Edieal Pinker

Professor Pinker’s research interests include service supply chains, the use of flexible workforces, work and workflow design in healthcare, online auctions and responses to terrorist threats among others. He serves on the editorial boards of several leading journals in his field. Pinker has consulted for the United States Postal Service, the financial services industry and the auto industry. His work has been published in leading journals such as  Operations Research, Management Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, IIE Transactions, Production and Operations Management, and the Communications of the Association of Computing Machinery. 

Education

• PhD , Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Operations), 1996
• MS , Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Operations Research), 1993
• BA , Columbia University, 1989

Expertise

• Counter-terrorism
• Health Care
• Human Resources
• Operations
• Operations Research
• Service Operations

Companies

• Chief Academic Officer and Deputy Dean, BearingPoint Professor of Operations Research Yale School of Management (2020)
• Deputy Dean School of Management and Professor of Operations Research Yale University (2016)
• Professor of Operations Research Yale University School of Management (2013)
• Professor of Management University of Rochester (2012 — 2012)
• Associate Professor Simon School of Business, University of Rochester (2003 — 2012)
• Assistant Professor University of Rochester (1997 — 2003)

Selected articles

Using the Shapes of Clinical Data Trajectories to Predict Mortality in ICUs J. Ma, D.K.K. Lee, M. E. Perkins, M. A. Pisani, and E. Pinker Critical Care Explorations 2019

Reporting Accuracy of Rare Event Classifiers E. Pinker Digital Medicine 2018

Public Warnings in Counterterrorism Operations:Managing the “Cry-Wolf” Effect When Facing a Strategic Adversary N. Bakshi and E. Pinker Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) 2018

Dynamic Relational Contracts for Quality Enforcement in Supply Chains M. Bondareva and E. Pinker Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) 2018

Development of Imminent Mortality Predictor for Advanced Cancer (IMPAC), a tool to predict short-term mortality in hospitalized advanced cancer patients K. Adelson, D.K.K. Lee, S. Velji, J.C. Ma, S.K. Lipka, J. Rimar, P. Longley, T. Vega, J. Perez-Irizarry, E.J. Pinker, R. Lilenbaum Journal of Oncology Practice 2017

Selected working papers

Working Paper: U.S. Jewish Demographic Projections E.J. Pinker More Publications by Edieal J. Pinker