David Woodruff’s research expertise is in business analytics, operations and management science, planning and scheduling under uncertainty, and optimization. He has worked on applications in operations, logistics, and science and has been involved in a number of applications in electrical energy planning and scheduling. Woodruff is editor-in-chief of the INFORMS Journal on Computing, which is a publication of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science. He is presently principal investigator for additional Department of Energy funded research on grid planning in the presence of uncertainty due to renewables.

Woodruff earned his Ph.D. in industrial engineering and management sciences from Northwestern University. He received both his M.S. and B.S. in industrial engineering and engineering management from Stanford University.