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Samuel K.  Eldersveld
Lecturer

PhD, Stanford University, 1992
M Eng, Stanford University, 1988
MBA, San Francisco State University, 1982
BS, Univerity of Michigan, 1979


Phone:   
 206-616-8372 Mailing Address:
Fax:
 206-543-3968 Michael G. Foster School of Business
Office:
Email:
 129 Lewis Hall
sam1@u.washington.edu
 Info Systems and Ops Management Department
Box 353200
Seattle, WA 98195-3200
     
Faculty Personal Web Page:   http://faculty.washington.edu/sam1

Specialties

    Pricing and revenue management optimization, mathematical programming, forecasting and data mining, fraud prevention.

Positions Held

    At the University of Washington since 2005
    Founder/Principal, RedPoint Cognitive and Decision Sciences (2003-present)
    Manager Data Mining, Research and Analysis, Expedia.com Applied Research Group (2000-2003)
    Mathematician and Modeling Analyst, The Boeing Company, Mathematics and Computing Technology (1991-2000)
    Research Intern, Cray Research, Inc. (1989)
    Programmer, Stanford Business Software (1986-1987)
    Analyst, ADP Network Services (1982-1983)

Selected Publications

  • "An interior-point algorithm for very large-scale numerical optimization," with J.T. Betts, J.G. Lewis and P.D. Frank, Proceedings 1st Sandia Workshop on Large-Scale PDE-Constrained Optimization, New Mexico, April 2001.

  • "A performance comparison of nonlinear programming algorithms for large-sparse problems," with J.T. Betts and W.P. Huffman, Proceedings of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, AIAA-93-3751-CP, 1993, pp.443-455.

  • "A block-LU update for large-scale linear programming," with Michael A. Saunders, SIAM Matrix Anal. & Appl., Vol. 13, No. 1, January 1992, pp. 191-201.

Working Papers

    A dynamic model for computing customer lifetime value.

Current Research

    Online and sector-targeted revenue optimization, pre-processing techniques for mathematical programming.

Honors and Awards

    Undergraduate Professor of the Year for Information Systems (2006)
    Undergraduate Professor of the Quarter for Information Systems for(2006)
    NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Mathematical Sciences.

Selected Consulting Experience

  • Forecasting systems for wireless voice, messaging and data services.
  • Predictive modeling of traffic bottlenecks.
  • Revenue optimization for online hotel and travel package sales.
  • Pricing and revenue optimization for targeted cable-television advertising.




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