Research Interests: ^top

• Analytics
  Data science, Predictive models
• Applications
  Medical Decision Making
• Operations Research Tools
  Math Modeling
  Math Programming
  Simulation
  Stochastic Opt. & Control
• Quality & Applied Statistics
  Machine Learning

Biography: ^top

Brian Denton joined the faculty in 2012. His primary research interests are in optimization under uncertainty with applications to medical decision making related to the detection, treatment, and prevention of chronic diseases. He is a member of the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation at University of Michigan, a member of the Cancer Center in the Michigan School of Medicine, and he holds a fellowship appointment at the Cecil Sheps Health Services Research Center at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Previously he has been a Senior Associate Consultant at Mayo Clinic, and a Senior Engineer at IBM. In 2009 he received the National Science Foundation Career Award. He has also won the INFORMS Service Section Prize (2010), the INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Prize (2005), the Institute of Industrial Engineers Outstanding Publication Award (2005), and the Canadian Operations Research Society Best Paper Award (2000). He has co-authored more than 70 journal articles, conference proceedings, and book chapter, and he has twenty five patents granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

He served as the president of INFORMS in 2017 and currently serves as the past-president of the organization.