Society and Division Leaders
These leaders are responsible for the leadership of IISE technical societies and divisions.
Board Rosters - Societies
Board Rosters - Divisions
Other
Societies
President
Teresa A. Bellingar
Senior Corporate Ergonomist
Haworth
Holland, MI
President-elect
Ben Zavitz
Chief Ergonomist
Ergo Human Performance, LLC
Brunswick, ME
Directors 2018-2020
Gary Allread
Clinical Professor & Program Director, Systems Engineering
Drexel University
Philadelphia PA
Jose Banaag
Honda of America MFG, Inc.
Marysville, OH
Brian Roberts
Risk Control Director
CNA Insurance
Dallas, TX
Sandra Sellers
Worldwide Safety & Health
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts
Lake Buena Vista, FL
Wayne S. Maynard
Production Director - Workers Compensation
Liberty Mutual Insurance
Hopkinton, MA
Amanda Kauder
Kysor Warren
President 2019-2021
Russell Wooten
Chairman of the board
Whole Earth Consulting & Engineering
Hedgesville, WV
Immediate Past President 2019
Brian K.Smith
Assistant Professor Dept of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Mississippi University
Mississippi State, MS
Directors 2017-2020
Julie Drzymalski
Clinical Professor & Program Director, Systems Engineering
Drexel University
Philadelphia PA
Kira Hansen
Engineer TEP (Technical Excellence Program)
Harley-Davidson Motor Company
Kansas City, MO
Gene Dixon
Assistant Professor
East Carolina University
Greenville, SC
Directors 2018-2021
Fernando Aleu Gonzalez
Associate Professor
Universidad de Monterrey
San Pedro Garza Garcia, N.L.
Directors 2019-2022
Kevin Nortrup
Principal
Sugar Creek Solutions
Fairland, IN
Michael V. Testani
Director of Outreach and Continuing Professional Education
Binghamton University
Vestal, NY
Chanchal Saha
Industrial Engineer
IBM
Poughkeepsie, NY
President
Isaac Mitchell
Director of Business Analytics
East Tennessee Children's Hospital
Knoxville, TN
Immediate past president
Dean Athanassiades
Senior Director
Philips Healthcare
Atlanta, GA
President-elect
Mary Ellen Skeens
Director of Solutions Consulting
Philips Healthcare
Johns Creek, GA
Director 2017-2020
Laura Silvoy
Healthcare Systems Engineer
Array Advisors
Conshohocken, PA
Tarun Mohan Lal
Manager Analytics and Practice Optimization
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN.
Director 2018-2021
Lauren Cooper
Business Process Improvement Consultant
Wake Forest Baptist Health
Winston-Salem, NC
Jordan Peck
Sr. Director - Center for Performance Improvement
MainHealth
Portland, ME
Director 2019-2022
Elizabeth Gentry
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering/Director of the Engineering Mgmt. Program
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY
Jarvis Gray
Managing Director
The Quality Coaching Co.
Atlanta, GA
Secretary (appointed 2019)
Todd Banks
Clinical Operations Analyst
Wake Health
Winston Salem, NC
*Assistant to the President (appointed 2019)
Lauren Todd
Senior Management Engineer
Intermountain Healthcare
Salt Lake City, UT
Aaron Kanne (Treasurer)
Director, Implementation Services
Care Logistics
Alpharetta, GA
*SHS Conference 2020 Chairperson
Darrin Judkins
Innovation Manager
Boulder Community Health
Boulder, CO
*Non-voting members
Divisions
President
Christina Rinaudo
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Vicksburg, MS
Immediate Past President
Henry Lester
University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL
President-elect
Javad Seif
Cal Poly Pomona
Pomona, CA
Board Members
Gary Moynihan
The University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL
Abdullah Alhasan
University of Miami
Miami, FL
Brian Moore
Kahua, Inc.
