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

  1. ↑ "Q&A with U-M IOE Chair Julie Simmons Ivy". ioe.engin.umich.edu. 2023-09-11. Retrieved 2023-09-11.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Julie Ivy, Professor, Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, North Carolina State University, February 2, 2016, retrieved June 2, 2019
  3. ↑ Bresnick, Jennifer (October 31, 2016), "Using Big Data Analytics, Systems Engineering to Tackle Sepsis", Health IT Analytics
  4. ↑ "Fighting Hunger with Knowledge", Great Big Story, CNN, March 2016
  5. ↑ Morber, Jenny (July 1, 2019), "Food Distribution: How to Give Fairly with Less Waste", SIAM News
  6. 1 2 3 4 Curriculum vitae, retrieved June 2, 2019
  7. ↑ Williams, Scott W., "Julie Simmons Ivy", Black Women in Mathematics, University at Buffalo
  8. ↑ "Moving Spirit Award for Fora", INFORMS Prizes, INFORMS, retrieved June 2, 2019
  9. ↑ INFORMS Names 2022 Fellows, INFORMS, September 12, 2022, retrieved 2022-10-03
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