Matthew Dean

Dr. Matthew D. Dean is an Assistant Professor in the School of Business at the University of Southern Maine. Professor Dean received his Ph.D. in Operations & Information Management from the University of Connecticut and the majority of his research falls at the intersection of the decision sciences, information technology, and health care. His work has been published in Operations Research, Decision Support Systems, and Communications of the ACM, as well as in numerous conference proceedings. Professor Dean is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) and the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI). He teaches both the undergraduate and graduate level Operations Management courses, as well as the foundational statistics course. Before joining USM in the fall of 2010, Professor Dean was a faculty member at the University of New Orleans. Prior to his academic career, he worked at several telecommunications companies and an employee-owned company specializing in providing analytical solutions to complex problems.