Department of Management Science

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

The Department of Management Science at the University of Miami School of Business Administration 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.

World-Class Faculty

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Yongtao Guan

Department Chair and Leslie O. Barnes Professor, Management Science

Research Interests

Point processes; spatial-temporal processes; spatial epidemiology; and longitudinal data analysis

Anuj Mehrotra

Senior Vice Dean; Vice Dean, Faculty Development and Research; Leslie O. Barnes Scholar; and Professor, Management Science

Research Interests

Call center staffing and scheduling; network design; clustering; public sector applications; supply chain management; and development of models and solutions for large-scale optimization problems

Emma Jingfei Zhang

Assistant Professor, Management Science

Research Interests

Network modeling and inference; Monte Carlo theory and methodology; and point processes

Tallys Yunes

Associate Professor, Management Science

Research Interests

Scheduling (sports, personnel, machines); product line simplification; transportation; political districting; call center operations; and information layout

Alumni Perpsective

From Argentina to Wall Street

School of Business alumnus Diego Kantt (right) credits his major with helping him reach his career goals. “UM’s management science [major] is unique and helped prepare me for a career in finance and real estate. It helped me reach my goal to make it to Wall Street.”