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Greg H. Parlier
GH Parlier Consulting
United States
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Brief Bio
A West Point graduate and retired US Army Colonel, Greg is currently President, GH Parlier Consulting. A combat veteran with 5 operational deployments and service in over 20 foreign nations on 12 named operations, he was a paratroop commander in the 82nd Airborne Division for 8 years, air-ground battle staff officer, joint operations planner, and Army strategist. When he retired he was the Army's senior, most experienced Operations Research officer with assignments spanning land warfare analyses, manpower and personnel, program analysis and evaluation, and logistics. He was assistant then associate professor of O
perations Research at West Point. For 12 years after retiring, he served on the research staff at the Institute for Defense Analyses where he was an advisor to several foreign governments and senior OR analyst supporting the multi-national forces command in Iraq. He is a distinguished graduate of the US Marine Corps Command and Staff College, National Defense Fellow at MIT, Army War College graduate, and recently was adjunct Professor of Operations Research at NC State University. Dr. Parlier holds advanced degrees in engineering, Operations Research, and international security, a certificate in political philosophy from Oxford, and was among the first to complete MIT Sloan's executive program in Management, Innovation, and Technology. He is past president of the Military Applications Society of INFORMS, was vice president for the Military Operations Research Society, fellow of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, elected to the International Institute of Strategic Studies, and previously served as program co-chair for ICORES.
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Maria Elena Bruni
University of Calabria
Italy
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Brief Bio
Maria Elena Bruni is Associate Professor in Operations Research at the University of Calabria and collaborating member of the CIRRELT, Montreal. She received a Ph.D. in Operations Research at the University of Calabria and a M.S. in Public Economy from the University of Sapienza (Rome). Her research activity focuses on designing solution methods for combinatorial problems under uncertainty and risk, with applications mainly in transportation and logistics, energy, healthcare. She is co-author of more than 100 papers accepted in refereed international journals and author of three Springer book chapters. She co-edi
ted the book Tomorrow’s Data-Empowered Project Management: Agile Decision Making, Sustainability and AI (Springer). She received the best paper prize of the IMA Journal of Management mathematics journal in 2016. She is associate editor of international journals, workshop organizer and member of program and scientific committee for several international conferences.
Furthermore, she holds positions on scientific boards, including the Scientific Board of SOS Log, the leading Italian association of Sustainable Logistics, the Freight Leaders Council, the primary Italian association that brings together industry leaders and experts in the field of freight transportation and logistics, part of the European Freight and Logistics Leaders’ Forum. She is also a member of Ente Nazionale per l’Intelligenza Artificiale E.N.I.A., an Italian non-profit research and training organization dedicated to promoting responsible and ethical development of artificial intelligence.
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Rainer Schlosser
Hasso Plattner Institute
Germany
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Brief Bio
Dr. Rainer Schlosser is a Senior Researcher at the Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany, leading the research group “Data-driven decision support”. He graduated in Mathematics as well as in Business Administration and received his PhD in Operations Research from Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. His research focuses on automated decision-making in dynamic systems in the area of Revenue Management and beyond using quantitative methods of operations research and data science. His work has been published in over 75 peer-reviewed publications including renowned Journals (EJOR, JEDC, IJPE, IJ
PR, COR, DGAA, JRPM, JCLP, KER, BISE), distinguished AI/ML conferences (KDD, IJCAI, ICDM, ECML, RECSYS, ICDE), and leading computer science venues (VLDB, EDBT, DAPD, CIKM, EDOC, SSDBM). Further, Dr. Schlosser serves as a reviewer for over 60 renowned Journals and top-tier conferences in the area of operations management and data science.
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