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Brenda Dietrich joined Cornell University in 2017 as the Arthur Helen Geoffrion Professor of Practice in the School of Operations Research. With a 33-year career at IBM, she focused on analytics and data science, leading the Mathematical Sciences function within IBM Research and overseeing the development of computational mathematics applications for various clients. An IBM Fellow since 2007, she served as Vice President in 2008 and was the Chief Technology Officer Strategist within IBM’s Business Analytics group, driving emerging technologies for IBM Watson. In addition to her corporate work, she has been active in the academic community, serving as president of INFORMS and as a board member of SIAM's Board of Trustees. In 2014, she was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Her research interests encompass combinatorial duality, mathematical optimization, resource allocation, applied optimization, simulation, statistics, and machine learning across multiple industries. She emphasizes the application of these fields in optimizing physical systems, supply chains, and human resources to enable automated decision making. At the undergraduate level, she teaches introductory Operations Research with a real-world application focus, and she is also interested in teaching Ph.D. level optimization courses.
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