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- Michael
Alliston
- Senior
Vice President, Risk Prediction
- MasterCard
International
- Topic -
The Ideal OR/MS Hire: Do Traditional Skill Sets Cut it
Anymore?
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- Michael
Alliston directs applied research on modeling payment
fraud at MasterCard International, and develops the
findings into useful tools for use by MasterCard and its
member financial institutions. This work requires close
coordination with law enforcement personnel who use the
results in fraud investigations. He holds a PhD from the
University of Virginia and has worked in modeling and
statistics previously with Exxon Corporation and McKinsey
and Company, Inc.
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- Omer
Bakkalbasi
- Director,
Advanced Solutions
- i2
Technologies, Inc.
- Topic -
"OR Inside": The Challenge of Embedding OR Solutions in
Software Packages
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- Cynthia
Barnhart
- Associate
Professor
- Co-Director
Operations Research Center
- Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
- Topic -
Recent Developments in Modeling and Solving Optimization
Problems
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- Cynthia
Barnhart is an Associate Professor of Civil and
Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, where she serves as Co-Director of the
Operations Research Center. Her teaching and research
interests involve the development of optimization models
and solution techniques to improve planning and
operations at airlines, railroads, trucking firms and
intermodal partnerships. She has published several books
and scholarly journals and is the recipient of various
awards.
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- James
C. Bean
- Associate
Dean for Graduate Education
- College
of Engineering
- University
of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- Topic -
The Academic Connection: How to Create Winning
Partnerships with University Faculty
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- James C.
Bean is Associate Dean for Graduate Education at the
University of Michigan College of Engineering and
President of INFORMS. For six years he was co-director of
the Tauber Manufacturing Institute, a leader in
industry/university interaction on the Michigan campus
including research, student team projects and
development.
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- Dirk
Beyer
- Research
Scientist, Project Manager
- Hewlett-Packard
Laboratories
- Topic -
Uncertainty Management for Optimization of Product
Rollover
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- Dirk
Beyer holds a Doctoral degree in Operations Research from
Leipzig University in Germany. As a Humboldt Fellow at
University of Toronto he continued his research in
stochastic inventory theory. Since 1997 he has been
working as a Research Scientist and Project Manager at
Hewlett Packard Laboratories developing decision support
solutions for supply chain management and analytical CRM.
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- John
R. Birge
- Dean
- McCormick
School of Engineering
- Northwestern
University
- Topic -
Real Options Theory and Practice
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- John
Birge is Dean of the McCormick School of Engineering and
Applied Science at Northwestern University. He is Past
President of INFORMS, former Editor-in-Chief of
Mathematical Programming, Series B, and serves on several
other editorial boards. He has been a consultant to
numerous firms in the financial, manufacturing and energy
industries, where his work focuses on applying
optimization models to situations involving uncertain
future outcomes.
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- Heinrich
Braun
- Development
Manager, Supply Chain Optimization
- SAP-AG
- Topic -
"OR Inside": The Challenge of Embedding OR Solutions in
Software Packages
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- Dr.
Heinrich Braun is development manager for optimization
algorithms in mySAP supply chain management solution. He
is also a member of the computer science faculty at the
University of Karlsruhe (Privatdozent) lecturing on
combinatorial optimization problems. Prior to joining
SAP, he led a research group on evolutionary algorithms
and neural networks at the University of Karlsruhe
(1990-1996).
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- Daniel
T. Brunner
- President
- Systemflow
Simulations, Inc.
- Topic -
How Simulation Works
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- Daniel
T. Brunner is President of Systemflow Simulations, Inc.,
a services firm active in manufacturing, material
handling, distribution, transportation, health care,
computer systems and mining. He served as Winter
Simulation Conference Business Chair (1992), General
Chair (1996), and Transportation Applications Track
Coordinator (1998). He is a member of IIE, INFORMS, the
Materials Handling and Management Society (MHMS), SCS,
and the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration
(SME).
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- Chris
Caplice
- Vice
President, Product Management
- Logistics.com,
Inc.
- Topic -
Auctions and Marketplaces in the Transportation Industry:
Where does OR Fit?
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- Dr.
