Karen Smilowitz

Karen Renee Smilowitz is an American transportation scientist and operations researcher whose research concerns humanitarian logistics,[1][2] including vehicle routing for disaster relief efforts,[3] as well as safety and emergency preparedness for large public events such as marathons.[4] She is James N. and Margie M. Krebs Professor in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern University, and editor-in-chief of the journal Transportation Science.[5]

Education and career

Smilowitz majored in civil engineering and operations research at Princeton University, graduating in 1995. She went to the University of California, Berkeley for graduate study in civil and environmental engineering, specializing in transportation, earning a master's degree in 1998 and completing her Ph.D. in 2001.[6] Her dissertation, Design and operation of multimode, multi-service logistics systems, was supervised by Carlos F. Daganzo.[7]

She has been a faculty member in industrial engineering and management sciences at Northwestern University since 2001. She became a full professor in 2015, was named Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence in 2015 and Krebs Professor in 2018, and added an affiliation with the Kellogg School of Management in 2019.[6]

As well as serving as editor-in-chief of Transportation Science,[5] she has been president of the INFORMS Transportation Science & Logistics Society,[1] for a three-year term from 2015 to 2018.[6]

Recognition

Smilowitz was the 2016 winner of the WORMS Award for the Advancement of Women in OR/MS of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).[8] In 2022 she was named a Fellow of INFORMS, "for outstanding research in transportation, logistics and nonprofit operations, significant contributions to the practice of OR for social good and advancing equity and diversity".[5]

References
  1. "Crain's Notable Women in STEM – Karen Smilowitz", Crain’s Chicago Business, 2020, retrieved 2022-10-03
  2. Doing good with operations research, Northwestern University, 18 February 2011, retrieved 2022-10-03 – via Phys.org
  3. "Disaster Expert: Social Media Making Us Impatient For Relief", CBS News Chicago, 2 November 2012, retrieved 2022-10-03
  4. Elahi, Amina (9 October 2015), "How a real-time simulation will keep the Chicago Marathon on track", Chicago Tribune, retrieved 2022-10-03
  5. Karen Smilowitz Named 2022 INFORMS Fellow, Northwestern University Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences, 12 September 2022, retrieved 2022-10-03
  6. Smilowitz, Karen (September 2020), Curriculum vitae (PDF), Northwestern University Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences, retrieved 2022-10-03
  7. Karen Smilowitz at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  8. Karen Smilowitz Receives INFORMS Award, Northwestern University Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences, 12 October 2016, retrieved 2022-10-03
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