Faculty - 2013 Summer School

Erin BAKER

120C Marston Hall University of Massachusetts 160 Governors Drive Amherst, MA 01003-2210 Ph.: (413) 545-0670 Fax: (413) 545-1027 E-mail: edbaker@ecs.umass.edu Url: http://mie.umass.edu/faculty/erin-baker

Erin Baker is an associate professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has a Ph.D. in Engineering-Economic Systems & Operations Research from the department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University, and a B.A. in Mathematics from U.C. Berkeley. She teaches courses in probability, decision making, and economics. Her research is in decision making under uncertainty applied to the field of energy and the environment. She is currently taking a multi-model approach to analyzing the socially optimal energy technology Research and Development portfolio in the face of climate change. She has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. E.P.A., NOAA, and the U.S. Department of Energy. She is the director of the NSF-funded IGERT: Wind energy engineering, environmental impacts, and policy. She is the President of the Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment section of INFORMS, and an active member of the Decision Analysis Society. She is on the editorial boards of Energy Economics and Decision Analysis.