ORC Seminar: A talk by Professor Amy Ward

Amy Ward Professor University of Chicago Abstract: TBD Bio: Amy R. Ward is the Rothman Family Professor of Operations Management at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She received her Ph.D. degree from Stanford University in 2001. She is a fellow of the INFORMS Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (M&SOM) Society (elected June, 2023). She is the Editor-in-Chief for the journal Operations Research (term began 1/1/2024), which is a flagship journal for the INFORMS community. She was previously Editor-in-Chief for the journal Operations Research Letters (term 4/1/2021-1/1/2024). Earlier, she held the position of Chair of the INFORMS Applied Probability Society (term 11/2016-11/2018), and was one of the keynote speakers at the 21st INFORMS Applied Probability Society Conference. She was the 2025 Faculty Commencement Speaker at the Chicago Booth Graduation Ceremony for its Evening and Week-end MBA Program, the Sokolov EMBA Program, and the Masters in Management Program Graduates (see here). She has given more than 50 University Seminars, and multiple conference keynote presentations (most recently at the second workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Operations Management Research at Banff in 2026, see here).