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IOE Chair Mark Daskin to Keynote IIE Annual Conference & Expo 2015
ANN ARBOR—Mark S. Daskin is the department chair and Clyde W. Johnson Collegiate Professor of the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. Prior to joining the faculty at Michigan, Daskin was on the faculty at Northwestern University (1980-2009) and the University of Texas (1978-1979).
DATE: 9:35-10:45 a.m. Nov. 1, 2015 (conference runs three days)
EVENT: Department chair and Clyde W. Johnson Collegiate Professor of the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan Mark S. Daskin will deliver the keynote address at the IIE Conference and Expo 2015.
Daskin received his Ph.D. from the civil engineering department at MIT in 1978. He also holds a B.S.C.E. degree from that department and a certificate of post-graduate study in engineering from the University of Cambridge in England. Daskin’s research focuses on the application and development of operations research techniques for the analysis of healthcare problems as well as transportation, supply chain and manufacturing problems. He is the author of more than 75 refereed papers and two books: Network and Discrete Location: Models, Algorithms and Applications (John Wiley, 1995) and Service Science (John Wiley, 2010).
Daskin is a fellow of both INFORMS and IIE and has received the David F. Baker Distinguished Research Award, the Technical Innovation Award and the Fred C. Crane Award for Distinguished Service from IIE as well as the Kimball Medal for service to the society and the profession from INFORMS. He recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Location Analysis from the Section on Location Analysis of INFORMS. He is a past editor-in-chief of both IIE Transactions and Transportation Science. In 2006, he was the president of INFORMS. He served as the chair of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern University from 1995 to 2001.
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