David Goldberg

David A. Goldberg is an Associate Professor in Cornell’s School of Operations Research and Information Engineering (ORIE). Previously, he was the A. Russell Chandler III Associate Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. Professor Goldberg received his Ph.D. in Operations Research at MIT in 2011 and his B.S. in Computer Science (minors in Operations Research and Applied Math) from Columbia University in 2006.

Professor Goldberg’s research is in applied probability, on topics including optimal stopping and high-dimensional control, the theory of inventories and queues, and applied operations research.  His work has been recognized with accolades that include an NSF CAREER award, 2019 INFORMS Applied Probability Society Best Publication award, 2019 INFORMS Nicholson Competition first place, 2018 INFORMS Finance Student Paper Competition finalist, 2015 INFORMS Nicholson Competition first place, 2015 INFORMS JFIG Competition second place, and 2014 MSOM and 2010 INFORMS Nicholson Competitions finalist.

Professor Goldberg is also an associate editor for the journals Stochastic Systems and Stochastic Models, former associate editor of the journals Operations Research and Queueing Systems, and former chair of the INFORMS Applied Probability Society.  In addition, Professor Goldberg recently led an initiative to engage more undergraduates in OR/analytics research at Cornell (while serving as Director for Undergraduate Studies in ORIE), for which he was awarded both the 2023 Sonny Yau ’72 Teaching Award of the College of Engineering and the 2025 Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Award of the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement.