Julie Simmons Ivy is the department chair of and professor in the department of industrial and operations engineering at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

. Her research involves health care statistics and the application of

systems engineering Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering and engineering management that focuses on how to design, integrate, and manage complex systems over their enterprise life cycle, life cycles. At its core, systems engineering util ...

to health care and to other social services including food bank distribution systems.

Education and career

Ivy graduated from the

in 1991 and completed a master's degree in 1992 at the

Georgia Institute of Technology The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Georgia Tech or, in the state of Georgia, as Tech or The Institute, is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Established in 1885, it is part of ...

. She returned to Michigan for doctoral study, completing a Ph.D. in 1998. Her dissertation, ''Determining Maintenance and Replacement Policies for a Multi-State Deteriorating Process with Probabilistic Monitoring'', was supervised by Stephen M. Pollock. She worked as a faculty member in the School of Business at the University of Michigan from 1998 to 2007 before moving to

North Carolina State University North Carolina State University (NC State) is a public land-grant research university in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded in 1887 and part of the University of North Carolina system, it is the largest university in the Carolinas. The universit ...

, where she was a professor of industrial and systems engineering and a Fitts Faculty Fellow in Health Systems Engineering.

Service

Ivy is

African-American African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American ...

, and was the president of the

INFORMS The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is an international society for practitioners in the fields of operations research (O.R.), management science, and analytics. It was established in 1995 with the merger of ...

Minority Issues Forum for 2011–2013. She also chaired the INFORMS Health Applications Section for 2007. Since 2016 she has been chair of the board of directors of the Health Systems Engineering Alliance, an association of university programs focused on engineering approaches to health care delivery.

Recognition

In 2016,

gave Ivy their Moving Spirit Award for her work with their Minority Issues Forum. She was the 2020 winner of the WORMS Award for the Advancement of Women in Operations Research and Management Science. In 2022 she was named a Fellow of INFORMS, "for her service and significant contributions in healthcare and hunger relief, which have advanced the stature and recognition of the OR/MS profession, making it more inclusive for underrepresented members".

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ivy, Julie Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American statisticians Women statisticians African-American statisticians University of Michigan alumni Georgia Tech alumni University of Michigan faculty North Carolina State University faculty 21st-century African-American people Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences