MANAGEMENT SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING - Key Persons
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- Associate Professor of Management Science and Engineering and of Computer Science
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- Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Emeritus
Born in New York City on May 1, 1925, Manne was an only child. He received his bachelor's degree in economics from Harvard College at 18 years of age. Following graduation, he served out the last days of World War II in the Navy before heading back to Harvard, where he earned a doctorate in economics in 1950. He stayed on there as an instructor before accepting a position at the Rand Corporation as an economic analyst from 1952 to 1956.
Manne spent the next five years at Yale as an associate professor of economics. But he was not destined to remain on the East Coast.
Manne served as a professor between 1961 and 1967 at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. In 1967, he became a faculty member of the Department of Economics and a founding member of the Department of Operations Research; he remained on campus until 1974. During a brief hiatus from the Farm, Manne traveled to Vienna, Austria, as an economist for the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis before returning to Harvard as a professor of political economy from 1974 to 1976. Later that year, he reclaimed his Stanford post within the Department of Operations Research, and held it until 1992, when he retired from teaching. Remaining active within the department as a professor emeritus, Manne continued to publish through 2004.
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- Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University
Amin Saberi is Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. He received his B.Sc. from Sharif University of Technology and his Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology in Computer Science. His research interests include algorithms, design and analysis of social networks, and applications. He is a recipient of the Terman Fellowship, Alfred Sloan Fellowship and several best paper awards.
Amin was the founding CEO and chairman of NovoEd Inc., a social learning environment designed in his research lab and used by universities such as Stanford as well as non-profit and for-profit institutions for offering courses to hundreds of thousands of learners around the world.
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor at Stanford University
Arvind Karunakaran is an Assistant Professor at Stanford University in the Department of Management Science and Engineering. His research draws on organizational theory and sociology of work and occupations/professions to examine authority and accountability in the workplace, especially in the context of technological change. He received his Ph.D. from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
His current research focuses on understanding (a) tensions among the overlapping strands of authority in organizations (e.g., line authority, staff authority, professional authority), and how it shapes consequential outcomes such as exclusion/inclusion in the workplace, perceptions of powerlessness, workplace harassment, employee voice and change implementation; (b) mechanisms for enforcing accountability during periods of organizational and technological changes (e.g., introduction of algorithmic evaluation tools, social media platforms, diversity & sustainability initiatives).
He specializes in ethnographic and field-based methods (e.g., participant observations, interviews), examining the empirical and theoretical puzzles discovered during fieldwork that existing research cannot fully explain. He complements these methods with comparative-historical analysis of primary archival data and quantitative/computational analysis of large-corpus of textual data.
His research has been published in journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, and Research Policy, and recognized with awards from professional associations, including the American Sociological Association (ASA), Academy of Management (AOM), Industry Studies Association (ISA), Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), and Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA).
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- Professor of Management Science and Engineering and, by Courtesy, of Computer Science
Ashish Goel is a Professor of Management Science and Engineering and (by courtesy) Computer Science at Stanford University. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford in 1999, and was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California from 1999 to 2002. His research interests lie in the design, analysis, and applications of algorithms.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Emeritus
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- Professor at Stanford University
- Professor of Electrical Engineering
Benjamin Van Roy is a Professor at Stanford University, where he has served on the faculty since 1998. His current research focuses on reinforcement learning. Beyond academia, he leads a DeepMind Research team in Mountain View, and has also led research programs at Unica (acquired by IBM), Enuvis (acquired by SiRF), and Morgan Stanley.
He is a Fellow of INFORMS and IEEE and has served on the editorial boards of Machine Learning, Mathematics of Operations Research, for which he co-edited the Learning Theory Area, Operations Research, for which he edited the Financial Engineering Area, and the INFORMS Journal on Optimization. He received the SB in Computer Science and Engineering and the SM and PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, all from MIT, where his doctoral research was advised by John N. Tstitsiklis. He has been a recipient of the MIT George C. Newton Undergraduate Laboratory Project Award, the MIT Morris J. Levin Memorial Master's Thesis Award, the MIT George M. Sprowls Doctoral Dissertation Award, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Stanford Tau Beta Pi Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, the Management Science and Engineering Department's Graduate Teaching Award, and the Lanchester Prize. He was the plenary speaker at the 2019 Allerton Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing. He has held visiting positions as the Wolfgang and Helga Gaul Visiting Professor at the University of Karlsruhe, the Chin Sophonpanich Foundation Professor and the InTouch Professor at Chulalongkorn University, a Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore, and a Visiting Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.
