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Contact Information

Computer Science
201 N. Goodwin Avenue, M/C 258
Urbana, IL 61801
Affiliate Professor

Additional Campus Affiliations

Founder Professor, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
Professor, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor, Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering
Professor, Biomedical and Translational Sciences
Professor, Mathematics
Professor, Statistics

Recent Publications

Hornberger, Z. T., King, D. M., & Jacobson, S. H. (2026). Temporal analysis of the clustering and hypothesized social contagion of mass killing events in the United States. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 103, Article 102349. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2025.102349

Deshpande, S., Ludden, I. G., & Jacobson, S. H. (2025). Bias in the ballot: how votemandering exploits gerrymandering and campaign strategies. Annals of Operations Research, 352(1-2), 121-168. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-025-06748-9

Hornberger, Z. T., King, D. M., & Jacobson, S. H. (2025). A framework for analyzing the periodically-observed time-homogeneous Poisson process. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 76(12), 2532-2547. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2025.2479138

Hornberger, Z. T., King, D. M., & Jacobson, S. H. (2025). Finite-Horizon Behavior of the Periodically Observed Time-Homogeneous Poisson Process. Naval Research Logistics, 72(8), 1157-1169. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/nav.22271

Swamy, R., King, D. M., Ludden, I. G., Dobbs, K. W., & Jacobson, S. H. (2024). A practical optimization framework for political redistricting: A case study in Arizona. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 92, Article 101836. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2024.101836

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