INFORMS members,
This year's annual Government & Analytics Summit will be held Monday, May 20 in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C.
The annual INFORMS Government & Analytics Summit is designed to bring together leading experts in the fields of O.R. and analytics with policymakers from Capitol Hill, federal agencies and other policy stakeholders to showcase ways in which these scientific and mathematical processes are being used to save lives, save money and solve problems in the public and private sectors.
A panel of national O.R. and analytics experts will share unique insights from putting these tools into action across a broad section of current examples in the federal government and industry. The panel will further highlight how policymakers can use these tools to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of many different types of federal programs and operations, particularly with the rise in focus on artificial intelligence (AI), and other policy debates related to ethics and bias in data and advanced analytics.
The 2019 Government & Analytics panelists will include:
- Bala Ganesh, vice president of corporate engineering at UPS where he leads the advanced technology group. UPS' On-Road Integrated Optimization and Navigation (ORION) uses expansive fleet telematics and advanced algorithms to gather and calculate countless amounts of data to provide UPS drivers with optimized routes and is considered by many to be the world's largest operations research project.
- Karla Hoffman, PhD, is a professor in the systems engineering and operations research department at George Mason University. Her recent work for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) resulted in the successful completion of the FCC's first two-sided auction of low-band electromagnetic spectrum, which contributed more than $7 billion to federal deficit reduction.
- Sheldon Jacobson, PhD, is a founding professor of computer science at the University of Illinois. His research on multilevel aviation security passenger screening at airports was the precursor to risk-based security, providing the foundational concepts that informed the design and implementation of TSA PreCheck®.
- Eva K. Lee, PhD, is a professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. She also serves as director of the NSF-Whitaker Center for Operations Research in Medicine and Healthcare. She is a widely acclaimed expert in computational and applied math and her work in personalized medicine, chronic diseases, healthcare quality, modeling and decision support, vaccine research and national security/preparedness has been frequently tapped by a variety of health and security policymakers in Washington.
- David Shmoys, PhD, is the Laibe/Acheson Professor of business management and leadership studies at Cornell University. He also serves as a research consultant to Lyft. His research has focused on issues in mobility and the sharing economy, with particular attention to the development of algorithmic tools to design and support bike-sharing systems in areas such as New York City.
For more information about the INFORMS 2019 Government and Analytics Summit, and to RSVP for the free event, visit www.informsDCanalytics.org. I hope to see you there :)
Laura Albert
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Laura Albert
Associate Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison WI
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