Cynthia Barnhart
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Published 2016-03-08
Chancellor 2014–present
Associate Dean of Engineering for Academic Affairs 2007–2014
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems
An early love of mathematics led Cynthia Barnhart into engineering, where she now develops new models and algorithms around optimization methods for large-scale transportation and logistics problems. Professor Barnhart is a former codirector of both the Center for Transportation and Logistics and the Operations Research Center; she currently serves as director of Transportation@MIT and as associate dean for the School of Engineering.