BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Dr. Brenda Dietrich

Brenda Dietrich joined the IBM Research Division in 1984, after completing studies for her Ph.D. in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering at Cornell. She has done research in manufacturing modeling and scheduling, inventory management, transportation logistics, mathematical programming, and combinatorial optimization. From 1990 to 1994 she lead the development of resource allocation and planning tools for IBM manufacturing lines, and managed the Manufacturing Logistics group and the Manufacturing Planning and Scheduling group at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. In 1995 she served on the Research division Technical Planning Staff, developing the ten year technology outlook and coordinating the division strategy. Following this assignment, she founded the Logistics Applications group and became the IBM Research liaison for travel and transportation industry related projects. She has served as the senior manager of the Optimization Center, where she managed both the optimization research and the application of optimization to supply chain and transportation. In January, 2001, Dr. Dietrich became the Department Group Manager of the Mathematical Sciences Department at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. She is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology.