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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of the Committee
Pages 67-74

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... . He has held previous appointments at Purdue University in the schools of Nuclear Engineering, Materials Engineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, as well as a courtesy appointment in the Krannert School of Management.
From page 68...
... in metallurgical engineering from the University of Michigan, and honorary doctorates from Cleveland State University, Case Western Reserve University, the Colorado School of Mines, the University of Idaho, the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, University of Macau, and the Michigan Technological University as well as a Chinese Academy of Sciences Graduate School Honorary Professorship. In 2013, Governor Mitch Daniels conferred the Sagamore of the Wabash Award from the State of Indiana to Dr.
From page 69...
... Rust Visiting Professor of Business at the Darden Business School at the University of Virginia in 1999. He is the former president of the Decision Analysis Society of the Operations Research Society of America (now INFORMS)
From page 70...
... He most recently served as a principal and chief operating officer of the Marsec Group, a full-service security consulting firm specializing in supply-chain security, technology, and operations. Prior to forming the Marsec Group, Holmes was vice president and director of business development for Science Applications International Corporation, where he assisted government and commercial customers with the development of technological solutions to homeland security challenges, with an emphasis on port, border, and military solutions.
From page 71...
... He served twice as the Lady Davis Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem -- in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine in 1994 and in the Department of Statistics in 1997 -- and is also an elected member of the Board of Governors of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. For all of his contributions to the operations research profession, Dr.
From page 72...
... Payne Memorial Award for Excellence in Analysis, MORS Clayton Thomas Laureate, two INFORMS Koopman Prizes, and the MORS Rist Prize. He chaired the NRC Committee on Methodological Improvements to the Department of Homeland Security's Biological Agent Risk Analysis (2008)
From page 73...
... Donald Prosnitz is presently a senior principal researcher (adjunct) at RAND Corporation, a visiting scholar at the physics department of the University of California, Berkeley, and an independent technical consultant.
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... He is the coauthor of two books, two edited volumes, and author or coauthor of over 100 journal articles and book chapters on these topics. He is a former president of the Decision Analysis Society of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS)


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