J. Eric Bickel teaches courses in decision analysis and its application to major business and public policy decisions for the University of Texas McCombs School of Business’ Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management. He is professor in UT’s Cockrell School of Engineering and director of UT’s Graduate Program in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering. His work has addressed the modeling of probabilistic dependence, value of information, scoring rules, calibration, risk preference, decision-making in sports, and climate engineering as a response to climate change.

His research has been covered in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Financial Times, Sports Illustrated, the MLB Network and elsewhere. He and his research were featured in the documentary “Cool It.” His research into climate engineering was selected by a panel of economists, including three Nobel laureates, as the best approach to climate change.

At UT, Bickel is also the director and graduate adviser of the Engineering Management program and holds a courtesy appointment in the Hildebrand Department of Petroleum Engineering and Geosystems Engineering.

Bickel is a partner and director at Strategic Decisions Group, which is focused on corporate strategy. He has consulted around the world in a variety of industries, including oil and gas, electricity generation/transmission/delivery, energy trading and marketing, commodity and specialty chemicals, life sciences, financial services, and metals and mining.

Bickel holds a master’s degree and doctoral degree in engineering-economic systems from Stanford University and a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering, with a minor in economics, from New Mexico State University.