Bio Christopher M. Rump earned a B.S. in Applied Mathematical Sciences at Texas A&M University in 1989 and a Ph.D. in Operations Research at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1995. He served as an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) from 1995-2003 before joining BGSU. Professor Rump's teaching and research interests broadly encompass the theory and application of operations research and management science. His research focus lies in the area of probabilistic modeling, particularly in the design and control of queueing and inventory systems with application to telecommunication, transportation and other service networks. He is a bit of a "renaissance" scholar, with research publications covering a broad span of applications including finance, sports statistics, Internet congestion design and control, production planning, queueing facility location, hazardous material routing, aircraft maintenance routing, emergency vehicle dispatching and routing, and police districting and resource allocation. Some of this work has been funded by United Airlines, the Buffalo Police Department, the National Institute of Justice and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. In 2006, Professor Rump was awarded the Robert A. Patton Scholarly Achievement Award in the College of Business Administration. In addition to his research pursuits, Professor Rump has written many educational publications including several case studies, two of which were finalists in national case writing competitions in 2000 and 2001. Prof. Rump is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), with active participation within its sections on Location Analysis (SOLA), OR in Sports (SpORts) as well as the INFORMS Forum on Education (INFORM-ED). He is also a member and Vice President/President-Elect of Omega Rho, the international honor society for operations research and the management sciences.