Schneider looked to one of the leading practitioners of logistics simulation, Warren Powell, a professor of operations research and financial engineering at Princeton University.

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Chetan graduated from Princeton University in 2011 with a degree in Operations Research and Financial Engineering and works on the Ads Quality Team at Google.

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He was admitted and earned a degree in engineering and then a doctorate from Stanford, in a branch of engineering called operations research, which uses mathematics to organize systems with lots of moving parts.

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Employing first Chinese graduates of these colleges as liaison staff (and later Mandarin-speaking African college graduates), multinationals should sponsor Chinese faculty research in key areas like petroleum engineering, manufacturing operations and international commerce, and seek out talented students from Angola, Zambia, Congo and Sudan.

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