John Turner is an Associate Professor of Operations and Decision Technologies at The Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine. He specializes in applying rigorous optimization-based methods to real-world problems. His research interests include revenue management, large-scale optimization and decomposition methods, online advertising allocation, sports scheduling, environmental policy, and health care management. He has published in leading academic journals including Operations Research, Manufacturing & Services Operations Management, Computers & Operations Research, the INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics (“Interfaces”), Networks, and the Journal of Interactive Marketing. He serves as an Associate Editor at Operations Research.

Turner holds a PhD in Operations Research from the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University. For his doctoral work on scheduling advertisements in video games and other forms of guaranteed targeted advertising, Turner was honored by INFORMS with the 2011 George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award.  This award is given for the best dissertation in any area of operations research and the management sciences that is innovative and relevant to practice.

Turner was named a 2012 Yahoo! Faculty Research & Engagement Program Scholar for his work in designing reach-and-frequency-based advertising scheduling policies, and was awarded the 2014 INFORMS William Pierskalla Best Paper Award in Health Care Management Science for his work on designing a trauma care system in Korea. Turner has also won several teaching awards, and consistently receives high accolades for teaching the core Management Science class in UCI’s Masters of Business Analytics program.

Prior to his academic career, Turner worked in the IT industry as a consultant, as an operations analyst in retail distribution, and as a quantitative analyst in the financial sector. Turner also holds an M.S. in Operations Research from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, and a B.Math., Honors Operations Research Co-op with a minor in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, Canada.