Caplice is currently Vice President of Product Management
for Logistics.com, Inc. Logistics.com, Inc. is an
Internet company that works with shippers, carriers and
third parties to drive inefficiencies out of the entire
transportation process and increase the profitability of
all players. Previously, Dr. Caplice was Director and
General Manager of Sabre Inc.'s Logistics Product
Strategy and Delivery Group. He was responsible for all
design, strategy, direction, marketing, and
implementation of Sabre's suite of over a dozen decision
support software products for both the motor carrier and
logistics industries. Dr. Caplice received his doctorate
in Transportation and Logistics Systems at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for
Transportation Studies in 1996.
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- Pallab
K. Chatterjee
- Executive
Vice President
- i2
Technologies, Inc.
- Topic -
The Role of the Quantitative/Analytic Professional in the
New Economy
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- Pallab
K. Chatterjee holds a B.Tech. degree in electronics and
communication engineering from the Indian Institute of
Technology, Kharagpur, India, and M.S.E.E. and Ph.D.
degrees from the University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign. He was awarded the President of India
Gold Medal for curricular excellence and the B. C. Roy
Memorial Gold Medal for extracurricular
excellence at the Indian Institute of Technology in 1972.
Dr. Chatterjee joined Texas Instruments, Dallas, in 1976
and was elected a Texas Instruments Senior Fellow in
1985. He was elected IEEE Fellow in 1986 and received the
IEEE J. J. Ebers award in 1986. At Texas Instruments, he
had held the positions of Vice-President/Director of
Semiconductor Process and Design Center;
Vice-President/Director R&D; and Senior Vice
President and Chief Technical Officer, Semiconductor
Group and Director of Research and
Development/Technology. In January, 1995 he was appointed
to the position of President, Personal Productivity
Products. In February, 1997 he was elected to the
National Academy of Engineering. In May, 1997, he was
appointed as Senior Vice President and Chief Information
Officer. In January, 2000, Dr. Chatterjee joined i2
Technologies, Inc, and his current position is Executive
Vice President.
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- Peter
Cochrane
- Co-Founder,
ConceptLabs
- Formerly
Chief Technologist, British
Telecommunications
- Topic -
The Future of Technology: More Machines than
People
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- Known as
a "technology prophet" and "digital visionary," Peter
Cochrane retired in December 2000 as Chief Technologist
at British Telecommunications. In 1998, he founded
ConceptLabs with a group from the Apple Advanced
Technology Group as part of his personal program of
diversification into new technology and business, and
currently works with ConceptLabs as a new business
mentor, consultant and advisor. Dr. Cochrane's career at
British Telecommunications spanned 38 years from linesman
to research and finally as a primary agent of change.
Prior to his position as Chief Technologist, he was Head
of Research for ten years, managing 100 people dedicated
to charting the future of technology and society. Dr.
Cochrane has also been a consultant to numerous
international companies and organizations with his
personal contributions spanning circuit, system and
network design; software production, machine programming,
switching and transmission; human interfaces; working
environments; telemedicine, bit warfare, artificial
intelligence; adaptive systems and control; management
system design; and work methods. He has held numerous
academic posts including the Collier Chair for the Public
Understanding of Science & Technology from 1998-
2000, visiting professor at University College London and
Essex and Kent Universities. He is also an international
writer and broadcaster.
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- Thomas
M. Cook
- Chairman
and CEO
- Replane,
Inc.
- Topic
-The Revenue Management: An OR Success Story
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- Thomas
Cook is currently chairman and CEO of Replane, Inc., a
company specializing in augmenting airline revenue
management functions by providing seamless,
cost-efficient reaccommodation services to create
capacity for late-arriving, unexpected demand. In
addition, Dr. Cook serves on several boards including
Caleb Technologies and Envoy Worldwide.
Prior to the
launch of Replane early this year, Dr. Cook served as
Senior Counselor to McKinsey & Company, Inc.,
focusing on the transportation sector. Prior to McKinsey,
he developed large-scale information systems for Ling
Temco Vought, Inc., taught operations research and
computer science at both graduate and undergraduate
levels for the University of Tulsa and Boston University,
and consulted with Arthur Young and Company. The majority
of Dr. Cook's career was spent with AMR, starting in the
capacity of Director of Operations Research for American
Airlines. He concluded his career at AMR as President of
Sabre Technology Solutions. He holds a doctorate in
operations research from the University of Texas at
Austin, a master's degree in business administration from
Southern Methodist University, and a bachelor's degree in
mathematics from Grinnell College. He has co-authored two
books and published numerous papers in scholarly
journals.
