Committee On Industry-Academia Collaborations

Mission: To facilitate strong partnerships between practice organizations and academic institutions as well as between practitioners and academics interested in the education and practice of operations research and analytics.

2026 Membership

Bhubalan Mani, Chair

Zhaohu (Jonathan) Fan, Vice Chair

Raghad Alkhawaldeh

Thunyarat (Bam) Amornpetchkul

Hande Benson

Metin Cakanyildirim

Zhi-Long Chen

Changqing Cheng

Gary Cokins

Melvin Drent

Stanley Lim

Nirup Menon

Matthew Stewart

Marianna Vydrevich

Jiaxi Zhu

Staff Liaison: Director of Practice Programs, Carol Curley
Board Liaison:  VP Practice, Pooja Dewan