Resoundingly Human

Oct 21 2024 100 ep. 20 mins 70

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Resoundingly Human, the podcast from INFORMS, is dedicated to bringing O.R. and analytics to life by highlighting the incredible contributions of the men and women who are using O.R. and analytics to save lives, save money, and solve problems.

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Behind the scenes with the #INFORMS2024 Plenaries: AI Fireside Chat

Oct 21 2024 39 mins

We’re continuing our countdown to the 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting, in Seattle, Washington, October 20-23, when more than 6,000 INFORMS members, students, prospective employers and employees, and academic and industry experts will share the ways O.R. and analytics are fueling Smarter Decisions for a Better World. In this episode, I’m joined by Cynthia Rudin, with Duke Univers

Behind the scenes with the #2024 Plenaries: Featuring Harriet Nembhard, Harvey Mudd College

Oct 17 2024 21 mins

We’re continuing our countdown to the 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting, in Seattle, Washington, October 20-23, when more than 6,000 INFORMS members, students, prospective employers and employees, and academic and industry experts will share the ways O.R. and analytics are fueling Smarter Decisions for a Better World. Joining me to give a sneak peek of this year’s meeting is Harri

Behind the scenes with the #INFORMS2024 Plenaries: Featuring Koen Peters, World Food Programme

Oct 07 2024 22 mins

We’re in the countdown to the 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting, in Seattle, Washington, October 20-23, when more than 6,000 INFORMS members, students, prospective employers and employees, and academic and industry experts will share the ways O.R. and analytics are fueling Smarter Decisions for a Better World. Joining me to give a sneak peek of this year’s meeting is Koen Peters,

Behind the scenes with the #INFORMS2024 Plenaries: Featuring Ann Tracy, Colgate-Palmolive

Sep 28 2024 24 mins

We’re in the countdown to the 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting, in Seattle, Washington, October 20-23, when more than 6,000 INFORMS members, students, prospective employers and employees, and academic and industry experts will share the ways O.R. and analytics are fueling Smarter Decisions for a Better World. Joining me to give a sneak peek of this year’s meeting is Ann Tracy, Co

Model thinking with Dr. Queue

Aug 27 2024 28 mins

In this episode, I’m joined by a longtime member of the INFORMS community, Richard Larson, post-tenure professor with MIT, past-president of both ORSA and INFORMS, recipient of the INFORMS Lanchester Prize, and author many times over, including his most recent book, Model Thinking for Everyday Life. What’s wonderful about Dick’s latest book, is its innovative and accessibl

O.R. & National Security: From Pearl Harbor to European football to slicing salami

Aug 10 2024 19 mins

This episode of the podcast was recorded live in Phoenix at the 2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting. Keynote speaker Dr. Les Servi shared special insight on his talk, ‘Operations Research and National Security,’ which provided an informative, and dare I say fun, first-hand look at the role of O.R. in National Security! Les is the Chief Scientist Cyber Operations Research at The MITRE

Checking in with the 2024 INFORMS President

Jul 23 2024 12 mins

I am thrilled to welcome back to Resoundingly Human the 2024 INFORMS President Julie Swann, who is also the A. Doug Allison Distinguished Professor and Department Head of the Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at North Carolina State University, to share some behind the scenes updates on all that’s been happening with INFORMS!

The Opioid Epidemic: Using OR/MS to combat the leading public health crisis

Jul 02 2024 21 mins

The opioid epidemic is a decades long public health crisis that is only continuing to grow in severity and impact. It is currently the foremost public health crisis in the United States, with its roots tracing back to mid to late 1990s when the highly concentrated prescription pain killer Oxycontin was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in conjunction with the contro

Leveraging economics to evaluate how video length on TikTok impacts profits

Jun 28 2024 36 mins

Welcome to today's episode! We have an exciting discussion lined up as we dive into a fascinating study on TikTok, the wildly popular consumer-to-consumer media platform. My guests today explore how the length of videos impacts their performance on the platform. By modeling viewer behavior and analyzing market performance, they uncover intriguing insights including different optima

The Daughter Effect

May 27 2024 20 mins

Looking back, I think we can all recognize and appreciate the role that our parents played in shaping who we are. But have you ever thought about the impact you had on your parents, how they view themselves and others? For this episode, we’re going to turn the tables and take a look at the role that children can have on shaping and influencing their parents, specifically, how hav