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- Harlan
P. Crowder
- Principal
Research Scientist
- Hewlett-Packard
Laboratories
- Topic -
Selling OR from the Outside: Winning, Executing and
Getting Paid for Operations Research
Consulting
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- Harlan
P. Crowder is a scientist in the Decision Technologies
Group at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. He has been
director of optimization consulting at ILOG, Inc., and
helped establish the Management Technologies consulting
practice within IBM Global Services. Dr Crowder lives and
works in Silicon Valley, USA.
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- James
Q. Crowe
- Chief
Executive Officer
- Level 3
Communications, Inc.
- Topic -
OR-Enabled: Achieving Sustainable Competitive Advantage
through OR and Optimization
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- Jim
Crowe is president and CEO of Level 3, the first
international communications company to fully leverage
the power of Internet technology. Having assumed the
leadership of Level 3's predecessor, a diverse group of
companies and holdings, in 1997, Mr. Crowe reshaped it
into a single company with a core focus on communications
and information services. Prior to assuming the
leadership of Level 3, Mr. Crowe served as Chairman of
WorldCom, following that company's merger with MFS
Communications Company in 1996. Prior to that Mr. Crowe
was Chairman and CEO of MFS, a company he founded and
took public in 1993. At the time of its $14.3 billion
merger with WorldCom, MFS was the largest competitive
local carrier in the U.S. and Europe. Mr. Crowe serves on
the Boards of Directors of Level 3 Communications, Peter
Kiewit Sons', RCN Corporation and Commonwealth
Telephone.
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- Samuel
K. Eldersveld
- Manager,
Applied Research
- Expedia,
Inc.
- Topic -
Data Mining for Marketing: Click Stream Analysis and the
Use of Internet Data
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- Prior to
Expedia, Dr. Eldersveld worked as a marketing modeling
analyst at Boeing. Dr. Eldersveld studied at the
University of Michigan, San Francisco State University
and received a Ph.D. degree in Operations Research from
Stanford University. He was postdoctoral fellow at the
University of California, San Diego in
Mathematics.
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- Michel
Gendreau
- Professor
and Director Centre de recherche sur les
transports
- Université
de Montréal
- Topic -
Metaheuristics in Action: Lessons Learned from
Implementations in Vehicle Routing
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- Michel
Gendreau is Professor of Operations Research and Director
of the Centre for Research on Transportation at
Université de Montréal (Canada). A large
part of his research work focuses on the development of
metaheuristics for vehicle routing and dispatching
problems, some of which have been included in
commercially-available software. Dr. Gendreau is the Area
Editor "Heuristic Search and Learning" of the INFORMS
Journal on Computing and an Associate Editor of
Transportation Science, Journal of Heuristics and O.R.
Letters.
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- Arthur
M. Geoffrion
- James A.
Collins Chair in Management
- The
Anderson School at UCLA
- Topic -
Further Perspectives on OR in the E-Business
Era
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- Arthur
M. Geoffrion is the James A. Collins Professor of
Management at the Anderson School at UCLA. He is a
co-founder of INSIGHT, Inc., a former president of TIMS
and INFORMS, and a member of the National Academy of
Engineering. His interests have evolved from optimization
theory through logistics applications and the foundations
of modeling to the Internet and e-business, an area in
which he has taught regularly since 1993.
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- Karla
L. Hoffman
- Chair,
Systems Engineering and Operations Research
Department
- George
Mason University
- Topic -
Savvy Modeling 101: An Introduction to Creating, Solving
and Analyzing Linear Optimization Problems.
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- Karla L.
Hoffman received her B.A. in Mathematics from Rutgers
University in 1969, and an M.B.A. and Doctor of Science
in Operations Research from George Washington University
in 1971 and 1975, respectively. She is presently Chair of
the Systems Engineering and Operations Research
Department of the School of Information Technology and
Engineering of George Mason University. Previously, she
worked as a mathematician in the Operations Department of
the Center for Applied Mathematics of the National
Instititute of Standards and Technology where she served
as a consultant to a variety of government agencies. Dr.
Hoffman has many publications in the field of
optimization as well as a variety of publications
detailing her applied work. She is Past-President of
INFORMS and served as Chair of its Strategic Planning
Committee.
