President,
Carnegie
Mellon University; Professor, Civil
and Environmental Engineering and Engineering
and Public Policy
Environmental
systems analysis, development and application of optimization
tools for large-scale natural resource and environmental
problems, algorithms for multi-objective programming
problems.
B.S. (Civil
Engineering) 1969, University of Pennsylvania
M.S. (Civil Engineering) 1972, Ph.D. (Civil Engineering)
1973, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Carnegie
Mellon, 1997-.
Professor
Cohon is interested in environmental systems analysis,
especially the development and application of optimization
tools for large-scale natural resource and environmental
problems. Most of his theoretical work has focused
on algorithms for multi-objective programming problems
and systems methods for integrating engineering, economics
and politics in public environmental decision making.
He has worked most on water resource problems, energy
and waste problems.
As President
of the University, Professor Cohon has little opportunity
to conduct research or teach, but he does give guest
lectures on occasion and is pleased to act as an informal
advisor on research. Professor Cohon is the chairman
of the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board,
and he serves on the Board of Directors of the Heinz
Center for Science, Economics and the Environment.
Representative
Publications
O. J.
Schmitz, J. L. Cohon, K. D. Rothley and A. P. Beckerman,
"Reconciling Variability and Optimal Behavior Using
Multiple Criteria in Optimality," Evolutionary
Ecology, 1996.
R. S.
Solanki, P. A. Appino and J. L. Cohon, "Approximating
the Noninferior Set in Multiobjective Linear Programming
Problems," European Journal of Operational Research,
vol. 68, no. 3, pp. 356-373, 1993.
C. S.
ReVelle, J. L. Cohon and D. Shobrys, "Simultaneous
Siting and Routing in the Disposal of Hazardous Wastes,"
Transportation Science, vol. 25, no. 2, pp.
138-145, 1992. |
