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Mathematics INstruction Using Decision Science and Engineering Tools; Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Directorate for Education and Human Resources; Industrial Engineering, Mathematics Education, and Operations Research Working Together
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Dr. Brenda L. Dietrich

IBM Fellow; and Director of Mathematical Sciences, at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and President of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS)


Information: Dr. Dietrich is an IBM Fellow (one of 67 worldwide and one of only 199 since IBM's founding), Director of Mathematical Sciences, at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and just became President of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS). She holds a BS in Mathematics from UNC and an MS and Ph.D. in OR/IE from Cornell. Her research includes manufacturing scheduling, services resource management, transportation logistics, integer programming, and combinatorial duality. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the IE/MS department of Northwestern University , a member of the Industrial Advisory Board for both IMA ( Minnesota ) and DIMACS ( Rutgers ), and IBM's delegate to MIT's Supply Chain 2020 program. She has participated in numerous INFORMS, Math Programming, SIAM , CLM, and APICS conferences. She holds a dozen patents, has co-authored numerous publications, and co-edited the book Mathematics of the Internet: E-Auction and Markets . She has been a member of the INFORMS Roundtable, served on the INFORMS board as VP for Practice, was chair of the advisory committee for the first two Practice meeting, and is currently the President of INFORMS. She has served on the editorial board of Manufacturing & Service Operations Management and is currently on the editorial board of Logistics Research Quarterly . She holds 13 US Patents with an additional 20 Patents pending. She brings a business perspective to the project and as a founding member of COmputational INfrastructure for Operations Research (COIN-OR), the open source repository for OR software, provides the project access to the world's largest repository of free Operations Research and Industrial Engineering computer-based tools.