The eNews Daily Team
Mikhail Bragin
Mikhail Bragin is an Energy Marketing Analysis Advisor, Resource/Environment Planning and Strategies, at Southern California Edison. He is also an assistant research professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Connecticut.
He is an INFORMS NavigatOR for the 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting.
Kara Combs
Kara Combs is an associate computer engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory and an operations research Ph.D. student at the Air Force Institute of Technology. She has been a member of INFORMS since 2021. Within the Institute, she serves as the co-lead editor of OR/MS Tomorrow, treasurer of the Cincinnati-Dayton Professional Chapter, an INFORMS NavigatOR and 2024 DEI Ambassador. In her free time, she often finds herself volunteering for K-12 STEM outreach event and her local community.
She received her B.S. in industrial and systems engineering and M.S. in industrial and human factors engineering from Wright State University.
Thiago Serra
Thiago Serra recently joined the University of Iowa’s Tippie College Business as an assistant professor of business analytics, following five years as an assistant professor of analytics and operations management at Bucknell University’s Freeman College of Management. Previously, he was a visiting research scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs from 2018 to 2019, and operations research analyst at Petrobras from 2009 to 2013. He has a Ph.D. in operations research from Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business, from which he received the Gerald L. Thompson Doctoral Dissertation Award in Management Science in 2018. During his Ph.D., he was also awarded the INFORMS Judith Liebman Award. His research at the intersection of discrete optimization and machine learning is supported by the National Science Foundation.
