Guillermo Gallego is Chairman of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) at Columbia University, which includes Columbia's financial engineering program. Professor Gallego is a world-renowned expert in the fields of pricing optimization, inventory theory, supply chain management, and applied probability. He has served as Associate Editor, Departmental Editor, and Senior Editor of several of the flagship journals in management science.

Professor Gallego obtained his PhD in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering at Cornell University. He has consulted extensively in the areas of Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Revenue Management and Distance Learning. Professor Gallego has been the recipient of six NSF grants and of several industrial grants to support his research activities.

He has published over fifty papers in major operations research, management science, and pricing journals including seminal papers in Supply Chain, Inventory Theory and Revenue Management. His graduate students are associated with prestigious universities. He served as a Visiting Scientist at IBM from 1999-2003. He spent his 1996-1997 Sabbatical at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.

Robert M. Oliver is Professor Emeritus of Operations Research and Engineering Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He was recently inducted into the National Academy of Engineering for his leadership in the development of financial engineering and for the application of operations research to important public problems. He received a Fulbright Scholarship to the University of London in 1953 and his doctorate in Physics and Operations Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1957. He was appointed Director, Management Science Division, Broadview Research Corporation in 1958 and jointly with A. Samuel in 1963, was awarded the Lanchester Prize of the Operations Research Society of America.

At Berkeley, he taught courses in forecasting, prediction, risk assessment and decision-making models. He was Chairman of the Department of Operations Research 1964-1969, Director of the Operations Research Center 1972-1975 and Associate Dean of the College of Engineering from 1985-1990. He was awarded the University of California Berkeley Citation in 1993.

He is a past President of the Operations Research Society. In 1985 he was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Fair Isaac Corporation and was named Chairman of the Board in 1995. He is a former trustee of the Mathematical Science Research Institute and was formerly chairman of the Board of Directors of the ANSER Corporation of Arlington, Virginia and The Homeland Security Institute for the Department of Homeland Security.

He has held numerous appointments as technical advisor and consultant to corporations and the U.S. government and is the author of over 100 papers and journal articles in prediction and decision-making models of operations research. Publications include articles on predicting rare events including nuclear reactor accidents, mid-air collisions, the detection of fraudulent transactions and risk scoring as well as the design of acquisition and risk management strategies in retail credit banking operations.

Assaf Zeevi is the Gantcher Associate Professor of Business at the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. His expertise lie in the fields of applied probability and statistics, and their applications to problems in revenue management, financial engineering, and service operations. He is a council member of the Applied Probability Society, and serves on the editorial boards of several flagship journals of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS).

Professor Zeevi received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. In 2001 he joined the faculty of the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. He is a recipient of an Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation, and the Graduate School of Business Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence. His research has been funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Israel-US Binational Science Foundation, and the Caesarea Rothschild Foundation. Professor Zeevi regularly consults to various companies in the high technology and financial services sectors, and is actively involved in executive education courses at Columbia.