First-of-its-Kind Capitol Hill Summit on May 21 Will Showcase How Policymakers Can Best Use Operations Research and Analytics to Save Lives, Save Money & Solve Problems
First-of-its-Kind Capitol Hill Summit on May 21 Will Showcase How Policymakers Can Best Use Operations Research and Analytics to Save Lives, Save Money & Solve Problems
INFORMS 2018 Government & Analytics Summit will feature keynote remarks from former DOT Secretary Anthony Foxx; former CIA/NSA Director General Michael Hayden
Key experts in national security, transportation and healthcare will showcase Operations Research and Analytics solutions for government
CATONSVILLE, Md., May 10, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In Washington, opportunities exist to better leverage data and analytics to enable the government to achieve more efficient and effective outcomes for the American people.
The Administration's recently released Management Agenda noted that, "Government agencies do not consistently apply data-driven decision-making practices. Smarter use of data and evidence is needed to orient decisions and accountability around service and results." Democrats have echoed similar sentiments, stating, "Government cannot rely on outdated systems to meet today's rapidly changing needs and critical challenges," and reforms can be taken to "provide more effective and responsive solutions."
That's why leaders and senior managers in Washington need to understand how a robust, holistic approach to the use of data, particularly through Operations Research (O.R.) and Analytics, can present solutions to the government's most complicated challenges.
On May 21, a first-of-its kind Summit sponsored by INFORMS, an association of over 12,000 O.R. and Analytics professionals, will provide a unique forum for attendees to hear rich, non-technical perspectives on how O.R. and Analytics can be more broadly utilized by policymakers and federal government leaders. The INFORMS 2018 Government & Analytics Summit will be held at the Reserve Officers Association Building with check-in starting at 8:30 a.m. and the program will begin at 9:00 a.m.
Following keynote remarks from former U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and former Director of the CIA and NSA General Michael Hayden, the Summit will host three concurrent panel discussions with leading experts from academia and industry about how O.R. and Analytics are being used in three specific domains--healthcare, transportation and national security.
Healthcare Panelists
-- Don Kleinmuntz, PhD, Kleinmuntz Associates (Moderator)Don Kleinmuntz is
a leading authority at the intersection of industry and academia. He is
a respected analytics consultant and an Adjunct Professor of IT,
Analytics and Operations at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza
College of Business. Don has collaborated with hospitals, academic
medical centers and multi-hospital healthcare systems, primarily on
financial decision support, strategic financial planning and resource
allocation.
-- James Bagian, M.D., P.E., University of Michigan Jim Bagian is a former
NASA astronaut and physician, U.S. Air Force flight surgeon and leading
official at the Veterans Affairs Department (VA) and Environment
Protection Agency (EPA). Currently, he is the Director of the Center
for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety and is a Professor in the
Department of Anesthesiology and the College of Engineering at the
University of Michigan. He previously served as the first Chief Patient
Safety Officer and Founding Director of the National Center for Patient
Safety (NCPS) at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). He has
also held positions as an engineer at the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development, U.S. Navy and Environmental Protection Agency.
-- Sommer Gentry, PhD, U.S. Naval AcademySommer Gentry builds O.R. models
to improve access to organ transplantation and is a highly-sought after
expert. Her widely publicized research, which is funded in part by the
National Institutes of Health, has contributed to substantial
improvements in organ transplantation. She presently serves as a
Professor of Mathematics at the U.S. Naval Academy and is also on the
faculty of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is a
senior investigator with the U.S. Scientific Registry for Transplant
Recipients.
-- Eva Lee, PhD, Georgia TechEva K. Lee tackles challenging problems in
health systems and biomedicine through systems modeling, algorithm and
software design and decision theory analysis. She is a world-renowned
expert at the intersection of O.R. and healthcare. She currently serves
as a professor in the H. Milton Stewart 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.
-- Julie Swann, PhD, North Carolina StateJulie Swann is a research leader
in using mathematical modeling to enable supply chain systems and health
care to become more efficient, effective and equitable. She currently
heads the North Carolina State University Fitts Department of Industrial
and Systems Engineering as Department and is the A. Doug Allison
Distinguished Professor.
National Security Panelists
-- Colonel Greg Parlier, Retired (Moderator)Greg Parlier is a retired U.S.
