Richard Robert Weber (born 25 February 1953) is a mathematician working in operational research.
[1][2] He is Emeritus Churchill Professor of Mathematics for Operational Research in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.
[3] He has been on the faculty of the University of Cambridge since 1978, and a fellow of Queens' College since 1977 where he has been Vice President from 1996–2007 and again from 2018–2020.
He has made contributions to stochastic scheduling, Markov decision processes, queueing theory, the probabilistic analysis of algorithms, the theory of communications pricing and control, and rendezvous search.
Weber and his co-authors were awarded the 2007 INFORMS prize for their paper on the online bin packing algorithm.