Blake Johnson is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Management Science and Engineering, where he was previously a full-time faculty member. His work focuses on methods for proactively incorporating uncertainty about demand and supply in supply chain planning and performance management, both inside a company and in its relationships with key customers, suppliers and partners.
Blake has pioneered the development of business capabilities to implement these methods in his work in industry. In 2000 he founded Vivecon, which delivered the first supply planning capabilities of this kind to leading companies in high tech, CPG, automotive and energy, with financing by Texas Pacific Group, Benchmark Capital and Foundational Capital.
In 2008 he began development of Aztral (which is privately financed) to provide a fully integrated set of capabilities spanning performance management, planning, and operational execution. Large-scale deployment of these capabilities began in 2016. Now validated and refined, they are being delivered through Aztral's highly automated "self-driving" enterprise analytic capabilities, which ensure optimal performance and extremely efficient implementation. The first capability, Aztral Demand and Forecast, launched in summer 2018.
Complementary to his work at Aztral, Blake is actively involved in developing best practices for implementing analytics at scale in core operating processes. For the last eight years has hosted an annual event in the Management Science and Engineering Department that brings together industry and academic leaders in the field.
Blake currently teaches corporate financial management and has also taught capital investment, supply chain risk and flexibility management, and microeconomics. He began his career in investment banking at Credit Suisse in New York, where he was responsible for several categories of asset-backed securities and led the first issues of credit-card asset backed securities in Europe and Japan.
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- Lecturer
- Lecturer, D.School
Bruce Cahan is a Lecturer in Stanford University's Management Science and Engineering Department, a Lecturer at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school), a Distinguished Scholar at Stanford's Human-Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute's mediaX Program, and an active member of CodeX Fellow at Stanford's Center for Legal Informatics. Bruce's course offerings at Stanford include Ethics of Finance and Financial Engineering (MS&E 148), Investing on the Buy Side of Wall Street (MS&E 449), Sustainable Banking (CEE 244A) and Redesigning Finance (d.school). As an Ashoka Fellow through Urban Logic, Bruce is creating the Space Commodities Exchange, GoodBank™(IO), an independent teaching bank for high-transparency, impacts-aware commercial bankers, and other projects.
Education
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Economics and International Business (1976)
Juris Doctor (J.D.), Temple University School of Law, Law (1979)
Chuck Eesley is an Associate Professor and W.M. Keck Foundation Faculty Scholar in the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. As part of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, his research focuses on the role of the institutional and university environment in high-growth, technology entrepreneurship. His research focuses on rethinking how the educational and policy environment shapes the economic and entrepreneurial impact of university alumni. His field research spans China, Japan, Chile, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Thailand and Silicon Valley and has received awards from the Schulze Foundation, the Technical University of Munich, and the Kauffman Foundation. He is a faculty affiliate at the Stanford Center for International Development, the Woods Institute for the Environment and the Stanford King Center on Global Development. He is also a member of the Editorial Board for the Strategic Management Journal. Before coming to Stanford, Prof. Eesley completed his Ph.D. at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management. His work has been published among other places in Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Research Policy, and Biological Psychiatry. He has also been an advocate and mentor for immigrants and historically under-represented groups in STEM, academia and the tech sector via programs such as Diversifying Academia, Recognizing Excellence (DARE), AAAS - Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST), and SURF among others.
Education
PhD, MIT, Sloan School of Management (2009)
BS, Duke University, Biological Basis of Behavior (2002)
Job Titles:
- Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor, by Courtesy, of Health Policy
Coleman F. Fung Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor, by courtesy, of Health Policy
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- Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Emeritus
David G. Luenberger received the B.S. degree from the California Institute of Technology and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, all in Electrical Engineering. Since 1963 he has been on the faculty of Stanford University. He helped found the Department of Engineering-Economic Systems, now merged to become the Department of Management Science and Engineering, where his is currently a professor.
He served as Technical Assistant to the President's Science Advisor in 1971-72, was Guest Professor at the Technical University of Denmark (1986), Visiting Professor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1976), and served as Department Chairman at Stanford (1980-1991).
His awards include: Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2008), the Bode Lecture Prize of the Control Systems Society (1990), the Oldenburger Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1995), and the Expository Writing Award of the Institute of Operations Research and Management Science (1999) He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (since 1975).
