Alfred Blumstein is the J. Erik Jonsson University Professor of Urban Systems and Operations Research at the Heinz School at Carnegie Mellon University. He graduated with his bachelors degree and PhD from Cornell University and worked at the Institute for Defense Analyses before joining the Heinz School faculty. Blumstein is known as one of the top researchers in criminology and operations research. The H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University is one of the nations top-ranked public policy schools and named after the late U.S. Senator H. John Heinz III. // Richard King Mellon and his wife Constance had long been interested in... Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ... Cornell University is a university located in Ithaca, New York, USA. Its two medical campuses are in New York City and Education City, Qatar. ... The Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) is a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) focusing on defense issues. ... Criminology is the scientific study of crime as an individual and social phenomenon. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Operations management. ...

Blumstein was president of the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA) in 1977-78, The Institute of Management Sciences (TIMS) in 1987-88 and in 1996 he was the president of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). He is a fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the American Society of Criminology. He was awarded the Wolfgang Award for Distinguished Achievement in Criminology in 1998 and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998. He also shares the 2007 Stockholm Prize in Criminology. In 1996, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York. Blumstein directs the NSF-funded National Consortium for Violence Research at Carnegie Mellon and was Dean of the Heinz School from 1986-1993. INFORMS is The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. ... The John Jay College of Criminal Justice is a criminal justice college in New York City which has about 12,000 FTE (full-time equivalent) students, including traditional, pre-career undergraduate students and those pursuing master’s degrees in several disciplines. ... The City University of New York (CUNY; acronym: IPA pronunciation: ), is the public university system of New York City. ... NSF is an abbreviation. ... Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ...