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Layek
Abdel-Malek
Associate
Dean, Professor of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering
New
Jersey Institute of Technology
Layek
Adbel-Malek, PhD, is Associate Dean and Professor of Industrial and
Manufacturing Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology. He has
published extensively particularly in the areas related to manufacturing.
Dr. Malek is the recipient of several national awards from federal, state
and industrial agencies as well as international ones such as CNR of Italy
and DGOR.
Chid
Apte
Manager,
Data Abstraction Research Group
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Chid
Apte, PhD, is Manager of the Data Abstraction Research group at IBM's T.J.
Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. He leads several
research efforts in developing advanced technologies and applications for
business intelligence. Dr. Apte’s research interests are currently
focused in the area of predictive data mining analytics and their
applications.
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Cynthia
Barnhart
Co-Director,
Operations Research Center; Co-Director, Center for Transportation Studies
Cynthia
Barnhart, PhD, 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 and Co-Director of the
Center for Transportation Studies. 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 in several books and scholarly
journals and is the recipient of various awards.
Marty
Baum
Edgewood
Consulting Group
Marty Baum, MBA, is
a Principal at Edgewood Consulting Group in Morris Plains, NJ, providing
consumer-based sales and marketing solutions to the packaged goods
industry from strategy development to implementation technology. Marty has
over 15 years experience in the areas of marketing, category management,
marketing research and information technology. His experience includes
nine years in brand management assignments at Nabisco Foods and Grand
Metropolitan including Director of Marketing at ALPO Petfoods. For three
years he was Vice President, Client Service at Information Resources, Inc.
where his responsibilities included marketing and marketing research
consulting and developing and implementing information technology
solutions. Marty earned his BA from The George Washington University and
MBA from Columbia University Business School.
Peter
C. Bell
Professor,
Management Science and Information Systems
Accelio
Faculty Fellow
Richard
Ivey School of Business
University
of Western Ontario
Peter
C. Bell, PhD, is Professor of Management Science and Information Systems
and Accelio Faculty Fellow, at the Richard Ivey School of Business in
London, Canada. He is the author of 13 books, about 50 articles in
academic and business journals, and more than 100 cases. He is the Vice
President, International Activities of INFORMS, a past president of IFORS
and a past board member of TIMS. His company, Strategic Management Science
Inc., helps corporations achieve a competitive advantage through the use
of MS/OR.
John
R. Birge
Dean
McCormick
School of Engineering
Northwestern
University
John
Birge, PhD, is Dean of the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied
Science at Northwestern University. He is a 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.
Robert
E. Bixby
President
ILOG
Technical Advisory Board , ILOG, Inc.
Research
Professor of Administrative Sciences; Noah Harding Professor
Emeritus of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Robert
Bixby, PhD, is cofounder of CPLEX Optimization Inc., purchased by ILOG
Inc. in 1997. He is currently President of the ILOG Technical Advisory
Board, Chairman of the Mathematical Programming Society, and Research
Professor in the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice
University. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997.
E.
Andrew Boyd
Senior
Vice President and Chief Scientist
PROS
Revenue Management
E.
Andrew Boyd, PhD, is currently Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist
at PROS Revenue Management, where he heads a group of some 25 advanced
degree recipients in Economics, Operations
Research, Quantitative Marketing and Statistics. He received his
PhD in Operations Research from MIT in 1987, spending 9 years as a
university professor prior to joining PROS.
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Sebastian
Ceria
President
and CEO
Axioma,
Inc.
Sebastián
Ceria, PhD, is President and CEO of Axioma, Inc., a private company that
develops, markets and supports proven optimization software and services
in several industries. Before joining Axioma, Ceria was an associate
professor in Decision, Risk and Operations at Columbia Business School. In
1998, Ceria was honored with the prestigious Career Award for Operations
Research from the National Science Foundation for his pioneering research
in the practical solution of integer programming problems.
