Background
Education
Ph.D., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, December 2003
Dissertation Title: Supply Chain Robustness: Models and Algorithms
Dissertation Committee: Mark Daskin (chair), Collette Coullard, Karen Smilowitz, Chung-Piaw Teo
M.S., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, December 1999
B.A., Dept. of Mathematics, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, May 1996
Honors Thesis Title: Combinatorial Rigidity and the Path Decomposition of Isostatic Graphs
Advisors: Ruth Haas and Norton Starr
Awards and Honors
Chaired Assistant Professorship
- Frank Hook Assistant Professorship, Lehigh University, Fall 2006-Spring 2008
Awards
- IIE Operations Research Track, Best Paper Award, IERC Conference, May 2006
- IIE Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award, First Place, May 2005
- INFORMS Section on Transportation Science and Logistics Dissertation Award, First Place, October 2004
- INFORMS Section on Location Analysis Dissertation Awards, Honorable Mention, November 2003
- Northwestern University Transportation Center Student Paper Competition, First Prize, June 2003
- INFORMS Chicago Chapter Student Paper Competition, First Prize, May 2003
- Midwest Regional University Transportation Center Student of the Year, sponsored by United State Department of Transportation, December 2002
- Breusch Prize for best honors thesis in mathematics, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, May 1996
Honor Societies
- Phi Beta Kappa, 1996-present
- Sigma Xi, 1996-present
Other Honors
- INFORMS Doctoral Colloquium, San Jose, CA, November 2002
- Profiled in “Logistics Problems? Do the Maths!” by Marcia Jedd, Cargovision 17(8), 24-25, January 2002
- Council of Logistics Management Doctoral Colloquium, New Orleans, LA, September 2000
