The ISyE Distinguished Lecture Series was established in 2008 to promote discussion on critical issues in the fields of industrial and systems engineering by bringing in prominent scholars and business leaders who engage and share their expertise with students, faculty, and alumni. In 2018, it became the LeeAnn and Walter Muller Distinguished Lecture Series, thanks to a generous gift from LeeAnn and Walter Muller.

2022 Distinguished Scholarship Lecture

Guest Speaker: Michael I. Jordan
Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley
Lecture Title: On Dynamics-Informed Blending of Machine Learning and Microeconomics

2021 LeeAnn and Walter Muller Distinguished Lecture

Guest Speaker: S. Jack Hu
UGA Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs & Provost
Lecture Title: Industrial Internet of Things and Smart Personalized Manufacturing

2019 LeeAnn and Walter Muller Distinguished Lecture

Guest Speaker: M. Elisabeth Paté-Cornell
Burt and Deedee McMurtry Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor and Founding Chair (2000-2011) of the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University
Lecture Title: Cyber Risk Analysis: Three Aspects of Model Formulation in Support of Risk Management

2018 Distinguished Scholarship Lecture

Guest Speaker: David L. Donoho
Professor of Statistics at Stanford University & Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the Humanities and Sciences
Lecture Title: Compressed Sensing - from Blackboard to Bedside

2017 Distinguished Leadership Lecture

Guest Speaker: Dr. Brenda Dietrich
IBM Fellow and Vice President
Lecture Title: Riding Technology Waves: Perspectives on the Deployment of Operations Research Methods

2016 Distinguished Scholarship Lecture

Guest Speaker: Dr. Edward H. Kaplan
William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Operations Research, Chemical and Environmental Engineering and Public Health at Yale University, INFORMS President
Lecture Title: Adventures in Policy Modeling!

2015 Distinguished Scholarship Lecture

Guest Speaker: Dr. Dimitris Bertsimas
Boeing Professor of Operations Research and co-director of the Operations Research Center at MIT
Lecture Title: Multivariate Statistics and Machine Learning under a Modern Optimization Lens

2014 Distinguished Leadership Lecture

Guest Speaker: John Marshall
Senior Vice President and General Manager of VMware AirWatch
Lecture Title: Lessons Learned on Hard Work, Thinking Ahead, and Just Showing Up

2013 Distinguished Leadership Lecture

Guest Speaker: Guy Primus
Co-founder and Managing Director
Thrillerdome Ventures
Lecture Title: I, Optimize: The Application of IE Principles to the Business of Entertainment

2011 ISyE Distinguished Lecture

Guest Speaker: Dr. Avishai "Avi" Mandelbaum
Benjamin and Florence Free Chair Professor of Operations Research,
Statistics and Service Engineering
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,
Lecture Title: Service Engineering: Data-based Science in Support of Service Management, or Empirical Adventures in Call Centers and Hospitals

2010 ISyE Distinguished Lecture

Guest Speaker: Dr. Bradley Efron
Max H. Stein Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics
School of Humanities and Sciences and the Department of Health Research and Policy with the School of Medicine
Stanford University
Lecture Title: Learning from the Experience of Others

2009 ISyE Distinguished Lecture

Guest Speaker: Dr. Lawrence Wein
Professor
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
Lecture Title: Operations Research and Homeland Security: From Models to Implementation

2008 ISyE Distinguished Lecture

Guest Speaker: Dr. William "Bill" Pulleyblank
Vice President
Center for Business Optimization
IBM Global Business Services
Lecture Title: Computing, Business, and Operations Research: The Next Challenges

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