George Bell is a Senior Director at Cox Associates, a Denver-based applied research and consulting company. Dr. Bell specializes in rapid application development, database design and web and client-server integration. Dr. Bell oversees and works with Cox Associates' scientists and mathematicians to develop and apply computer simulation models, artificial intelligence (AI) data-mining algorithms and predictive modeling methods, and telecommunications network optimization software products to improve business and engineering decision-making.

Prior to joining Cox Associates in 2000, Dr. Bell was a senior member of Qwest's Mathematical and Statistical Modeling Group. While at Qwest, Dr. Bell Lead software development of an interactive web site that searches an inventory of 17 million switch plug-in cards. He also created a forecast model of the technician workforce, based on current attrition rates. The model showed that 60% of the current work force would retire by 2005. Dr. Bell also created software to maximize the NPV of an upgrade to a telecommunications network. This model optimizes timing and placement of equipment to meet customer demand, given customer spending patterns.
While at Qwest Dr. Bell even led software development to conduct a "training auction" for high level executives to prepare for the complex auction of PCS spectrum in Washington DC. The Access software was developed in only 2 months, and involved over 20 PCs (set up in hotel rooms where the auction was run). He created an Access job tracking database tool for engineers to track Central Office expansion jobs. The tool has automatic download from several legacy systems and supports up to 25 simultaneous users. He has also created a database tool (in Microsoft Access) which automatically downloads daily from an existing database, and e-mails a dozen custom reports to managers.

Dr. Bell has published and participated in several working papers, conference papers and research papers in the last ten years. Dr. Bell's works have spanned areas such as telecommunications, management information systems, service engineering systems and discrete optimization theory and modeling. Two of Dr. Bell's most recent works are listed below:

"An Optimization Problem with a Separable Non-Convex Objective Function and a Linear Constraint", by D. Babayev and G. Bell, to appear in the Journal of Heuristics.

"A new learning approach to process improvement in a telecommunications company", by T. Cox, G. Bell and F. Glover, Production and Operations Management, Vol. 4, No 3, 1995.

Dr. Bell was in the group been awarded the ORSA Prize (Operations Research Society of America) in 1994 for making outstanding contributions to the industry. He was also a member of the U S West Circle of Excellence and received the US WEST Chairman's Award in 1993.