Michael R. Wagner

I'm the Chevron Assistant Professor of Operations Management in the Graduate Business Programs at Saint Mary’s College of California. My research interests are in decision making under uncertainty (stochastic, online, and robust optimization, as well as hybrids thereof). In particular, I investigate the value of information in a variety of application domains, such as supply chain management, inventory control, resource allocation, and logistics.

Address: Michael R. Wagner Graduate Business Programs Saint Mary’s College of California 380 Moraga Road Moraga, CA 94556 Phone: 925-631-8708 email: mrw2@stmarys-ca.edu

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Education

• Ph.D. in Operations Research from MIT, June 2006. Advisor: Patrick Jaillet.
• Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, June 2001. Advisor: Marija Ilic.
• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from MIT, June 2000.

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Teaching

I teach operations management and data analysis for MBA and Executive MBA students, as well as quantitative methods for graduate finance students.

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Research

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Working Papers

• D.S. Hochbaum and M.R. Wagner, “Production Cost Functions and Risk Sharing in Supply Chain Contracts,”
• Working paper, 2012.
• M.R. Wagner, “The Benefit/Detriment of Information in Coordinating Supply Chains,”
• Working paper, 2012.

Publications

• M.R. Wagner and Z. Radovilsky, “Optimizing Boat Resources at the U.S. Coast Guard: Deterministic and Stochastic Models.”
• Operations Research, accepted for publication, 2012.
• M.R. Wagner, “Online Lot-Sizing Problems with Ordering, Holding and Shortage Costs.”
• Operations Research Letters, Volume 39, Number 2, pp. 144-149, 2011.
• M.R. Wagner, “Fully Distribution-Free Profit Maximization: The Inventory Management Case.”
• Mathematics of Operations Research, Volume 35, Number 4, pp. 728-741, 2010.
• P. Jaillet and M.R. Wagner, “Almost Sure Asymptotic Optimality for Online Routing and Machine Scheduling Problems.”
• Networks, Volume 55, Number 1, pp. 2-12, 2010.
• Glover-Klingman Prize for the best paper published in Networks in 2010.
• J.R. Correa and M.R. Wagner, “LP-Based Online Scheduling: From Single to Parallel Machines.”
• Mathematical Programming, Volume 119, Number 1, pp. 109-136, 2009.
• M.R. Wagner, J. Bhadury, S. Peng, “Risk Management in Uncapacitated Facility Location Models with Random Demands.”
• Computers & Operations Research, Volume 36, Number 4, pp. 1002-1011, 2009.
• P. Jaillet and M.R. Wagner, “Generalized Online Routing: New Competitive Ratios, Resource Augmentation and Asymptotic Analyses.”
• Operations Research, Volume 56, Number 3, pp. 745-757, 2008.
• M.R. Wagner, “Stochastic 0-1 Linear Programming under Limited Distributional Information.”
• Operations Research Letters, Volume 36, Number 2, pp. 150-156, 2008.
• P. Jaillet and M.R. Wagner, “Online Routing Problems: Value of Advanced Information as Improved Competitive Ratios.”
• Transportation Science, Volume 40, Number 2, pp. 200 - 210, 2006.

Book Chapters

• P. Jaillet and M.R. Wagner, “Online Optimization – An Introduction.”
• Chapter in TutORials in Operations Research, edited by J. Hasenbein, Informs, 2010.
• P. Jaillet and M.R. Wagner, “Online Vehicle Routing Problems: A Survey.”
• Chapter in The Vehicle Routing Problem: Latest Advances and New Challenges, edited by B. Golden, S. Raghavan, and E. Wasil, Springer, 2008.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

• P. Jaillet and M.R. Wagner, “New Competitive Ratios for Generalized Online Routing.”
• Extended abstract in proceedings of the 6^th Triennial Symposium on Transportation Analysis (TRISTAN VI), 2007.
• J.R. Correa and M.R. Wagner, “LP-Based Online Scheduling: From Single to Parallel Machines.”
• Extended abstract in proceedings of the 11^th Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization (IPCO), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3509, pp. 196--209, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2005.

• M. R. Wagner, P. Skantze and M. Ilic, “Hedging Optimization Algorithms for Deregulated Electricity Markets.”
• Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Intelligent Systems Application to Power Systems, 2003.

Other Publications

• M.R. Wagner, A. Auger and M. Schoenauer, “EEDA: A New Robust Estimation of Distribution Algorithm.”
• Rapport de Recherche (Research Report) RR-5190, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), 2004.
• S. Krumke, W. de Paepe, D. Poensgen, and L. Stougie, “Erratum to ‘News from the Online Traveling Repairman,’” Theoretical Computer Science, volume 352, pp. 347-348, 2006.
• I identified an error in the original publication that led to this erratum.

Theses

• Ph.D. thesis: “Online Optimization in Routing and Scheduling.”
• M.Eng. thesis: “Hedging Optimization Algorithms for Deregulated Electricity Markets.”

Last updated: April, 2012.