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- Jay
F. Horton
- Partner
- PricewaterhouseCoopers,
Australia
- Topic -
Outsourcing OR: ASPs and Other Strategies
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- Jay
Horton is a Partner within PricewaterhouseCoopers Applied
Decision Analysis practice in Sydney. Mr. Horton has over
20 years experience in strategic management consulting,
most recently with his own firm Operations Research Group
which was acquired by PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1999. He
advises business leaders in Australia, New Zealand and
Asia in a wide range of corporations in energy and
mining, telecommunications, and the consumer and
industrial products sectors.
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- Robert
H. Howell
- Vice
President, Strategic Planning and Sales
Operations
- First
Union Home Equity Bank
- Topic -
How Optimization on the Internet Drives Business Process
Reinvention: A Case Study from Mortgage
Lending
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- Mark
E. Johnston
- Associate
Director
- PricewaterhouseCoopers,
Australia
- Topic -
Outsourcing OR: ASPs and Other Strategies
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- Mark
Johnston is a Director within PricewaterhouseCoopers
Applied Decision Analysis practice in Sydney, Australia.
He consults to leading corporations in the areas of
decision and risk analysis, real option valuation,
strategy development and resource optimization. Mark has
led the Asia-Pacific development of
PricewaterhouseCoopers' new web-based planning offering,
pwcdecision.com, through which subscribers can access
advanced systems for supply chain planning, mine
operations planning, market analysis and more. Mark has a
PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of
Cambridge, where he specialized in non-linear dynamical
systems.
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- Don
N. Kleinmuntz
- Professor
of Business Administration, University of Illinois at
Urbana - Champaign
- Founder
& Principal, Strata Decision Technology
LLC
- Topic -
Decision Analysis Approaches to Capital Resource
Allocation
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- Don N.
Kleinmuntz, Ph.D., is Professor of Business
Administration at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, and Executive Vice President and
co-founder of Strata Decision Technology LLC. Dr.
Kleinmuntz holds MBA and Ph.D. degrees from the
University of Chicago. He previously held faculty
positions at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the
University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Kleinmuntz is a
nationally recognized expert in the field of decision and
risk analysis, with close to 20 years of consulting,
research and teaching experience using quantitative
models to improve decision making in accounting, finance
and strategic management settings. His consulting
engagements include a wide variety of organizations,
including several Fortune 100 companies, Big 5 Public
Accounting firms, and a wide variety of not-for-profit
entities.
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- Ramayya
Krishnan
- W.W.
Cooper and Ruth F. Cooper Professor of Information
Systems
- The
Heinz School of Public Policy and Management
- Carnegie
Mellon University
- Topic -
Further Perspectives on OR in the E-Business
Era
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- Ramayya
Krishnan is the W.W. Cooper and Ruth F. Cooper Professor
of Information Systems at the Heniz School of Public
Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University. His
research, on the technology, business and policy issures
related to electronic commerce is funded by the NSF and
DARPA. He is faculty director of CMU's Masters program in
information systems management, and works with several
companies on e-business projects.
Leon
Lasdon
Professor
University of Texas at Austin
Topic - Predictive Modeling and Robust Optimization in
CRM
- Leon Lasdon received his PhD in Systems Engineering
from Case Institute of Technology in 1964. He taught in
the Operations Research Department at Case Western
Reserve University from 1964 to 1977, when he joined the
Management Science and Information Systems Dept., College
of Business, The University of Texas at Austin. He now
holds the David Bruton Jr. Chair in Business Decision
Support Systems in that department. His research
interests include nonlinear pogramming algorithms,
software and applications, and large-scale systems
optimization. He is the author of several widely used NLP
codes, is a co-developer of the Microsoft Excel Solver
and has published over 100 journal articles and two
books. He is currently a consultant to Trajecta,
Inc.
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- Jack
D. Levis
- Division
Manager
- United
Parcel Service
- Topic -
The Role of the Quantitative/Analytic Professional in the
New Economy
- Topic -
Selling OR from Within: How to Position the Analytic
Function for Success
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- Jack
Levis is a Division Manager on the corporate engineering
staff for United Parcel Service. His is a technology
division that does project management, planning, systems
engineering, systems development and operations research.
They have designed, developed and deployed many
large-scale systems aimed at improving service, reducing
cost, and automating and reengineering processes. He has
been in management with United Parcel Service for over 23
years.
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- Robin
Lougee-Heimer
- Researcher,
Advanced Mathematical Software
- IBM T.J.
