Professor Eugene A. Feinberg received Ph.D. in Probability and Statistics from Vilnius University, Lithuania, in 1979. Between 1976 and 1988 he held research and faculty positions in the Department of Applied Mathematics at Moscow University of Transportation. He joined Stony Brook University in 1989 after holding a one-year visiting faculty position at Yale University.
His research interests include stochastic models of operations research, Markov Decision Processes, and industrial applications of Operations Research and Statistics. He has published more that 60 papers and edited the Handbook on Markov Decision Processes. His research is partially supported by the National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, New York Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research, and private industry.
Since 1999, he has been working on electric load forecasting problems. He has developed several accurate electric load forecasting methods and software that are being used by the industry.
Previously, Mr. Congdon served as a policy analyst in the New York State Attorney General’s Environmental Protection
Bureau. Prior to joining the Attorney General’s Office, he was the policy director at the New York League of
Conservation Voters.
Mr. Congdon received his Bachelor of Science in Geology from the University at Albany and his Master of Public Administration from Baruch College.