James Bean
Senior Advisor to the President, Office of the President
Professor, D'Amore-McKim School of Business
Professor, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Contact
- jbean@northeastern.edu
- 110 Churchill
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Education
- PhD, Stanford University, 1980
Honors & Awards
- George E. Kimball Medal, Institute of Operations Research and the Management Sciences
Professional Affiliations
- Institute of Operations Research and the Management Sciences, Fellow
Department Research Areas
Selected Publications
- S. Xu, J. Bean, Scheduling Parallel-Machine Batch Operations to Maximize On-Time Delivery Performance, Journal of Scheduling, 2015, 1-18
- S. Xu, J. Bean, A Genetic Algorithm for Scheduling Parallel Non-identical Batch Processing Machines, Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling, 2007, 143–150
- Z.-Z. Lin, J. Bean, C. White III, A Hybrid Genetic/Optimization Algorithm for Finite Horizon Partially Observed Markov Decision Processes, INFORMS Journal on Computing, 16, 2004, 27-38
- J. Ohlmann, J. Bean, S. Henderson, Convergence in Probability of Compressed Annealing, Mathematics of Operations Research, 29, 2004, 837-860
- C. Kim, G. Keoleian, D. Grande, J. Bean, Life Cycle Optimization of Automobile Replacement: Model and Application, Environmental Science & Technology, 37, 2003, 5407-5413
- Z.-Z. Lin, J. Bean, C. White III, Chapter 15: A Genetic Algorithm Heuristic for Finite Horizon Partially Observed Markov Decision Problems, Evolutionary Optimization, Eds. R. Sarkar, X. Yao and M. Mohammadian, Kluwer Academic, Boston, 2002, 371-398
- R. Hughes, J. Bean, D. Chaffin, A Method for Classifying Co-contraction of Lumbar Muscle Activity, Journal of Applied Biomechanics, 17, 2001, 253-258
- B. Norman, J. Bean, Scheduling Operations on Parallel Machine Tools, IIE Transactions, 32, 2000, 449-459

May 15, 2018
First International Conference on Biomaterials and Chemical Biology
Professors Ming Su and Art Coury of the Department of Chemical Engineering hosted at Northeastern University the first International Conference on Biomaterials and Chemical Biology. Collaborative research in these disciplines has the potential to advance the field of biomaterials in a unique way and lead to new discoveries for better medicines and treatments. The conference […]

Mar 14, 2018
Northeastern to Host LSAMP’s Bridge to the Doctorate Program under $1M NSF Grant
Provost and MIE Professor James Bean (PI) and co-PI Professors Barbara Guthrie (Bouvé), Carla Mattos (COS), Hameed Metghalchi (MIE), and Benjamin Hescott (CCIS), along with collaborators Richard Harris, COE Assistant Dean and Director of the Northeastern University Program in Multicultural Engineering, and Sara Wadia-Fascetti, Vice Provost of the PhD Network and CEE Professor, were awarded a $1M NSF grant for the “Strategic Advancement of Rising Scholars (STARS) Nominated by the Northeast Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (NE-LSAMP).”
Oct 30, 2017
MIE Students and Faculty Shine at INFORMS 2017
Congratulations to the several MIE faculty and students that were recognized at the INFORMS 2017 Annual Meeting.