Event Organizers

INFORMS Member since 1990

Erick D. Wikum

2022 General Chair

Analytics Consultant
Wikalytics, LLC

Dr. Erick D. Wikum has dedicated his nearly 30-year career to helping clients achieve superior results by making better, data-driven decisions. He is currently an analytics consultant for Wikalytics, LLC. Erick’s previous work experience includes diverse technical and leadership roles and industry applications working for Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), IBM, Schneider, Norfolk Southern, and the U.S. Air Force. Erick earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in operations research from Georgia Tech and a B.S. in operations research and mathematics from the United States Air Force Academy. He is an active member of INFORMS, having recently served as president and Subdivisions Council representative of the Analytics Society. He is an associate editor of the INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics. He has served on the organizing committee for the INFORMS Business Analytics Conference for a number of years and is general chair for the 2022 conference.

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Zahir Balaporia, CAP

Independent Advisor

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Joining the FICO team in 2015, Zahir helps clients design solutions for their advanced analytics needs, with a focus on optimization, analytics deployment, and change management. He brings 20 years of experience in manufacturing, transportation, logistics, and IT, having recently led the advanced analytics team within a $4B company. His work was profiled in the book Only Humans Need Apply – Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines by Tom Davenport and Julia Kirby. Zahir has a B.S. in computer engineering, an M.S. in industrial engineering, and an M.S. in system dynamics.

Nathaniel D. Bastian

Chief Data Scientist and Senior Research Scientist
Army Cyber Institute

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Nathaniel currently serves as chief data scientist and senior research scientist at the Army Cyber Institute (ACI) at West Point. In this role, he leads ACI’s Data Science Research Team and manages ACI’s on-premise and cloud-based infrastructure, platform, tooling, and pipelines for data engineering and management, advanced analytics, algorithm and model development, modeling and simulation, and testing and evaluation. His research portfolio aims to advance the body of knowledge in data science, operations research, artificial intelligence, statistical computing, and advanced analytics to support the cyber and information domain for the Army, Department of Defense, and Intelligence Community. He also oversees ACI’s Intelligent Cyber-Systems and Analytics Research Laboratory (ICSARL), which is focused on researching, building, assessing, and deploying computationally intelligent, assured, and distributed decision-support models, tools, and systems for autonomous cyber operations in highly-contested, complex battlefield environments. Nathaniel also serves as assistant professor of operations research and data science at the U.S. Military Academy (USMA). He currently serves on the INFORMS Military and Security Society Council, INFORMS Advocacy Governance Committee, the Military Operations Research Society (MORS) Board of Directors, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Science and Technology Study Group.

Tudor Bodea

Analytics, Strategy & Execution Advisor

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Tudor Bodea is an independent advisor who covers strategy and execution in intense analytics-informed environments. His focus is in the transportation/logistics and hospitality industries. Prior to assuming an advisory role, Tudor was a director of Revenue Optimization Innovation in the Distribution and Revenue Management Strategy Department at the InterContinental Hotels Group in Atlanta. In that role, Tudor was responsible for the identification and exploitation of revenue/profit opportunities using research techniques from such study areas as operations research, economics, and psychology. Tudor has published scientific papers in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management and Transportation Science. He is the co-author of the books Segmentation, Revenue Management and Pricing Analytics and Pricing Segmentation and Analytics. Tudor earned his Ph.D. in civil engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology with an emphasis on choice modeling, transportation systems, logistics, and statistics. He holds an M.S. in civil engineering from Georgia Tech and an M.S. and B.S. in transportation systems from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Alan Briggs, CAP

Senior Director and Data Scientist
Concurrent Technologies Corporation

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Alan Briggs leads CTC’s office in Annapolis Junction, MD, where he oversees day-to-day activities for national security programs in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence & machine learning. He has been an active member of INFORMS since 2011, having since served as President of both the INFORMS Maryland Chapter and the INFORMS Analytics Society; a committee liaison to the Subdivisions Council, IT Committee, and the Analytics Certification Board. He holds the Certified Analytics Professional (CAP) designation, and is the veritable poster child for INFORMS’ Early Career Professionals’ Network (ECPN), as he believes INFORMS “[literally] changed his life.” He holds a bachelor’s in business management from Emory & Henry College, and a master’s in systems engineering from North Carolina State University.

