Robert Gary Bland (born February 25, 1948) is an American mathematician and operations researcher, a professor of operations research and information engineering at Cornell University.
[1] He was born in New York City.
[2] Bland did both his undergraduate and graduate studies at Cornell University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1969, M.S.
[1][3] He began his faculty career at Binghamton University, but then returned to Cornell in 1978.
[1] Bland is known as one of the inventors of oriented matroids, which he used to define Bland's rule for avoiding cycles in the simplex method for linear programming.