Contributors
Ada Y. Barlatt (“Ford Motor Company Implements Integrated Planning and Scheduling in a Complex Automotive Manufacturing Environment”) holds a P.Eng. She is an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Waterloo. She is also the founder and president of Beneuna Solutions Incorporated, a company that creates tools and provides services that facilitate smart decision making. The company develops data-driven analytical models to evaluate alternatives and embeds these models within user-friendly, Web-based applications. She earned a PhD and MSE in industrial and operations engineering from the University of Michigan and a BS in industrial engineering from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.
John Batey (“Ford Motor Company Implements Integrated Planning and Scheduling in a Complex Automotive Manufacturing Environment”) is a material planning and logistic manager for Ford Motor Company. He holds a BBA from the University of Toledo with a major in international business. His interest lies in synchronized material flow with 25 years of experience in the automotive arena.
Niquelle Brown (“Designing Guest Flow and Operations Logistics for the Dolphin Tales”) graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology with an undergraduate degree in industrial and systems engineering and a master's degree in health systems. She is a PhD student in epidemiology at the University of Southern California.
Chien-Hung Chen (“Designing Guest Flow and Operations Logistics for the Dolphin Tales”) is a PhD student at Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include modeling, optimization, and computer system development in public health emergency response and medical preparedness. In particular, he focuses on monitoring and analyzing social media for emergency response events, constructing dispensing networks, and resource allocation and analysis of disease mitigation strategies. He also works on agent-based simulation tools and integrated Web-based decision support systems in these areas.
Amy Cohn (“Ford Motor Company Implements Integrated Planning and Scheduling in a Complex Automotive Manufacturing Environment”) is an associate professor and Thurnau Professor in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan College of Engineering. She is also associate director of the University of Michigan Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety, as well as an affiliate of the MIT Global Airline Industry Program. She received her PhD in OR from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Rich Davidson (“Ford Motor Company Implements Integrated Planning and Scheduling in a Complex Automotive Manufacturing Environment”) is an information technology professional supporting Ford Motor Company's stamping operations. He holds a business degree from Canisius College. He is primarily concerned with managing inventory levels in metal stamping operations. He has 48 years of experience in metal stamping operations at Ford Motor Company and is responsible for their production monitoring and scheduling applications.
Brian Davis (“Designing Guest Flow and Operations Logistics for the Dolphin Tales”) is vice president of education and training at the Georgia Aquarium. He has developed and implemented science-related curriculum and professional development courses for diverse student and teacher populations. Believing that scientific literacy and a comprehensive cultural enrichment plan are vital to the continued progress of students and society, he develops educational experiences that reflect the interconnectedness of scientific literacy to daily life while highlighting the mysteries of the aquatic realms.
Alex Desiderio (“Designing Guest Flow and Operations Logistics for the Dolphin Tales”) is director for content management and training at Georgia Aquarium, where he oversees the information created and delivered to the team and guests. He also oversees the training and preparation of volunteers and staff including orientation, safety, guest interactions, and education about the aquarium's exhibits and animals. He is responsible for managing 1,700 volunteers. He earned a degree in communications from the University of South Florida.
Yakov Fradkin (“Ford Motor Company Implements Integrated Planning and Scheduling in a Complex Automotive Manufacturing Environment”) is an OR practitioner at Ford Motor Company. He holds an electronics engineering degree from the Ufa State Aviation Technical University and an MSE in industrial and operations engineering from the University of Michigan. His research interests lie in product definition, capacity and production planning, and order fulfillment. This is his second work accepted as a finalist for the Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice.
Oleg Gusikhin (“Ford Motor Company Implements Integrated Planning and Scheduling in a Complex Automotive Manufacturing Environment”) is a technical leader at Ford Vehicle and Enterprise Sciences Research Laboratory. He received his PhD from the St. Petersburg Institute of Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences and an MBA from the Ross Business School at the University of Michigan. He has worked at Ford Motor Company for over 15 years in different functional areas including information technology, advanced electronics manufacturing, and research and advanced engineering. He has been involved in the design and implementation of advanced information technology and intelligent controls for manufacturing and vehicle systems at Ford. He is a Certified Fellow in production and inventory management, chair of the Southeastern IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Chapter, and a lecturer in the Industrial and Operations Engineering Department at the University of Michigan.
Joseph Handy (“Designing Guest Flow and Operations Logistics for the Dolphin Tales”) graduated from the College of New Rochelle with a liberal arts degree concentrated in political science. He worked at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City for nine years and assisted in opening the Rose Center for Earth and Space. As vice president of guest experience at Georgia Aquarium, he is responsible for the interaction and interpretation of the guest experience while visiting the aquarium. As part of his work in guest services and guest programs, he is responsible for the dolphin show theatrical department, ticketing, point of sales stations, and plaza gallery staff. He also oversees aquarium programs such as behind-the-scenes tours and acts as a liaison for all third-party vendors.
Anjuli Kannan (“iSchedule to Personalize Learning”) has a bachelor's degree in computer science from Harvard University. She has worked in OR consulting and software engineering.