Aaron Burciaga, CAP

Senior Practice Director
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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Aaron Burciaga is a renowned Data Scientist, AI Engineer, author and Advisor. As a seasoned technology and business leader in both startup and enterprise settings, he has focused his career on delivering efficiency and value through automation, data science, machine learning, Artificial Intelligence, blockchain, quantum computing, and emerging concepts and innovative technologies.

Aaron is the Chair of the Analytics Certification Board. His roles have included VP, CTO, and Practice Director of Fortune 500s and co-founder of data and technology startups.

Aaron is a Forbes contributor, frequently invited keynote and speaker, and Certified Analytics Professional (CAP). He is an appointed member of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Technology Information Service (NTIS) advisory board. Aaron received his M.S. Operations Research from the Naval Postgraduate School and his B.S. from the US Naval Academy.

Erick Diaz Outten

Analytics Strategist
Novartis

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Erick Diaz Outten is an Analytics strategist in the pharmaceutical/biotech industry. Erick partners with cross-functional stakeholders & leaders, field teams (on patient adherence and reimbursement, payer and market access, marketing and sales) and executives to impact patients, while improving utilization of prescription drugs. After spending more than a decade working in the non-clinical side of the industry for blockbuster brands at medium/large companies, Erick has learned the process to understand what truly drives impact to patients and prescription drugs, at any stage of development.

Erick started developing his expertise as a consultant in pharma/biotech at ZS Associates, and since then he has worked and impacted small, medium and large corporations in the industry. Companies like Biogen, Alexion, StallerGenes, and Novartis have benefited from Erick’s expertise and diverse background. Before working on the pharmaceutical industry, he lived in his native Peru, where he was an adjunct professor of Operations Research at the National University of Engineering, and had a growing career trajectory starting as a information management consultant for the Energy and Mining industries.

Erick holds a BS in Systems Engineering from the National University of Engineering in Lima, Peru, a Master of Engineering in Operations Research from Cornell University.

Shaun Doheney, CAP

Senior Data and Analytics Strategy Advisor
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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Shaun Doheney is a senior data and analytics strategy advisor at Amazon Web Services (AWS) with experience as a chief analytics officer for an Inc. 5000 company. Shaun is the vice president-elect for the INFORMS Military and Security Society and is actively involved in multiple INFORMS committees where he leverages his experiences from his career as a Marine Corps officer and operations researcher to give back to the public sector analytics communities. Shaun holds a B.S. in mathematics from California State University, Long Beach; M.S. in operations analysis from the Naval Postgraduate School; and a graduate certificate in data analytics from George Mason University. Shaun is an INFORMS Certified Analytics Professional (CAP®), Analytics Capability Evaluation (ACE®) Coach, and a Project Management Institute-certified Project Management Professional (PMP®).

Manish Garg

Senior Director, Data Science
WestRock Company

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Manish Garg currently holds the position of senior director, data science at WestRock Company in the Atlanta metro area. He is responsible for a team of data scientists that develops solutions applying mathematical optimization and machine learning for business units across WestRock. Manish has more than 15 years of experience in applying operations research techniques to support executives and organizations in making better, data-driven decisions. He holds a masters with focus in operations research from University of Arizona. He has been an active member of INFORMS since 2002. During this time, he has attended and presented his research work at conferences and reviewed papers for journals.

Jon Higbie

Chief Analytics Officer
DataPrime, Inc.

