William V. Gehrlein
Biography
Professor Gehrlein has had teaching activities on campus with a focus on graduate and undergraduate courses in operations management. He also taught in the Executive MBA Program, the DuPont MBA Program and under USAID program grants in both Varna, Bulgaria and Sarajevo, Bosnia. Other international teaching took place in Geneva, Switzerland and at the University of Caen, France. He was also active for several years in consulting activities, primarily involving statistical analysis for the marketing communications department at DuPont.
Gehrlein’s research interests span topics in operations management, social choice theory, statistics and mathematics. His early research activities after completing a post-doctoral fellowship were supported for three years by National Science Foundation Grants. This research effort has resulted in 125 journal articles, fourteen book chapters, fifty proceedings papers and numerous presentations at academic conferences and workshops in twelve countries. Invited guest lectures have also been presented in France, Italy, Turkey and The Netherlands. This output has been achieved with significant support from fifty different coauthors, including two papers with Nobel laureate in economics Eric Maskin. As a result of collaboration with two coauthors, he is listed with Erdos Number 2 by the Erdos Number Project at University of Michigan. One of his journal articles was cited in the award presentation of Nobel laureate in economics Amartya Sen.
He was honored in 2021, along with his frequent coauthor Dominique Lepelley, by an international Festschrift volume entitled Evaluating Voting Systems with Probability Models that was coedited by Mostapha Diss and Vincent Merlin. Much of his work has been summarized in four books that he has either authored or coauthored with Dominique Lepelley. Three other volumes have also been either edited or coedited. He is currently active in pursuits related to the significant impact of bycatch from trawling in the commercial fishing industry.
Education
- Ph.D. in business administration, The Pennsylvania State University, 1975
- M.S. in physics, The Pennsylvania State University, 1972
- B.S. in physics, Gannon College, Erie, PA 1968
Select Publications
- W. V. Gehrlein (Ed.). (1990). Intransitive Preferences. Annals of Operations Research (Volume 23). Baltzer Scientific Publishing.
- W. V. Gehrlein and B. J. Wagner (Eds.). (1997). Nontraditional Approaches to Statistical Classification and Regression. Annals of Operations Research (Volume 74). Baltzer Scientific Publishing.
- W. V. Gehrlein (2004). Operations Management Cases, McGraw-Hill/Irwin.
- W. V. Gehrlein (2006). Condorcet’s Paradox, Springer-Verlag.
- S. Brams, W. V. Gehrlein and F. S. Roberts (Eds.). (2009). The Mathematics of Preference, Choice and Order: Essays in Honor of Peter C. Fishburn. Springer-Verlag.
- W. V. Gehrlein and D. Lepelley (2010). Voting Paradoxes and Group Coherence: The Condorcet Efficiency of Voting Rules. Springer-Verlag.
- W. V. Gehrlein and D. Lepelley (2017). Elections, Voting Rules and Paradoxical Outcomes. Springer-Verlag.
Awards & Honors
- Served as a member of the Journal Editorial Board of Social Choice and Welfare.
- Served as a member of the Board of Associate Editors for Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) Transactions.
- Served as a member of the Journal Editorial Board of International Journal of Multiple Criteria Decision Making.
- Elected to full membership in the Operations Research Society of America.
- Selected as a Fellow of the University of Delaware Center for Advanced Study 1988-89.
- Selected as a member of the Executive Council of the International Society for Social Choice and Welfare.