Otis Jennings

Otis Jennings is Associate Professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. His main research interests are: analyzing large-scale service systems; highly utilized multi-product processing networks with and without switch-over delays; and health care facility operations and public policy; applied probability and queueing theory.

Prof. Jennings earned a BSE in Civil Engineering/Operations Research (Magna cum laude, 1994) from Princeton University. He holds an MS in Operations Research (1999) and a PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering (2000), both from Georgia Tech. His dissertation was titled “Multiclass Queueing Networks with Setup Delays: Stability Analysis and Diffusion Approximation”. Prof. Jennings continued on to a year and a half postdoc at Stanford's Graduate School of Business.

In 1998 he taught in the School of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Prof. Jennings has received an Intel Graduate Fellowship, the Georgia Tech President's Fellowship, the Bell Laboratories Cooperative Research Fellowship and the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship.

The MIT Sloan School of Management and the Operations Research Center hosted Prof. Jennings as a MLK Visiting Scholar from 2001 to 2003. He taught 15.760 Operations, a core MBA operations-management course.