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BULLET Sponsored Chairs

Organizing Committee

General Chair
Michael A. Trick
Carnegie Mellon University
trick@cmu.edu

Program Co-Chairs
Jayant Rajgopal
University of Pittsburgh
rajgopal@pitt.edu

Andrew J. Schaefer
University of Pittsburgh
schaefer@ie.pitt.edu

Invited Session Co-Chairs
Jonathan Caulkins
Carnegie Mellon University
caulkins@cmu.edu

Prakash Mirchandani
University of Pittsburgh
pmirchan@katz.pitt.edu

Sponsored Session Co-Chairs
Brady Hunsaker
University of Pittsburgh
hunsaker@engr.pitt.edu

Javier F. Pena
Carnegie Mellon University
jfp@andrew.cmu.edu

Contributed Paper Co-Chairs
Bahar Biller
Carnegie Mellon University
billerb@andrew.cmu.edu

Laurens G. Debo
Carnegie Mellon University
laurdebo@andrew.cmu.edu

Lisa Maillart
University of Pittsburgh
lisa.maillarte@engr.pitt.edu

Tutorial Co-Chairs
Michael P. Johnson
Carnegie Mellon University
johnson2@andrew.cmu.edu

Bryan A. Norman
University of Pittsburgh
banorman@engr.pitt.edu

Nicola Secomandi
Carnegie Mellon University
ns7@andrew.cmu.edu

Theme Co-Chairs
Matthew D. Bailey
University of Pittsburgh
mdbailey@engr.pitt.edu

Alan Scheller-Wolf
Carnegie Mellon University
awolf@andrew.cmu.edu

Practitioner Interest Committee
Kevin F. Kandt (Chair)
PPG Industries
kandt@ppg.com

Stephen D. Brady
RAND Corporation
brady@rand.org

Sunder Kekre
Carnegie Mellon University
sk0a@andrew.cmu.edu

Valerie Tardif
SmartOps
vtardif@smartops.com

Interactive Sessions
Miguel A. Lejeune
Carnegie Mellon University
mlejeune@andrew.cmu.edu

Teacher Workshop Liaison
Brady Hunsaker
University of Pittsburgh
hunsaker@engr.pitt.edu

Volunteer Coordinator
Oleg Prokopyev
University of Pittsburgh
prokopyev@engr.pitt.edu

 

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INVITED CLUSTER CHAIRS

Analytic Hierarchy Process
Luis G. Vargas
University of Pittsburgh
vargas@katz.pitt.edu

Auctions & E-Commerce
Michael H. Rothkopf
Rutgers University
rothkopf@rutcor.rutgers.edu

Arvind Rangaswamy
Pennsylvania State University
arvindr@psu.edu

Closed-Loop Supply Chains and Reverse Logistics
V. Daniel R. Guide, Jr.
The Pennsylvania State University
drg16@psu.edu

Counter Terrorism & O.R.
Vicki M. Bier
University of Wisconsin-Madison
bier@engr.wisc.edu

Henry Willis
RAND Corporation
hwillis@rand.org

Data Envelopment Analysis
Lawrence M. Seiford
University of Michigan
seiford@umich.edu

Joseph Zhu
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
jzhu@wpi.edu

Data Mining & Automated Learning
Alan Montgomery
Carnegie Mellon University
alanmontgomery@cmu.edu

Dynamic Pricing & Forecasting
Andrew E. Boyd
PROS Revenue Management
aboyd@prosrm.com

Georgia Perakis
MIT
georgiap@mit.edu

Enterprise-wide Optimization in the Process Industry
Ignacio Grossmann
Carnegie Mellon University
grossmann@cmu.edu

Kevin Furman
Exxon Mobil
kevin.c.furman@exxonmobil.com

Financial Engineering & Risk Management
Steven Kou
Columbia University
sk75@columbia.edu

Geometric Programming Research
Jayant Rajgopal
University of Pittsburgh
rajgopal@engr.pitt.edu

Great Unsolved Problems in O.R.
Arjang A. Assad
University of Maryland
aassad@rhsmith.umd.edu

Saul I. Gass
University of Maryland
SGass@rhsmith.umd.edu

Healthcare Engineering
Ronald L. Rardin
Purdue University
rardin@purdue.edu

History of O.R. & Management Science
Ernest Koenigsberg
University of California at Berkeley
ekoenigsb@aol.com

Humanitarian Supply Chain Management
Luk N. Van Wassenhove
INSEAD
luk.van-wassenhove@insead.edu

Multi-Criteria Decision Making
Ravi Ravindran
Pennsylvania State University
aravi@psu.edu

New Books
Brian Borchers
New Mexico Tech
borchers@nmt.edu

New Frontiers at the Intersection of Industrial Engineering and O.R.
Jayant Rajgopal
University of Pittsburgh
rajgopal@engr.pitt.edu

New Product Development
Christian Terwiesch
University of Pennsylvania
terwiesch@wharton.upenn.edu

Open-Source Software
Robin Lougee-Heimer
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
robinlh@us.ibm.com

Operations and Marketing for Emerging Markets
Laurens Debo
CMU
laurdebo@andrew.cmu.edu

Jinhong Xie
University of Florida
jinhong.xie@cba.ufl.edu

O.R. Entrepreneurship
Bruce L. Golden
University of Maryland
bgolden@rhsmith.umd.edu

O.R. Practice
Srinivas Bollapragada
General Electric Global Research Center
bollapragada@research.ge.com

Planning for and Responding to Disasters
Richard C. Larson
MIT
rclarson@mit.edu

Project Management
Theodore D. Klastorin
University of Washington
tedk@u.washington.edu

