David Gamarnik is a Nanyang Technological University Professor of Operations Research at the Operations Research and Statistics Group, Sloan School of Management of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his BA in mathematics from New York University in 1993 and PhD in Operations Research from MIT in 1998. Since then he was a research staff member of IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, before joining MIT in 2005.
His research interests include probability, theory of random graphs, optimization and algorithms, statistics and machine learning, stochastic processes and queueing theory. He is a Fellow of American Mathematical Society and Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS). He is a recipient of the Erlang Prize and the Best Publication Award from the Applied Probability Society of INFORMS, and he was a finalist for Franz Edelman Prize competition of INFORMS. In the past he served as an area editor of Operations Research journal, and as associate editor of Mathematics of Operations Research, Annals of Applied Probability, Queueing Systems and Stochastic Systems journals.