Watson Research Center
- Topic -
Savvy Modeling 101: An Introduction to Creating, Solving
and Analyzing Linear Optimization Problems.
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- Robin
Lougee-Heimer is a Research Staff Member at the IBM T. J.
Watson Research Center in New York, where she develops
decision support tools for IBM's world-wide manufacturing
and conducts research in large-scale discrete
optimization. Dr. Lougee-Heimer is the co-chair of IBM's
Operations Research Community, and a founder of the
initiative to promote open source software for the
operations research community.
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- John
Lucas
- Consulting
Principal
- EDS
- Topic -
The Ideal OR/MS Hire: Do Traditional Skill sets Cut it
Anymore?
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- John
Lucas is a Consulting Principal with EDS. During his 33
year career, in addition to supporting North American
clients, John has worked with global businesses in
Europe, South America, Africa and the Asia-Pacific basin
conducting product and manufacturing planning studies,
reengineering value chain processes, and leading business
transformation activity through the application of
management science. Mr. Lucas was awarded the 1999 Alumni
Award of Excellence by the University of Dayton School of
Engineering for exceptional lifetime career achievements.
John is also the intrapreneurial spirit responsible for
the formation of Motors Consulting Center, a management
science consultancy within GM, this profit center later
joined EDS becoming the forerunner of many EDS consulting
activities.
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- Irvin
J. Lustig
- Optimization
Evangelist
- ILOG,
Inc.
- Topic -
"OR Inside": The Challenge of Embedding OR Solutions in
Software Packages
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- Dr.
Irvin Lustig, a key member of the optimization product
marketing team at ILOG, is ILOG's optimization
evangelist, responsible for delivering the key messages
about ILOG's optimization product line. Prior to this
position, he was the product manager for the ILOG CPLEX
and ILOG OPL Studio products.
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- Thomas
L. Magnanti
- Dean of
Engineering
- Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
- Topic -
The Role of the Quantitative/Analytic Professional in the
New Economy
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- Thomas
L. Magnanti currently serves as Dean of Engineering and
as one of 14 Institute Professors at MIT, where he has
been a faculty member since 1971. He has devoted much of
his professional career to education that combines
engineering and management and to teaching and research
in applied and theoretical aspects of large-scale
optimization. Professor Magnanti is the co-author or
editor of four books and numerous research publications.
He was a founding co-director of MIT's Leaders for
Manufacturing Program and of the Institute's System
Design and Management Program. He has previously served
as co-director of MIT's interdepartmental Operations
Research Center and as head of the Management Science
Area (about one-third) of the Sloan School. He is a past
President of the Operations Research Society of America
(ORSA) and a former President of INFORMS and has been
Editor-in-Chief of the journal Operations Research.
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- Luke
McCahan
- Operations
Research Recruiter
- Smith
Hanley Associates, Inc.
- Topic -
Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining
Quantitative/Analytic Talent
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- Luke
McCahan has headed the industrial division of the
Statistical Recruiting Group at Smith Hanley Associates
since 1998. He specializes in the placement of operations
researchers and industrial statisticians on a nationwide
basis. Prior to joining Smith Hanley, Luke was a regional
director of recruiting at the United States Military
Academy, West Point, New York. An active member of
INFORMS, Luke earned a B.S. in Business Administration
from the University of Alabama and a M.S. in
Organizational Development from Marymount University in
Arlington, Virginia.
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- Georges-Henri
Moll
- Applications
Architect, Supply Chain Applications
Development
- Oracle
Applications
- Topic -
"OR Inside": The Challenge of Embedding OR Solutions in
Software Packages
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- Dr.
Georges-Henri Moll is Applications Architect at ORACLE.
Since joining Oracle in 1999, Dr. Moll has been involved
in the design and development of Oracle/ Supply Chain
suite. His previous experience includes: Senior
Optimization Consultant for ILOG, Decision
Support
- Manager
for Michelin, AI Professor at University
Laval.
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- Mary
C. Murphy-Hoye
- Director,
IT Strategy & Technology
- Intel
Corporation
- Topic -
Integrated Supply Chain: Fact or Fantasy?