Richard E. Wendell
University of Pittsburgh
wendell@katz.pitt.edu

Scheduling
Nicholas G. Hall
Ohio State University
hall_33@cob.osu.edu

Marc E. Posner
Ohio State University
posner.1@osu.edu

Services Off-Shoring
Mor Armony
New York University
marmony@stern.nyu.edu

Samer Takriti
IBM
takriti@us.ibm.com

Supply Chain & Operations Engineering
Anant Balakrishnan
University of Texas at Austin
anantb@mail.utexas.edu

Joseph Geunes
University of Florida
geunes@ise.ufl.edu

Where Do We Want to Go?
Christopher Tang
UCLA
chris.tang@anderson.ucla.edu

SPONSORED CLUSTER CHAIRS

Applied Probability
Mor Armony
New York University
marmony@stern.nyu.edu

David Gamarnik
MIT
gamarnik@mit.edu

Artificial Intelligence
Jacquelyn Rees
Purdue University
jrees@purdue.edu

Aviation Applications
Gregory Coldren
Northwestern University
g-coldren@northwestern.edu

Computing
John Chinneck
Carleton University
chinneck@sce.carleton.ca

Constraint Programming
Pascal Van Hentenryck
Brown University
pvh@cs.brown.edu

Data Mining Section: Computational Aspects of Data Mining and Warehousing
Andrew Kusiak
The University of Iowa
andrew-kusiak@uiowa.edu

Vicotria Chen
UT Arlington
vchen@uta.edu

Heuristic Search
David Woodruff
UC Davis
dlwoodruff@ucdavis.edu

Manuel Laguna
University of Colorado
laguna@colorado.edu

Open Source Software: Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data
Robin Lougee-Heimer
IBM
robinlh@us.ibm.com

Optimization: Computational Optimization and Software
Sanjay Mehrotra
Northwestern University
mehrotra@iems.northwestern.edu

Data Mining
Andrew Kusiak
University of Iowa
andrew-kusiak@uiowa.edu

Decision Analysis
Eva D. Regnier
Naval Postgraduate School
eregnier@nps.navy.mil

Ali E. Abbas
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
aliabbas@uiuc.edu

E-Business
Arvind Rangaswamy
The Pennsylvania State University
arvindr@psu.edu

Mu Xia
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
mxia@uiuc.edu

Education (INFORM-ED)
Jill Hardin
Virginia Commonwealth University
jrhardin@vcu.edu

Energy, Natural Resources & the Environment
Stephanie Snyder
USDA Forest Service
stephaniesnyder@fs.fed.us

Tapas Das
University of South Florida
das@eng.usf.edu

Financial Services
Suresh Nair
University of Connecticut
suresh.nair@business.uconn.edu

Health Applications
Julie Simmons Ivy
University of Michigan
jsimmons@bus.umich.edu

Information Systems Society
Paulo Goes
University of Connecticut
Paulo.Goes@business.uconn.edu

Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG)
Gal Raz
Australian Graduate School of Management
galr@agsm.edu.au

Location Analysis
Zuo-Jun Shen
University of California at Berkeley
shen@ieor.berkeley.edu

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Serguei Netessine
University of Pennsylvania
netessin@wharton.upenn.edu

Terry Taylor
Columbia University
tat2002@columbia.edu

Marketing Science
Jagmohan Raju
The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania
rajuj@wharton.upenn.edu

Kannan Srinivasan
Carnegie-Mellon
kannans@andrew.cmu.edu

Military Applications
William K. Klimack
Decision Strategies, Inc.
bklimack@decisionstrategies.com

Minority Issues
Illya V. Hicks
Texas A&M University
ivhicks@tamu.edu

OPTIMIZATION

Global Optimization
Mohit Tawarmalani
Purdue University
mtawarma@mgmt.purdue.edu

Integer Programming
Jean-Philippe P. Richard
Purdue University
jprichar@ecn.purdue.edu

Linear Programming & Complementarity
Anitescu Mihai
Argonne National Laboratory
anitescu@mcs.anl.gov

Network & Combinatorial Optimization
Kamal Jain
Georgia Institute of Technology
kjain@cc.gatech.edu

Nonlinear Programming
Sven Leyffer
Argonne National Laboratory
leyffer@mcs.anl.gov

Optimization - Health Care
Eva Lee
Georgia Institute of Technology
evakylee@isye.gatech.edu

Stochastic Programming
Andrzej Ruszczinsky
Rutgers University
rusz@business.rutgers.edu

Organization Science
Tina Dacin
Queens University
tdacin@business.queensu.ca

Public Programs and Processes
John Hall
National Fire Protection Ass.
jhall@NFPA.org

Quality, Statistics & Reliability
Jye-Chyi Lu
Georgia Institute of Technology
jclu@isye.gatech.edu

Railroad Applications
David Hunt
Cambridge Systematics, Inc.
dhunt@camsys.com

Revenue Management & Pricing
Baris Ata
Northwestern University
b-ata@kellogg.northwestern.edu

Luce Brotcorne
Université de Valenciennes
luce.brotcorne@univ-valenciennes.fr

Simulation
Stephen Chick
INSEAD
stephen.chick@insead.edu

O.R. in SpORts
Joel Sokol
Georgia Institute of Technology
jsokol@isye.gatech.edu

Spreadsheet Productivity Research
Janet Wagner
University of Massachusetts-Boston
janet.wagner@umb.edu

Technology Management
Francisco Veloso
Carnegie Mellon University
fveloso@cmu.edu

Telecommunications
Abdullah Konak
Pennsylvania State Universtiy
konak@psu.edu

Transportation Science & Logistics
Huseyin Topaloglu
Cornell University
huseyin@orie.cornell.edu

Women in OR/MS
Sila Cetinkaya
Texas A&M University
sila@tamu.edu

 

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