Professor Wayne Winston

Dr. Wayne Leslie Winston is a distinguished academic and analytics expert who served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Houston's Bauer College of Business and Professor Emeritus at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business. With a BS in Mathematics from MIT and a PhD in Operations Research from Yale, he has established himself as a leading authority in business analytics and decision sciences. His remarkable career spans over four decades of teaching excellence, earning more than 40 teaching awards including six Top MBA Teaching Awards at Indiana University. He has authored over a dozen influential books including "Marketing Analytics," "Operations Research," and "Microsoft Excel Data Analysis and Business Modeling," along with 25 research articles. His expertise has been sought by major corporations including Microsoft, Cisco, Eli Lilly, and professional sports teams like the Dallas Mavericks and New York Knicks. As founder of Excel With Wayne, he has created over 600 instructional videos based on his 40 years of teaching experience and 15 years of writing Excel textbooks for Microsoft. A two-time Jeopardy! Champion, his diverse accomplishments include consulting for government organizations such as the US Navy and Army, and creating the computer game "Hoops" with Jeff Sagarin