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Robert C. Hampshire
Assistant Professor of Operations Research and Public Policy
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Email: hamp@andrew.cmu.edu
Biography
Robert Hampshire’s degrees include a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati, and a Ph.D. in Operations Research and Financial Engineering from Princeton University.
Dr. Hampshire is the recipient of the Bell Labs Cooperative Research Fellowship, 2001-2005, and the Princeton University Presidential Fellowship, 2001.
Robert C. Hampshire’s research focuses on the performance, provisioning, pricing and public policy of communication services. Web services, call centers and bandwidth exchanges are examples. His work also investigates the management and design of collaborative communication platforms such as web conferences, wikis and blogs. These issues are addressed using both dynamic stochastic modeling and dynamic optimization.
Robert has worked at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Bell Laboratories of Lucent Technologies, Compaq Computers and VLSI Technology. He has patents in the areas of IT asset portfolio management and supply chain risk management.
Selected Publications
Hampshire, R. C., Massey, W. A., Mitra, D. and Wang Q. 2003. Provisioning for Bandwidth Sharing and Exchange. Telecommunications Network Design and Management. Eds. G. Anandalingam and S. Raghavan, Boston Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp.207-225.
Hampshire, R. C. and Massey, W. A. 2005. Variational optimization for call center staffing. In Proceedings of the 2005 Conference on Diversity in Computing (Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, October 19 - 22, 2005). TAPIA '05. ACM Press, New York, NY, 4-6.
Hampshire, R. C., Harchol-Balter, M., and Massey, W. A. 2006. Fluid and diffusion limits for transient sojourn times of processor sharing queues with time varying rates. Queuing Systems. 53, 1-2 (Jun. 2006), 19-30.
Education
Ph.D. from Princeton University
