He serves as the Hugh Roy Cullen Centennial Chair in Business Administration and works as a Professor of Information Systems, Computer Science, and Economics, and Director of the Center for Research in Electronic Commerce (CREC) in the McCombs School of Business[1] at the University of Texas at Austin.
He then started working at the economics department of Yale University, where he was a member of the Cowles Foundation.
In 1962, Whinston published a research paper in the Journal of Political Economy on how non-cooperative game theory could be applied to issues in microeconomics.
[2] In 1995, Whinston was honored by the Data Processing Management Association with its Information Systems Educator of the Year Award.
In 2005, Whinston received the LEO Award for Lifetime Exceptional Achievement in Information Systems.