Harlan
P. Crowder
Principal
Research Scientist
Hewlett-Packard
Laboratories
Harlan
P. Crowder, PhD, 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
S. Dyer
Fondren
Centennial Chair in Business, Red McCombs School of Business
Administration
University
of Texas at Austin
James
S. Dyer, PhD, occupies the Fondren Centennial Chair in Business in the Red
McCombs School of Business Administration at The University of Texas at
Austin. His research and
teaching interests are focused on applications of decision analysis to
problems of risk management and capital budgeting, and he has published
extensively on these subjects in various journals, including Management
Science and Operations Research.
He is the former Chair of the Decision Analysis Special Interest Group of
INFORMS, and currently is the Area Editor for decision analysis for Operations
Research. Dr. Dyer has consulted with a number of companies regarding
the application of decision and risk analysis tools to a variety of
practical problems.
Robert
Fildes
Professor
of Management Science
Lancaster
University, UK
Robert
Fildes, PhD, is Professor of Management Science, Lancaster University and
Director of the Lancaster Centre for Forecasting. He has published widely
including four books in forecasting and planning, most recently the World Index of Economic Forecasts. He was co-founder in 1981 of the Journal
of Forecasting and in l985 of the International
Journal of Forecasting. For ten years from l988 he was Editor-in-Chief
of the IJF. In l985 he held a Visiting Fellowship at Bell Communications
Research, U.S.A. He is now president of the International
Institute of Forecasters. He has consulted widely for private and
public sector organizations and is
a regular presenter at professional seminars.
Bezalel
Gavish
Constantin
Distinguished Chair in Business
Edwin
L. Cox School of Business
Southern
Methodist University
Bezalel
Gavish, PhD, holds the Eugene J. and Ruth F. Constantin Distinguished
Chair in Business at the Edwin L. Cox School of Business at the Southern
Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He was the Chairman of the
Information Technology and Operations Management (ITOM) department at the
Cox business School. Professor Gavish is the founding Chairman of the
International Conference on Telecommunications Systems Management and the
International Conference on Telecommunications and Electronic Commerce.
Both conferences are held in Dallas on an annual basis. He also serves as
the Editor-in-Chief of two research-oriented journals, the Telecommunication
Systems Journal, and the
Electronic Commerce Research Journal.
Gregory
Glockner
ILOG,
Inc.
Gregory
Glockner, PhD, has worked as an ILOG consultant for customers in a variety
of industries including finance, transportation, telecommunications and
defense. He has taught ILOG software training courses in the US, Japan,
Singapore, and South Korea. Currently, he is a product manager responsible
for several of ILOG’s optimization products.
Fred
W. Glover
MedioOne
Professor
University
of Colorado
Fred
Glover, PhD, MediaOne Chaired Professor at the University of Colorado, has
published more than 300 articles and five books on optimization and
computer science. His awards include the distinguished von Neumann Theory
Prize, and research and practical application prizes from INFORMS, AAAS,
NATO, DSI, ERI, AACSB and others.
David
M. Goldsman
Georgia
Institute of Technology
Dave
Goldsman, PhD, is a Professor in the School of Industrial and Systems
Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include simulation output analysis and
ranking and selection theory. Dr. Goldsman has done quite a bit of applied
work in the health care and transportation industries. He is co-author of
two statistics books and is the Simulation Department Editor for IIE
Transactions. He
currently represents the Institute of Industrial Engineers on the Board of
the annual Winter Simulation Conference.
Jeffrey
J. Karrenbauer
Vice
President
INSIGHT,
Inc.
Jeffrey
Karrenbauer, PhD, is Vice President of INSIGHT, Inc., which develops
management support systems for logistics. His areas of special interest
include the development and application of optimization and simulation
models to design and analyze complex supply chains and integrated
logistics systems, efficient techniques for constructing databases to
support such analyses, and user-friendly interfaces for management support
systems. Dr. Karrenbauer earned his BBA in marketing from the University
of Notre Dame and his PhD in business logistics from The Ohio State
University. He has conducted extensive research in the area of shipment
planning policies and their impact on transportation costs, inventory
costs and customer service. Dr. Karrenbauer has published in physical
distribution journals and is on the editorial review board of several
logistics journals. He has made numerous presentations to conferences for
logisticians and management scientists, and is a regular guest lecturer in
the undergraduate and graduate logistics programs at many universities.
James
P. Kelley
OptTek
Systems, Inc.
