CATONSVILLE, MD, January 14, 2014 – The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®) today announced that Professor Emeritus Stephen M. Robinson of the University of Wisconsin Madison is President of the association’s 2014 Board of Directors, which includes key analytics leaders from academia and business.
Prof. Robinson will continue to grow the professional society’s new programs in analytics, which have come to include the Certified Analytics Professional Program (CAP®) and a growing continuing education program. An analytics maturity model is expected to debut this spring.
Prof. Robinson, who previously served as editor-in-chief of the INFORMS journal Mathematics of Operations Research and INFORMS predecessor organizations’ head of publications, has reaffirmed his commitment to growing the association’s well-ranked suite of 13 specialized journals and introducing new scholarly journals.
Prof. Robinson comes to the INFORMS presidency with a distinguished record in academia and government, as well as at INFORMS. A (Ret.) Colonel in the US Army, he served for 35 years at the University of Wisconsin, where he specialized in optimization and variational research. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and chair of the Academy’s Section on Industrial, Manufacturing & Operational Systems Engineering. On the Academy, he has served on committees that advise the Executive Branch, for example in 2012 sitting on a committee that issued a report warning the Department of Defense about a shortage of quality STEM workers.
He is author, co-author or editor of seven books and more than 100 scientific research papers. He holds an honorary doctor’s degree from the University of Zürich. He is a member of the National Associate of the National Research Council. Prof. Robinson was named an INFORMS Fellow and received INFORMS’ George E. Kimball Medal for distinguished service.
The 2014 INFORMS Board includes the following:
Executive Committee
President
President-Elect
University of California Irvine
Professor, Operations and Decision Technologies
Secretary
University of Michigan
Dept. of Industrial Operations & Engineering
Treasurer
Nicholas G. Hall
Ohio State University
Department of Management Science
Past President
Verizon Wireless
Director, Supply Chain Strategy and Analytics
Executive Director
Board
Vice President/Education
Joel Sokol
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Vice President/Information Technology
Bjarni Kristjansson
Maximal Software
President
Vice President/International Activities
VP & Director General
Institute for Information Industry
Vice President/Marketing, Communications & Outreach
E. Andrew (Andy) Boyd
University of Houston
Vice President/Membership and Professional Recognition
Ozlem Ergun
Georgia Institute of Technology
Assoc. Prof., School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Vice President/Meetings
Chevron Corp.
Decision Analysis Consultant
Vice President/Publications
M. Eric Johnson
Vanderbilt University
Dean and Professor, Owen Graduate School of Management
Vice President/Practice Activities
General Motors
Director of Operations Research, Global R&D
Vice President, Chapters and Fora
David Hunt
Oliver Wyman
Surface Transportation Practice
Vice President, Sections and Societies
Paul Messinger
University of Alberta
Associate Professor, Alberta School of Business
About INFORMS
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®) is the leading professional society made up of the foremost minds in the world of analytics. More than 10,000 members worldwide, including Nobel Prize laureates, turn to INFORMS to provide leading industry best practices, training and events focused on data analytics and operations research. Members of INFORMS work in business, government and academia and represent fields as diverse as airlines, health care, law enforcement, the military, financial services, retail, engineering, and telecommunications. The society serves the scientific and professional needs of operations research analysts, experts in big data and analytics, consultants, scientists, students, educators and managers, as well as their institutions. It publishes a variety of journals, hosts conferences, extends certification in analytics (CAP®), offers continuing education courses, and provides its members with a large choice of special interest groups and local chapters. Further information about INFORMS can be found online at www.informs.org or @informs.
Media Contact
Ashley Smith
Public Affairs Coordinator
INFORMS
Catonsville, MD
[email protected]
443-757-3578