Mathematical Association of America
Allegheny Mountain Section
Serving Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia
Brief Bio for Fred Roberts
Dr. Fred Roberts is
currently a Professor of Mathematics at Rutgers University. He serves as the director of DIMACS, an NSF
"science and technology center" founded in 1988 which is a consortium
of Rutgers and Princeton
Universities,
AT&T
Labs, Bell Labs (Lucent Technologies), NEC Laboratories America and
Telcordia
Technologies. Affiliate Members: Avaya Labs, Georgia Institute of
Technology,
HP Labs, IBM Research, Microsoft Research, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute and
Stevens Institute of Technology. He also
serves as Director of DyDAn, Homeland Security
Center
for Dynamic Data Analysis. DyDAn was founded as a Department of
Homeland
Security Center of Excellence in 2006 and is a consortium of Rutgers,
Princeton, Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, Texas Southern University,
Texas
State University-San Marcos,
AT&T Labs, and Bell Labs.
Dr. Roberts major
areas of interests are Mathematical models
in the social, behavioral, biological and environmental sciences and of
problems of communications and transportation; graph theory and
combinatorics;
measurement theory; operations research; utility, decision making, and
social
choice; mathematical modeling and decision making for homeland security. He has author or co-authored 5 books, edited
17 others, and written over 150
professional journal articles.
In recent years Dr.
Roberts briefed members of Congress highlighting
contributions of the mathematical sciences to emergency preparedness,
disaster
prevention, and related security matters as well as led a U.S. delegation to China
for the opening of NSF’s new Beijing
office and for a conference on “Understanding China's Higher Education
and
Research in Computer Science and Information Technology”.
Allegheny Mountain Section
of the MAA
