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Professor Lewis received an undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Political Science from Eckerd College in 1992, a Master’s degree in Theoretical Statistics from Florida State University in 1995, and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1998. After receiving his doctorate, Lewis spent a year at the University of British Columbia as a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Operations Excellence. He joined Cornell as an Associate Professor in 2005, teaching Industrial Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. Professor Lewis has served on the Meetings Committee of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), has been a past president (twice), and co-founder of the INFORMS Minority Issues Forum. He has also co-chaired the 2009 INFORMS Applied Probability Society conference and co-edited a special issue on Queueing Analysis and Control in the journal Probability Engineering and Informational Sciences. He is involved as a public speaker at engineering business schools and organizes the Minority Issues Interest Group at Cornell College of Engineering. Additionally, he is a member of the college-wide Strategic Oversight Committee advisory board for Diversity Programs in the Engineering Office for Faculty Development and Diversity.
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