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2019 Edelman Finalist: Louisville Metropolitan Sewer District and Tetra Tech

This podcast is part of a series highlighting the finalist teams of the 2019 INFORMS Franz Edelman Award. We will be releasing these episodes in the countdown to the INFORMS Business Analytics Conference in Austin, TX, April 14-16. In this episode, we are joined by Angela Akridge, Chief Engineer, Louisville Metropolitan Sewer District and Diana Tao, Project Director for Tetra Tech to learn how O.R. was used to maximize all aspects of Louisville’s water collection and treatment facilities to better protect the environment and realizes hundreds of millions in savings.

Tags: 2019 Franz Edelman Award Competition, Louisville Metropolitan Sewer District, Tetra Tech, water collection

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2019 Edelman Finalist: Microsoft

This podcast is part of a series highlighting the finalist teams of the 2019 INFORMS Franz Edelman Award. We will be releasing these episodes in the countdown to the INFORMS Business Analytics Conference in Austin, TX, April 14-16. In this episode, we are joined by Jay Nanduri, Distinguished Engineer, and Anand Oka, Principal Group Program Manager with Microsoft to learn how Microsoft leveraged O.R. to create a fraud detection system that identifies and reduces online fraudulent activity, while protecting legitimate consumer purchases and saving tens of millions of dollars.

Tags: 2019 Franz Edelman Award Competition, fraud detection, Microsoft

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2019 Edelman Finalist: AESA

This podcast is part of a series highlighting the finalist teams of the 2019 INFORMS Franz Edelman Award. We will be releasing these episodes in the countdown to the INFORMS Business Analytics Conference in Austin, TX, April 14-16. In this episode, we are joined by David Rios, Fellow of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences, as well as Veronica Elvira, Deputy Director of Safety Analysis and Francisco Bernal, Head of Aerodromes and Air Navigation Risk Analysis Department with the Spanish Aviation Safety and Security Agency (AESA) to learn how AESA used analytics to meet international aviation safety standards while realizing nearly $230…

Tags: 2019 Franz Edelman Award Competition, AESA, aviation safety, Spanish Aviation Safety and Security Agency

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2019 Edelman Finalist: IBM

This podcast is part of a series highlighting the finalist teams of the 2019 INFORMS Franz Edelman Award. We will be releasing these episodes in the countdown to the INFORMS Business Analytics Conference in Austin, TX, April 14-16. In this episode, we are joined by Aly Megahed, Research Group Lead with IBM Research and Mark Smith, Business Lead with IBM Services, to learn about IBM’s use of O.R. and analytics to manage the highly complex process of competing for and negotiating information technology (IT) service contracts around the world.

Tags: 2019 Franz Edelman Award Competition, IBM, IT Services Contract

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2019 Franz Edelman Award Finalists: Boston Public Schools

This podcast is part of a series highlighting the finalist teams of the 2019 INFORMS Franz Edelman Award. We will be releasing these episodes in the countdown to the INFORMS Business Analytics Conference in Austin, TX, April 14-16. In this episode, we are joined by John Hanlon, Boston Public Schools Chief Operations Officer, William Eger, Senior Strategic Project Manager, and Dimitris Bertsimas, Professor with MIT Sloan School of Management to learn about Boston Public School’s use of O.R. to create a new approach to school bus routing that has reduced the bus fleet and enabled millions of dollars to be…

Tags: 2019 Franz Edelman Award Competition, Boston Public Schools, Franz Edelman Award, routing

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March 2019

In this episode we will explore three different applications of O.R. and analytics in sports, from basketball, to baseball, and beyond! Joining me for this episode are Sheldon Jacobson of the University of Illinois to discuss NCAA March Madness basketball brackets, Michael Trick of Carnegie Mellon University to give insight into Major League Baseball game scheduling, and Walt DeGrange of CANA Advisors and past chairman of the INFORMS SpORts Section to discuss current and developing applications of O.R. and analytics in sports.

Tags: CANA Advisors, Carnegie Mellon University, Michael Trick, Sheldon Jacobson, sports, sports analytics, University of Illinois, Walt DeGrange

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February 2019

In this episode we will learn how O.R. and analytics are helping the men and women of law enforcement and the corrections systems, from improving the health of prison inmates, to simplifying the assignment of inmates to the appropriate prison, to helping New York city police men and women better predict and respond to crime. Joining us for this episode are Tamas Terlaky, president of Optamo and professor at Lehigh University, Mohammad Shahabsafa, chief operating officer at Optamo and Anshul Sharma, chief information officer at Optamo, who share their INFORMS Wagner Prize award-winning research on improving inmate scheduling for the…

Tags: Alex Chohlas-Wood, Anshul Sharma, Evan Levine, Georgia Tech, Hepatitis C, inmate scheduling, Lehigh University, Mohammad Shahabsafa, NYPD, Optamo, predicting crime patterns, Tamas Terlaky, Turgay Ayer

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January 2019

In this episode we will hear from the new INFORMS president Ramayya Krishnan who will share some insight on what exciting things are in store for INFORMS in the coming year, Shane Henderson and David Shmoys of Cornell University on their INFORMS Wagner Prize winning research on bike share programs, and Alina Sorescu of Texas A&M University whose research takes a deep dive into the ups and downs of the financial stock market over a period of nearly 200 years.

Tags: Alina Sorescu, bike share, Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University, David Shmoys, Ramayya Krishnan, Shane Henderson, stock market, Texas A&M University

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December 2018

In this episode, we are joined by a very special guest, Santa Claus, who called into the podcast all the way from the North Pole to share the role that O.R. and analytics plan in his annual journey to deliver toys around the world. In addition, you will hear from the INFORMS volunteers and the nonprofit leadership of the INFORMS Pro Bono Analytics projects for who share how O.R. and analytics helped these organizations better serve their communities. These include the Baltimore Teacher Supply Swap, featuring Melissa Badeker, executive director of the Baltimore Teacher Supply Swap and Gisella Bardossy, a…

Tags: Ann Betterton, Baltimore Teacher Supply Swap, David Krahl, Emilia Silebi, Gisella Bardossy, Kromite, Melissa Badeker, Pro Bono Analytics, Santa Claus, The North Pole, The University of Maryland, Young Audiences

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November 2018 Part-2

This is the second of two special podcasts produced this month, both recorded during the INFORMS 2018 Annual Meeting. We spoke to a number of INFORMS member who presented during the meeting on topics that highlight the ways O.R. and analytics are being used to save lives, save money and solve problems. In this episode, we discuss how O.R. and analytics are providing valuable insight into some of the most complex problems facing our world today, from improving aviation security pre-check procedures with Sheldon Jacobson of the University of Illinois, protecting the security of elections in the U.S. with Natalie…

Tags: Natalie Scala, Sheldon Jacobson, Sommer Gentry, Towson University, U.S. Naval Academy, University of Illinois

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