Biography:Julie Ivy
Julie Simmons Ivy is the department chair of and professor in the department of industrial and operations engineering at the University of Michigan.[1] Her research involves health care statistics[2] and the application of systems engineering to health care[3] and to other social services including food bank distribution systems.[4][5]
Education and career
Ivy graduated from the University of Michigan in 1991 and completed a master's degree in 1992 at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She returned to Michigan for doctoral study, completing a Ph.D. in 1998.[2] Her dissertation, Determining Maintenance and Replacement Policies for a Multi-State Deteriorating Process with Probabilistic Monitoring, was supervised by Stephen M. Pollock.[6]
She worked as a faculty member in the School of Business at the University of Michigan from 1998 to 2007 before moving to North Carolina State University,[2][6] where she was a professor of industrial and systems engineering and a Fitts Faculty Fellow in Health Systems Engineering.
Service
Ivy is African-American,[7] and was the president of the INFORMS Minority Issues Forum for 2011–2013. She also chaired the INFORMS Health Applications Section for 2007.[2][6]
Since 2016 she has been chair of the board of directors of the Health Systems Engineering Alliance, an association of university programs focused on engineering approaches to health care delivery.[6]
Recognition
In 2016, INFORMS gave Ivy their Moving Spirit Award for her work with their Minority Issues Forum.[8] She was the 2020 winner of the WORMS Award for the Advancement of Women in Operations Research and Management Science.[2] In 2022 she was named a Fellow of INFORMS, "for her service and significant contributions in healthcare and hunger relief, which have advanced the stature and recognition of the OR/MS profession, making it more inclusive for underrepresented members".[9]
References
- ↑ "Q&A with U-M IOE Chair Julie Simmons Ivy" (in en-US). 2023-09-11. https://ioe.engin.umich.edu/2023/09/11/qa-with-new-department-chair-julie-simmons-ivy/.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Julie Ivy, Professor, Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, North Carolina State University, February 2, 2016, https://www.ise.ncsu.edu/people/jsivy/, retrieved June 2, 2019
- ↑ Bresnick, Jennifer (October 31, 2016), "Using Big Data Analytics, Systems Engineering to Tackle Sepsis", Health IT Analytics, https://healthitanalytics.com/news/using-big-data-analytics-systems-engineering-to-tackle-sepsis
- ↑ "Fighting Hunger with Knowledge", Great Big Story (CNN), March 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAV4z6vgfys
- ↑ Morber, Jenny (July 1, 2019), "Food Distribution: How to Give Fairly with Less Waste", SIAM News, https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/food-distribution-how-to-give-fairly-with-less-waste
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Curriculum vitae, http://sites.insead.edu/facultyresearch/research/file.cfm?fid=64987, retrieved June 2, 2019
- ↑ Williams, Scott W., "Julie Simmons Ivy", Black Women in Mathematics (University at Buffalo), http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/ivy_julies.html
- ↑ "Moving Spirit Award for Fora", INFORMS Prizes (INFORMS), https://www.informs.org/Recognizing-Excellence/INFORMS-Prizes/Moving-Spirit-Award-for-Fora, retrieved June 2, 2019
- ↑ INFORMS Names 2022 Fellows, INFORMS, September 12, 2022, https://www.informs.org/About-INFORMS/News-Room/Press-Releases/INFORMS-Names-2022-Fellows, retrieved 2022-10-03
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