L. Robin Keller’s research focuses on developing techniques for analyzing decisions. She studies ways to creatively structure decision-making problems, analyze models of perceived risk, and analyze the fairness of the distribution of risks among groups.

She is Editor-in-Chief of Decision Analysis. She is currently serving on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Ranking FDA Product Categories Based on Health Consequences.  Also, she recently served as an analyst on a select committee for the National Research Council, examining radiation protection in the event of a nuclear incident due to an accident or terrorism.

Professor Keller was named an Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Fellow in October 2004 for her contributions to operations research and management science. She is also past president of the organization’s Decision Analysis Society.

She has served as program director for the Decision, Risk, and Management Science Program of the U.S. National Science Foundation, and conducted studies funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy. She has also served as a vice president of the Institute of Management Sciences and was a founding director-at-large of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.

She has published more than 45 journal articles, technical reports, book chapters and reviews.

Professor Keller currently serves as the Director of the Doctoral Program at The Paul Merage School of Business.

AWARDS AND HONORS 

• Best Reviewer for Risk Analysis, 2010
• UCI Merage School of Business Faculty Service Award, June 2008
• Recognized  in Who’s Who in Science and Engineering
• Kimball Medal Recipient for 2006, presented at Pittsburgh INFORMS conference, for distinguished service contributions to Operations Research and the Management Sciences.
• Tianjun Feng, L. Robin Keller, and Xiaona Zheng, “Home Depot in San Juan Capistrano: Multi-objective Multi-stakeholder Decision Case,” Fall 2005, Presentation at INFORMS conference Case Competition sponsored by INFORMS Forum on Education, recipient of Finalist award.
• INFORMS Fellow, awarded Oct. 25, 2004, for contributions to Operations Research and the Management  Sciences
• Winner of the “Breaking the Frame Award” at Western Academy of Management meeting in March 2002 by the Journal of Management Inquiry for best paper of 2001, co-authored with GSM doctoral alumna  Prof. Monika I. Winn of University of Victoria.
• UCI Graduate School of Management Faculty Service Award, May 1993.
• UCI Graduate School of Management Excellence in Teaching Award, to the best teacher of the year,
• upon vote by students, 1982-83, 1985-86.
• Decision Analysis Society of INFORMS, finalist in 1999 student paper competition (for papers with student as lead author) for Guyse, Keller, and Eppel’s “Valuing Environmental Outcomes: Preferences for Constant or Improving Sequences.”
• UCLA Graduate School of Management Outstanding Graduate, 1982-83.  Recognition of academic
• distinction upon vote by faculty and sponsored by UCLA Alumni Association.
• UCLA Academic Senate's Special Commendation as a Teaching Assistant, 1975-76.
• Member of Beta Gamma Sigma, the national business honorary society.
• Listed in Who's Who in the West, Who's Who of Emerging Leaders in America, Who's Who in American Education, Who's Who in California, International Directory of Distinguished Leadership Dictionary of International Biography, 2000 Notable American Women, and International Who's Who of Professional and Business Women.

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GRANTS

• USC CREATE Center (subcontract from Department of Homeland Security funds), “The Effects of Time on Anticipated Consequences of Risks,” Keller (PI), Yitong Wang (student investigator), March 2011-Sept. 2011, $19,982.
• National Science Foundation Dissertation Grant, 2010-2011, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in DRMS: Decision Research on Time, Risk, and Ambiguity.” Keller (PI), Yitong Wang (Co-PI). $6,270.
• UCI Environment Institute Grant, Winter 2009-, Principal Investigators: Bill Tomlinson (Informatics), Brett Sanders (Civil & Environmental Engineering), and Robin Keller (Merage School), “Using IT to Compress Perceived Time and Space in How People Think About Global Change: A Step Towards Behavioral Change.” $12,051 to Keller and RAs, total $48,000= $38,000 from Institute + $10,000 from UCI UWRC.
• Many people find it difficult to engage with environmental issues, in part because global change occurs on scales of time and space that are relatively large compared to the usual scope of human decision making. People respond enthusiastically to fast-acting disasters such as fires and earthquakes, but less so to issues that occur more gradually over many years, even when the consequences are far greater. To date, there has been little research on how to connect long-term global environmental change to human scales of time and space in a systematic way, thereby enabling behavioral change. Our efforts will focus on the science and public perception of sea level rise.)
• National Science Foundation, L R. Keller (PI) and Jay Simon (co-PI), to University of California, Irvine, Proposal ID  SES-0823458, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in DRMS:  Cross-Disciplinary Analyses Using Multi-Attribute Utility Theory,” submitted Feb. 7,  2008, notified of recommended funding 5-28-2008, $5,200. To support Jay Simon’s dissertation expenses.  (Start date 8-1-08, 12 months.)   The e-Synopsis for the project: http://apps.research.uci.edu/awardsynop/. At the prompts, enter the following information:  Award Number:  SES-0823458 , Synopsis Cycle:  1.
• National Science Foundation, Research Center to Arizona State University, “Decision Center for a Desert City” for a 5 year Center grant, $6.9 million, 2004-2009, subsequently extended for another 5 year term. Keller serves on decision research team with Craig Kirkwood of ASU, Supported former doctoral students Tianjun Feng (non-salary research) and Jay Simon (RA support) and partial faculty summer salary in summer 2009.
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, “Identification and Control of Non-Point Sources of Microbial       Pollution in a Coastal Wetland,” Co-Principal Investigator with PI Brett Sanders, UCI Dept. of Civil and Environmental Research, grant R-82801101-0, 8/1/00-7/31/04, $895,234, with $145,020, under Keller’s supervision on stakeholders’ perspectives.  (Supporting Dipayan Biswas, Xiaona Zheng, & Tianjun Feng.)
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, "Assessing Preferences for Environmental Decisions with Long-Term Consequences," Principal Investigator L. Robin Keller, $181,851, 8/1/98 - 7/31/2001, under EPA/NSF STAR Partnership for Environmental Research EPA grant R826611-01-0, and a subcontract to Decision Insights, Inc., Dr. Thomas Eppel.  (Supported Jeff Guyse’s doctoral dissertation work.)  

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