INFORMS DEI Event Series (UNITE Team Ambassadors)
Event Details:
- Speaker: Dr. Julie Simmons Ivy
- Date: September 17th
- Time: 12:00 PM Central Time
- Zoom link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/96582342160?pwd=cz5sSb3P2TaUr0pCDGEL6OXQahwWe6.1
Dr. Julie Simmons Ivy
Department Chair, Vivian L Carpenter Collegiate Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering
University of Michigan
Julie Simmons Ivy, PhD, is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. Dr. Ivy is also the Edgar S. Woolard Professor Emerita of the Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at North Carolina (NC) State University. She has extensive background in decision making under conditions of uncertainty using stochastic and statistical modeling. She joined the University of Michigan College of Engineering faculty after 16 years on the NC State faculty and several years on the faculty of the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Dr. Ivy received her BS and PhD in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan. She also received her MS in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Georgia Tech. Additionally, she leads efforts to involve undergraduate students in research activities and provides them with resources for the academic, career, and professional development to prepare them for graduate studies. In addition, she has been recognized at the national level for student mentoring and STEM leadership with the 2013 Distinguished Undergraduate Institution Mentor Award from the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) and a 2012 HENAAC Luminary Award from the Great Minds in STEM. She is also a recipient of the 2013 University of Texas Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award and recently received the 2016 American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Service/Teaching Award.
Dr. Ivy is an active member of the Institute of Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), Dr. Ivy served as the 2007 Chair (President) of the INFORMS Health Applications Society and the 2012-13 President for the INFORMS Minority Issues Forum. Dr. Ivy was elected as a 2022 INFORMS Fellow and as a 2023 Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE) Fellow. In February 2023, Dr. Ivy was nominated to the National Academies Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics (BMSA).
Best,
Fatemeh Nosrat
Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research
Rice University
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Fatemeh Nosrat
Rice University
Houston TX
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