Industrial engineering is an engineering profession that is concerned with the optimization of complex processes, systems, or organizations by developing, improving and implementing integrated systems of people, money, knowledge, information and equipment. Industrial engineering is central to manufacturing operations.
Fred Glover is Chief Scientific Officer of Entanglement, Inc., USA, in charge of algorithmic design and strategic planning for applications of combinatorial optimization in quantum computing. He also holds the title of Distinguished University Professor, Emeritus, at the University of Colorado, Boulder, associated with the College of Engineering and Applied Science and the Leeds School of Business. He is known for his innovations in the area of metaheuristics including the computer-based optimization methodology of Tabu search an adaptive memory programming algorithm for mathematical optimization, and the associated evolutionary Scatter Search and Path Relinking algorithms.
Candace A. Yano is Professor and Chair at Haas School of Business's Operations and Information Technology Management Group, and Professor and former Head of Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, both at University of California, Berkeley. She is also a senior technical consultant on operations management issues for Yano Accountancy Corporation (YAC).
The University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, or UB Engineering, is the largest public engineering school in the state of New York and is home to eight departments. Established in 1946, UB Engineering is ranked 59th by U.S. News & World Report and has an annual research expenditure of $72 million.
İhsan Sabuncuoğlu is a Turkish academic in Industrial Engineering. He is the founding and former rector of Abdullah Gül University in Kayseri, Turkey and now he is the rector of TED University. Relying on the database of Web Of Science, he is appraised as one of three highly successful Turkish industrial engineers regarding to his h index point of scientific productivity.
Venu Govindaraju is an Indian-American whose research interests are in the fields of document image analysis and biometrics. He presently serves as the Vice President for Research and Economic Development. He is a SUNY Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA.
The Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), formerly the Institute of Industrial Engineers, is a professional society dedicated solely to the support of the industrial engineering profession and individuals involved with improving quality and productivity.
Sheldon H. Jacobson is an American educator, noted for contributions that apply operations research to problems related to aviation security, public health, Presidential election forecasting, and NCAA basketball. He holds the position of Founder Professor of Engineering in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Behnam Malakooti, is professor of systems engineering of department of electrical engineering and computer science at the Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), Ohio, US. He has been affiliated with CWRU since 1982. He is a pioneer researcher in risk, operations management, manufacturing systems, multiple criteria optimization. He developed artificial neural networks for predicting decision-making behavior for out-of-sample data. He also pioneered the theory of multiple-objective optimization for solving decision making, operations and manufacturing systems, machinability of materials, artificial neural networks, facility layout, and group technology and clustering.
Dr. Erick Christopher Jones Sr. is an industrial engineer and professor at the University of Nevada at Reno. He is an expert in radio-frequency identification (RFID), quality engineering, and Lean Six Sigma. Jones was the program director of The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering Research Centers. He is currently Chair of the Supply Chain Technology Committee of International Supply Chain Education Alliance's (ISCEA) International Standards Board (IISB) and Editor in Chief of the International Supply Chain Technology Journal (ISCTJ).
Laura Albert is a professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the College of Engineering. Albert is an expert in Operations Research, specializing solving and modeling discrete optimization problems arising from applications in homeland security, disaster management, emergency response, public services, and healthcare.
Jianjun "Jan" Shi is a Chinese-born American engineer and the Carolyn J. Stewart Chair and Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. He also works at the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering in 2018 for the "development of data fusion-based quality methods and their implementation in multistage manufacturing systems".
Pınar Keskinocak is a Turkish-American systems engineer at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she is William W. George Chair, Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Director of the Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems, and College of Engineering ADVANCE Professor. Her research involves the application of operations research and management science to health care and supply-chain management. She is the former president of INFORMS.
Susan Lee Albin is an American industrial engineer known for her research in quality engineering, queueing theory, and industrial process monitoring. She is a professor of industrial engineering at Rutgers University, the former president of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, and the former editor-in-chief of IIE Transactions, the flagship journal of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers.
George Kemble Bennett is a senior professor of engineering in the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. He has formerly served as the dean of the college with two non-consecutive terms. He is a fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers and of the International Society of Logistics.
Panos (Panagiotis) Kouvelis is the Emerson Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain, Operations, and Technology and director of The Boeing Center for Supply Chain Innovation at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis. He is best known for his work on supply chain management, supply chain finance, operational excellence, and risk management.
Deborah J. Seifert Nightingale is an American management scientist, industrial engineer, and enterprise transformation consultant. She is University Distinguished Professor of Industrial Engineering & Management Systems at the University of Central Florida, past president of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, and a former professor of Engineering Systems and of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nightingale was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1993 for contributions to the expanding field of computer-integrated manufacturing as an instrument of industrial competitiveness. She is the 2020 winner of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Industrial Engineering Award.
Alice E. Smith is an American industrial engineer whose research concerns mathematical optimization for complex applications in manufacturing, business planning, advanced materials, and communication networks, based on problems including facility location and network design. She is Joe W. Forehand/Accenture Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Auburn University, where she also holds an adjunct appointment in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering.
Barış Tan is a Turkish business and engineering academic. He is a professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Management at Özyeğin University, Turkey. He is most known for his research in the areas of production systems, supply chain management, and operations management. He served as the vice president of academic affairs, dean of College of Administrative Sciences and Economics and Director of Graduate School of Business at Koç University.
Ariela Sofer is an Israeli and American operations researcher whose research expertise includes algorithms for mathematical optimization and their application to the reconstruction of three-dimensional shapes from positron emission tomography. She is a professor of systems engineering and operations research at George Mason University, and Divisional Dean for the Volgenau School of Engineering at George Mason University.
