Skip to content

Cluster Chairs

Community Cluster Chairs Formerly Sponsored Cluster Chairs

Applied Probability Society

Debankur Mukherjee
Georgia Institute of Technology

Auctions and Market Design

Christian Kroer
Columbia University 

Jiaqi Lu
Chinese University of Hong Kong

Rad Niazadeh
University of Chicago

Artificial Intelligence

Howard Zhong 
ESCP Business School 

Yifan Yu 
University of Texas

Aviation Applications

Fanruiqi Zeng  
Target

Behavioral Operations Management

Brett Hathaway
Brigham Young University  

Computing Society

Merve Bodur
University of Edinburgh

Data Mining

Woody Zhu
Carnegie Mellon University 

Decision Analysis Society

Mavis Wang
Tsinghua University

Max Zellner 
Amazon

Andrea Hupman
University of Missouri-St. Louis

eBusiness

Leila Hosseini 
University of Houston

Xiaoning (Gavin) Wang
University of Texas-Dallas

Ran (Alan) Zhang
Texas Tech University

Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment

Benjamin Leibowisc 
University of Texas

ENRE-Electricity

Joseph Duggan
University of Dayton

ENRE-Energy-Climate

Kai Pan 
Hong Kong Polytechnic University

ENRE-Environment and Sustainability

Fariba Mamaghani 
Tulane University  

ENRE- Natural Resources

Esra Buyuktahtakin Toy
Virginia Tech

ENRE- Energy

Ahmed Aziz Ezzat 
Rutgers University 

Finance

Nan Chen
Chinese University of Hong Kong

Zachary Feinstein
Stevens Institute of Technology

Group Decision and Negotiation

Danielle Morais 
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco  

Health Applications Society

Pengyi Shi 
Purdue University

Hrayer Aprahamian
Texas A&M University

Information Systems

Yuheng Hu
University of Illinois-Chicago

Bowen Lou
University of Southern California

Yixin Lu
George Washington University

Lauren Rhue
University of Maryland

Ananya Sen
Carnegie Mellon University 

Junior Faculty Interest Group

Karmel Shehadeh
Lehigh University

Raed Al Kontar
University of Michigan

Location Analysis

Karmel Shehadeh
Lehigh University  
 

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Hummy Song
University of Pennsylvania

Andre Calmon
Georgia Tech

MSOM/Healthcare

Yichuan Ding
McGill University

Ujjal Mukherjee
University of Illnois

MSOM/iForm

Qi Wu
Case Western University

Fasheng Xu
University of Connecticut

MSOM/Service Operations

Yue Hu
Stanford University

Angi Orfanoudaki
Oxford University

MSOM/Supply Chain

Christopher Chen
Indiana University 

Xuying Zhao
Texas A&M University 

MSOM/Sustainable Operations

Tarkan Tan
University of Zurich

Safak Yucel
Georgetown University

MSOM/ Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship

Hallie Cho
Vanderbilt University

Alp Sungu
University of Pennsylvania

Military and Security

Isabella Sanders
United States Military Academy 

Minority Issues Forum

Sofia Perez-Guzman 
Georgia Institute of Technology

Wesley Marrero 
Dartmouth College

Mina Yi
Dartmouth College

Multi-Criteria Decision Making

Banu Lokman
University of Portsmouth

Adiel Teixeira de Almeida
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Optimization

Jeff Linderoth
University of Wisconsin-Madison

OPT/Computational Optimization and Software

Bartolomeo Stellato
Princeton University

OPT/Global Optimization

Rohit Kannan
Virginia Tech

OPT/Integer and Discrete Optimization

Aleksandr Kazachkov
University of Florida

OPT/Linear and Conic Optimization

Haihao (Sean) Lu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

OPT/Machine Learning

Rahul Mazumder
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

OPT/Network Optimization

Jim Ostrowski
University of Tennessee-Knoxville

OPT/Nonlinear Optimization

Raghu Bollapragada
University of Texas

OPT/Optimization Under Uncertainty

Johannes Royset
University of Southern California

Public Sector O.R.

Carolina Vivas-Valencia
University of Texas-San Antonio

Gabriela Gongora-Svartzman
Northeastern University

Quality, Statistics, and Reliability

Hao Yan
Arizona State University  

Railway Applications

Clark Cheng
Retired

Revenue Management and Pricing

Junyu Cao
University of Texas

Yifan Feng
National University of Singapore

Shreyas Sekar
University of Toronto

Service Science

Kejia Hu
University of Oxford

Guiping Hu
Oklahoma State University 

Simulation Society

Susan Hunter 
Purdue University

Social Media Analytics

Lingshu Hu
Washington and Lee University

SpORts

Stephen Hill
Samford University

Technology, Innovation Management, and Entrepreneurship

Jochen Schlapp
Frankfurt School of Finance & Mgmt.

Zhaohui (Zoey) Jiang
Carnegie Mellon University

Telecommunications and Network Analytics

Alessandro Hill 
University of Bologna

Abdullah Konak 
Pennsylvania State Berks University

Transportation Science and Logistics

Yu Yang 
University of Florida

Zhentian Xu
George Washington University   

TSL/Air Transportation

Heng Chen 
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Alexander Estes
University of Maryland

TSL/Facility Logistics

Baris Yildiz
Koc University

Rheem Khir
Purdue University

TSL/Freight Transportation

Burak Eksioglu
University of Arkansas

Jeff Ohlmann 
University of Iowa

TSL/Intelligent Transportation Systems

Yanshuo Sun
Florida State University

Nikolo Markovic
University of Utah

TSL/Urban Transportation Planning and Modeling

Chiwei Yan
University of California, Berkeley

Qi Luo
University of Iowa

Women in OR/MS (WORMS)

Di Nguyen
University College Dublin

INFORMS Sessions

INFORMS Advocacy

Jeff Cohen
INFORMS

INFORMS Ambassadors

Banafsheh Behzad
California State University

INFORMS Committee on Teaching and Learning

Gabriela Gongora-Svartzman
Carnegie Mellon University

Education Outreach

Neil Desnoyers
Saint Joseph’s University

ONR

David Phillips
Office of Naval Research

INFORMS PRIZE SESSIONS