Contributors

Burçin Bozkaya (“Designing New Electoral Districts for the City of Edmonton”) is an associate professor of operations management at Sabanci University, Turkey. He earned his BS and MS degrees at Bilkent University and PhD at the University of Alberta. He also worked as a senior OR analyst at ESRI, Inc. Devoted to applied research in transportation, routing, location analysis, and heuristic optimization, he is the recipient of 2002 INFORMS Franz Edelman Finalist Award and 2010 CORS Practice Prize.

Steven A. Edwards (“NC State's Supply Chain Resource Cooperative Educates in the Real World”) is Director Emeritus of the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative (SCRC), where he was responsible for operations of the organization from 2000 through 2010. He held various managerial roles in operations, logistics, and procurement within multiple industries before joining North Carolina State University to help create the SCRC. His primary professional interests lie in applying a system-wide, goal-oriented approach to problem solving in varied business environments, along with resource measurement and management.

Erhan Erkut (“Designing New Electoral Districts for the City of Edmonton”) is the president of Ozyegin University, Turkey and a professor of operations management. He obtained his BS from Bogazici University and his PhD from the University of Florida. He is the recipient of INFORMS Teaching of Management Science Practice Award and is the founding editor of INFORMS Transactions on Education. Dr. Erkut has published over 50 articles in refereed journals.

Yann Ferrand (“Building Cyclic Schedules for Emergency Department Physicians”) is an assistant professor in the area of Supply Chain and Operations Management in the Department of Management at Clemson University. He earned a PhD in operations management at the College of Business at the University of Cincinnati. His primary research interests include health-care operations and management. He worked with the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the Mayfield Clinic and Spine Institute in Cincinnati on scheduling and patient flow projects. He has also worked and published papers on several economic studies related to the pharmaceutical industry.

Todd F. Glass (“Building Cyclic Schedules for Emergency Department Physicians”) earned a BS in biology and chemistry at Trevecca Nazarene University in 1985. He received his MD from the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond and began his residency in pediatrics at LeBonheur Children's Medical Center and the University of Tennessee, Memphis. Upon completion of an active duty tour in the United States Air Force, Dr. Glass entered fellowship training at the University of Tennessee in pediatric emergency medicine and concurrently earned an MS in physiology and biophysics. He practiced clinically and pursued bench and clinical research in pediatric traumatic brain injury at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) and was recognized as a clinical and administrative leader with interests in scientific approaches to improving clinical systems and computer-aided decision making and process simulation. In 2007 he led the opening of the emergency department at a new CCHMC hospital in suburban Cincinnati. In 2011, he led the development of a new pediatric emergency medicine program in the newly established Nemours Children's Hospital in Orlando, Florida, where he is involved in recruiting, operations design, and academic strategic planning as Chief, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine.

Michael F. Gorman (“Student Reactions to the Field Consulting Capstone Course in Operations Management at the University of Dayton”) is a professor at the University of Dayton and president of MFG Consulting, Inc. He has 10 years of experience in the rail industry. He has competed in the Edelman and Wagner competitions of INFORMS and won the INFORMS Award for the Teaching of OR/MS Practice. He has a PhD in economics and business from Indiana University and a BS in computer science and economics from Xavier University.

Dan Haight (“Designing New Electoral Districts for the City of Edmonton”) is the managing director of the Center for Excellence in Operations, an OR research center based at the University of Alberta. He is a partner in Districtwise Inc. He is also a founding partner of Darkhorse Analytics, an OR consultancy based in Edmonton, Canada.

Robert B. Handfield (“NC State's Supply Chain Resource Cooperative Educates in the Real World”) is the Bank of America University Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management at North Carolina State University, and Director of the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative (http://scrc.ncsu.edu). He was an associate professor and research associate with the Global Procurement and Supply Chain Benchmarking Initiative at Michigan State University. He is the consulting editor of the Journal of Operations Management and has research and teaching interests in strategic sourcing, market intelligence, biopharmaceutical outsourcing, supply risk management, and global category management.

Gilbert Laporte (“Designing New Electoral Districts for the City of Edmonton”) earned his PhD in OR at the London School of Economics in 1975. He is a professor of OR at HEC Montreal, and Canada Research Chair in Distribution Management. He has published widely in the areas of vehicle routing, location, and timetabling. Dr. Laporte is the recipient of the Robert M. Herman Lifetime Achievement Award in Transportation Science awarded by the Transportation Science and Logistics Society of INFORMS.

Matthew Liberatore (“INFORMS and the Analytics Movement: The View of the Membership”) is the John F. Connelly Chair in Management and Director of the Center for Business Analytics in the Villanova School of Business at Villanova University. He earned a BA in mathematics and MS and PhD degrees in OR, all from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Liberatore has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles in OR, project management, information systems, health-care management, and research and engineering management. His current research focuses on supply chain planning, project management, and health-care operations. He serves on the editorial boards of Computers & Operations Research, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and the American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences. He is a member of INFORMS, the Decision Sciences Institute, and the Project Management Institute.

Wenhong Luo (“INFORMS and the Analytics Movement: The View of the Membership”) received a BSc degree in mathematics from East China Normal University in Shanghai, an MBA from Nyenrode Business Universiteit in Breukelen, the Netherlands, and a PhD in business administration from the University of Kentucky in Lexington. He is an associate professor in the Department of Accounting and Information Systems in the Villanova School of Business at Villanova University. His research interests include information systems project management, business process management, and business intelligence. He has published widely.

Michael Magazine (“Building Cyclic Schedules for Emergency Department Physicians”) is Professor of Operations and Business Analytics and Ohio Eminent Scholar at the University of Cincinnati (UC). He recently served as the Associate Dean for Faculty and Research and the Interim Dean in the College of Business at UC. He has degrees from City College of New York, New York University, and the University of Florida. His research interests include supply chain management, scheduling, and other applications of manufacturing and health systems. He has published numerous papers in these areas. He has served on the editorial boards of most of the major journals in management science and OR, including Management Science, Operations Research, and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. He is the coeditor of Quantitative Models in Supply Chain Management and was the winner of a best paper award by the Institute of Industrial Engineering in 2003. He is an INFORMS Fellow.

Uday S. Rao (“Building Cyclic Schedules for Emergency Department Physicians”) teaches operations and business analytics at the University of Cincinnati. He holds a PhD in ORIE from Cornell University. His research—applying quantitative models for decision making under uncertainty in supply chains, health-care delivery, telecommunications, and manufacturing systems—has appeared in journals such as IIE Transactions, Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Operations Research, and Production and Operations Management.

Jeffrey S. Stonebraker (“NC State's Supply Chain Resource Cooperative Educates in the Real World”) is an assistant professor at North Carolina State University's Poole College of Management with research and teaching interests in decision analysis, commercial forecasting/modeling, hemophilia, and other disease areas. He was an assistant professor at the University of Denver and a decision analyst at Bayer Biological Products, GlaxoSmithKline, and Applied Decision Analysis. He is a retired US Air Force officer and served two tours of duty at the Air Force Academy. He is a fellow of the Society for Decision Professionals.