James
P. Kelly, PhD, is CEO of OptTek Systems, Inc. Dr. Kelly has authored
numerous published articles and books in the fields of optimization,
computer science and artificial intelligence. His interests focus on the
use of state-of-the-art optimization techniques for providing competitive
advantages in engineering and business.
W.
David Kelton
Professor
of Management Science
Chair,
Department of Management Science and Information Systems
Smeal
College of Business Administration
The
Pennsylvania State University
David
Kelton, PhD, is Professor and Chair in the Department of Management
Science and Information Systems in the Smeal College of Business at Penn
State. He has done research in simulation methods, and has applied
simulation in manufacturing, health care, logistics and criminal justice.
He is coauthor of two simulation books.
Jeffrey
O. Kephart
Manager,
Agents and Emergent Phenomena
IBM
T.J. Watson Research Center
Jeffrey
Kephart, PhD, a graduate of Princeton and Stanford, manages the Agents and
Emergent Phenomena group at IBM Research, which pursues analogies between
large-scale computer systems and natural systems like ecologies and
economies. He pioneered the development of a digital immune system that
protects thousands of companies against rapidly emerging computer viruses,
and currently leads IBM's Information Economies effort, which does
practical and theoretical research on agent-mediated electronic commerce.
Catherine
E. Kleinmuntz
Chief
Executive Officer
Strata
Decision Technology
Catherine
E. Kleinmuntz, PhD, is
President and CEO of Strata Decision Technology LLC. Dr. Kleinmuntz has
two decades of experience in the health care industry, including more than
15 years designing and customizing sophisticated financial systems. She
also has extensive consulting experience in strategic financial planning
for health care organizations of all types. She holds a BA, MBA and PhD,
all from the University of Chicago. Dr.
Kleinmuntz is a member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association
and INFORMS.
Don
N. Kleinmuntz
Professor
of Business Administration
University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Principal,
Strata Decision Technology
Don
N. Kleinmuntz, PhD,
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 PhD 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 20
years of consulting, research and teaching experience using quantitative
models to improve decision making in accounting, finance and strategic
management settings. He has consulted with several Fortune 100 companies,
Big 5 Public Accounting firms,and a wide variety of not-for-profit
entities.
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Leon
S. Lasdon
University
of Texas at Austin
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 programming 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.
Ray
LeClair
Manager,
Supply Chain Innovation
The
Procter & Gamble Company
Manager
of Supply Chain Innovation at Procter & Gamble, Ray LeClair graduated
from Carnegie Mellon University in 1969 with a BS in Electrical
Engineering. At
P&G, he progressed through manufacturing and staff assignments
to plant manager before moving into customer service and logistics. Mr.
LeClair led the early customer packaging and distribution work within
P&G and was CS Manager on one of the company’s largest Customer
Business Development Teams for seven years.
In his current position, he works with a multifunctional team
responsible for developing and implementing a consumer driven supply
network.
Jack D. Levis
Division Manager
United Parcel Service
Jack Levis is a Division Manager on the corporate engineering staff for United Parcel Servic, where he manages a technology division that does
project management, planning, systems engineering, systems development and operations research. The division has designed, developed and deployed many large-scale systems aimed at improving service, reducing cost, and automating and reengineering processes. Mr. Levis has been in management with United Parcel Service for over 23 years.Warren
H. Lieberman
President
Veritec
Solutions Incorporated
Warren
Lieberman, PhD, is President of Veritec Solutions, a consulting firm
focused on helping firms with enhancing their revenue management and
pricing capabilities. He works with firms in a diverse set of industries,
including manufacturing, travel, broadcasting, health care and e-commerce.
He began his career in revenue management in 1984 with American Airlines.
Irvin J. Lustig
Manager of Technical Services
ILOG, Inc.
