Reporter Bios

Coverage of key sessions was provided by the following student reporters for the Annual Meeting eNews Daily. Our thanks goes out to them!

Ana-Iulia Alexandrescu is a graduate student in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at Lehigh University. Born and raised in Bucharest, Romania, she came to Lehigh as a Bostiber Scholar in 2006, where she enrolled in the Integrated Business and Engineering Honors Program. She graduated with honors in 2010 and continued on as a Presidential Scholar, pursuing her MS degree in industrial and systems engineering. Outside the classroom, she has been involved in numerous student organizations and initiatives, continuously seeking to improve the quality of student life and to give back to the community. As a graduate student, she held the position of Vice President of the INFORMS Student Chapter at Lehigh for one year, and she is now acting as an advisor to the current executive board of the chapter.

Brendan Bettinger is a doctoral student in the Healthcare Systems Engineering program at Northeastern University, where he is researching applications of game theory in the healthcare industry. He can be reached at Twitter: @ColliderBrendan.

Belleh Fontem (originally from Cameroon) is a doctoral student in operations management at the University of Alabama. He holds a bachelor's in computer science and communications engineering from Duisburg-Essen University (graduating as one of the top students in his class) and a master's in industrial engineering from Cambridge University. Before beginning his doctoral studies in the United States, he did consulting work for both private and public sector institutions in Africa and Europe. He loves debating and salsa dancing, and he is fluent in English, French, and German.

Tim Hopper is a second-year PhD student in operations research at North Carolina State University. His research interests include stochastic optimization, healthcare applications, and automation. Charlotte 2011 was his first INFORMS Annual Meeting. He can be found on Twitter at @tdhopper.