Dr. Laurie Garrow

Biography

Professor Laurie Garrow’s research focuses on developing and applying advanced data-driven methods to understand air travel behavior and forecast demand. Her work integrates discrete choice modeling, econometrics, and market research techniques to inform aviation planning, scheduling, and revenue management. She is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and the ASCE Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize for her contributions to discrete choice modeling and airline decision support systems. Professor Garrow has extensive expertise in aviation, featured in outlets like CNN, USA Today, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, BBC, and Bloomberg, and has contributed invited opinion pieces to Barron’s and Scientific American. She has published extensively on airline passenger behavior and travel demand modeling, and authored the book 'Discrete Choice Models for Air Travel Demand'. Professor Garrow has served in leadership roles in professional organizations such as INFORMS and AGIFORS. Before joining academia, she spent five years in the industry with United Airlines and Mercer Management Consulting. She has advised over 30 graduate students, including NSF Graduate Research Fellows and Eisenhower Fellows, and has numerous accolades for her teaching and research achievements.

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