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Business Professor Honored for Lifetime Achievement
Information systems and decision sciences professor recognized for his research in theory, modeling and solution algorithms and publications.

July 11, 2005 :: No. 3

A Cal State Fullerton professor in the College of Business and Economics has been honored with a lifetime achievement award from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

Zvi Drezner, professor of information systems and decision sciences, was honored in June with the Lifetime Achievement Award in Location Analysis from INFORMS Section on Location Analysis.

The triennial award recognizes career achievements that influence location analysis research.

Among his accomplishments, Drezner was recognized for authoring more than 200 papers, as well as his research endeavors in theory, modeling and solution algorithms. Also credited was his service as associate or area editor of three journals, plus editor and co-editor of two books — “Facility Location: A Survey of Applications and Methods” and “Facility Location: Applications and Theory.”

A member of Cal State Fullerton’s faculty since 1985, Drezner served as department chair for nine years and has been a visiting professor at a number of institutions, including USC, UCI, Canada’s McMaster University, University of Auckland and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He has served as a consultant to the South Coast Air Quality Management District and the governments of Ecuador and Bolivia.

The Anaheim Hills resident earned his doctorate in computer science from Technion in Haifa, Israel.

INFORMS is a 12,000-member society representing professionals in the fields of operations research and management sciences.


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