Eva K Lee is an Associate professor in the School of Industrial
and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, and
Director of the Center for Operations Research in Medicine and
HealthCare. She is also a Senior Research Professor at the Atlanta
VA Medical Center. Dr. Lee earned a Ph.D. at Rice University in
the Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, and received
her undergraduate degree in Mathematics from Hong Kong Baptist
University, where she graduated with Highest Distinction.
In 1996,
she received the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award for
research on integer programming and parallel algorithms and their
applications to medical diagnosis and cancer treatment. She was
the first IE recipient for the prestigious Whitaker Foundation
Biomedical Grant for Young Investigators, she was selected as one
of the Extraordinary Women Engineers. In 2005, she received the
INFORMS Pierskalla Best Paper Award for research excellence in
HealthCare and Management Science for her work on emergency response
and planning, large-scale prophylaxis dispensing, and resource
allocation for bioterrorism and infectious disease outbreaks. In
2006, she was chosen by the American Mathematical Society as the
mathematician ambassador to speak and discuss individually to congressional
leaders her research advances in medical and healthcare domain,
and the importance of mathematics in scientific advances.
Dr. Lee
works in the area of mathematical programming and large-scale computational
algorithms with a primary emphasis on medical/healthcare decision
analysis and logistics operations management. In medicine and healthcare,
she has developed real-time computer decision-support systems to
help analyze large-scale biological, DNA/genomic and clinical data
to assist in health prediction, early disease prediction and diagnosis,
optimal treatment design and drug delivery, treatment outcome analysis
and prediction, and efficient and cost-effective healthcare delivery
and operations logistics within healthcare system and processes.
In logistics, Lee's research focuses on optimization and algorithmic
advances for optimal operations planning and resource allocation.
She has developed decision support systems for inventory control,
large-scale truck dispatching, scheduling, and transportation logistics,
telecommunications, portfolio investment, and emergency treatment
responses and facility layout and planning.
Lee has received seven
patents on innovative medical systems and devices. Her research
has been featured and discussed in numerous news media, including
New York Times, London Times, Urology Times, Atlanta Business Chronicle,
and Homeland Security IAIP Directorate Daily Report. Her cancer
research was featured in a TV science news segment for Discoveries
and Breakthroughs, Inside Science, Curing Prostate Cancer, broadcast
by television stations nationwide.
Lee's teaching includes Engineering
Optimization, Operations Research in Medicine and HealthCare, Cancer
Biology and Biotechnology, and Bioinformatics and Predictive Models.
Besides the graduate program in Industrial and Systems Engineering,
she is also a program faculty of several interdisciplinary graduate
programs, including Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization
(ACO); Bioinformatics, Bioengineering, and Health Systems.
She
is currently the secretary and treasurer for the INFORMS Optimization
Society, and the Subdivision Council and Sections and Subcommittee
member for the INFORMS Health Applications Section. She is Co-Editor
for the Annals of Operations Research sub-series: Operations Research
in Medicine -- Computing and Optimization in Medicine and Life
Sciences, and Issue Editor for Asia Pacific Journal of Operations
Research on Medical and Biological Applications. She also serves
on the Editorial Board for Cancer Informatics.
Her love of mathematics
and computing is matched by a love of nature and art. In her leisure
time, she enjoys painting, calligraphy, poetry, handmade artwork
and gardening. She has a deep love of nature, and is fascinated
by its beauty and complexity. She loves to collect leaves, petals
and other natural things.
