Prof. Cynthia Barnhart

Professor Barnhart specializes in developing models, optimization methods and decision support systems for large-scale transportation problems. In 1997, she formed the Large-Scale Optimization Group at MIT. It is comprised of graduate students and researchers developing and applying optimization models and algorithms to large-scale problems arising in transportation, telecommunications and other problem domains.

Her teaching and research are in the areas of large-scale optimization, airlines operations, the global airline industry, and transportation operations, planning, and control. She has supervised scores of graduate and undergraduate theses across a range of disciplines and has published widely in the flagship journals of her field.