Tim Anderson
Visiting Professor at Portland State University
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolTim Anderson is a seasoned engineering professor and research leader with three decades at Portland State University and a sabbatical appointment as Visiting Professor at Georgia Tech. He combines deep technical training in electrical and industrial engineering with practical leadership—serving 11 years as department chair and repeatedly shaping PICMET conferences as Program Chair or Co-Chair. Tim’s research and over 70 refereed publications focus on analytics, benchmarking, technology forecasting, data mining and new product development, and he makes his methods accessible through books on optimization and DEA using R. A citizen of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi and an advocate for underrepresented scientists, he actively mentors the next generation while also candidly sharing his lived experience with single-sided deafness in a technical memoir.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Electrical Engineering, Bachelor Electrical Engineering at University of MinnesotaPhD Industrial Engineering, PhD Industrial Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (31)
r-package9
integer-programming9
pdf-viewer9
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tufte9
pen8
unconf8
handwriting8
wacom8
integer8
arch8
ubuntu8
operations-research8
pdf-annotation7
debian7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
prof-anderson/DEA_Using_R
Dec 2016 - Jan 2023
Contributions:6 reviews, 203 commits, 11 PRs in 6 years 1 month
prof-anderson/OR_Using_R
Nov 2018 - Jan 2023
Operations Research Using R
Contributions:2 releases, 244 commits, 11 PRs in 4 years 2 months
rstatsoperations-research
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