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Jon is a global leader in AI/ML software and services. He leads Industry & Government Services for DataPrime, helping some of the best companies overcome their greatest challenges by applying data science. Leveraging DataPrime’s immense talent pool, we can assemble teams of top-tier talent for data science projects or long-term contracting. Prior to DataPrime, Jon served at Zilliant driving innovation for analytics products. He also served as chief science officer at Revenue Analytics where he was responsible for the company’s science and innovation efforts, including analytic product development. Before Revenue Analytics, Jon served as chief scientist at JDA Software and on the faculty of the College of Management at Georgia Tech. Jon is a Franz Edelman Laureate and holds several patents. He is particularly known for his groundbreaking work in the logistics, hospitality, and advertising industries. He has been recognized for his contributions to the science of group revenue management, real-time price management, and large-scale network optimization for companies such as Maersk, Walt Disney Television, The Coca-Cola Company, Ford Motor Company, InterContinental Hotels Group, Marriott International, and Delta Air Lines.

Mani Janakiram

Intel Corporation

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Mani Janakiram has been with Intel for 19 years and has managed several strategic projects in factory operations, capacity planning, process control, analytics, strategy, supplier management, IoT, factory science, and supply chain. His 25 years of experience includes automotive and aerospace industries. Prior to Intel, he worked at Honeywell and Motorola in operations, strategy, systems, analytics, manufacturing, research, planning, etc. He is located in Gilbert, AZ.

Mani has two patents and has published 75+ papers on supply chain, statistical modeling, capacity modeling, data mining, Lean Six Sigma, factory operations research, and process control. Mani is an adjunct professor at Arizona State University, school of Supply Chain/Business and is also a visiting lecturer at MIT’s Center for Transportation & Logistics. He is an accomplished speaker and also serves on several committees, including AZ Tech Council, ASU Network Value Chain, MIT CTL, INFORMS, APICS, CSMCP, etc. Mani holds a Ph.D. in industrial & systems engineering from Arizona State University and an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management. He is a recognized Six Sigma Master Black Belt and also an APICS certified supply chain professional (CSCP). Recently he was recognized by Drexel University and CIO.com as one of the Top 50 Analytics Executives.

Juan Jaramillo

Associate Professor
Robert Willumstad School of Business, Adelphi University

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Juan is an associate professor in the Robert Willumstad School of Business at Adelphi University. He holds a Ph.D. in industrial engineering from West Virginia University. He is also the director of the Master in Business Analytics and co-chair of the prestigious Innovative Applications in Analytics Award. He is the inaugural recipient of the prestigious Michael F. Gorman Award for his contribution to the Analytics Society of INFORMS. His published research and consulting activities span the fields of analytics, logistics, operations management, and healthcare management.

James Mansfield

Health & Life Science Artificial Intelligence Division
Analytics for Living

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James Mansfield is a data scientist and commercial leader. As a global business leader, he combines commercial expertise and global experience to develop analytics functions within organizations addressing complex, critical business issues in the healthcare and consumer industries. James’ direct management and collaborative cross-functional leadership continues to build consultative relationships and analytic vision, which motivates analytic teams to make great impact. James’ early career experiences in international strategic marketing, sales, and operational excellence have fostered his “storytelling style” when conveying insights and strategic direction to commercial partners. James’ career has been focused in the pharmaceutical, biotech, over-the-counter, consumer package goods, media, and financial services industries.

James currently leads Global Quantitative Science & Commercial Analytics for Merck’s ~$3B Hospital Acute Care products. Prior to Merck, James led North America & Global Insights & Analytics Commercial initiatives for GlaxoSmithKline. Post graduate school and prior to GSK, James was a management consultant with ZS Associates, Nielsen Company, IQVIA, PA Consulting, and Express Scripts. James spent his early career at AbbVie and Johnson & Johnson as a District Sales Manager, Brand Marketing Manager, Hospital Specialty Sales Representative, Sales Representative, and Marketing Communications Associate.

James received his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and B.S. in biology and Spanish from Villanova University. James is Black Belt Certified in Six Sigma from Rutgers University Lockheed Martin partnership program. James is a certified Project Management Professional. James continues to advance his analytics skills from SPSS, SAS Programming Certified, Data Scientist certifications to Python, R and AWS cloud.

