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Robert C. Hampshire

Visiting Assistant Professor 2012-2013 Assistant professor, Operations Research and Public Policy, School of Public Policy and Management at Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University

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Background

Robert Hampshire is currently an assistant professor at the John H. Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University. He received his PhD from the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University.

Interests

Hampshire’s research focus is urban transportation systems. He is immersed in innovative ways to reduce urban congestion and reduce air pollution. In particular, Hampshire focuses on IT enabled mobility services, communication services and distributed web services. He uses both non steady state stochastic modeling and dynamic optimization to develop management strategies. His industry experience includes work 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.

As an MLK visiting assistant professor, he worked closely with Prof. Richard C. Larson in the Engineering Systems Division as a lecturer and collaborated on research papers.

News Items

Nov 6, 2012

MIT welcomes six new MLK visiting professors and scholars

Appointments also extended for five current MLK visitors.

Sample Work

Publication
Large-Scale Bicycle Sharing Systems: Analysis of V´elib’
Nair, R., Miller-Hooks, E, Hampshire, R.C. and A. Busic, “Large-Scale Bicycle Sharing Systems: Analysis of V´elib’,” International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, vol. 7, pp. 85-106, 2013.
Publication
Evaluation of a Smart Parking System
Hampshire, R.C. and T. Fabusyi, “Evaluation of a Smart Parking System,” Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2013.
Publication
Peer-to-Peer Car Sharing: Market Analysis and Potential Growth
Hampshire, R.C. and C. Gaites, “Peer-to-Peer Car Sharing: Market Analysis and Potential Growth,” Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, vol. 2217, pp. 119-126, 2011.
Publication
Dynamic Pricing to Control Loss Systems with Quality of Service Targets
Hampshire, R.C., Massey, W. A. and Wang Q., “Dynamic Pricing to Control Loss Systems with Quality of Service Targets,” Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, Volume 23, Issue 02, pp. 357-383, 2009.

Publication
A Time Varying Call Center Design with Lagrangian Mechanics
Hampshire, R.C., Jennings, O. and W.A. Massey, “A Time Varying Call Center Design with Lagrangian Mechanics,” Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, Volume 23, Issue 02, pp. 231-259, 2009.
Publication
A Note on the Event Horizon for a Processor Sharing Queue
Hampshire, R.C., and W.A. Massey, “A Note on the Event Horizon for a Processor Sharing Queue,” Queueing Systems, Vol. 59, pp. 185-190, 2008.
Publication
Fluid and Diffusion Limits for Transient Sojourn Times of Processor Sharing Queues with Time Varying Rates
Hampshire R.C, Harchol-Balter M., and Massey W. A., “Fluid and Diffusion Limits for Transient Sojourn Times of Processor Sharing Queues with Time Varying Rates,” Queueing Systems, Vol. 53, pp. 19-30, 2006.
Book Chapter
A Tutorial on Dynamic Optimization with Applications to Dynamic Rate Queues
A Tutorial on Dynamic Optimization with Applications to Dynamic Rate Queues. R. C. Hampshire and W. A. Massey (2010). TutORials in Operations Research, 2010: Risk and Optimization in an Uncertain World, (Publication for tutorials presented at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Austin TX, November 7-10, 2010) pp. 208-247.
Book Chapter
Provisioning for Bandwidth Trading
Hampshire, R.C., Massey, W.A., Mitra, D. and Wang, Q., “Provisioning for Bandwidth Trading,” Telecommunications Network Design and Economics and Management: Selected Proceeding of the 6th INFORMS Telecommunications Conference, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston/Dordrecht/London, pp. 207-226, 2002.
Publication
Is the glass 85% full or 15% empty? Assessing the efficacy of San Francisco's parking experiment
Millard-Ball, A., R.Weinberger and R.C. Hampshire, “Is the glass 85% full or 15% empty? Assessing the efficacy of San Francisco’s parking experiment,” Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Engineering, January 2013.
Publication
Evaluation of a Smart Parking System
Fabusuyi, T, R. Hampshire and V. Hill, “Evaluation of a Smart Parking System,”Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Engineering, January 2013.
Publication
An Empirical Analysis of Bike Sharing Programs
Hampshire, R.C. and L. Marla, “An Empirical Analysis of Bike Sharing Programs,”Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Engineering, Annual Meeting, Washington D.C. 2012.
Publication
An Empirical Analysis of Bike Sharing Programs
Hampshire, R.C. and L. Marla, “An Empirical Analysis of Bike Sharing Programs,” Sloan Industries Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, 2011.
Publication
Predictive Modelling for Smart Parking: Case of ParkPGH
Hampshire, R.C., T. Fabusysi, and K. Sasanuma, “Predictive Modelling for Smart Parking: Case of ParkPGH, ” 16th World Congress on International Conference of the Intelligent Transportation Systems, Orlando, FL, 2011.
Publication
A Simulation Study of Person-2-Person Carsharing
Hampshire, R.C., and S. Srinath, “A Simulation Study of Person-2-Person Carsharing,” IEEE Forum on Integrated and Sustainable Transportation Systems, pp. 159 – 163, Vienna, Austria, 2011.
Publication
Market Analysis of Person-2-Person Car Sharing
Hampshire, R.C. and C. Gaites, “Market Analysis of Person-2-Person Car Sharing,”Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Engineering, January 2011.
Publication
An Analysis of Person-2-Person Car Sharing
Hampshire, R.C. and C. Gaites, “An Analysis of Person-2-Person Car Sharing,” American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Transportation and Development Conference, 2011.
Publication
Congestion Pricing for On Street Parking
Hampshire, R.C. Kats Sasanuma, and R.C. Larson, “Congestion Pricing for On Street Parking,” Innovations in Pricing of Transportation Systems, May 13, 2010.
Publication
Group Reputation Effects in Peer-To-Peer Lending Markets: An Empirical Analysis from a Principle-Agent Perspective
Collier B., and R.C. Hampshire, “Group Reputation Effects in Peer-To-Peer Lending Markets: An Empirical Analysis from a Principle-Agent Perspective,” ACM Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Work, 2010.
Publication
A Search Theoretic Model of Peer-to-Peer Lending
Garman, S., R.C. Hampshire and R. Krishnan, “A Search Theoretic Model of Peer-to-Peer Lending,” International Conference on Information Systems, 2008 (15 percent acceptance rate).
Publication
Variational Optimization for Call Center Staffing
Hampshire, R.C and W.A. Massey, “Variational Optimization for Call Center Staffing,” Richard Tapia Celebration Of Diversity In Computing Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Diversity in computing, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, 2005.
Publication
Pricing, Provisioning and Learning for Cloud Computing Services
R.C. Hampshire and C. Xia, “Pricing, Provisioning and Learning for Cloud Computing Services,” 9th Annual INFORMS Revenue Management Conference.

Robert C. Hampshire

Background

Interests

News Items

MIT welcomes six new MLK visiting professors and scholars

Sample Work

Publication

Large-Scale Bicycle Sharing Systems: Analysis of V´elib’

Publication

Evaluation of a Smart Parking System

Publication

Peer-to-Peer Car Sharing: Market Analysis and Potential Growth

Publication

Dynamic Pricing to Control Loss Systems with Quality of Service Targets

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