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- Clinical Professor
- Clinical Professor, Pediatrics - Endocrinology and Diabetes
- Executive Director of Systems Design
David Scheinker is the Executive Director of Systems Design and Collaborative Research at the Stanford Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. He is the Founder and Director of SURF Stanford Medicine, a group that brings together students and faculty from the university with physicians, nurses, and administrators from the hospitals. SURF has implemented and published dozens of projects demonstrating improvements to the quality and efficiency of care. His areas of focus include clinical care delivery, technical improvements to hospital operations, sensor-based and algorithm-enabled telemedicine, and the socioeconomic factors that shape healthcare cost and quality.
Before coming to Stanford, he was a Joint Research Fellow at The MIT Sloan School of Management and Massachusetts General Hospital. He received a PhD in theoretical math from The University of California San Diego under Jim Agler. He advises Carta Healthcare, a healthcare analytics company started by former students.
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- Professor of Industrial Engineering, Emeritus
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- Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Emeritus
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- INFORMS Fellow
- Professor of Engineering - Economic Systems & Operations Research, Emeritus
Donald L. Iglehart is a John von Neumann Theory Prize recipient who has made fundamental contributions to performance analysis, optimization, and simulation of stochastic systems. Iglehart received his Bachelor's degree in Engineering Physics from Cornell in 1956, his Master's degree in Mathematical Statistics from Stanford University in 1959, and his PhD in the same subject from Stanford in 1961. His dissertation was supervised by Herbert E. Scarf and Samuel Karlin, and the topic was on dynamic programming and stationary analysis of inventory problems. He taught at Cornell University from 1961 to 1967 and came to Stanford in 1967, where he has been emeritus since 1999. In1976, he spent a very productive year as an Overseas Fellow at Churchill College at Cambridge University. In his capacity as a PhD advisor, he has had many notable students, including Peter Glynn, Peter Haas, Phil Heidelberger, Doug Kennedy, and Ward Whitt.
Iglehart was jointly awarded the John von Neumann Theory Prize in 2002 with Cyrus Derman, the same year he was named an inaugural Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. He was recognized for having pioneered and developed diffusion limits and approximations for heavily congested stochastic systems. His ideas provided tractable limiting processes and readily computable approximations for complex queueing and other stochastic systems for which closed-form solutions have proved intractable. Iglehart's original research and contributions have heavily influenced queueing theory in the years since their publication, and his papers have been cited in hundreds of publications. Some of his other work has focused on inventory and distribution problems.
Iglehart was also honored by the INFORMS Simulation Society in 2012 with its highest honor, the Lifetime Professional Achievement Award (LPAA). His foundational work in that field recognized and exploited the underlying stochastic structure of simulation as a means of producing enhanced simulation methodologies. For example, he introduced and led the development of the regenerative method for stochastic simulation output analysis, inspiring a flood of significant contributions to simulation methodology. In the late 1980s, Iglehart and Glynn incorporated such techniques as importance sampling into stochastic simulations. The LPAA also noted his ability to clearly organize and articulate deep theory in his presentations and writing, and recognized his education of Ph.D. students who have had, individually and cumulatively, a profound impact on simulation education and research. The citation for his award states that "It is no exaggeration to say that Don Iglehart's contributions made simulation a respectable research discipline in some circles of the operations research community."
In addition to being an INFORMS Fellow, Iglehart was elected in 1999 to the National Academy of Engineering, having been selected for his contributions to queueing theory, simulation methodology, inventory control, and diffusion approximations. He was also honored in 1971 through his induction as a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
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- Professor, and Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Policy
Douglas K. Owens is the Henry J. Kaiser, Jr. Professor, and Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Policy in the School of Medicine, and the Director of the Center for Health Policy (CHP) in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI). Owens is a Senior Fellow at FSI and, by courtesy, a Professor of Management Science and Engineering, at Stanford University. He is a general internist.
Owens' research focuses on technology assessment, cost-effectiveness analysis, evidence synthesis, and methods for clinical decision making and guideline development. He has studied the cost-effectiveness of preventive and therapeutic interventions for HIV/AIDS in several countries; diagnostic and therapeutic interventions for cardiovascular disease; the cost effectiveness of current and emerging therapies for hepatitis C virus infection; the cost effectiveness of prevention and treatment for opioid use disorder; and he has developed methods for developing clinical practice guidelines tailored to specific patient populations. Owens chaired the Clinical Guidelines Committee of the American College of Physicians for four years. The guideline committee develops clinical guidelines that are used widely and are published regularly in the Annals of Internal Medicine. He now is again a member of the ACP guideline committee. He served as Vice-Chair and Chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which develops national guidelines on preventive care. Owens helped lead the development of many national guidelines including screening for breast, colorectal, prostate, cervical, ovarian, pancreatic, thyroid, and lung cancer, and screening for infectious diseases, including HIV, HCV, and HBV. He was also a member of the 2nd Panel on Cost Effectiveness in Health and Medicine, which developed guidelines on the conduct of cost-effectiveness analyses published in 2016.