Karl Kempf (“Product Line Design and Scheduling at Intel”) is a Fellow and director of decision engineering at Intel Corporation, where his team develops decision support systems across product design, manufacturing, and supply chain. He has published widely on decision techniques and applications. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Paul R. Kleindorfer (“Fleet Renewal with Electric Vehicles at La Poste”) is a Distinguished Research Professor in Technology and Operations Management at INSEAD, France, and the Anheuser-Busch Professor Emeritus of Management Science at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has published widely in the areas of operations management, managerial economics, and regulation. He was named a Fellow of the Production and Operations Management Society in 2005. Most recently, he has examined changes in risk management strategies for companies associated with the Kyoto Protocol and related implementing regulations aimed at moving to a low-carbon economy.
Subodha Kumar (“To Show or Not Show: Using User Profiling to Manage Internet Advertisement Campaigns at Chitika”) earned his PhD from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2001. He is an associate professor and Mays Research Fellow at Mays Business School, Texas A&M University. He has published widely in journals and has coauthored Harvard Business School cases.
Adeline Kuo (“iSchedule to Personalize Learning”) has a master's degree in OR from Columbia University and bachelor's degrees in mathematics and management science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has worked in operations consulting for Analytics Operations Engineering, Inc., for the past seven years.
Eva K. Lee (“Designing Guest Flow and Operations Logistics for the Dolphin Tales”) is a professor at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. She directs the NSF-Whitaker Foundation sponsored Center for Operations Research in Medicine and HealthCare. She also co-directs the Center for Health Organization Transformation, an NSF industry-university cooperative research center. Her research includes biomedicine and health systems, defense and emergency response, public health and medical preparedness, and service and volunteering sectors.
Ruth Lopez (“Designing Guest Flow and Operations Logistics for the Dolphin Tales”) is guest services director at the Georgia Aquarium. She spent almost 10 years with the visitor service team at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
Radha Mookerjee (“To Show or Not Show: Using User Profiling to Manage Internet Advertisement Campaigns at Chitika”) holds a PhD in management, with a major in management information systems, from Purdue University. Her current research interests include social networks, software maintenance, knowledge-based systems, and object-oriented technologies. Her teaching interests include database management, Java technologies, and enterprise resource planning systems. She has published widely in archival information systems, computer science, and OR journals. Prior to joining the University of Texas at Dallas, she was a computing architect in the Computing Architectures and Design Group at the Boeing Company.
Vijay S. Mookerjee (“To Show or Not Show: Using User Profiling to Manage Internet Advertisement Campaigns at Chitika”) received a PhD degree in management, with a concentration in management information systems, from Purdue University in 1991. He is a Charles and Nancy Davidson Distinguished Professor of Information Systems and Operations Management in the School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas.
Andrei Neboian (“Fleet Renewal with Electric Vehicles at La Poste”) is a doctoral student at the WHU–Otto Beisheim School of Management. His main research interests are fleet renewal, sustainable business models, and third-party logistics. Prior to joining the WHU, he was a consultant for the Boston Consulting Group in Austria. He graduated from the Vienna University of Technology with an MSc in electrical engineering. He owns Headlight Analytics OG, a consulting company based in Vienna, Austria, which develops decision support tools for multinational corporations.
Evan Rash (“Product Line Design and Scheduling at Intel”) is a decision engineer at Intel Corporation, where he leads the development of a product planning decision support system. He holds a degree in OR and MS from the University of California, Berkeley, and is interested in melding OR techniques and computer science to deliver compelling and powerful decision support capabilities.
Alain Roset (“Fleet Renewal with Electric Vehicles at La Poste”) studies engineering at Ecole Polytechnique and Telecom Paris and spent six years as a researcher in very-large-scale integrated circuits. He held operational positions within Le Groupe La Poste in Lyon, Alsace, and Paris, mainly in charge of mail operations. He participated in the project to modernize the network processing (sorting, transport) of mail; this large-scale, multibillion investment project allows a better adaptation of mail services to customer needs in terms of reduced production costs and improved quality. Currently responsible for the mail division, he is in charge of deploying studies, prototypes, and projects to adapt the processes to future needs by incorporating new technologies. Electric vehicles are an important part of these studies that he has personally followed for many years.
Stefan Spinler (“Fleet Renewal with Electric Vehicles at La Poste”) is a professor at WHU–Otto Beisheim School of Management, where he holds the Kühne Foundation Endowed Chair in Logistics Management. He earned a master's degree in electrical engineering from Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen, Germany, and was subsequently responsible for process coordination in the semiconductor industry. He earned a PhD in operations management from WHU and was a visiting professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Wharton School. His research interests include sustainability in supply chains and supply chain risk management, where he collaborates with major consumer goods and automotive companies. His research on capacity options was awarded the Management Science Strategic Innovation Prize from the European Associations of Operational Research Societies.
Gerald van den Berg (“iSchedule to Personalize Learning”) has a bachelor's degree in OR and financial engineering from Princeton University. He is a consultant for Booz & Company.
