معرفی
David Brown is the Snow Family Business Professor in Decision Sciences at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, where he has been on faculty since completing his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. He also serves as Faculty Director of the Center for Energy, Development, and Global Environment (EDGE). His research focuses on developing algorithms for decision problems under uncertainty, with applications in energy systems, stochastic scheduling, and dynamic pricing. Brown has held teaching roles in Decision Models, Data Analytics, and Convex Optimization, earning multiple teaching awards.
Education: B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.
Research Interests: Operations Research, stochastic models, dynamic programming, energy sustainability, and optimization. Current work includes improving electricity grid efficiency under renewable energy uncertainty (via the GRACE project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy) and developing sequential search and dynamic resource allocation algorithms.
Publications: Brown has authored influential papers in Operations Research, Management Science, and other top journals, focusing on stochastic dynamic programming, duality theory, and applications in energy systems. Recent work explores fluid policies for resource allocation and dynamic frameworks for integrated energy systems.
- Awards:
- Second place, 2023 INFORMS Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Student Paper Competition
- First prize, 2015 INFORMS Decision Analysis Society Best Paper Award
- Teaching awards across multiple Fuqua programs
Advising & Grants: Lead researcher on the GRACE project (DOE-funded); advisor to graduate students and researchers in energy systems and optimization. His work bridges theoretical advancements and practical applications in energy grid management and resource allocation.
Labs/Teams: Directs the Center for Energy, Development, and Global Environment (EDGE) at Fuqua, fostering cross-disciplinary research on energy systems and sustainability.