Owens also directed the Stanford-UCSF Evidence-based Practice Center. He co-directed three training programs in health services research: the Stanford-AHRQ Fellowship Program in Health Policy at Stanford, the VA Post-doctoral Fellowship in Health Services Research, and the VA Postdoctoral Informatics Fellowship Program. He currently is co-director of the Stanford-AHRQ Fellowship Program in Health Policy.
Owens received a BS and an MS from Stanford University, and an MD from the University of California-San Francisco. He completed a residency in internal medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and a fellowship in health research and policy at Stanford. Owens is a past-President of the Society for Medical Decision Making. He received the VA Undersecretary's Award for Outstanding Achievement in Health Services Research, and the Eisenberg Award for Leadership in Medical Decision Making from the Society for Medical Decision Making. He was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) and the Association of American Physicians (AAP). In 2019, Owens received a MERIT Award from the National Institutes on Drug Abuse for his work on HIV, HCV, and the opioid epidemic.
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- Associate Professor
- Professor
Professor Edison Tse received his BS, MS, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the Director of Asia Center of Management Science and Engineering, which has the charter of developing executive training programs for executives in Asian enterprises, conducting research on development of the emerging economy in Asia and establishing research affiliations with Asian enterprises, with a special focus in Greater China: China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
In 1973, he received the prestigious Donald Eckman Award from the American Automatic Control Council in recognition of his outstanding contribution in the field of Automatic Control. He had served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions of Automatic Control, and a co-editor of the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, which he co-founded.
Professor Tse has done research in system and control engineering, economic dynamics and control, computer integrated systems to support fishery management policy decisions, management and control of manufacturing enterprise, and industrial competitive analysis and product development. Tse developed a framework for analyzing dynamic competitive strategy that would shape the formation of an ecosystem supporting a value proposition. Within such a framework, he developed dynamic strategies for firms entering an emerging market, latecomers entering a matured market, and firms managing transformation. Using this framework, he developed a new theory on the business transformation of a company and the economic transformation of a developing economy. He applied his theory to explain China's rapid growth since 1978, changing from a production economy to an innovation economy. His current research is extending the theory to managing product success, managing inflection point disruptions, sustainable growth strategy in a dynamic changing environment, and industries' strategy responding to geopolitics disruption. Over the years he has made valuable contributions in the field of engineering, economics, and business creation and expansion. He has published over 180 papers on his research activities.
From 2004- 2015, he co-directed various Stanford-China programs on regional industry and enterprise transformation that were attended by high level city officials from various cities in China and high level executives from Chinese enterprises. From 2007-2013, he co-directed a Stanford Financial Engineering Certificate Program in Hong Kong that upgrades the quality of managers and traders in the financial institutions in Hong Kong
He was a co-founder and a Board member of Advanced Decision System (ADS), a technology company with emphasis on AI and advanced decision tools. The company was found in 1979 and later acquired by Booz Allen and Hamilton in 1991. In 1988, Verity was spun off from ADS with AI search engine technology developed in ADS to provide enterprise search software. He was a Board member of Verity representing ADS before Verity went IPO in 1995. From 2007-2010, he was a Board member of KBC Fund Management Co., Ltd.
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- Assistant Professor of Management Sciences and Engineering and of Computer Science
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- Faculty Affairs and Administrative Services Manager
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- Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Emeritus
Eugene Lodewick. Grant (1897-1996) , a native of Chicago, received his B.S. degree at the University of Wisconsin in 1917. He served in the Navy during World War I and later in the United States Geological Survey. In 1920, he joined the faculty of the Civil Engineering Department of the University of Montana (Bozeman). Professor Grant took a sabbatical leave at Columbia University during the 1927-28 academic year. There he earned a Master's degree in Economics.
Gene Grant joined Stanford's Civil Engineering Department in 1930. That year his teaching assignment led him to write the classic textbook Principles of Engineering Economy. Other widely used books of his include Statistical Quality Control (1946), Fundamentals of Depreciation (1949), and Basic Accounting and Cost Accounting (1956).
