Phil Rogers

Clinical Assistant Professor

Phil Rogers

Bio

Philip D. Rogers received a B.S. in Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and both an M.S. and Ph.D. in Operations Research from the University of California at Berkeley, with minors in Statistics and Mathematical Economics. Dr. Rogers joined Exxon Corporation in 1969 as an Operations Research Analyst. During his 33 years with Exxon, in many assignments with increasing responsibility, Dr. Rogers developed many sophisticated mathematical models that were used to optimize a wide variety of the Corporation’s business operations. Examples include competitive bidding strategies, scheduling of airport refueling operations, short-term borrowing strategies, optimization of worldwide product manufacturing and distribution, and the structure of catastrophic loss insurance policies.

As Manager of Operations Research for Exxon’s affiliate in Australia, Dr. Rogers built the country’s preeminent Operations Research group. In addition to multi-year assignments in London and Brussels, he served as Coordinator of all of Exxon’s worldwide Operations Research activities. In that capacity, he was responsible for the allocation of a large R&D budget, for the development of Exxon’s expert systems program, and for spreading throughout the Corporation the use of analytical techniques for production scheduling and for handling problems with multiple criteria.

Dr. Rogers has also managed Treasury operations at Exxon’s corporate headquarters and has held several managerial positions in Information Systems in various Exxon locations, most recently in Houston as Manager of Financial Systems for Exxon’s (now ExxonMobil's) chemical interests in the United States and Latin America.

Since leaving ExxonMobil in 2002, Dr. Rogers has been teaching courses in statistics and executive decision making in the College of Business at the University of Houston and working on models of the stock market, including proprietary trading and options models. His personal interests include skiing, squash, tennis and the movies.

Areas of Expertise

  • Mathematical modeling
  • Statistical analysis
  • Models for stock and option trading
  • Customer satisfaction survey analysis

Contact Info

Phone:
713-743-2767
Email:
progers@uh.edu
Room:
260D
Website:
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Courses

Education

Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley

M.S.
University of California, Berkeley

B.S.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute