Upcoming Webinars (2)

David Simchi-Levi is a Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT and serves as the head of the MIT Data Science Lab.  He is considered one of the premier thought leaders in supply chain management and business analytics.

Professor Simchi-Levi is the current Editor-in-Chief of Management Science.  He has won numerous INFORMS awards, and has founded or cofounded three companies -LogicTools,  OPS Rules, and Opalytics - which were acquired by IBM, Accenture, and Accenture Applied Intelligence, respectively.

August 20

Dr. Natalia Summerville, SAS

Overview of Data4Good Optimization Applications

Erica Klampfl leads the Global Operations Analytics team for Ford Motor Company including Quality, Material Cost, Purchasing, Product Development, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Sustainability/Compliance, Finance, Human Resources, Office of the General Council, Safety, Reliability, and Consulting and Research. Previously, she was the Director of Greenfield Labs, where she launched a human-centered design organization tasked with building new products and services for Ford Smart Mobility. This builds on her prior role as the Global Mobility Solutions Manager at Ford, defining Ford’s near, mid, and long-term mobility strategy that laid the groundwork for the Ford Smart Mobility initiative. Erica started her career at Ford in Research and Advanced Engineering working over a decade in developing and applying operations research and other analytics techniques to inform business strategy, strengthen environmental sustainability, and improve manufacturing efficiency. She received a Ph.D. in Computational and Applied Mathematics from Rice University and has served on the Industrial and Operations Engineering Department advisory board at the University of Michigan, the Board of Governors for the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, and is a former mentor of Techstars Mobility Detroit, a start-up accelerator program.  Erica has been active in INFORMS including as INFORMS Analytics Conference Chair, INFORMS Prize Committee Chair, and twice as a finalist for the INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Prize.