The INFORMS Journal on Computing is pleased to announce effective January 1, 2022 the addition of two new members of its Editorial Advisory Board. These are Karla Hoffman and Robin Lougee. Their very brief professional biographies are below. We also are grateful for the years of service on the Editorial Advisory Board of James Orlin (MIT) as he rotates off.
Dr. Karla Hoffman is a Professor in the Systems Engineering and Operations Research Department at George Mason University (GMU) where she served as Chair for five years. Prior to this, she worked as a mathematician in the Center for Applied Mathematics of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Her awards include George Mason University's Distinguished Faculty Award, the INFORMS Fellows Award, the INFORMS George E. Kimball Medal and the INFORMS Edelman Prize. She served as President of INFORMS in 1999 and has also served on the Executive Committees of ORSA, IFORS, and the Mathematical Programming Society. Her primary area of research is auction design and testing, and combinatorial optimization and focuses on the development of new algorithms for solving complex problems arising in industry and government.
Dr. Robin Lougee is the Associate Vice President, Advanced Analytics at Ascena. She is known for her service to the INFORMS community and for spearheading new initiatives that benefit industry and academia. She currently serves on department advisory boards at Cornell University and University of Florida and is a member of the Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. She was awarded the INFORMS Impact Prize and is the recipient of the INFORMS Kimball Medal.
More information can be found at the journal's home page:
https://pubsonline.informs.org/journal/ijoc
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Alice Smith
Editor in Chief, INFORMS Journal on Computing
Forehand/Accenture Distinguished Professor
Auburn University
Auburn AL
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