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Tarun Mohan Lal

Vice President, Analytics and Operations Excellence
Atrium Navicent Health

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Tarun Mohan Lal is an experienced healthcare leader with 10+ years of experience in engineering, analytics, and healthcare administration with a passion for digitization and innovation in healthcare.

Tarun serves is the vice president, Analytics and Operations Excellence at Atrium Navicent Health, where he provides oversight to the analytics, performance improvement, patient experience, and organizational development functions across the system of care. Prior to this role, Tarun spent eight years at Mayo Clinic in varying leadership roles including analytics, research, strategic planning, and service line operations.

Originally from India, Tarun has a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from the Manipal University, India, Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, and Doctorate in System Science and Industrial Engineering from State University of New York.

Tarun is a highly valued professional in the healthcare industry and was recently named a Diplomate by Society for Health Systems. He was appointed as the Assistant Professor of Healthcare Systems Engineering and Assistant Professor of Healthcare Administration by Mayo Clinic College of Medicine for his academic and research contributions. National Academy of Engineering/Discover-E named Tarun as one of the 13 New Faces of Engineering in 2014, and he was recognized by the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering in 2017 as an Outstanding Early Career Young Professional in Industry. He is also author of several publications on the topic of analytics, is a seasoned industry speaker, and has served on several advisory boards.

In the midst of COVID-19, Tarun is helping his organization in the capacity of Chief of Planning on the incident command center by providing data-driven analysis.

Hua Ni, CAP

Principal Data Scientist & Associate Partner
IBM

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Hua Ni is a principal data scientist and associate partner with IBM GBS Federal Cognitive & Analytics practice. Ni joined IBM in 2004 and has developed a wide variety of advanced analytics and operations research solutions, including large-scale transportation optimization planning, network design and facility planning, performance measurement, and operational diagnostics. Since 2016, Dr. Ni has served as the chief data scientist for USAID GHSC-PSM, a global health supply chain serving 50+ countries. He received a D.Sc. in operations research from George Washington University, specializing in mathematical optimization. Ni has been active within the OR/MS community, and served as president for the Washington DC Chapter of INFORMS. Ni is a Certified Analytics Professional (CAP) and a Certified Distinguished Data Scientist by The Open Group.

Pelin Pekgün

Associate Professor
Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina

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Pelin Pekgün is an associate professor of management science in the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. She also serves as the faculty director for the Master of Science in Business Analytics program. Her research interests include applications of management science and operations research in pricing and revenue management, supply chain management, marketing/operations interface, and humanitarian operations. Prior to joining academia, she led the operations research team in North America at JDA Software’s Pricing and Revenue Management Group, where she worked in various projects in retail, hospitality, passenger travel, and other leisure industries. Her work with the Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group on stay night price optimization was a finalist for the 2012 INFORMS Franz Edelman Award and the 2013 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Practice Award. She currently serves as an associate editor for Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics, and Decision Sciences, as the VP of Membership and Professional Recognition in the INFORMS Board of Directors, a Board member for the INFORMS Section on Practice, and a member of the INFORMS Practice Strategy Committee. Pekgün holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in industrial and systems engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, and B.S. and M.S. degrees in industrial engineering from Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey.

Jennifer Priestley

Associate Dean, The Graduate College
Director, Analytics and Data Science Institute
Kennesaw State University

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Jennifer Priestley is the associate dean of The Graduate College and director of the Analytics and Data Science Institute at Kennesaw State University. In 2012, the SAS Institute recognized Priestley as the 2012 Distinguished Statistics Professor of the Year. She served as the 2012 and 2015 co-chair of the National Analytics Conference. Datanami recognized Priestley as one of the top 12 “Data Scientists to Watch in 2016.”

She architected the first Ph.D. program in data science, which launched in February 2015.

Priestley has been a featured speaker at SAS Analytics, SAS Global Forum, Big Data Week, Technology Association of Georgia, Data Science ATL, The Atlanta Chief Data Officer Summit, The Atlanta CEO Council, Predictive Analytics World, INFORMS, and dozens of corporate events addressing issues related to advanced analytics and the challenges and opportunities of big data. She is a member of the advisory board for the Southern Data Science Conference and Flock Specialty Finance.

