation, strategic manufacturing systems, information economics, stochastic processes and performance modeling for capacity planning and pricing.

Seidmann has consulted with many of the leading industrial and service corporations and presented numerous research and executive seminars on four continents. He has won teaching awards from the MBA and Executive MBA classes at the Simon School, as well as from the Rochester-Nyenrode Class of 2003. His research was cited twice on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, and he was granted several prestigious prizes at international conferences for publishing outstanding research papers in the areas of information systems, information economics and electronic commerce. These include the Award for Best Research Paper at the 16th International Conference on Information Systems, presented in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He also won the best paper award at the 1998 Hawaii International Con­ference on Systems Sciences, in Kohala, Hawaii. In 1999, the Workshop on Information Systems and Economics gave him a special award for writing “The Best Paper on Information Systems and Economics.”

• BSc, Industrial and Management Engineering,
  Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
• MSc, Operations Research,
  Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
• PhD (cum laude), Industrial Engineering,
  Texas Tech University