Grant headed the Civil Engineering Department from 1947 to 1956. In addition, from 1947 to 1956, he headed the Committee on Industrial Engineering, which began as a program within the Civil Engineering Department and later became an independent department.
Among Eugene Grant's most significant honors are: the ASQC Shewhart Medal (1952); the AIIE Founders Award (1965), an Honorary Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Montana (1973), the IIE Engineering Economy Division's Wellington Award (1979); and membership in the National Academy of Engineering (1987).
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- Professor of Operations Research, Emeritus
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- Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Emeritus
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- Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Emeritus
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- Adjunct Professor
- Management Science
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- Stanford 's Vice President for Development
Hank Riggs was a former vice president for development at Stanford and the Thomas W. and Joan B. Ford Professor of Engineering, emeritus. After his retirement from Stanford in the 1980s, he served as president of Harvey Mudd College and founded the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, both in Claremont, Calif.
"He continually sought out challenges, and his vision fundamentally shaped every institution with which he was involved," said his daughter Katie Riggs. "Throughout his life, his abiding passion was for teaching, and he taught up until a few weeks before his death."
Riggs was known for riding a bike to campus and wearing a suit and signature bowtie, his daughter added.
After graduating from Stanford with a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering (1957) and an MBA from Harvard Business School (1960), Riggs worked as president of Icore Industries and chief financial officer of Measurex Corporation. He began teaching part time at Stanford in 1967 and joined the faculty full time in 1974. His best-known course at Stanford was IE 133, Industrial Accounting.
From 1978 to 1983, Riggs served as chair of the Stanford Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management Department. In 1980, he received the Walter J. Gores Award from the university for excellence in teaching.
In 1983, Riggs became Stanford's vice president for development. In this role he designed and oversaw the Stanford Centennial Campaign.
In 1988, Riggs was named president of Harvey Mudd College. During his nine years in that position, the college expanded its campus, increased its enrollment and endowment, and launched new departments in biology and computer science.
Riggs' early career as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur left him convinced that colleges and universities needed to be more flexible and entrepreneurial to serve their students and the public good. In 1997, he founded the seventh Claremont College, the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, and served as the institution's first president until 2003.
Riggs wrote books and articles on accounting, management and finance for students and the general public. His influential 2011 New York Times op-ed, "The Price of Perception," challenged the practices by which top-tier colleges set tuition rates. He also served on numerous corporate and nonprofit boards.
In his personal life, Riggs had two great loves: his family and travel. He and his wife, Gayle, saw much of the world from their bicycles and Eurovan. At age 70, Riggs bought his first boat, named "It's About Time," and became a skilled captain. Five years later he solo-captained the boat to Alaska and back.
Riggs was born on Feb. 26, 1935, and grew up in Hinsdale, Ill. He met Gayle Carson when they were both undergraduates at Stanford; they married in 1958.
In addition to his wife, Riggs is survived by a sister, Ruth Wendel; children, Betsy McCarthy of Seattle, Peter Riggs of Harstine Island, Wash., and Katie Riggs of Burlingame, Calif.; and six grandchildren.
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- Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Professor, by Courtesy
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor in Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University
Irene is an assistant professor in Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University. Her research is on designing matching markets and assignment processes to improve market outcomes, with a focus on public sector applications and socially responsible operations research. She is also interested in mechanism design for social good and graph theory.
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- Professor of Management Science and Engineering and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
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- Professor of Management Science & Engineering, Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, at the Precourt Institute for Energy and, by Courtesy, at the Hoover Institution
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- Digital Community & Social Media Specialist
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- Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor, by Courtesy, of Electrical Engineering
Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering
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- Director of Student and Academic Services
Dr. Marie-Elisabeth Paté-Cornell is the Burt and Deedee McMurtry Professor in the School of Engineering, and a Professor and Founding Chair of the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University (2000-2011). Previously, she was the Professor and Chair of the Stanford Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management and an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at MIT. Her specialty is engineering risk analysis with application to complex systems (seismic risk, space systems, medical procedures and devices, offshore oil platforms, cyber security, etc.). Her earlier research has focused on the optimization of warning systems and the explicit inclusion of human and organizational factors in the analysis of systems' failure risks. Her more recent work is on the use of game theory in risk analysis with applications that have included counterterrorism and cyber security.
