Sigrún Andradóttir is an Icelandic and American

operations research Operations research () (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a branch of applied mathematics that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve management and ...

er, and a professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at

Georgia Tech The Georgia Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Georgia Tech, GT, and simply Tech or the Institute) is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Established in 1885, it has the lar ...

. Her research focuses on

discrete-event simulation A discrete-event simulation (DES) models the operation of a system as a ( discrete) sequence of events in time. Each event occurs at a particular instant in time and marks a change of state in the system. Between consecutive events, no change in t ...

and

simulation-based optimization Simulation-based optimization (also known as simply simulation optimization) integrates optimization techniques into simulation modeling and analysis. Because of the complexity of the simulation, the objective function may become difficult and expen ...

Education and career

Andradóttir graduated from the

University of Iceland The University of Iceland ( ) is a public research university in Reykjavík, Iceland, and the country's oldest and largest institution of higher education. Founded in 1911, it has grown steadily from a small civil servants' school to a modern co ...

with a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1986. She continued her studies at

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

, where she received a master's degree in statistics in 1989 and completed her Ph.D. in operations research in 1990. Her dissertation, ''Stochastic Optimization with Applications to Discrete Event Systems'', was supervised by Peter W. Glynn. She became an assistant professor at the

University of Wisconsin–Madison The University of Wisconsin–Madison (University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. It was founded in 1848 when Wisconsin achieved st ...

in 1990; she was affiliated there with the Departments of Industrial Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Sciences, and was tenured as an associate professor, before moving to her present position at Georgia Tech.

Personal life

Andradóttir was married to Czech mathematician

Robin Thomas Robin Thomas is an American film, television and theater actor, and sculptor. Career Thomas' best-known television roles are as Mark Singleton on '' Another World'' (1983–85), and as Geoffrey Wells on ''Who's the Boss?''. He also portrayed ...

(1962–2020), also a professor at Georgia Tech.

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