Edward H. Kaplan
William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Operations Research; Professor of Engineering; & Professor of Public Health
Professor Kaplan's research has been reported on the front pages of the New York Times and the Jerusalem Post, editorialized in the Wall Street Journal, recognized by the New York Times Magazine's Year in Ideas, and discussed in many other major media outlets. The author of more than 125 research articles, Professor Kaplan received both the Lanchester Prize and the Edelman Award, two top honors in the operations research field, among many other awards. An elected member of both the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine of the US National Academies, he has also twice received the prestigious Lady Davis Visiting Professorship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he has investigated AIDS policy issues facing the State of Israel. Kaplan’s current research focuses on the application of operations research to problems in counterterrorism and homeland security.
In 2014, he was elected to the presidency of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the world’s largest society of operations research and analytics academics and professionals. He will serve as President-Elect in 2015, President in 2016, and Past-President in 2017.
Education
- PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984
- SM (Statistics), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982
- SM (Operations Research), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979
- MCP, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979
- BA, McGill University, 1977
Selected Media Coverage
What’s behind the anti-Semitism surge in the US
Vox
June 2, 2021
Solutions in Sewage: How researchers are predicting COVID-19 outbreaks from wastewater
Yale Engineering Magazine
2020 (Cover Story)
Second Time Around
Hamodia
December 6, 2020
End the coronavirus outbreak with aggressive screening to find and isolate infected people,
USA Today
April 14, 2020
Conflicting New Estimates of Illegal Immigration
National Review
November 30, 2018
Articles
Optimal Evaluation Policies To Identify Students With Reading Disabilities
Predicting daily COVID-19 case rates from SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations across a diversity of wastewater catchments
Scaling SARS-CoV-2 wastewater concentrations to population estimates of infection
Modeling local coronavirus outbreaks
Books
No time to lose: getting more from HIV prevention
Achievements
- Distinguished Fellow Award, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society, INFORMS, 2018
- Token of Love, Asia Pacific Operational Research Society 11th Triennial Conference, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2018
- INFORMS President, 2016
- Winter Simulation Conference Titan of Simulation, 2016
- Koopman Prize, INFORMS, 2002, 2005, 2011
- Expository Writing Award, INFORMS, 2010
- Philip McCord Morse Lectureship, INFORMS, 2009
- Charles C. Shepard Science Award, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2009
- Fellow Award, INFORMS, 2005
- Elected to the Institute of Medicine, 2004
- Elected to the Technion Board of Governors, 2004
- Elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, 2004
- Elected to the Academy of Engineering, 2003
- President's Award, INFORMS, 2002
- Induction to Omega Rho Operations Research Honor Society, INFORMS, 2000
- Ira V. Hiscock Award, Connecticut Public Health Association, 1997
- Lanchester Prize, INFORMS, 1994
- Franz Edelman Award, INFORMS, 1992
- State of Connecticut AIDS Leadership Award, 1991
- Yale SOM Teaching Award, SOM Alumni Association, 1991
- New Haven Foundation Ivy Award, 1991
- Goodwin Medal for Conspicuously Effective Teaching by a Graduate Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983