Contact Information: Office: Olsson 102H Phone: 434-982-2069 Email: wts@virginia.edu Degree: Ph.D., University of Virginia

William T. Scherer has served on the faculty since 1986. He has authored and co-authored numerous publications on intelligent decision support systems, combinatorial optimization, and stochastic control. He is an associate editor for International Abstracts in Operations Research and reviewer for Operations Research, Annals of Operations Research, and IEEE Trans-actions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). He co-writes papers on case-based engineering education for the ASEE Journal on Engineering Education. He is vice-president of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society. He has held the Lucien Carr III Professorship of Engineering, recognition of his excellence in undergraduate education.

Research Interests:

• scheduling systems
• decision analysis
• intelligent systems
• combinatorial optimization
• Markov decision processes
• intelligent transportation systems

Sponsored Research:

• Development of Intelligent Transportation Systems (funded by Virginia Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, SAIC)
• Development of Algorithms for Aircraft Maintenance (funded by U.S. Airforce)
• Business Process Re-engineering and Systems Modeling (funded by Providian Financial Corporation)