Opher Baron

Opher Baron is a Distinguished Professor of Operations Management and the Academic Director, MMA Program at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He was a visiting associate Professor at the Industrial engineering and Management faculty of Technion (2009/10) and a visiting Professor at the School of Information Management and Engineering, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (2016/17). He has a PhD in Operations Management from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an MBA and BSc in Industrial Engineering and Management from The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. On the teaching front, Opher is especially proud of the modeling and analytics courses he introduced and teaches at Rotman. On the application front he is proud of launching the Covidppehelp.ca platform with his colleagues. This platform has facilitated the flow of millions of PPE items to end-user customers during the global Covid19 pandemic. His research interests include queueing, business analytics, service operations (such as healthcare), autonomous vehicles, and revenue management. Opher's work is published in leading journals such as Operations Research, and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and he has won several research and teaching awards and grants, including the 1000 Talents Plan Scholar from the Shanghai Municipal Government, 2017. Opher is active in the operations research and operations management community. He has given numerous invited keynote lectures and seminars, chaired several conferences, clusters, and sessions, and is currently serving on the advisory board and editorial boards of several journals.

Degrees:

• PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• MBA, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
• BSc, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

Academic Positions

2021- Academic Director, Master of Management Analytics, Rotman School of Management, the University of Toronto

2015-2021 Area Coordinator, Operations Management and Statistics, Rotman School of Management, the University of Toronto

2014-present Full Professor, Rotman School of Management, the University of Toronto

2016-2017 Visiting Professor, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

2009-2014 Associate Professor, Rotman School of Management, the University of Toronto

2009-2010 Visiting Associate Professor, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

2003-2009 Assistant Professor, Rotman School of Management, the University of Toronto