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Robert J. Vanderbei

Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University

Robert J. Vanderbei is a professor and chair of the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University. He received his doctorate in applied mathematics from Cornell University and contributed to many of the leading design concepts for NASA’s Terrestrial Planet Finder space telescope. As an amateur astronomer, Vanderbei has taken, from his own home, high-quality images of astronomical objects that rival the best images from our greatest observatories.

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