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Professor of Management Science and Engineering

Jose Humberto Blanchet Mancilla

Professor of Management Science and Engineering
Jose Blanchet is a Professor of Management Science and Engineering (MS&E) at Stanford. Prior to joining MS&E, he was a professor at Columbia (Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, and Statistics, 2008-2017), and before that he taught at Harvard (Statistics, 2004-2008). Jose is a recipient of the 2010 Erlang Prize and several best publication awards in areas such as applied probability, simulation, operations management, and revenue management. He also received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2010. He worked as an analyst in Protego Financial Advisors, a leading investment bank in Mexico. He has research interests in applied probability and Monte Carlo methods. He is the Area Editor of Stochastic Models in Mathematics of Operations Research. He has served on the editorial board of Advances in Applied Probability, Bernoulli, Extremes, Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Journal of Applied Probability, Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications, and Stochastic Systems, among others.

Education

PhD, Stanford University, Management Science and Engineering (2004)
MS, Stanford University, Engineering Economic Systems and Operations Research (2002)
Licenciado, Instituto Technologico Autonomo de Mexico, Applied Mathematics (2000)
Licenciado, Instituto Technologico Autonomo de Mexico, Actuarial Science (2000)