Mark E. Lewis (engineer)

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Mark E. Lewis
Born1970 (age 53–54)
Niceville, Florida [1]
Education Eckerd College (BS & BA, 1992)
Florida State University (MS, 1995)
Georgia Tech (PhD, 1998)
Scientific career
Fields Industrial engineering
Institutions Cornell University (since 2005)
University of Michigan (1999-2005)
Thesis Bias Optimality in a Two-Class Nonstationary Queueing System  (1998)

Mark Edwin Lewis (born 1970) is an American industrial engineer and professor at Cornell University. He was the first African-American faculty member hired in Industrial Engineering at University of Michigan and the first tenured African-American faculty member at the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell University. [1] Lewis' research is focused on stochastic processes, and queueing theory and Markov decision processes in particular. [2]

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Education

Lewis received a BS degree in mathematics and a BA degree in political science at Eckerd College, graduating in 1992. [3] He proceeded to earn an MS degree in theoretical statistics from Florida State University in 1995 and a PhD degree in industrial and systems engineering from Georgia Tech in 1998. [2] Lewis' PhD thesis Bias Optimality in a Two-Class Nonstationary Queueing System [4] at Georgia Tech was advised by Robert E. Foley. [5]

Career

After his PhD, Lewis spent a year at the University of British Columbia as a postdoctoral fellow. In 1999, he joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor as Assistant Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering. [3] [6] Lewis became Associate Professor at the Operations Research and Information Engineering department at Cornell University in 2005 and was promoted to Full Professor in 2011. [2]

Lewis founded the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Minority Issues Forum in 2001 and served as its first president. [7] In 2009, Lewis co-chaired the 15th INFORMS Applied Probability Conference at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. [8] [9] Lewis acted as chair of the Applied Probability Society from 2012 to 2014. [10] [11]

Lewis was Associate Dean for Diversity and Faculty Development for Cornell University's College of Engineering from 2015 to 2020. [12] [13] In this role, he acted as task force chair of the Faculty Diversity Committee, which was convened in 2017. [14] Lewis served as principal investigator on the Cornell University Engineering Success Program to increase the participation of underrepresented minority and first-generation college students. [15] [16]

Research

Lewis researches the optimal control of non-stationary systems, developing policies for admission and pricing at non-stationary queueing systems with finite capacity and multiple customer classes, with applications in production, communication, and the airline industry. [17]

He studied the dynamic control and optimal resource allocation of service systems, such as call centers, through "upgrades, reneging, and retrials" (for example after market segmentation). [18]

Lewis also develops methods for optimization of Markov decision processes to study problems such as inventory control and revenue management. [19]

Awards and honors

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