David Alan Goldberg

Teaching Interests

Professor Goldberg runs a large-scale undergraduate research program at Cornell, connecting students to high-impact real-world applications of OR and data science, and providing students training in leadership, communication, and teamwork.  Professor Goldberg has also taught undergraduate level courses in probability modeling, statistics, and data science; supply chain modeling; online learning; and dynamic programming.  He teaches a 1-credit "Academic Street Smarts" course for first-year PhD students at Cornell ORIE, and has taught PhD courses in stochastic models, real analysis, and more advanced topics including optimal stopping, inventory control, queueing theory, and multi-arm bandits. Professor Goldberg has also taught masters level courses in systems analysis, modeling, and optimization.  Goldberg has also advised several Ph.D. students, and is grateful to have been a Class of 1969 Teaching Fellow while at Georgia Tech.

Service Interests

Professor Goldberg is the Director for Undergraduate Studies in ORIE, and faculty advisor for the Undergraduate ORIE Society, through which he has organized several events and initiatives connecting students, faculty, and alumni at Cornell. He is the chair of the INFORMS Applied Probability Society, and serves on the editorial boards of the journals Operations Research, Stochastic Systems, and Stochastic Models.  He has also served broadly on many additional committees and initiatives at both Cornell and Georgia Tech, and through INFORMS.