She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering where she chairs the section of Interdisciplinary Engineering and Special Fields, of the French Académie des Technologies, and of the NASA Advisory Council. She is co-chair of the committee of the National Academies (NASEM) on risk analysis methods for nuclear war and nuclear terrorism. She is a Fellow (and past president) of the Society for Risk Analysis and of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science. She is the author of more than one hundred publications, with several best paper awards, and the co-editor of a book on Perspectives on Complex Global Problems (2016). She was a member of the Board of Advisors of the Naval Postgraduate School, which she chaired from 2004 to 2006, and of the Navy War College. Dr. Paté-Cornell was also a member of the President's (Foreign) Intelligence Advisory Board (2001-2008), of the board of the Aerospace Corporation (2004-2013) of Draper Laboratory (2009-2016), and of InQtel (2006-2017). She was awarded the Frank Ramsey Medal of the Decision Analysis Society, the 2021 IEEE Ramo medal in Systems Engineering and Science, and the 2022 PICMET Award for Leadership in Technology Management. She is a Fellow (and past president) of the Society for Risk Analysis and of the Institute for Management Science and Operations Research, and a Distinguished Vising Scientist of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She is the author of more than one hundred publications, for which she got several best paper awards, and the co-editor of a book on Perspectives on Complex Global Problems (2016). She holds a BS in Mathematics and Physics, Marseille (France), an Engineering degree (Applied Math/CS) from the Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble (France), an MS in Operations Research and a PhD in Engineering-Economic Systems, both from Stanford University.
She and her late husband, Dr. Allin Cornell had two children, Philip Cornell (born 1981) and Ariane Cornell (1984). She is married to Admiral James O. Ellis Jr. (US Navy, Ret.).
Education
PhD, Stanford University (1978)
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- Assistant Professor of Management Science and Engineering and, by Courtesy, of Electrical Engineering
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- Director of Finance and Operations, Staff Emerita
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- Professor ( Research ) of Management Science and Engineering, Emeritus
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- Assistant to Director - EMF
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- Administrative Associate II
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- Professor of Management Science and Engineering and, by Courtesy, of Electrical Engineering and of Computer Science
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- Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Emeritus
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- Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering
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- Professor ( Teaching ) of Management Science and Engineering, Emeritus
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- Professor of Management Science & Engineering and, by Courtesy, of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business
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- Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Emeritus
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- Associate Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Emeritus
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- Director of Finance and Operations
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- Professor ( Research ) of Management Science and Engineering and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Emeritus
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- Professor in the School of Engineering
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- Weiland Professor in the School of Engineering, Emeritus
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- Entrepreneurship Professor in the School of Engineering
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- Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor, by Courtesy, of Electrical Engineering
Thomas W. Ford Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering
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- Associate Director of Communications and IT
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- Assistant Professor of Management Science and Engineering and, by Courtesy, of Computer Science
On the academic front, Dr. Woo continues her research into factors that contribute to sustaining and attaining eudaimonia (Aristotle's idea of designing a life well-lived). Her work identified TQ (Transformation Quotient) and posited the formula IQ*EQ*TQ to increase one's resilience and thriving in the highly complex and dynamic world in which we live and work. She believes harnessing the transformative power of change can help enhance individual well-being. Her research, including TQ ™ and Thriving Transitional Experiences™, is discussed in Chapter 4 of Human Capital and Assets in the Networked World, available on Amazon. A list of publication is available also.
Dr. Woo is an advisor/coach/mentor for blackbox.vc, a non-profit organization serving the global entrepreneurial ecosystem and a member of the mentoring team at FoundersHK. In both roles, she advises early-stage startups on building positive cultures and a go-to-market strategy. She is also on the advisory board of Invoking the Pause, a non-profit investing in bold ideas, cultivating collaborations, and funding strategic "pauses" to advance climate challenge solutions. Dr. Woo is the creator of the pod course "Everyone is an Entrepreneur", available on the Himalaya podcast platform She also founded the Marin Chapter of the Awesome Foundation, which funds local charitable causes in Marin County. She is also on the board of the Artful Method. Since 2020, she leads an international team of researchers and professionals to develop educational content to help professionals learn about high-impact, innovative collaborations to build a sustainable future. RESET, Responsible Enterprises for Social and Environmental Transformation, aims to inspire change and share stories of companies combining sustainability and profits today. We believe everyone has a responsibility to innovate for a better future and our aim is to inspire people to do so.
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- Professor ( Research ) of Management Science and Engineering, Emeritus
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- Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Emeritus
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- Michael & Barbara Berberian Professor, Senior Fellow at Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Emeritus