INFORMS Member since 2008
Dayana Cope, PhD
2021 General Chair
Director, Simulation and Data Analytics
Engineering USA
Dayana Cope is an analytics expert and leader with over 15 years of experience evangelizing analytics in a wide variety of industries including manufacturing, entertainment, and transportation. Dayana excels at defining and executing analytics strategy and building analytical organizations that are customer and client centric. Before joining Engineering USA, Dayana led the advanced analytics group at Disney Parks, Experiences and Products. Dayana obtained a PhD, MS and BS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Central Florida with a focus in the area of Supply Chain Management and Simulation Modeling and Analysis.
Organizing Committee
Zahir Balaporia, CAP
Senior Director, Solutions Consulting
FICO
Nathaniel D. Bastian
Chief Artificial Intelligence Architect
DoD Joint Artificial Intelligence Center
Tudor Bodea
Advisor: Analytics, Strategy & Execution
Alan Briggs, CAP
Concurrent Technologies
Peter Buczkowski
Director, Decision Science
Delta Air Lines
Aaron Burciaga, CAP
Vice President of Data & Artificial Intelligence
ECS
Rob Dees
People Insights Senior Manager
Dell
Shaun Doheney, CAP
Senior Data and Analytics Strategy Advisor
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Manish Garg
Director, Data Science
Westrock Company
Col. Andrew O. Hall
Associate Professor of Cybersecurity and Data Science
Marymount University
Genetha Grey
Manager, Data Science & Research Group, Employee Success Strategy & Analytics (ESSA) Team
Salesforce
Jon Higbie
Managing Director
DataPrime
Mani Janakiram
Intel Corporation
Tarun Mohan Lal
Vice President, Analytics & Operations Excellence
Atrium Navicent Health
James Mansfield
Global Quantitative Science & Commercial Analytics
Merck
Scott Nestler, CAP
Director, MS in Business Analytics Program, Associate Teaching Professor
Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame
Pelin Pekgün
Associate Professor
Darla Moore School of Business, University Of South Carolina
Jennifer Priestley
Associate Dean, The Graduate College
Director, Analytics and Data Science Institute
Kennesaw State University
Nancy Pyron
Analytics, Strategic & Organizational Consultant
NMP Consulting, LLC
Les Servi
Chief Scientist
The MITRE Corporation
Gary Summers
Pipeline Physics
Erick Wickum
Analytics Consultant
Wikalytics, LLC
Selects Committee
Jim Williams, CAP (Selects Chair)
Retired Analytics Professional
Fatma Gzara
Associate Professor, Department of Engineering
University of Waterloo, Canada
Poster Committee
Alan Taber, CAP
Systems Engineer Senior Staff
Lockheed Martin
Matthew Lanham, CAP
Purdue University