Army colonel and a combat veteran with five deployments and service in
over 20 countries who has led five different O.R. organizations in major
commands and the Pentagon. He is currently adjunct Professor of O.R and
President, GH Parlier Consulting. With nearly 34 years of service, he
was the Army's senior, most experienced O.R. officer on active duty.
-- David Alderson, PhD, Naval Postgraduate SchoolDavid Alderson helps
answer questions that government officials often grapple with, including
how to invest limited resources and the tradeoffs as the work to protect
critical infrastructures and public cyber-physical and public systems.
He is an Associate Professor in the O.R. Department and serves as
Director for the Center for Infrastructure Defense at the Naval
Postgraduate School (NPS). He is also a member of the NPS Cyber Academic
Group, which has academic oversight of interdisciplinary cyber curricula
on campus. Dr. Alderson has been the Principal Investigator of sponsored
research projects for the Navy, Army, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast
Guard.
-- Natalie Scala, PhD, Towson UniversityNatalie M. Scala is a tenure-track
assistant professor in the College of Business and Economics at Towson
University and her primary research is in decision analysis, with focus
on military applications and cybersecurity. Dr. Scala frequently
consults for government clients and has extensive professional
experience, including positions with Innovative Decisions, Inc., the
U.S. Department of Defense and the RAND Corporation.
-- Harrison Schramm, CAP, Center for Strategic and Budgetary
AssessmentsHarrison Schramm had a successful career in the U.S. Navy,
where he served as a Helicopter Pilot, Military Assistant Professor at
the Naval Postgraduate School and as a lead O.R. Analyst in the
Pentagon. He has been a leader in the O.R. community for the past decade
and joined CSBA in 2017.
Transportation Panelists
-- Jose Holguín-Veras, PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
(Moderator)Jose Holguín-Veras has received numerous awards for his
work, including the 2013 White House Champion of Change Award for his
contributions to freight transportation and disaster response research.
He is a leading expert in freight transportation demand modeling,
sustainable freight policy and humanitarian logistics. He currently
serves as the William H. Hart Professor and Director of the Center for
Infrastructure, Transportation and the Environment; and the Volvo
Research and Educational Foundations (VREF) Center of Excellence on
Sustainable Urban Freight Systems at the Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute.
-- Saif Benjaafar, PhD, University of MinnesotaSaif Benjaafar is a leading
expert on the sharing economy at a time when Congress has taken an
active role in oversight on these issues. His recent work on
collaborative consumption is among the first to layout the foundation
for the economic and environmental analysis of the sharing economy. He
is currently the Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the
University of Minnesota and Director of the Initiative on the Sharing
Economy.
-- Pooja Dewan, PhD, BNSF RailwayPooja Dewan is the Chief Data Scientist at
BNSF Railway where she has led the O.R. and Advanced Analytics group for
the past 13 years. She has also worked as an internal consultant for
several groups, managed the O.R. group and led two regional teams for
Locomotive Distribution and Planning.
-- Peter Frazier, PhD, Cornell University & UberPeter Frazier is a Staff
Data Scientist at Uber and managed the data science group for Uber's
carpooling service, UberPOOL. He is also an Associate Professor at
Cornell's School of Operations Research and Information Engineering and
conducts research in O.R. and machine learning.
-- Steve Sashihara, Princeton ConsultantsSteve Sashihara is the CEO of
Princeton Consultants, which he co-founded in 1981 to blend advanced
analytics and data science with management consulting to help companies
in transportation and other industries achieve transformational
improvement in service and efficiency. He is the author of, "The
Optimization Edge: Reinventing Decision Making to Maximize All Your
Company's Assets" the first non-technical book to explain optimization
to the busy business executive.
For those who cannot attend the INFORMS 2018 Government & Analytics Summit, Secretary Foxx's and General Hayden's keynote remarks will be livestreamed on INFORMS' Twitter and Facebook. Tune in at facebook.com/INFORMSpage or twitter.com/INFORMS to watch. For more information about the INFORMS 2018 Government and Analytics Summit, and to RSVP for the free event, visit www.informsDCanalytics.org.
About INFORMS
With 12,500 members, INFORMS is the largest association of O.R. and Analytics professionals and students. INFORMS provides a variety of resources and opportunities for individual professionals and organizations to better understand and use O.R. and Analytics tools and methods to save lives, save money, and solve problems. For more information please visit www.informs.org or @informs.
CONTACT: Ashley Kilgore, akilgore@informs.org, or Alicia Elkin, aelkin@signalgroupdc.com
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