Alpharetta, GA
Kris Harbin
Texas A&M Transportation Institute
San Antonio, TX
Robert Ranallo
FedEx
Coraopolis, PA
William B. Leonard
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Vicksburg, MS
President
Andrew J. Yu
Associate Professor
The University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Knoxville, TN
Immediate past President
Brian Quanz
Research Staff Member
IBM Research
Yorktown Heights, NY
President-elect
Changing Cheng
Assistant Professor
State University of New York at Binghamton
Binghamton, NY
Director 2018-2020
Chen Kan
Assistant Professor
University of Texas at Arlington
Department of Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering
Arlington, TX
Sinal Onal
Assistant Professor
Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
Edwardsville, IL
Na Zou
Instructional Assistant Professor
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX
Ying Lin
Assistant Professor
University of Houston
Houston, TX
Director 2019-2021
Saeed Ghanbartehrani
Assistant Professor
Ohio University
Athens, Ohio
Moufid Dardas
Senior Manager, Construction and Capital Projects
Hydro One
Toronto, ON
Xiao Li
Assistant Professor
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR
Bing Si
Assistant Professor
State University of New York at Binghamton
Binghamton, NY
Energy Systems Division Board, June 2019 - June 2020
President
Andrew Kusiak
Professor
University of Iowa Informatics Initiative
Iowa City, IA
Past President
Lihui Bai
Assistant Professor
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY
President Elect
Zhimin Xi
Assistant Professor
Rutgers University
Piscataway, New Jersey
Board Members 2018-2020
Joshua Warmack
Vice President
Enervision, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
Lei Fan
Software Developer
Siemens Industry Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
Mohammad S. Roni
Research Scientist
Idaho National Laboratory
Idaho Falls, Idaho
Board Members 2019-2021
Chaoyue Zhao
Assistant Professor
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH
Ramteen Sioshansi
Professor
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK
President
Mehmet Bayram Yildirim
Professor and Graduate Coordinator
Wichita State University
Wichita, KS
Immediate Past President
Omar Ashour
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University
Erie, PA 16563
Program Chair (Pres-elect)
Cameron Mackenzie
Assistant Professor
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa
Communications Director
(elected annually, moves to Program Chair)
Ahmet Akgun
Associate Professor
California University of Pennsylvania
California, PA
Board Members
Isaac Faber (2018-2020)
Data Scientist
United States Army
Stanford, CA
Moufid Dardas (2019-2021)
Senior Manager, Construction and Capital Projects
Hydro One
Toronto, ON
Wellington Award Committee
Leland Blank
Chair
Professor Emeritus
Texas A&M
James T. Luxhoj
Professor and Undergraduate Director
Rutgers University
The Engineering Economist Editorial Board members
Cameron MacKenzie (Through Dec. 2018 & Jan. 2019 – Dec. 2021)
Joe Wilck (Jan. 2018 – Dec. 2020)
Mingzhou Jin (Jan. 2017 – Dec. 2019)
President
Pratik J. Parikh
Wright State University
Associate Professor
Dayton, Ohio
Immediate Past President
Dincer Konur
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Information Systems and Quantitative Methods
McCoy College of Business Administration
San Marcos, Texas
President-Elect
Murat Erkoc
Associate Professor
University of Miami
Coral Gables, FL
Directors 2019-2021
Zhijie Sasha Dong
Assistant Professor
Texas State University
San Marcos, TX
Hector Vergara
Oregon State University
Assistant Professor
Corvallis, Oregon
Jennifer Pazour
Associate Professor
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY
Mike Sherwin
Senior Manager, Supplier Quality Excellence
Curtiss-Wright
Cheswick, PA
Directors 2018-2020
Constantine M. Koursaris
Assistant Professor
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Worldwide
Daytona Beach, FL
Nazrul I. Shaikh
Assistant Professor
University of Miami
Coral Gables, FL
Noor-E-Alam
Assistant Professor
Northeastern, University
Boston, MA
President
Lourdes A. Medina
Associate Professor
North Carolina State University
Department of Industrial Engineering
Raleigh, NC
Immediate Past President
Rohan Shirwaiker
Associate Professor
North Carolina State University
Department of Industrial Engineering
Raleigh, NC
President-elect
Guha Manogharan
Assistant Professor
Penn State University
University Park, PA
Secretary
Harry Pierson
Assistant Professor
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AK
External Relations Director
Alaa Elwany
Assistant Professor
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX
Media Director
Pedro Huebner
Assistant Professor
Penn State University
Norman, OK
Advisory Committee
David Vance
Plans and Program Engineer
Air Force Material Command
Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
President
Xueping Li (2019-2020)
Associate Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Knoxville, TN
Immediate Past President (2017- 2019)
Omar Ashour
Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering
Pennsylvania State University, The Behrend College
Industrial Engineering Department
Erie, PA
President - elect
Caroline Krejci (2019- 2020)
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering
University of Texas at Arlington
Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering
Arlington, TX
Shima Mohebbi (2019 - 2021)
Assistant Professor
University of Oklahoma
Department of Industrial Engineering
Norman, OK
John Shortle (2019 - 2021)
Professor and Chair
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA
Andrew J. Collins (2019 - 2021)
Assistant Professor
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA
Dongping Du (2018- 2020)
Assistant Professor
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX
Director of Technical Content
Michael Kuhl (2018 - 2020)
Professor
Rochester Institute of Technology
Industrial and Systems Engineering Department
Rochester, NY
Director of Outreach and Networking
Raed Jaradat (2018 - 2020)
Assistant Professor of the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department
Visiting Scientist ISER/MSU/U.S. Army
Mississippi State University
Starkville, MS
Directors at Large
Salvador Romo
Director General
STHAL LLC
Miami, FL
Shrikant Jarugumilli
Products & Engineering - Analytics
Optimization & Simulation
Bayer
St. Louis, MO
President
Hung-da Wan
University of Texas at San Antonio
Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering
San Antonio, TX
Immediate Past President
Valentine Boving
U.T. MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC)
Sr. Healthcare Systems Engineer
Houston, TX
President-Elect
Nadiye O. Erdil
University of New Haven
Assistant Professor
West Haven, CT
Directors 2019-2021
Jennifer Cross
Texas Tech University
Associate Professor
Lubbock, TX
Brian Galli
Assistant Professor
Long Island University
Brookville, NY
Felix C. Veroya
Process Excellence Manager | Black Belt
HGST Philippines Corporation
Laguna, Philippines
Steve Vijayan
Measurement Specialist
Nemours Children’s Health System
Wilmington, DE
Directors 2018-2020
Johanna Ficatier
Senior Health Systems Engineer
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
David A. Harry
CEO and Black Belt Trainer
Process Whisperer Consultants LLC
Greeneville, TN
Farnaz Ghazi Nezami
Assistant Professor
Kettering University
Flint, MI
Sushil Kumar Shetty
Global Continuous Improvement Manager
Entegris
Round Rock, TX
President
Katie McConky (2019 - 2021)
Assistant Professor
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY
Immediate Past President
Chase Rainwater (2018 - 2019)
Assistant Professor
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR
Directors 2019- 2021
Mohammad Marufizzaman
Assistant Professor
Mississippi State University
Ames, IA
Thomas Sharkey
Associate Professor
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Starkville, MS
Directors 2018-2020
Ambarish Acharya
Operations Research Analyst
E. & J. Gallo Winery
Modesto, CA
Guiping Hu
Associate Professor
Iowa State University
Ames, IA
President
Trevor Craney
Associate Professor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL
Immediate Past President
Pingfeng Wang
Associate Professor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL
President-elect
Adel Alaeddini
Assistant Professor
University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX
Directors for 2018-2020
Linkan Bian
Assistant Professor
Mississippi State University
Starkville, MS
Chitta Ranjan
Research Scientist
Pandora Media
Oakland, CA
Directors for 2019-2021
Chenang Liu
Assistant Professor
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK
Wilkistar Otieno
Associate Professor
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI
Hongyue Sun
Assistant Professor
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY
Yisha Xiang
Assistant Professor
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX
President
Joel Brock
Senior Manager
West Monroe Partners
Chicago, IL
Immediate Past President
Gregory Weisenborn
Associate Professor of Management
Fort Hays State University
Hays, KS
President-elect
Brion Hurley
Owner, Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Business Performance Improvement
Portland, OR
Board Member 2017-2020
Ricardo Thierry- Aquilera
Graduate Advisor for Project, Logistics and Industrial Engineering Programs
Tecnologico de Monterrey
Atizapan de Zaragoza, Estado de Mexico
Board Member 2019-2022
Gokhan Egilmez
Assistant Professor
University of New Haven
West Haven, CT
Jeremy Rickli
Assistant Professor
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI
Student Board Member 2019-2020
Dustin Diep
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR
President
Michael Hair
Senior Engineer
Zymergen
Emeryville, CA
Immediate Past President
Ed Eisbrenner
Sr. Industrial Engineer
Ford Motor
Brookpark, OH
President-elect
Erick C. Jones
Associate Dean
UT Arlington
Arlington, TX
Directors 2019-2021
David Hampton
VP Go to Market
Frito Lay, Inc. (retired)
McKinney, TX
Laila Cure
Assistant Professor
Wichita State University
Wichita, KS
Directors 2018-2020
Edward S. Pound
COO
Factory Physics Inc.
Bryan, TX
Mayra I. Méndez-Piñero
Associate Professor
University of Puerto Rico
Mayagüez, Puerto Rico