Professional Activities

University Committee and Administrative Responsibilities:

  • Mentoring Event for Exposure to Female Role Models Featuring:

    1. MIT's Deborah Nightingale, Organizer and Host, supported by Scientists and Engineers Expanding Diversity and Success (SEEDS) and College of Engineering, Spring 2012.

    2. MIT's Cynthia Barnhart, Organizer and Host, supported by Scientists and Engineers Expanding Diversity and Success (SEEDS) and College of Engineering, Fall 2011.

    3. IBM's Josephine Cheng, Organizer and Host, supported by Scientists and Engineers Expanding Diversity and Success (SEEDS) and College of Engineering, Spring 2011.

  • Mentoring Event for Exposure to Female Role Models Featuring MIT's Cynthia Barnhart, Organizer and Host, supported by Scientists and Engineers Expanding Diversity and Success (SEEDS) and College of Engineering, Oct. 2011.

  • Society of Women Engineers (SWE) at The University of Miami, Advisor, May 2011- Present.

  • Research Creativity Innovation Forum, Award Selection Committee, The University of Miami, Mar. 2011.

  • IIE Rockwell Simulation Competition Teams from the College of Engineering and the School of Business Administration, Advisor, 2010-2012.

    • Appointed/Elected Positions:

  • IAMOT Nomination Committee, 2012-present (with Robert Mason from University of Washington and Graham Mitchell, Former US Asst. Secretary of Commerce).

  • Society for Engineering and Management Systems, Topic Leader for Sustainability, 2012-present.

  • IAMOT, Board of Directors (Academia), 2011-2013.

  • Winter Simulation Conference 2011-2014, PhD Colloquium Organizing Committee Member as Assistant to Chair in 2011, Primary Assistant to Chair in 2012, Chair in 2013, and Senior Advisory Board in 2014.

  • International Conference on Management of Technology 2011, Organizing Committee Member, Miami Beach, Florida, USA, Apr. 10-14, 2011.

  • Center for Computational Science at The University of Miami, Member, 2010-present.

  • INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Student Chapter at the University of Arizona, Founding Member and Treasurer, 2007- 2010. The winner of the 2009 INFORMS Student Chapter Annual Award.

    • Session Chair:

  • Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference (IERC) 2012, Modeling and Simulation of Distributed Electricity Networks, Orlando, FL, May 19-23, 2012.

  • Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) 2010, Supply Chain Performance, Baltimore, MD, Dec. 5-8, 2010.

  • INFORMS Annual Meeting Conference 2009, Novel Applications, San Diego, CA, Oct. 11-14, 2009.

  • INFORMS Western Regional Conference 2009, Novel Models in Production and Supply Chain Management Session, Tempe, AZ, Apr. 24-25, 2009.

    • Professional Society Memberships:

  • SIGSIM, 2010-present.

  • I-SIM, 2010- present.

  • IAMOT, 2011-present.

  • INFORMS, 2007-present.

  • IIE (Institute of Industrial Engineers), 2006-present.

  • SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineers), 2005-present.

    • Reviewer:

  • IIE Transactions

  • Computers and Industrial Engineering

  • Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory

  • International Journal of Services Operations and Informatics (IJSOI)

  • IERC(Industrial Engineering Research Conference) 2008-2012

  • WSC (Winter Simulation Conference) 2009-2012

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