DR. PHILIP ROGERS

Dr. Philip Rogers is a clinical assistant professor in the Decision and Information Sciences Department of the University of Houston where he teaches courses in statistics and executive decision making. He received the university-wide Teaching Excellence Award for 2010-2011. Before joining the faculty of U of H, Dr. Rogers spent 33 years at ExxonMobil where he developed many sophisticated mathematical models that were used to optimize a wide variety of the Corporation's business operations. Examples include competitive bidding strategies, scheduling of airport refueling operations, short-term borrowing strategies, optimization of worldwide product manufacturing and distribution, and the structure of catastrophic loss insurance policies. As Manager of Management Science for Exxon's affiliate in Australia, Dr. Rogers built the country's preeminent Management Science group. In addition to multi-year assignments in London and Brussels, he served as Coordinator of all of Exxon's worldwide Management Science activities. In that capacity, he was responsible for the allocation of a large R&D budget, for the development of Exxon's expert systems program, and for spreading throughout the Corporation the use of analytical techniques for production scheduling and for handling problems with multiple criteria. Dr. Rogers has also managed Treasury operations at Exxon's corporate headquarters and has held several managerial positions in Information Systems in various Exxon locations. Dr. Rogers received a B.S. in Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and both an M.S. and Ph.D. in Operations Research from the University of California at Berkeley, with minors in Statistics and Mathematical Economics.