Franz Edelman Award Committee

2024 Committee Chair

Rajesh Tyagi
GE Global Research (Retired)
[email protected] 

2024 Committee Members

Layek Abdel-Malek, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Manish Bansal*, Virginia Tech
Carrie Beam, University of California, Davis
Ann Bixby, Aspen Technology
Luciana Buriol, Amazon
Ulas Cakmak, Infor
Manoj Chari, Elon University
Dessislava Pachamanova, Babson College
Goutam Dutta, IIM, Ahmedabad
Mahyar Eftekhar, Arizona State University
Gul Ege, SAS Institute
Zeynep Ertem, State University of New York- Binghamton
Javier Faulin, Public University of Navarra
Ken Fordyce, Arkieva, IBM retired
Hansheng Jiang,* University of Toronto
Kermit Threatte, Innovative Optimization
Don Kleinmuntz, Kleinmuntz Associates
Matthes Koch, desior Consulting/University of Hamburg
Irvin Lustig, Princeton Consultants
Sumit B. Makashir,* Amazon
Aly Megahed, Meta
Meinolf Sellmann,* InsideOpt
Polly Mitchell-Guthrie, Kinaxis
Juan Morales, Otis Elevator
Sven Müller, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany
Chanel Murray, PNC Bank
Alper Nakkas, University of Texas, Arlington
Natalia Summerville, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Patricia Neri, Intel
Yanni Papadakis, Intel
Pelin Pekgun, University of South Carolina
Tulia Plumettaz, Wayfair
Sanjay K Prasad, IBM
Michael Prokle, Fortune Brands GPG
Sreekanth Rajagopalan, Dow Chemical
Mikael Rönnqvist, Université Laval - Quebec
Shailendra Jain, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (Retired)
Inderjeet Singh, Infor
Swapnil Srivastava, Evalueserve
Zohar Strinka, Analytics Strategies LLC
Rajesh Tyagi, GE
Joyce Weiner, Intel
Erick Wikum, Wikalytics.com
Peiling Wu-Smith, General Motors
Fred Zahrn, Disney Decision Science Transformation
Xinhui Zhang, Coupang Corp

Board Liaison: V/P Marketing, Communications, & Outreach (Anahita Khojandi)
Staff Liaison: Dir. Recognition & Development (Mary Magrogan)

For further information on this committee, please see Section 06 of the Policies & Procedures Manual.