Irvin Lustig, PhD, a key member of the optimization product marketing team
at ILOG, is ILOG's Manager of Technical Services and 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.Robert
M. Mark
Black
Diamond
Robert
M. Mark, PhD, is President and Chief Executive Officer of Black Diamond, a
firm that provides financial service consulting and risk transaction
services. He serves on the boards of the Field Institute for Research in
Mathematical Sciences, IBM’s Deep Computing Institute and the Royal
Conservatory. In 1998 he was awarded the Financial Risk Manager of the
Year Award by the Global Association of Risk Professionals. Prior to his
current position, he was the Sr. Vice President and Chief Risk Officer at
the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). Dr. Mark reported directly
to the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CIBC, and was a member of
the Management Committee. Other previous positions include Partner in
charge of financial risk management consulting at Coopers & Lybrand
within the financial services practice, Managing Director in the Asia,
Europe and Capital Markets Group at Chemical Bank, and senior officer at
Marine Midland Bank/Hong Kong Shanghai Bank Group. He earned his PhD from
New York University’s Graduate School of Engineering and Science,
graduating first in his class. Subsequently, he received an Advanced
Professional Certificate in accounting from NYU’s Stern Graduate School
of Business
Bruce
Nemlich
Senior
Director, Management Science
Pfizer
Pharamaceuticals
Bruce
Nemlich, MBA, is the Senior Director, Team Leader of Management Science in
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals' Global Marketing Analytic Department. The
Management Science Group has grown to 15 staff professionals in recent
years, using high-level quantitative analyses to develop pharmaceutical
sales and marketing strategy for the largest pharmaceutical company in the
world. Prior to joining Pfizer, Mr. Nemlich spent ten years, mostly in
management consulting, also with heavy emphasis on using high-level
quantitative analyses for marketing and financial studies. During that
time period, he worked for McKinsey, Andersen Consulting, Stern Stewart
and Morgan-Stanley. He has a
BSCE in Transportation and Urban Planning from MIT and an MBA in
Marketing, Finance and Econometrics from University of Chicago.
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William
P. Pierskalla
John E. Anderson Professor of Management
and Former Dean
The Anderson School at UCLA
William
P. Pierskalla, PhD, is the John E. Anderson Professor of Management and
Former
Steven Pochardt
Director, Management Science
J. R. Simplot Company
Steven Pochardt, MS, directs a small
Management Science group at the J. R. Simplot Company.
He has been with the Simplot Company for 18 years and has held
positions as a Management Science analyst, directed a divisional IT
organization and managed processing plant floor systems and plant ERP
implementations. He currently
is developing and refining supply chain optimization
models for food processing and agribusiness-related areas within Simplot.
Stephen
G. Powell
Stephen
G. Powell, PhD, is a Professor at the Amos Tuck School of Business at
Dartmouth College. At Tuck he has developed a variety of courses in
management science, including the core Decision Science course (with Ken
Baker and Tom Grossman) and electives in the Art of Modeling, Business
Process Redesign and Applications of Simulation.
In 2001 he was awarded the INFORMS Prize for the Teaching of OR/MS
Practice.
Warren
B. Powell
Department
of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Princeton
University
Warren
Powell, PhD, has been developing real-time optimization models for freight
transportation and logistics for almost 20 years. Twice a finalist in the
Franz Edelman competition and co-founder of two consulting firms, his
experience implementing models has produced new modeling and algorithmic
strategies specifically oriented toward dynamic applications. He is
currently working on a book: Dynamic
Resource Management: An Information-Theoretic Approach.
Wilson
Price
Faculte
des sciences de l’administration
Universite
Laval
Wilson
Price is a consultant and an adjunct professor at the Faculté
des sciences de l'administration of Université
Laval in Québec city. He
is active in consulting, research and publication in industrial scheduling
and in other areas. His most
recent work has been in the metal refining and telecommunications
industries.
Ronald
L. Rardin
National
Science Foundation
Ronald
L. (Ron) Rardin, PhD, is Program Director for Operations Research and
Service Enterprise Engineering with the National Science Foundation, on
rotator assignment from his permanent position as Professor of Industrial
Engineering at Purdue University. His teaching and research interests
center on optimization modeling and algorithms, particularly large-scale
integer and combinatorial problems. At
NSF, he is leading a new emphasis on OR/IE/OM research in service
enterprise engineering.
H.
Donald Ratliff
Georgia
Institute of Technology
President
and CEO, Velant, Inc.
