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Brenda Dietrich is an IBM Fellow and Director of the Mathematical Sciences Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center.
She holds a BS in Mathematics from UNC and an MS and Ph.D. in OR/IE from Cornell. In her IBM role she leads the application of mathematical approaches, including data mining, statistics, and optimization, to business processes throughout IBM and in selected IBM client organizations.
Her personal research includes manufacturing scheduling, services resource management, transportation logistics, integer programming, and combinatorial duality. She is a founding member of COIN-OR, and open source initiative for Operation Research. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the IE/MS department of Northwestern University, a member of the Board of Governors for the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (U. Minnesota), and IBM’s delegate to MIT’s Supply Chain 2020 program. She holds more than a dozen patents, has co-authored numerous publications, and co-edited a book, and is on the editorial board of Logistics Research Quarterly. She has been a member of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS) Roundtable, served on the INFORMS board as VP for Practice and as President, and is a member of the board Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications.
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