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Cluster Chairs

Community Cluster Chairs Formerly Sponsored Cluster Chairs

Analytics Society

Ece Ceren Izgi 
AWS 

Applied Probability Society

Weina Wang
Carnegie Mellon University

Dan Russo
Columbia University

Artificial Intelligence

Howard Zhong 
ESCP Business School 

Auctions and Market Design

Ali Maklhdoumi
Duke University 

Thodoris Lykouris
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Pengyu Qian
Purdue University

Aviation Applications

Alexander Stewart Estes  
University of Maryland-College Park

Behavioral Operations Management

Eirini Spiliotopoulou
Tilburg University  

Yinghao Zhang
University of Cincinnati 

Computing Society

Merve Bodur
University of Edinburgh

Data Mining

Ying Lin
University of Houston

Decision Analysis Society

Mathieu Dahan
Georgia Tech

eBusiness

Mingwen Yang 
University of Washington

Dandan Qiao
National University of Singapore

Yipu Deng
The University of Hong Kong

Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment

Esra Buyuktahtakin Toy  
Virginia Tech

ENRE-Electricity

Haoxiang Yang 
Chinese University of Hong Kong 

ENRE-Energy-Climate

Michael Craig 
University of Michigan 

ENRE-Environment and Sustainability

Hongyue Jin 
University of Arizona 

ENRE- Other Energy

Erick C. Jones 
University of Texas at Arlington 

Finance

Agostino Capponi
Columbia University

Xuedong He
Chinese University of Hong Kong

Group Decision and Negotiation

Adiel T de Almeida 
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco 

Liping Fang 
Toronto Metropolitan University 

Danielle Morais 
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco  

Health Applications Society

Sze-Chuan Suen 
University of Southern California

Qiushi Chen
Pennsylvania State University

Information Systems

Rohit Aggarwal
University of Utah

Ian Ho
Tulane University

Yixin Lu
George Washington University

Wen, Wen
University of Texas at Austin

Harpreet Singh
University of Texas at Dallas

Junior Faculty Interest Group

Karmel Shehadeh
Lehigh University

Albert Berahas
University of Michigan

Location Analysis

Kayse Maass
Northeastern University  
 

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Ashish Kabra
University of Maryland

Guihua Wang
University of Texas at Dallas

MSOM/Healthcare

Maria Ibanez
Northwestern University

Vince Slaugh
Cornell University

MSOM/iForm

Christopher Chen
Indiana University

Fasheng Xu
University of Connecticut

MSOM/Service Operations

Fanyin Zheng
Imperial College London

Xiaoshan Peng
Indiana University

MSOM/Supply Chain

Shi Chen
University of Washington

Tao Lu
University of Connecticut

MSOM/Sustainable Operations

Kate Astashkina
University of Michigan

Prashant Chintapalli
Ivey Business School

MSOM/ Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship

Antoine Feylessoufi
University College London

Sidika Candogan
National University of Singapore

Military and Security

Isabella Sanders
United States Military Academy 

Minority Issues Forum

Sofia Perez-Guzman 
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) 

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

Oktay Gunluk
Cornell University

OPT/Computational Optimization and Software

Bartolomeo Stellato
Princeton University

OPT/Global Optimization

Andres Gomez
University of Southern California 

OPT/Integer and Discrete Optimization

Aleksandr Kazachkov
University of Florida

OPT/Linear and Conic Optimization

Haihao (Sean) Lu
University of Chicago

OPT/Machine Learning

Rahul Mazumder
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

OPT/Network Optimization

Jim Ostrowski
University of Tennessee-Knoxville

OPT/Nonlinear Optimization

Ying Cui
University of California, Berkeley

OPT/Optimization Under Uncertainty

Jim Luedtke
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Public Sector O.R.

Christopher Zobel 
Virginia Institute of Technology 

Gabriela Gongora-Svartzman
Carnegie Mellon University

Quality, Statistics, and Reliability

Hongyue Sun
University of Georgia 

Railway Applications

Stefano Rieppi
Norfolk Southern Railway

Carl Van Dyke
TransNet Opt

Revenue Management and Pricing

Antoine Desir
INSEAD

Hongyao Ma
Columbia University

Divya Singhvi
NYU Stern

Service Science

Kejia Hu
University of Oxford

Simulation Society

Enlu Zhou 
Georgia Institute of Technology  

Social Media Analytics

Tauhid Zaman
Yale University

SpORts

Stephen Hill
Samford University

Technology, Innovation Management, and Entrepreneurship

Sreekumar Bhaskaran 
Southern Methodist University   

Telecommunications and Network Analytics

Alessandro Hill 
California Polytechnic State University 

Jinzhu Yu 
University of Texas at Arlington 

The Practice Section of INFORMS

Sharon Arroyo
Boeing

Natalia Summerville
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Transportation Science and Logistics

Sibel Alumur Alev 
University of Waterloo 

Yu Yang
University of Florida  

TSL/Air Transportation

Bruno Santos 
TU Delft

Heng Chen
University of Nebraska 

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
Clemson University  

Women in OR/MS (WORMS)

Di Nguyen
University College Dublin

Chitra Gopalappa
University of Massachusetts-Amherst

COMMITTEE’S CHOICE Formerly Emerging or Invited

Coming Soon

INFORMS Sessions

INFORMS Committee on Teaching and Learning

Gabriela Gongora-Svartzman
Carnegie Mellon University

New Product Development

Sreekumar Bhaskaran 
Southern Methodist University   

NSF

Cathy Xia
The Ohio State University 

Tapas Das 
University of South Florida

Scheduling and Project Management

Nicholas Hall 
The Ohio State University 

Marc Posner 
The Ohio State University 

INFORMS PRIZE SESSIONS

Daniel H. Wagner

James Cochran
University of Alabama 

Case Competition

Matthew Drake
Duquesne University

Doing Good with Good OR

Amir Karimi
University of Texas at San Antonio 

John Harris
Protiviti

George B. Dantzig Dissertation 

Ruth Beer
City University of New York

INFORMS Prize 

Mehmet Gumus
McGill University

Nicholson Student Paper Competition

Siquan Shen
University of Michigan

Andrew Daw
University of California