“[M]y first dream was to be an astronaut. My father dug the idea too. He envisioned me (his namesake) perishing in some space mishap, immortalizing us both. I chose a less glamorous and, unless someday I get a disgruntled grad student, less dangerous career.”
Background
Otis Jennings is a visiting scholar in the Sloan School of Management and the Operations Research Center, who most recently taught at the Stanford University School of Business. He earned a BSE in civil engineering/operations research from Princeton University. He holds an MS in operations research and a PhD in industrial and systems engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Interests
In his work, Jennings analyzes large-scale service systems and also explores highly utilized multi-product processing networks with and without switch-over delays; health care facility operations and public policy; and applied probability and queueing theory. He has received an Intel Graduate Fellowship, the Georgia Tech President’s Fellowship, the Bell Laboratories Cooperative Research Fellowship and the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship.
News Items
Sample Work
Publication
Stability of General Processing Networks
Dai, J. G. and O. B. Jennings, “Stability of General Processing Networks,” In Stochastic Models and Optimization, D. D. Yao, H. Zhang and X. Y. Zhou, editors, pp. 193–243, Springer, New York, 2003.
Publication
Optimal Profit for Leased Lines Services
Jennings, O. B., W. A. Massey and C. McCalla, “Optimal Profit for Leased Lines Services,” with Proceedings of the 15th International Teletraffic Congress – ITC 15 (editors V. Ramaswami and P. E. Wirth), pp. 803-814, June 1997.
Publication
A Modified Offered Load Approximation for Nonstationary Circuit Switched Networks
Jennings, O. B. and W. A. Massey, “A Modified Offered Load Approximation for Nonstationary Circuit Switched Networks, ” Select Proceedings of the Third INFORMS Telecommunications Conference (Telecommunication Systems, editors R.B. Cooper and R. Doverspike), 7, pp. 253-265, 1997.
Publication
Server Staffing to Meet Time-Varying Demand
Jennings, O. B., A. Mandelbaum, W. A. Massey and W. Whitt, “Server Staffing to Meet Time-Varying Demand,” Management Science, 42, 1381—1394, 1996.