About me
Math Scientist
Research lab: Watson Research Center (Yorktown)
Dr. Mary Helander is Math Scientist with the Mathematical Sciences Department at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center. Her current research involves the development of Social Network Analytics (SNA) to solve business problems related to information and communication networks of people. Mary has more than 20 years of combined industry and academic experience in operations research, optimal network and transportation planning, software engineering and supply chain management. Prior to joining IBM Research in 2003, Mary led the Supply Chain - Transportation System Management implementation group for IBM’s Business Innovation Services. She has led and participated in nearly 20 client projects related to design and implementation of operations research solutions, using both package and custom approaches, spanning industrial, distribution, public and communications sectors. Prior to work at IBM, Mary was the Director of the Applied Software Engineering Lab at Linköping University in Sweden, where she was a faculty member of the Computer and Information Science Department and a Research Fellow with the Department of Mechanical Engineering / Quality Technology Group. In addition to her involvement with software development for operations research applications, Mary has taught advanced software engineering, information systems and operations research courses and has performed academic research in these areas. Her publications include articles appearing in: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Networks, Transportation Science, Software Quality Journal, Empirical Software Engineering, and Computers and Industrial Engineering.
Mary earned a B.A. in CIS and Mathematics from the State University of New York at Potsdam, an M.S. in IE/OR from Syracuse University, a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the University at Buffalo, and a Docent in Quality Technology and Software Engineering from Linköping University.
Last updated 12 Dec 2006