Larry Snyder

Education

Ph.D., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, December 2003

Dissertation Title: Supply Chain Robustness: Models and Algorithms

Dissertation Committee: Mark Daskin (chair), Collette Coullard, Karen Smilowitz, Chung-Piaw Teo

M.S., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, December 1999

B.A., Dept. of Mathematics, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, May 1996

Honors Thesis Title: Combinatorial Rigidity and the Path Decomposition of Isostatic Graphs

Advisors: Ruth Haas and Norton Starr

Awards and Honors

Awards

• Interdisciplinary Research Excellence Award, P. C. Rossin College of Engineering & Applied Science, 2021.
• Professor-of-the-Year Award from Master’s students, ISE Department, 2020.
• IISE Logistics & Supply Chain Division Teaching Award, 2019.
• Professor-of-the-Year Award from Ph.D. students, ISE Department, 2017.
• Professor-of-the-Year Award from Master’s students, ISE Department, 2015.
• IIE/Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year Award (for Fundamentals of Supply Chain Theory), 2012.
• INFORMS Section on Location Analysis (SOLA) Chuck ReVelle Rising Star Award, 2010.
• Frank Hook Assistant Professorship, Lehigh University, Fall 2006-Spring 2008
• IIE Operations Research Track, Best Paper Award, IERC Conference, May 2006
• IIE Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award, First Place, May 2005
• INFORMS Section on Transportation Science and Logistics Dissertation Award, First Place, October 2004
• INFORMS Section on Location Analysis Dissertation Awards, Honorable Mention, November 2003
• Northwestern University Transportation Center Student Paper Competition, First Prize, June 2003
• INFORMS Chicago Chapter Student Paper Competition, First Prize, May 2003
• Midwest Regional University Transportation Center Student of the Year, sponsored by United State Department of Transportation, December 2002
• Breusch Prize for best honors thesis in mathematics, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, May 1996

Press Mentions

• “From platinum to smartphone: How maths models can be used to streamline supply chains,” Futurum, 2019.
• “Electrifying Innovation,” Resolve (RCEAS Research Magazine), vol. 2, 2016.
• “The Broader Impact,” Resolve (RCEAS Research Magazine), vol. 1, 2016.
• “‘Supply Chain Theory is Really Coming into its Own Now‘: An Interview with Larry Snyder,” Statistics Views, 2014.
• “Envisioning Energy’s Future,” Resolve (RCEAS Research Magazine), vol. 2, 2012.
• “The Expanding State of the Infrastructure,” Resolve (RCEAS Research Magazine), vol. 1, 2011.
• “A Supplement to Common Sense,” by William Johnson, Resolve (RCEAS Research Magazine), vol. 2, 2009.
• “Do-It-Yourself Software,” by James A. Cooke, DC Velocity, November 2008.
• “Leaner Shelves, Leaner Profits?,” by Tom Van Riper, Forbes.com, November 15, 2006.
• “Logistics Problems? Do the Maths!” by Marcia Jedd, Cargovision 17(8), 24-25, January 2002.