Stan Dimitrov, PEng, PhD

Stan Dimitrov is a Professor in Management Sciences at the University of Waterloo.

His research primarily focuses on the interface of operations research and information systems. Specifically speaking, Professor Dimitrov is interested in sustainable operations management, business data analytics, mechanism design, prediction markets, game theory, nonlinear optimization, and network design. He is interested in addressing problems in industry related to pricing, process improvement, and customer relationship management. He has received funding from NSERC, SSHRC, Mitacs, and the University of Waterloo.

• Sustinable Operations Management
• Business Data Analytics
• Mechanism design
• Prediction markets
• Game theory
• Nonlinear optimization
• Data envelopment analysis
• Network design
• Data analytics research
• Application domains
• Networking and data
• Dependability and security
• Stakeholders
• Pricing
• Experimental Design

Study how sustainable operations develop and change as business operating environments change over time. Develop new methods for addressing questions from data generated in day-to-day business operations. Designing and understanding incentives within organizations and processes. Designing and developing methods for eliciting and capturing preferences within decision making.

• 2010, Doctorate Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, USA
• 2006, Master of Engineering Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, USA
• 2004, Bachelor of Science in Engineering Computer Science, University of Michigan, USA

• 2021 Canadian Operational Research Society Eldon Gunn Service Award
• 2018 University of Waterloo Faculty of Engineering Distinguished Performance Award

• MSCI 436 - Decision Support Systems
  • Taught in 2019, 2020
• MSCI 445 - Telecommunication Systems: from protocols to applications
  • Taught in 2019, 2020, 2021
• MSCI 555 - Scheduling: Theory and Practice
  • Taught in 2021, 2023
• MSCI 609 - Quantitative Data Analysis for Management Sciences
  • Taught in 2024
• MSCI 700 - Topics in Operations Research and Management
  • Taught in 2021
• MSCI 724 - Game Theory and Recent Applications
  • Taught in 2024
• MSE 551 - Quality Management and Control
  • Taught in 2024
• MSE 752 - Behavioural Decision-making
  • Taught in 2024

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• Please see an up to date list of publications here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Ja7958UAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate