Karla Hoffman

Title: Professor
Department: Systems Engineering and Operations
E-mail: khoffman@gmu.edu
Office: Room 123 Science and Tech II
office #: 703-993-1679
Website: iris.gmu.edu/~khoffman

Karla Hoffman is a Professor in the Systems Engineering and Operations Research Department of the School of Information Technology and Engineering of George Mason University where she had been Chair for five years ending in 2001. She received her BS in mathematics from Rutgers University in1969, and an M.B.A. and a D.Sc. in Operations Research form the George Washington University in 1971 and 1975, respectively. Previously, she worked as a mathematician in the Operations Research Department of the Center for Applied Mathematics of the NIST where she served as a senior consultant to a variety of government agencies. In 1984, she was awarded the Applied Research Award of the National Bureau of Standards for her research in solving large combinatorial optimization problems. This award is the highest honor awarded to a scientist in the non-measurement sciences and the first time that award was provided to a mathematician. The same year, she received the Commerce Department Silver Medal Award for meritorious service. In 1989, Dr. Hoffman received the Distinguished Faculty Award of George Mason University. In 2002, she received the Fellows Award of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. In 2005, she was the recipient of the Kimball Medal for service to her profession from the Institute of Operations Research and the Management Sciences. Her main research area is combinatorial optimization.