Background
Goldfarb was born on August 14, 1941 in New York City, New York, United States; the son of Leon and Hannah (Marcus) Goldfarb.
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States
Goldfrab received a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering degree from Cornell University in 1963. He worked there from 1979 to 1980.
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Donald earned his Master of Arts degree in 1965 and a Ph.D. in 1966 from Princeton University.
(left to right) Sanjay Mehrotra, Alexander Shapiro and Donald Goldfarb.
educator mathematician scientist
Goldfarb was born on August 14, 1941 in New York City, New York, United States; the son of Leon and Hannah (Marcus) Goldfarb.
Goldfrab received a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering degree from Cornell University in 1963. Two years later he earned his Master of Arts degree from Princeton University. In 1966, Donald was given a Ph.D. from the same university.
Goldfrab began his career as an assistant research scientist at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University in 1966. Two years later he co-founded the Department of Computer Science at the City College of New York, serving 14 years on its faculty. Also Donald served as a professor of computer science at the same college from 1977 to 1983.
In 1979, he became a visiting professor in the Department of Computer Science and at the School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering at Cornell University, where he worked until 1980.
In 1982, Goldfarb joined the IEOR Department at Columbia Engineering. Then in 1984, he became a chairman of that department and had held the position for six years. Donald worked as an interim dean of Columbia Engineering from 1994 to 1995 and again in 2012-2013. In addition, during the Spring 2012 semester, he was an executive vice dean at that school.
In addition to his teaching career, Goldfarb has served as an editor-in-chief of Mathematical Programming, an editor of the SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis and the SIAM Journal on Optimization and as an associate editor of Mathematics of Computation, Operations Research and Mathematical Programming Computation. Nowadays he is the Alexander and Hermine Avanessians Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia Engineering.
Goldfarb is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences, American Mathematical Society, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Programming Society.
On June 29, 1968 Donald Goldfarb married Ranny Lichtman. They have two children.