Franz Edelman Award Committee

2025 Committee Chair

Irv Lustig
Princeton Consultants
[email protected] 

2025 Committee Members

Layek Abdel-Malek,  New Jersey Institute of Technology
Shrish Ankur, Meta
Joachim Arts, University of Luxembourg
Maya Bam, General Motors
Manish Bansal, Virginia Tech
Ann Bixby, Aspen Technology
Mark Brennan, MIT
Luciana Buriol, Amazon
Ulas Cakmak, Infor
Manoj Chari, Elon University
Goutam Dutta, IIM, Ahmedabad
Zeynep Ertem, State University of New York- Binghamton
Javier Faulin, Public University of Navarra
Ken Fordyce, Arkieva, IBM retired
Canan Gunes, Corlu Boston University
Susan Iloglu, Amazon Robotics
Shailendra Jain, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (Retired)
Hansheng Jiang, University of Toronto
Angie King, Wayfair
Kyle Kliewer, Lockheed Martin
Don Kleinmuntz, Kleinmuntz Associates
Matthes Koch, desior Consulting/University of Hamburg
Sumit Makashir, Amazon
Shannon McKeen, Wake Forest University
Aly Megahed, Meta
Polly Mitchell-Guthrie, Kinaxis
David Munoz, ITAM Mexico
Chanel Murray, PNC Bank
Alper Nakkas University of Texas, Arlington
Patricia Neri, Intel
Naser Nikandish, Johns Hopkins University
Dessislava Pachamanova, Babson College
Ioannis (Yanni) Papadakis, Intel
Pelin Pekgun, Wake Forest University
Sanjay Prasad, IBM
Sreekanth Rajagopalan, Dow Chemical
Nithhyaa Ramamoorthy, Mayo Clinic
Mikael Rönnqvist, Université Laval - Quebec
Kathryn Schumacher, General Motor
Inderjeet Singh, Infor
Swapnil Srivastava, Evalueserve
Zohar Strinka, Analytics Strategies LLC
Natalia Summerville, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Kermit Threatte, Innovative Optimization
Ozgu Turgut, Uskudar University
Leon Valdes, University of Pittsburgh
Joyce Weiner, Intel
Erick Wikum, Wikalytics.com
Fred Zahrn, Disney Decision Science Transformation
Xinhui Zhang, Coupang Corp

Board Liaison: V/P Marketing, Communications, & Outreach (Anahita Khojandi)

Staff Liaison: Dir. Recognition & Development (Mary Magrogan)

For further information on this committee, please see Section 06 of the Policies & Procedures Manual.