Pınar Keskinocak

Pınar Keskinocak is a Turkish-American systems engineer at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she is William W. George Chair, Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Director of the Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems, and College of Engineering ADVANCE Professor. Her research involves the application of operations research and management science to health care and supply-chain management.[1] She is the president of INFORMS.

Education and career

Keskinocak earned bachelor's and master's degrees in industrial engineering at Bilkent University in 1991 and 1992, respectively.[2] She completed her Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University, with Sridhar Tayur as her doctoral advisor.[3][2][4]

After postdoctoral research at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM, she joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 1999.[2][3]

Service

Keskinocak is the president of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) for the 2020 term.[3]

She was one of the founding editors of the journal IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering (then called IIE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering), serving as department editor for healthcare public policy.[5]

Recognition

Keskinocak is a Fellow of INFORMS,[6] and the winner of the INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice.[3]

References
  1. Pinar Keskinocak: William W. George Chair and Professor, ISyE; ADVANCE Professor, College of Engineering; and Director of the Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems, Georgia Tech, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, retrieved 2019-10-04
  2. Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2019-10-04
  3. Tepper School Ph.D. Graduate Elected INFORMS President, Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business, December 2018, retrieved 2019-10-04
  4. Pınar Keskinocak at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. Fowler, John W.; Benneyan, James C.; Carayon, Pascale; Denton, Brian T.; Keskinocak, Pinar; Runger, George C. (March 2011), "An introduction to a new journal for Healthcare Systems Engineering", IIE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering, 1 (1): 1–5, doi:10.1080/19488301003645051
  6. "INFORMS welcomes eight Fellows". OR/MS Today. doi:10.1287/orms.2015.06.30in/full/.
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