Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-5015

lwein@stanford.edu
(650) 724-1676 (voice)
(650) 725-0468 (fax)

Research Interests
emergency responses to bioterrorism; mathematical models in operations management, medicine and biology

Lawrence Wein is the Paul E. Holden Professor of Management Science at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, and an affiliated faculty member at CISAC. After getting a PhD in Operations Research from Stanford University in 1988, he spent 14 years at the Sloan School of Management at MIT, where he was the DEC Leaders for Manufacturing Professor of Management Science. His research interests include mathematical models in operations management, medicine and biology.

Since 2001, he has analyzed a variety of homeland security problems. His homeland security work includes four papers in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, on an emergency response to a smallpox attack, an emergency response to an anthrax attack, a biometric analysis of the US-VISIT Program, and an analysis of a bioterror attack on the milk supply. He has also published the Washington Post op-ed "Unready for Anthrax" (2003) and the New York Times op-ed "Got Toxic Milk?", and has written papers on port security, indoor remediation after an anthrax attack, and the detention and removal of illegal aliens.

Wein has won several awards, including the 1993 Erlang Prize for the outstanding applied probabilist under 35 years of age, and the 2002 Koopman Prize for the best paper in military operations research. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Operations Research.