Prior to receiving a Ph.D. in statistics, Priestley worked in the financial services industry for 11 years. Her positions included vice president of Business Development for VISA EU in London, as well as for MasterCard US, and an analytical consultant with Accenture’s strategic services group.

Priestley received a Ph.D. from Georgia State University, an MBA from The Pennsylvania State University, where she was president of the graduate student body, and a B.S. from Georgia Tech. She holds two SAS Certifications – Base Programming and Statistical Business Analyst.

Nancy Pyron

Analytics, Strategic & Organizational Consultant
NMP Consulting, LLC

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Nancy’s journey in revenue management and pricing began more than 20 years ago spanning a diverse cross section of industries including hotel, rental car, airline, cargo, retail, transportation, and B2B contracts. Her career includes project management, user training, change management, system design, and system implementation. Implementation design focused on creating long-term strategies to support blending the needs of business, technical, and analytic teams, while ensuring long-term sustainable and maintainable systems. Nancy received an M.S. in operations research from Stanford University and a B.S. in applied mathematics from University of North Texas.

Les Servi

Chief Scientist
The MITRE Corporation

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Les Servi is chief scientist at The MITRE Corporation, where he contributes to a diversity of areas including the cyber operations research and heath analytics, and runs a Decision Analytics Group. In addition, he was a technical advisor to some government programs to help select, monitor, and/or make recommendations to redirect recipients of government funding. He started the new Social Media Analysis subdivision of INFORMS, helped start the Telecommunications subdivision. and is currently the Boston INFORMS chair. He is a member of the Board of Directors of MORS (Military Operations Research Society). He is a former member of two Defense Science Board task forces, a former member of the Board of Directors of INFORMS for six years, a former chair of the Applied Probability Socity and the Telecommunications subdivision, and is a Fellow of INFORMS. He has been an editor of Operations Research, Management Science, and INFORMS Journal on Computing. He previously worked at Bell Laboratories and GTE (now Verizon) Laboratories pursuing telecommunication research, served as a visiting scientist at Harvard University and MIT, and worked at MIT Lincoln Lab in the areas of military communication and ISR. He has an extensive publication record with five papers having more than 20 citations and was awarded 10 patents as a result of his operations research analysis. He earned a B.S. and M.S. in applied mathematics from Brown University and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Zohar Strinka

Principal Consultant
Analytics Strategies LLC

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Zohar Strinka is Principal Consultant for Analytics Strategies. She has expertise in using data and analytics tools to solve problems in a range of domains including supply chain, retail, healthcare, manufacturing, and people analytics. In addition to her technical expertise she is passionate about decision making and using appropriate tools to bridge the gap from data to decision. She has been a member of INFORMS since 2010 and holds a PhD in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Yan Xu

Director, Analytics R&D Division
SAS

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Yan Xu is a director in the Analytics R&D division at SAS Institute Inc., where he leads the research and development of SAS Operations Research and Optimization products. Besides general-purpose optimization software, his team provides specialized optimization solvers for analytics products, including statistics, forecasting, and machine learning. Yan’s team also works with industrial solution partner teams on developing targeted software for solving specific business problems such as fraud detection, pricing optimization, and risk management.

Yan is a member of the INFORMS Roundtable and a council member of the Data Ming Section. He is passionate about sponsoring and supporting INFORMS events. SAS is a sponsor of all INFORMS major conferences and actively involving various INFORMS initiatives.

Yan is a full member of COIN-OR and a program committee member of top machine learning conferences like ICML and NeurIPS. He has published research papers in optimization and machines learning journals and conferences. Yan received his undergraduate and master’s degrees from Fudan University, China and his Ph.D. from Lehigh University.