H. Donald Ratliff, PhD, currently
serves as President and CEO of Velant, which provides transportation
planning services to companies operating truck fleets. Dr. Ratliff also
serves as the Executive Director of Georgia Tech’s Logistics Institute
as well as the University’s Regents and UPS Professor of Industrial
& Systems Engineering. Prior to founding Velant, Dr. Ratliff
co-founded and served as President of CAPS Logistics.
Yosef Sheffi
Professor of Engineering
Systems
Director, Center for
Transportation Studies
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Yossi Sheffi, PhD, is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he serves as Director of the Center for Transportation Studies. He is an expert in logistics, supply chain management and electronic commerce, which are the subjects he teaches and researches at MIT. He is the author of over 50 scientific publications and a book on transportation networks. Under his leadership, the Center launched many new educational, research and industry/government outreach programs, leading to substantial growth. In 1997 he launched a new Master of Engineering degree at MIT in logistics and supply chain management. Outside the university Dr. Sheffi consulted to major logistics organizations worldwide. He is also an active entrepreneur, having founded or co-founded five companies: PTCG, the leading supplier of decision support systems to the transportation industry; LogiCorp, one of the first non-asset based 3PLs in the US; e-Chemicals, an e-commerce firm providing Internet-based supply chain management solutions; Syncra, a software company dedicated to developing business-to-business collaboration software; and Logistics.com, an ASP decision support system provider for the transportation and logistics industry. Dr. Sheffi has been recognized in numerous ways in academic and industry forums. In 1997 he won the Distinguished Service Award of the Council of Logistics Management.
Stephen
A. Smith
J.C.
Penney Professor
Santa
Clara University
Stephen
A. Smith, PhD, is J. C.
Penney Professor in the Operations and Management Information Systems
Department at Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business. He is
also Associate Director of the Retail Workbench Research Center at Santa
Clara University. He received
a PhD in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University and was a
Research Scientist at Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center for
ten years. Since joining Santa Clara University, he has taught operations
management and computer modeling courses, and has served as chair of the
department.
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Patrick
H. Tendick
Member
of Technical Staff
Avaya
Labs Research
Patrick
Tendick received his BA.in
Mathematics and Statistics from UC Santa Cruz, and his Master’s and PhD
in Statistics from UC Davis. He joined
Bellcore
(now Telcordia) in 1988, where he made important contributions in the
areas of OR/MS, statistics, databases, decision support systems and data
warehouses. In 1993 Dr.
Tendick won the Finalist Award in the Franz Edelman Competition with Amir
Sadrian and Paul Katz for their work on optimizing telco procurement
decisions. He joined Avaya Labs Research in December 2000, where he
develops large analytical databases.
Michael
A. Trick
Professor
of Operations Research
President,
Carnegie Bosch Institute for Applied Studies in International Management
Graduate
School of Industrial Administration
Carnegie
Mellon University
Michael
Trick, PhD, is a researcher and educator in the field of operations
research, with a specialization in computational methods in optimization
and the application of optimization methods in logistics and scheduling. Dr. Trick is a Professor of Operations Research at Carnegie
Mellon’s Graduate School of Industrial Administration (business school)
and is president of its Carnegie Bosch Institute for Applied Studies in
International Management, an institute that supports research, executive
education and conferences on international management issues. He is on the
editor board of the journal Constraints
and has been on the conference committee for many conferences on the
intersection of constraint programming and mathematical programming. In 1995, he was appointed the founding Editor of INFORMS
Online, the electronic information service of INFORMS and is currently
President of that society. Dr. Trick’s
consulting work has included work with the Atlantic Coast
Conference on basketball and referee scheduling, the Internal Revenue
Service on budget allocation, Motorola and Sony on machine scheduling
issues, the Post Office on distribution network planning, and Major League
Baseball on scheduling and league structure issues.
Glenn W. Wegryn
Associate Director, Global Analytics
The Procter & Gamble Company
Glenn
Wegryn holds a BS in Business/Quantitative Analysis from Indiana
University. During his 18 years at Procter & Gamble, Mr. Wegryn has
re-built the Operations Research practice into a world-class
practitioner's organization and has become the acknowledged expert in
strategic siting of manufacturing capacity on a global basis for P&G
and its affiliates. He has led various optimization, simulation and
decision analyses in manufacturing, warehousing, distribution,
transportation and customer services.
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