Jamol Pender

Jamol  Pender is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell University.  He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2013, where he was advised by Dr. William Massey.  Professor Pender joined Cornell University in 2015 and serves as a Faculty Fellow in the Residence Halls at Cornell.

Professor Pender is a recipient of a Ford Foundation Fellowship, the NSF CAREER award, MIF Career Award, and several teaching and advising awards, including the Sonny Yau award for teaching excellence, the Zellman Warhaft Commitment to Diversity Award, and the 2023 College of Engineering EPICC award for community building.

Professor Pender’s research focuses on how to disseminate information to customers in queues and how this information affects the underlying dynamics in queues.  He is very interested in the interplay among stochastic processes, simulation, and non-linear dynamics.
Professor Pender is heavily involved in the Applied Probability Society of INFORMS, where he served as the INFORMS APS 2019 conference co-chair.