Management Science

Department of Management Science

Management Science deals with the applications of analytical techniques towards business related issues.

The Department of Management Science at the Miami Herbert Business School is a leader in research and education in this area.

Department Mission

Our mission is to:

Attract the "best and brightest" to our program.
Staff the management science courses with talented, dedicated faculty.
Provide curricula that give students the concepts, knowledge, and skills necessary to be successful in the profession of business analytics and research.
Create a real-world connection for students through classroom materials and the use of guest lecturers.
Provide an excellent and appropriate analytics foundation for non-management science graduates.
To provide the community with fully qualified graduates capable of tackling the most challenging positions.
To assist students in obtaining positions in the field of business analytics.

Yongtao Guan

Department Chair and Leslie O. Barnes Professor, Management Science; Director, Deloitte Institute for Research and Practice in Analytics (DIRPA)

Research Interests

Business analytics, social media analytics, point processes, and spatial-temporal processes

Emma Jingfei Zhang

Assistant Professor, Management Science

Research Interests

Network data analysis; high-dimensional data analysis; and temporal point processes

Tallys Yunes

Associate Professor, Management Science, and Academic Director, Full-Time and Online MBA Programs

Research Interests

APPLICATIONS: scheduling (sports, healthcare, workforce, machines); product line simplification; political districting; call center operations; information layout; logistics, THEORY: prescriptive analytics, modeling, integer programming, constraint programming, binary and multi-valued decision diagrams, meta-heuristics, large neighborhood search, integration of optimization techniques.

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Yongtao Guan

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Emma Jingfei Zhang

Tallys Yunes

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