Dorit S. Hochbaum is a professor of industrial engineering and operations research at the University of California, Berkeley.
Hochbaum earned her doctorate in 1979 from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, under the supervision of Marshall Lee Fisher.
[1] In 2011 she became the Epstein Family Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California,[3] but has since returned to Berkeley.
In 2004, Hochbaum was awarded an honorary doctorate of sciences by the University of Copenhagen, recognizing her pioneering and inspiring contributions to mathematical optimization.
[4] Hochbaum was awarded the title of INFORMS fellow in fall 2005 for the extent of her contributions to operations research, management science and algorithm design.