Andrew B. Whinston

Andrew B. Whinston (born June 3, 1936) is an American economist and computer scientist. He holds the Hugh Roy Cullen Centennial Chair in Business administration, is a professor of Information Systems, Computer Science, and Economics, and serves as Director of the Center for Research in Electronic Commerce (CREC) in the McCombs School of Business^[1] at the University of Texas at Austin.^[2]

Andrew B. Whinston
Born	(1936-06-03) June 3, 1936 (age 89)
Education	Carnegie Institute of Technology (PhD)
Occupation(s)	Economist and computer scientist

Education

In the late 1950s, Whinston was a Sanxsay Fellow at Princeton University.^{[citation needed]} He received his PhD from Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in 1962,^[3] having been awarded the Alexander Henderson Award for Excellence in Economic Theory in 1960.^[4] From 1961 to 1964, he was a member of the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics at Yale University.^[3][5]

Career

In 1964, Whinston became an associate professor of economics at the University of Virginia, and in 1966, he joined Purdue University as a full professor of economics and management.^{[citation needed]} Whinston holds an Erdős number of 2.^[6]

In 1962, Whinston published research in the Journal of Political Economy on applications of non-cooperative game theory to microeconomics.^{[citation needed]} In another influential paper "A Model of Multi-Period Investment Under Uncertainty", appearing in Management Science, he used nonlinear optimization to determine optimal portfolios over time.^[7]

Publications

According to the University of Texas at Austin, Whinston has authored over 25 books and 400 peer-reviewed publications.^[8]

Awards

In 2005, Whinston received the LEO Award for Lifetime Exceptional Achievement in Information Systems. This award, created by the Association for Information Systems Council and the International Conference on Information Systems Executive Committee, recognizes outstanding scholars in the field.^[9]

In 2009, Whinston received the Career Award for Outstanding Research Contributions at the University of Texas at Austin, which recognizes significant research contributions made by a tenured member.^[10] Also in 2009, the INFORMS Information System Society (ISS) recognized Whinston as the inaugural INFORMS ISS Fellow for contributions to information systems research.^[11]

In 2022, Whinston was ranked the most influential scholar in the field of Information Systems by Research.com, based on citation metrics and scholarly impact.^[12]

Bibliography

• Ravi Kalakota; Andrew B. Whinston (1996). Frontiers of Electronic Commerce. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-201-84520-4.
• Ravi Kalakota; Andrew B. Whinston (1997). Electronic Commerce: A Manager's Guide. Addison-Wesley Professional. ISBN 978-0-201-88067-0.
• Clyde W. Holsapple; Andrew B. Whinston (2013). Recent Developments in Decision Support Systems. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-3-662-02952-7.

See also

• Chance-constrained portfolio selection