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- Mary
Murphy-Hoye is Intel's Director of IT Strategy and
Technology, responsible for developing business and
technology strategy and architecture for information
technology as a competitive advantage. In addition, the
organization supports IT strategic procurement, corporate
information security, and IT competitive intelligence and
strategic planning activities. Most recently she held the
position of Staff Architect for Supply Chain Integration
and eBusiness. Ms. Murphy-Hoye represents Intel with
major outside consortiums and speeches to develop
cross-company learnings for supply chain integration and
e-business. She developed the Supply Chain Visualization
research initiative and coordinates engagement with three
key MIT partners: Center for Transportation Studies,
Center for Coordination Sciences and the MIT Media Lab.
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- Barry
L. Nelson
- Professor
and Director, Master of Engineering Management
Program
- Northwestern
University
- Topic -
Recent Developments in Simulation
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- Barry L.
Nelson is a Professor in the Department of Industrial
Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern
University, and is Director of its Master of Engineering
Management Program. He is co-author of Discrete-Event
System Simulation, 3rd edition (Prentice Hall, 2000),
which has been adopted by over 60 universities, and he
has consulted for companies in the manufacturing and
service sectors.
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- Raj
Nigam
- Chief
Scientist; Director, Management Science & Analytical
Marketing Group
- Merrill
Lynch & Co., Inc.
- Topic -
The Ideal OR/MS Hire: Do Traditional Skill Sets Cut it
Anymore?
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- Raj
Nigam is the chief scientist and director of the
Management Science & Analytical Marketing Group at
Merrill Lynch. He earned his Ph.D. in OR from University
of California - Berkeley.
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- Carol
A. Ptak
- Program
Director, MidMarket Solutions, Server Group
- IBM
Corporation
- Topic -
Necessary but Not Sufficient: Integrating People,
Processes and Technology to Achieve the Digital
Enterprise
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- A
leading authority in the use of ERP and supply chain
tools to drive improved bottom line performance, Ms.
Ptak's expertise is well grounded in over two decades of
practical experience as a successful practitioner,
consultant and educator in manufacturing operations. Her
pragmatic approach to complex issues and dynamic
presentation style have her in high demand worldwide on
the subject of how to leverage these tools and
successfully become an e-business. Ms. Ptak was the
President and CEO of APICS, The Educational Society for
Resource Management, for the year 2000 and is employed by
IBM as a Program Director for Mid-Market
solutions.
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- Mark
A. Reynolds
- Director,
Business Optimization
- Level 3
Communications, Inc.
- Topic -
The Role of the Quantitative/Analytic Professional in the
New Economy
- Topic -
Revenue Management: From Airlines to Telecommunications
and Beyond
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- Since
1999, Mark Reynolds has been involved in developing Level
3's Optimization group and shaping its efforts in the
Sales, Marketing and Operations areas. Prior to this,
Mark managed the development of advanced revenue
management concepts and systems for two airlines. His
most recent stint at Northwest Airlines included a
marketing position responsible for Atlantic revenue
planning and pricing.
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- Irv
Salmeen
- Manager,
E-Technology Research Department
- Ford
Motor Company Scientific Research Laboratory
- Topic -
The Ideal OR/MS Hire: Do Traditional Skill Sets Cut it
Anymore:
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- Irv
Salmeen is the manager of the e-Technology Research
Department in the Ford Motor Company Scientific Research
Laboratory. The 40-person Department conducts research in
Telematics/Infotronics; information and
knowledge-management technology; supply-chain management
and logistics; economics and pricing theory of new and
used durable goods; applications of data mining,
statistics, and first-principles modeling to marketing
and customer-satisfaction metrics; and agent-based and
adaptive computational modeling methods in complex
optimization problems. In each of the areas, the research
is conducted with partners in company operations, with
well-defined business outcomes as objectives. Salmeen
holds a BS in Engineering Mathematics and Physics and a
PhD in Biophysics (University of Michigan '69). He has
been a member of the Ford Research Laboratory Staff since
joining it in 1971 following a postdoctoral fellowship at
University of California - Berkeley.
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- Avner
Schneur
- President
and CEO
- Emptoris,
Inc.
- Topic -
Dynamic E-commerce: Leveraging Optimization to Power
Digital Marketplaces and E-procurement
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- As
founder of Emptoris, Avner Schneur guided the development
of the company's optimization-based procurement solution.
Previously, he was senior vice president of operations
for Vectis Corporation, and vice president and chief
technology officer for Astea International. Schneur holds
B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering from the
Technion (Israel Institute of Technology).
