Samer Takriti

Samer Takriti is a Syrian management scientist. He received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from the University of Michigan. An expert in energy markets, he worked for Enron in 1999-2000. He has also been a senior manager in the Mathematical Sciences Department at IBM Research. The initiatives of this department were reported on in a "BusinessWeek" cover story.ref|story The story has received substantial media coverage; another paper Takriti contributed to on the impact of outsourcing has also received some media attention.

References

# "BusinessWeek" - "Math will rock your world", January 23, 2006

External links

* [http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_04/b3968001.htm Math will Rock Your World (BusinessWeek)]
* [http://www.outsourcing-journal.com/dec2005-ibm.html New IBM Research Quantifies the Long-Term Impact of IT Outsourcing on Three Business Metrics (Outsourcing Center)]
* [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684839008 The Engines of Tomorrow, by R. Buderi] (describes research on energy modeling done by S.T. at IBM Research).