He received his Ph.D. in industrial engineering and management sciences from Northwestern University. His research, funded by NSF, state agencies and several major corporations, uses the tools of operations research to model and solve problems in electricity systems and supply chain management, particularly when the problem exhibits significant amounts of uncertainty. He is co-author of the textbook Fundaundefinedentals of Supply Chain Theory (Wiley, 2011), which won the IIE/Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year Award in 2012.