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- David
Shannon
- Director
of Business Development
- Savi
Technology
- Topic -
Real-Time Supply Chain Visibility: The Key to Supply
Chain Synchronization
and Optimization
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- David L.
Shannon, Director of Business Development for Savi
Technology, is a former Solution Executive in IBM's
Global Supply Chain Solutions Unit. During 15 years at
IBM, he managed the development of strategic systems and
applications for captive and extended enterprise supply
chains. A certified member of the American Society of
Transportation and Logistics, Shannon holds a B.S. in
Quantitative Business Analysis from Pennsylvania State
University and an M.S. in Management from Purdue
University
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- John
F. Shortle
- Assistant
Professor
- George
Mason University
- Topic -
Optimal Design of a Data Offload Network
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- John
Shortle received a B.S. in mathematics from Harvey Mudd
College and M.S. and Ph.D. in operations research from
University of California - Berkeley. He spent three years
working for US West Advanced Technologies (now Qwest
Communications International). There, he developed
stochastic, queueing, and simulation models to optimize
networks and operations. He is currently an assistant
professor of Systems Engineering at George Mason
University.
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- David
Simchi-Levi
- Professor
- Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
- Topic:
New Strategic and Tactical Planning Tools for Reinventing
the Supply Chain
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- David
Simchi-Levi is a professor of engineering systems at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research
currently focuses on the analysis, development and
implementation of robust and efficient techniques for the
design, control and operation of logistics systems. He is
the founder and chairman of LogicTools
(http://www.logic-tools.com/), a software company
focusing on developing decision support systems for
solving logistics and supply chain management problems.
These systems have been used widely to reduce cost and
improve service level in large-scale logistics systems.
Professor Simchi-Levi is the co-author (with Julien
Bramel) of The Logic of Logistics: Theory, Algorithms and
Applications for Logistics Management, published by
Springer in 1997. His new book, Designing and Managing
the Supply Chain: Concepts, Strategies and Case Studies,
written with P. Kaminsky and E. Simchi-Levi was published
by Irwin/McGraw-Hill in August 1999. The book is the
winner of the Book-of-the-Year Award, and Outstanding IIE
Publication Award given in 2000 by the Institute of
Industrial Engineers.
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- Barry
Smith
- Chief
Scientist
- Sabre
- Topic:
The Role of the Quantitative/Analytic Professional in the
New Economy
- Topic:
Evolution of E-commerce and OR in the Airline
Industry
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- Mr.
Smith is Chief Scientist at Sabre. Mr. Smith is a
internationally recognized expert in yield management and
reservation system design. He developed many of the yield
management techniques used throughout the airline
industry and pioneered the application of yield
management techniques in other industries. Mr. Smith is
the Past-President of the Airline Group of the
International Federation of Operational Research
Societies (AGIFORS). He holds an M.S. Operations
Research, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
a B.S. Aerospace Engineering, from Georgia Institute of
Technology.
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- Timothy
L. Smith
- Research
Scientist
- Trajecta,
Inc.
- Topic -
Predictive Modeling and Robust Optimization in
CRM
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- Tim
Smith has been a research scientist for Trajecta, Inc.
for two years, specializing in marketing applications of
predictive modeling and stochastic optimization. He was
formerly a military Operations Research Analyst for the
US Army and a Statistics instructor at the University of
Texas. Tim is the president of the Austin Chapter of
INFORMS and a member of the INFORMS Subcommittee for
Chapters.
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- Pascal
Van Hentenryck
- Professor
- Brown
University
- Topic -
Constraint Programming
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- Pascal
Van Hentenryck is a pioneer of constraint programming.
His PhD thesis, published as a book by the MIT Press in
1989, introduced the constraint programming approach to
combinatorial optimization. He is the author of many
influential software systems, including the CHIP
programming system and the OPL optimization programming
language, 3 books
and over 100 publications.
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- David
L. Woodruff
- Associate
Professor
- University
of California-Davis
- Topic -
Metaheuristics Overview
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- Professor
Woodruff applies metaheuristics in a variety of settings
ranging from Bioinformatics through Production Planning
and does research concerning improved methods. He holds
editorial positions on a number of journals including the
Metaheuristic Methodologies area editorship for the
Journal of Heuristics and is an associate editor for the
INFORMS Journal on Computing in the Heuristic Search
area.
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