Selects Committee

Chair: Jim Williams, CAP

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Jim Williams is a retired analytics enthusiast with a passion for implementing significant business impact, by combining curious business acumen, earned trust, and helpful analytics methods in the hands of decision makers. He has 38 years of experience as an analytics consultant and supply chain manager. As senior principal consultant with FICO’s Xpress Optimization team, his role was helping organizations understand the potential of applying optimization and advanced analytic methods to help solve tough business problems in short order. This took form as diagnosing opportunities to help solve their problems, demonstrating capabilities with their data, and framing up training and/or development efforts. Prior to FICO, Jim led the Advanced Analytics team at Land O’Lakes, solving collaborative supply chain challenges in product design, product mix, planning, sourcing, manufacturing, and distribution.

Jim has been a member of TIMS and INFORMS since 1983, and a Roundtable representative for FICO and Land O’Lakes from 2006-2020. He has served on the INFORMS Membership Committee, Analytics Maturity Model Committee, Meetings Committee, Analytics Conference Advisory Committee, chair of the Analytics Certification Board, and president of the Analytics Society. He served as general chair for the 2013 Analytics Conference.

Jim received an M.S. degree in forestry with operations research concentration, from the University of Minnesota. He also holds the Certified Analytics Professional credential.

Darin England

University of Minnesota

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Darin England joined the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department as an Assistant Teaching Professor in 2015. He teaches courses that cover topics in Probability and Statistics, Simulation, Decision Analysis, and Analytics, and provides academic advising for undergraduate students. Before joining the ISyE Department, Dr. England worked as a field engineer, and later as a research scientist. He has more than 20 years of experience in the energy, transportation, health care, and hospitality industries. As a research scientist, he used mathematical programming, machine learning, simulation, and forecasting methodologies to help companies make better decisions. His interests are at the intersection of Operations Research and Computer Science. Dr. England earned a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Minnesota.

Fatma Gzara

University of Waterloo

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Fatma Gzara is associate professor and co-founder of WANOPT, the Waterloo Analytics and Optimization Lab. She holds a professional engineering designation in Ontario, Canada. Her primary research interests are in large-scale optimization and its applications. Her current research activities focus on data analytics, supply chain management, optimization under uncertainty, and network design for hazardous material transportation, distribution, and airline operations. She is leading several industry collaborations on data analytics funded by federal and provincial grants. Some of her industry collaborators include Bombardier Inc., Navtech Inc., and Dematic Ltd, MedAvail Technologies Inc. She has published work on large-scale optimization, optimization under uncertainty, network design and analysis, supply chain management, hazmat transportation, and airline operations planning. Her work appeared in the Journal of Global Optimization, Omega: The International Journal of Management Science, Networks, Computers and Industrial Engineering, and IIE Transactions, among others.

Professor Gzara received a Ph.D. in management from the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, and M.S. and B.S. degrees in industrial engineering from Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey). She was assistant professor at York University from 2006 to 2009. Prior to that, she held a postdoctoral position at the University of Alberta, School of Business.

Shrikant Jarugumilli

Bayer

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Ed Pohl

University of Arkansas

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Poster Committee

Matthew Lanham, CAP

Purdue University

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Professor Lanham is a member of the Quantitative Methods Area faculty in Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management where he teaches courses on Data Mining, Predictive Analytics, and Using R for Analytics. His primary focus is serving as Academic Director for the M.S. in Business Analytics & Information Management (BAIM) program, where he scopes and mentors Industry Practicum/Capstone projects for those students, as well as projects via Purdue’s Krenicki Center for Business Analytics and Machine Learning where he serves as Associate Director.

Alan Taber, CAP

Systems Engineer Senior Staff
Lockheed Martin

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Alan Taber is from Fort Worth where he is a member of the System Design and Requirements group at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. He has more than 15 years of experience and a variety of increasingly responsible roles, including time in software project management, combat system engineering, and renewable energy. He has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University, master’s in system engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, and an MBA in international business from Rutgers University-Camden. He participated in the 2008 INFORMS Professional Colloquium, is co-chair of the CAP Study Guide Committee and study guide editor, and has served as co-chair of the Analytics Conference Poster Session since 2012 and as the INFORMS Professional Colloquium (IPC) chair since 2015.