Contributors

Thierry Benoist (“Lessons Learned from 15 Years of Operations Research for French TV Channel TF1”) heads the Optimization Department at Bouygues e-lab. He is responsible for providing OR solutions to the various subsidiaries of Bouygues Group: Bouygues Construction (construction), Bouygues Immobilier (property), Colas (roads), TF1 (the leading French TV channel), and Bouygues Telecom (telecommunications). Since 2000, he has been in charge of many optimization projects leading to operational software, such as maximizing the filling of commercial breaks, scheduling contact center agents, and planning linear earth-moving works. He is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and received a PhD in computer science from Avignon University, France.

J. Paul Brooks (“The Court of Appeals of Virginia Uses Integer Programming and Cloud Computing to Schedule Sessions”) is an assistant professor of OR in the Department of Statistical Science and Operations Research and a fellow of the Center for the Study of Biological Complexity at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is currently secretary/treasurer of the INFORMS Section on Data Mining. His research interests include the design of optimization-based algorithms for data mining, biomedical applications of OR, and public sector OR.

Robert A. Connolly (“What It Takes to Win on the PGA TOUR (If Your Name Is ‘Tiger’ or If It Isn't”)) is associate professor of finance at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has taught finance and economics to working executives, undergraduates, MBA, Executive MBA, and PhD students for 30 years. Connolly's research interests cover capital markets, market microstructure, portfolio management, and applied econometrics.

Abdelghani A. Elimam (“Optimization of Water Resources Planning for Aqaba Special Economic Zone”) is a professor of industrial engineering and OR in the Mechanical Engineering Department of the American University in Cairo. His research interests include application of mathematical modeling and optimization in industrial and service facilities, project scheduling, and quality assurance. He published in journals including Operations Research, Interfaces, Institute of Industrial Engineering Transactions, and the European Journal of Operational Research. He was a finalist in the 1996 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences.

Frédéric Gardi (“Lessons Learned from 15 Years of Operations Research for French TV Channel TF1”) is deputy head of the Optimization Department at Bouygues e-lab. He has conducted OR projects for 10 years on topics such as workforce and job scheduling, car sequencing, banking and financial engineering, vehicle and inventory routing, media and marketing campaign planning, and energy management. He holds a PhD in computer science and mathematics from Aix-Marseille Université, France. He has published widely in OR and management science, as well as in discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science.

Maurice A. Girgis (“Optimization of Water Resources Planning for Aqaba Special Economic Zone”) is an economist and the adviser on the Duqm Special Economic Zone in the Sultanate of Oman. He was the Chief of Party of a USAID-funded project in Aqaba, Jordan, when this article was developed.

Antoine Jeanjean (“Lessons Learned from 15 Years of Operations Research for French TV Channel TF1”) worked as a research scientist in Bouygues e-lab for six years. He particularly contributed to OR projects such as advertising optimization and audience forecasting for TF1, construction scheduling for Bouygues Construction, and revenue management issues for Louvre Hotels. In 2011 he joined Recommerce Solutions, a French start-up specializing in buy-back and recycling of used electronic devices, and he created the OR team to optimize pricing and supply chain management.

Karl G. Kempf (“Optimizing Inventory Levels Within Intel's Channel Supply Demand Operations”) is the director of decision engineering at Intel Corporation and manager of the team at Intel that won the 2009 INFORMS Prize and the 2011 Wagner Prize. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and an adjunct professor at Arizona State University. He holds degrees in physics, chemistry, applied mathematics, and computer science.

Pat Mastrantonio (“Optimizing Inventory Levels Within Intel's Channel Supply Demand Operations”) has worked in supply chain management at Intel Corporation for over 15 years and currently leads a team of analysts with primary focus on inventory optimization programs, metrics, and strategies across the global CPU supply network. He is an APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional and earned a BA in economics and a BS in resource sciences from the University of California, Davis.

Richard J. Rendleman Jr. (“What It Takes to Win on the PGA TOUR (If Your Name Is ‘Tiger’ or If It Isn't”)) is Professor Emeritus, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Visiting Professor of Finance at the Tuck School of Business of Dartmouth College. Throughout his career, much of his research and teaching have focused on derivative securities and fixed-income markets. In recent years, his research has focused primarily on the statistical properties of professional golf. This is his fourth published golf-related paper, and he has several more in the works.

Brian Wieland (“Optimizing Inventory Levels Within Intel's Channel Supply Demand Operations”) is an inventory strategy analyst at Intel Corporation. His primary focus at Intel is the optimization of inventory levels throughout the global CPU supply network. He is APICS certified in production and inventory management. He earned a BA in operations management, finance, and information systems at the University of Washington and an MBA in technology management at the University of California, Davis.

Sean P. Willems (“Optimizing Inventory Levels Within Intel's Channel Supply Demand Operations”) is associate professor of operations and technology management at Boston University's School of Management. His research focuses on supply chain design and optimization problems. Sean received his BSE in decision sciences from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and his master's in OR and PhD in operations management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.