Clara Novoa is a Professor in the Industrial Engineering Program in the Ingram School of Engineering at Texas State University. She has been serving as the Industrial Engineering Program Coordinator since September 2022. She received her PhD in Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University in 2005. Her research interests include Renewable Energy Planning, Supply Chain Optimization, Cybersecurity of Cyberphysical Systems, Healthcare Optimization, and Parallel Computing to accelerate operations research algorithms. Dr. Novoa has also conducted research in Engineering Education and Additive Manufacturing, with an emphasis on refining spatial visualization skills to improve the retention of female and underrepresented minorities in STEM fields. She has published over 35 papers in journals and conference proceedings, applying Operations Research to her practical areas of interest. She directs the Systems Optimization Learning and Renewable Energy (SOLAR) lab at Texas State University. Dr. Novoa is a Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) for USDA: Assisting Food Waste Monitoring and Management in Central Texas Rural Communities (Oct 2024-2025) and has served as Co-PI for ME-Green: Manufacturing for Environment by Generating Renewable Energy in Enterprise Networks (NSF 1704933, CBET, 2017-2021). She also has been PI and Co-PI on two engineering education research projects funded by the NSF (NSF 1431578, DUE, 2014-2019; NSF 1153688, DUE, 2012-2017). Dr. Novoa is a member of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), the Institute for the Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS), and the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI). She is also a member of the INFORMS Committee on Teaching and Learning (CTL) since September 2023.