Dr. Michael J. Fry is the Academic Director of the Center for Business Analytics in the Carl H. Lindner College of Business and a Professor of Operations, Business Analytics, and Information Systems (OBAIS) and at the University of Cincinnati. He got a B.S. from Texas A&M University, and M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan. He has been at the University of Cincinnati since 2002, where he served as Department Head from 2014 to 2018, and has been named a Lindner Research Fellow. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of British Columbia and Cornell University.

Dr. Fry has published more than 25 research papers in journals such as Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Operations Research, Naval Research Logistics, IIE Transactions, Transportation Science, Critical Care Medicine, and INFORMS Journal of Applied Analytics. He serves on editorial boards for journals such as INFORMS Journal of Applied Analytics (formerly Interfaces), Production and Operations Management, and Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports.

Professor Fry’s research interests are in applying analytics to the areas of sports, supply chain management, and public policy operations. He has worked with many different organizations for his research, including Starbucks Coffee Company, Great American Insurance Group, Dell, Inc., the State of Ohio Election Commission, the Cincinnati Fire Department, the Cincinnati Bengals, and the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Gardens. In 2008, he was named a finalist for the Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice and he has been recognized for both his teaching and research excellence at the University of Cincinnati. In 2019, he led the team that was awarded the INFORMS UPS George D. Smith Prize on behalf of the OBAIS Department at the University of Cincinnati.