Dr. Jeffrey W. Ohlmann is an Associate Professor of Business Analytics and a Huneke Research Fellow in the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa. He got a B.S. from the University of Nebraska and earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan. He has been teaching at the University of Iowa since 2003.

His research on the solution and modeling of decision-making problems has produced more than two dozen research papers in journals such as Operations Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Mathematics of Operations Research, Transportation Science, and the European Journal of Operational Research. Professor Ohlmann has collaborated with organizations such as LeanCor, Cargill, Transfreight, the Hamilton County Board of Elections, and three National Football League franchises. Because of the relevance of his work to industry, he was bestowed the George Dantzig Dissertation Award and was recognized as a finalist for the Daniel Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice.