INFORMS Board of Director Takes Office with Editor of IIE Transactions as President

HANOVER, MD, January 2, 2010 - The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®) today announced its 2010 Board of Directors, which took office at the beginning of the year.

Susan L. Albin is the 2010 President of INFORMS. She is Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Rutgers University. Her research field is high-dimensional multivariate process monitoring and control, data mining, profile monitoring, and multiresponse optimization.

She is Editor-in-Chief of IIE Transactions, the flagship journal in the field of industrial engineering.

Her work has been applied in semiconductor manufacturing, plastics recycling, food processing, and medical devices.

Dr. Albin received her doctorate from Columbia University and worked at Bell Laboratories. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Federal Aviation Administration, the U.S. Department of Defense, and industrial companies. She helped found graduate degree programs in Quality Engineering at Peninsula Technikon, Cape Town.

Dr. Albin previously served in numerous positions on the INFORMS board, including Secretary. She was an Associate Editor for the INFORMS journal Management Science. She is a Fellow of IIE, an institute of industrial engineers. She received the Rutgers School of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award in 2008.

The members of the 2010 INFORMS Board of Directors are:

President
	Susan L. Albin Professor and Graduate Director, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rutgers University
President-Elect
	Rina R. Schneur Director, Verizon Network & Technology
Secretary
	Anton Kleywegt Georgia Institute of Technology School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Treasurer
	Stephen M. Robinson University of Wisconsin-Madison Industrial and Systems Engineering & Computer Sciences
Past President
	Don N. Kleinmuntz Strata Decision Technology, LLC Executive Vice President
Vice President/Education
	Jayashankar M. Swaminathan Kay and Van Weatherspoon Distinguished Professor, The Kenan-Flagler Business School Professor, Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Vice President/Information Technology
	Warren Lieberman President, Veritec Solutions
Vice President/International Activities
	Judy Jin University of Michigan IOE Department
Vice President/Marketing, Communications, and Outreach
	Anne G. Robinson CISCO Sr. Manager, Information and Data Strategy, Customer Value Chain Management
Vice President/Membership and Professional Recognition
	Pinar Keskinocak Georgia Institute of Technology School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Vice President/Meetings
	Robin Lougee Research Staff Member and Program Manager, COIN-OR IBM Research
Vice President/Publications
	Terry P. Harrison Penn State University Earl P. Strong Executive Education Professor of Business and Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems
Vice President/Practice Activities
	Jack Levis United Parcel Service Director of Process Management
Vice President/Chapters and Fora
	Stefan Karisch Jeppesen Director, Operations Research and Optimization
Vice President/Sections and Societies
	Ariela Sofer Professor and Chair, George Mason University Department of Systems Engineering & Operations Research
Executive Director, INFORMS
	Mark Doherty Executive Director, INFORMS