ORC 65th Anniversary
November 26th and November 27th
Location: Wong Auditorium and Ting Foyer (Building E51)
Monday, November 26th (PDF of Monday's Schedule)
7:30 – 8:30am Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:40 – 9:00am Opening Remarks – The ORC Today
Speakers
Dimitris Bertsimas and Patrick Jaillet, Codirectors, OR Center
9:00 – 10:00am Analytics and Entrepreneurship
Moderator
Vivek Farias
Robert N. Noyce Career Development Professor; Professor of Operations Management
MIT, Sloan School of Management
Speakers
Philip Ma
Co-founder
Seer Biosciences
Rama Ramakrishnan
Senior Vice President, Data Science, Commerce Cloud
Salesforce
Janie Yu
Partner
Fung Capital
10:00 – 10:30am Morning Break
10:30 – 12:00pm OR in Public Policy
Moderator
Nikolaos Trichakis
Associate Professor of Operations Management
MIT, Sloan School of Management
Speakers
Jonathan P. Caulkins
H. Guyford Stever University Professor of Operations Research & Public Policy
Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University
Ozlem Ergun
Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Northeastern University
Edward H. Kaplan
William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Operations Research Professor of Public Health & Professor of Engineering
Yale School of Management
Lawrence M. Wein
The Jeffrey S. Skoll Professor of Management Science
Stanford Graduate School of Business
12:00 – 1:00pm Lunch @ Morss Hall, Walker Memorial (50-140)
1:15 – 2:00pm ORC Student Poster Session @ Ting Foyer (Building E51)
2:00 – 3:00pm Optimization
Moderator
Dimitris Bertsimas
Boeing Professor of Operations Research; Codirector, Operations Research Center
MIT, Sloan School of Management
Speakers
Daniel Bienstock
Fu Family Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Columbia University
Adam Elmachtoub
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Columbia University
Asuman Ozdaglar
Department Head and Professor
MIT,
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
3:00 – 3:30pm Afternoon Break
3:30 – 4:45pm OR/Analytics in Healthcare
Speakers
Dimitris Bertsimas
Boeing Professor of Operations Research; Codirector, Operations Research Center
MIT, Sloan School of Management
Vijay Chandru
INAE Distinguished Technologist, Indian Institute of Science
Founder Director, Strand Life Sciences Pvt Ltd
Nataly Youssef
CEO
RECLAIM (MyA Health Inc)
4:45 – 6:00pm Operations Research and Military Operations
Moderator
Retsef Levi
J. Spencer Standish (1945) Professor of Management
MIT,
Sloan School of Management
Speakers
Tauhid Zaman
Associate Professor of Operations Management
MIT,
Sloan School of Management
Eric Zarybnisky
Materiel Leader
United States Air Force
6:30 – 7:30pm Cocktail Reception - Samberg Conference Center (E52)
7:30 – 10:00pm Dinner - Samberg Conference Center (E52)
Past, Present and Future of OR
Tribute to John Little
Speakers
Richard Larson
Mitsui Professor, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
MIT,
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Thomas Magnanti
Institute Professor
MIT,
Sloan School of Management
Amedeo Odoni
Professor Emeritus
MIT,
Aeronautics & Astronautics; Civil & Environmental Engineering
Tuesday, November 27th (PDF of Tuesday's Schedule)
8:00 – 9:00am Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 – 10:30am OR and Analytics Education
Moderator
Robert Freund
Theresa Seley Professor in Management Science
MIT,
Sloan School of Management
Speakers
Vishal Gupta
Assistant Professor, Data Sciences and Operations
USC, Marshall School of Business
Soulaymane Kachani
Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning Senior Vice Dean and Professor
Columbia University
Allison O'Hair
Lecturer in Management, Stanford Business School
Chief Data Scientist, Assurance
John Silberholz
Assistant Professor of Technology and Operations
Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
10:30 – 11:00 Morning Break
11:00 – 12:30 Operations Management Past and Future; an ORC Alumni Perspective
Moderator
Georgia Perakis
William F. Pounds Professor of Operations Research
MIT,
Sloan School of Management
Speakers
Dan Iancu
Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Technology
Stanford University, Graduate School of Business
Ilan Lobel
Associate Professor Department of Information, Operations and Management Sciences
New York University, Stern School of Business
Chung Piaw Teo
Provost's Chair, Professor of Analytics & Operations
NUS Business School
12:30 – 1:30pm Lunch @ Morss Hall, Walker Memorial (50-140)
1:45 – 2:30pm ORC Student Poster Session @ Ting Foyer (E51)
2:30 – 4:00pm Transportation in the Future
Moderator
Patrick Jaillet
Dugald C. Jackson Professor; Codirector, Operations Research Center
MIT, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Speakers
Saurabh Amin
Robert N. Noyce Career Development Associate Professor
MIT, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Hamsa Balakrishnan
Associate Department Head and Associate Professor; Director, Transportation@MIT
MIT, Aeronautics & Astronautics
Cynthia Barnhart
Chancellor; Ford Foundation Professor of Engineering
MIT, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Carolina Osorio
Associate Professor
MIT, Civil and Environmental Engineering
David Shmoys
Laibe/Acheson Professor of Business Management & Leadership Studies
School of Operations Research and Information Engineering Cornell University
