Susan Marie Malila Sanchez (born 1959) is an American applied statistician and an expert in military applications of

operations research Operations research ( en-GB, operational research) (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a discipline that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve deci ...

, in agent-based simulation, and in

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of simulation results. She is a professor of operations research at the

Naval Postgraduate School The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) is a public graduate school operated by the United States Navy and located in Monterey, California. It offers master’s and doctoral degrees in more than 70 fields of study to the U.S. Armed Forces, DOD ci ...

Education

Sanchez is a graduate of

Huron High School (Ann Arbor, Michigan) Ann Arbor Huron High School, or Huron High School (HHS), is a public high school located in Ann Arbor, MI, in the U.S. The school is part of the Ann Arbor Public Schools district. Located at 2727 Fuller Road in eastern Ann Arbor near the banks o ...

, and earned a bachelor's degree in industrial and operations engineering from 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 ...

in 1981. She completed a Ph.D. in operations research at

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...

in 1986, with a dissertation on ''Contributions to the Bernoulli Selection Problem'' supervised by Robert E. Bechhofer.

Career

She held a position as a faculty member in the College of Business and Public Administration at the

University of Arizona The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a public land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, it was the first university in the Arizona Territory. T ...

from 1985 to 1992, and in the School of Business Administration of the

University of Missouri–St. Louis The University of Missouri–St. Louis (UMSL) is a public research university in St. Louis, Missouri. Established in 1963, it is one of four universities in the University of Missouri System and its newest. Located on the former grounds of Bel ...

from 1993 to 2001. However, after visiting the Naval Postgraduate School from 1999 to 2000 on sabbatical, she decided to move there as a professor. At the Naval Postgraduate School, she is a professor in the Operations Research Department, and is also affiliated with the Graduate School of Business & Public Policy. Since 2006, she has directed the Simulation Experiments & Efficient Design (SEED) Center for Data Farming at the Naval Postgraduate School.

Service

Sanchez chaired an Ad Hoc Committee on Women in Operations Research from 1993 to 1995 that led to the foundation of the

Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences 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 ...

(INFORMS) Forum on Women in OR/MS. She was president of the Forum on Women in OR/MS in 2003, and president of the INFORMS College on Simulation from 2002 to 2004. She chaired the

American Statistical Association The American Statistical Association (ASA) is the main professional organization for statisticians and related professionals in the United States. It was founded in Boston, Massachusetts on November 27, 1839, and is the second oldest continuousl ...

Section on Statistics in Defense and Homeland Security in 2013.

Recognition

The INFORMS Military Applications Society gave Sanchez their Bernard Koopman Prize for outstanding work in military operations research in 2013. At the 2016 Winter Simulation Conference she was recognized as the 2016 "Titan of Simulation". She was elected to the 2017 class of

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s of INFORMS, and was the 2018 winner of the INFORMS WORMS Award for the Advancement of Women in OR/MS.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sanchez, Susan M. 1959 births Living people American statisticians American women statisticians American operations researchers University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni Cornell University alumni University of Arizona faculty University of Missouri–St. Louis faculty Naval Postgraduate School faculty Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians 20th-century American women mathematicians 21st-century American women mathematicians