Julie Ivy
Julie Simmons Ivy is a professor of industrial and systems engineering and a Fitts Faculty Fellow in Health Systems Engineering at North Carolina State University. Her research involves health care statistics[1] and the application of systems engineering to health care[2] and to other social services including food bank distribution systems.[3][4]
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.[1] Her dissertation, Determining Maintenance and Replacement Policies for a Multi-State Deteriorating Process with Probabilistic Monitoring, was supervised by Stephen M. Pollock.[5]
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.[1][5]
Service
Ivy is African-American,[6] and was the president of the INFORMS Minority Issues Forum for 2011–2013. She also chaired the INFORMS Health Applications Section for 2007.[1][5]
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.[5]
Recognition
In 2016, INFORMS gave Ivy their Moving Spirit Award for her work with their Minority Issues Forum.[7]
References
- ^ a b c d Julie Ivy, Professor, Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, North Carolina State University, February 2, 2016, retrieved June 2, 2019
- ^ Bresnick, Jennifer (October 31, 2016), "Using Big Data Analytics, Systems Engineering to Tackle Sepsis", Health IT Analytics
- ^ "Fighting Hunger with Knowledge", Great Big Story, CNN, March 2016
- ^ Morber, Jenny (July 1, 2019), "Food Distribution: How to Give Fairly with Less Waste", SIAM News
- ^ a b c d Curriculum vitae, retrieved June 2, 2019
- ^ Williams, Scott W., "Julie Simmons Ivy", Black Women in Mathematics, University at Buffalo
- ^ "Moving Spirit Award for Fora", INFORMS Prizes, INFORMS, retrieved June 2, 2019
