President
Jason Merrick
Virginia Commonwealth University
School of Business
PO Box 84400
301 W. Main St., B-4141
Richmond, VA 23284-4000
(804) 828 7483
jrmerric@vcu.edu
President-elect
Karen Jenni
U.S. Geological Survey
Science and Decisions Center
(303) 236 5766
kjenni@usgs.gov
Past President
Eric Bickel
University of Texas at Austin
College of Engineering
ETC 5.128D
1 University Station, C2200
Austin, TX 78712-0292
(512) 232 8316
ebickel@mail.utexas.edu
Secretary-Treasurer
Melissa Kenney
University of Maryland, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC)
Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites - Maryland (CICS-MD)
5825 University Research Court, Suite 4001
Office Room 4051
College Park, MD 20740
301-405-3226
kenney@umd.edu
Newsletter Editors
Debarun Bhattacharjya
Research Staff Member
Cognitive Computing Research
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
debarunb@us.ibm.com
Cameron MacKenzie
Assistant Professor
Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Iowa State University
camacken@iastate.edu
Webmaster
Jay Simon
Kogod School of Business
American University
Washington, DC 20016
jaysimon@american.edu
Council
Saurabh Bansal
SUPPLY CHAIN AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
SMEAL COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
SUB32@PSU.EDU
Emanuele Borgonovo
Department of Decision Sciences
Bocconi University
emanuele.borgonovo@unibocconi.it
Lea Deleris
Decision Science, NLP and AI
IBM Research - Ireland
LEA.DELERIS@IE.IBM.COM
Eva Regnier
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND PUBLIC POLICY
NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL
EREGNIER@NPS.EDU
Heather Rosoff
Sol Price School of Public Policy
Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE)
University of Southern California
rosoff@usc.edu
Matthias Seifert
Operations & Technology
IE Business School
matthias.seifert@ie.edu
Past Officers
President:
Irving LaValle (1981-82)
Peter Morris (1982-84)
David Bell (1984-86)
Ralph Keeney (1986-88)
Samuel Bodily (1988-90)
Robert Winkler (1990-92)
James Dyer (1992-94)
Ward Edwards (1994-96)
Donald Keefer (1996-98)
Detlof von Winterfeldt (1998-2000)
L. Robin Keller (2000-2002)
Elisabeth Paté-Cornell (2002-2004)
Greg Parnell (2004-2006)
Craig Kirkwood (2006-2008)
Jim Smith (2008-2010)
Vicki Bier (2010-2012)
Jeff Keisler (2012-2014)
Eric Bickel (2014-2016)
Secretary/Treasurer:
Craig Kirkwood (1980-82)
Lee Merkhofer (1982-84)
Irving LaValle (1984-88)
Dennis Buede (1988-90)
Colin Camerer (1990-94)
Robert Nau (1994-98)
James Smith (1998-2000)
Jennifer Myer (2000-2002)
Robin Dillon-Merrill (2002-2008)
John Butler (2008-2012)
Yael Grushka-Cockayne (2012-2017)
Newsletter Editor:
Irving H. LaValle (1981-1996)
Thomas Eppel (1996-2000)
James Felli (2000-2001)
Jayavel Sounderpandian (2001-2005)
Jason Merrick (2005-2008)
Jeff Keisler (2008-2011)
Jun Zhuang, Heather Rosoff (2011-2016)
Council Members:
Rex Brown (1981-82)
Ward Edwards (1981-82)
Peter Farquhar (1981-84)
Ralph Keeney (1981-82)
James Matheson (1981-83)
Richard Smallwood (1981-82)
Robert Winkler (1981-83)
Robin Hogarth (1982-85)
John Lathrop (1982-85)
James Dyer (1983-86)
Peter Fishburn (1983-86)
D. Warner North (1984-87)
Rakesh Sarin (1984-87)
Elisabeth Paté-Cornell (1985-88)
Randy Simpson (1985-88)
Robert Clemen (1986-89)
L. Robin Keller (1986-89)
Robert Bordley (1987-90)
Bruce Judd (1987-90)
Adam Borison (1988-91)
Irving LaValle (1988-91)
Allan Murphy (1989-92)
Ross Shachter (1989-92)
Gregory Fischer (1990-93)
Gordon Hazen (1990-93)
Donald Keefer (1991-94)
Kathryn Laskey (1991-94)
William Balson (1992-95)
Robert Nau (1992-94)
Lee Merkhofer (1993-96)
Ralph Miles (1994-97)
Robert Clemen (1994-97)
Dennis Buede (1995-98)
Detlof von Winterfeldt (1995-98)
James Smith (1993-99)
Elke Weber (1996-99)
Dana Clyman (1997-2000)
Tom Spradlin (1997-2000)
Vicki Bier (1998-2001)
David Lowell (1998-2001)
Jennifer Meyer (1999-2000)
Don Kleinmuntz (1999-2002)
Robin Dillon (2000-2002)
George Wu (2000-2003)
Greg Parnell (2000-2002)
Terry Reilly (2002-2003)
Kara Morgan (2001-2004)
John Butler (2001-2004)
Jeff Keisler (2002-2005)
Robert Bordley (2002-2005)
Craig Kirkwood (2003-2004)
James Smith (2003-2006)
Jack Kloeber (2003-2006)
Manel Baucells (2004-2007)
Jeff Stonebraker (2004-2007)
Eric Bickel (2005-2008)
Karen Jenni (2005-2008)
Ali Abbas(2006-2009)
Jason Merrick(2006-2009)
Erin Baker (2007-2010)
Jack Kloeber (2007-2010)
Jim Felli (2008-2011)
Martin Schilling (2008-2011)
Casey Lichtendahl (2009-2012)
Patrick Noonan (2009-2012)
Seth Guikema (2010-2013)
Canan Ulu (2010-2013)
Gilberto Montibeller (2011-2014)
Larry Neal (2011-2014)
Phil Beccue (2012-2015)
Victor Jose (2012-2015)
Frank Koch (2013-2016)
Jun Zhuang (2013-2016)
Debarun Bhattacharjya (2014-2017)
Joe Hahn (2014-2017)
Melissa Kenney (2015-2017)