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James B. Orlin is the E. Pennell Brooks Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He specializes in network and combinatorial optimization, contributing to various fields including airline and railroad scheduling, logistics, telecommunications, and marketing. Orlin co-authored the award-winning textbook 'Network Flows: Theory, Algorithms, Applications' with colleagues Thomas L. Magnanti and Ravindra K. Ahuja. He holds a BA in Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology, an MMath from the University of Waterloo, and a PhD in Operations Research from Stanford University. His research has received numerous awards, including the Test Time Award from the ACM SIGecom for a paper co-authored with John J. Bartholdi, III that significantly impacted research in computational social choice.