2011 ASOR Alumni Newsletter

ASOR

ALUMNI NEWSLETTER

December 2011

Department of Applied Statistics and Operations Research | College of Business Administration | Bowling Green State University | Bowling Green, OH

Greetings from the Department of Applied Statistics and Operations Research. At the close of another year, we are pleased to send you news of alumni, faculty, and staff.

Department News There have been some personnel changes in the department this past year. Marsha Olivarez, department secretary, accepted a secretarial position in the Department of Popular Culture at BGSU in October. Pat Prezkop, former department secretary, retired in April but has returned to her old home in ASOR and is assisting the department on a temporary basis. When Dean Rodney Rogers was appointed as Interim Provost this summer, Madhu Rao was named Interim Dean of the College of Business Administration.

In November Dr. Rodney Rogers, interim senior vice president of academic affairs and provost at Bowling Green State University, was appointed to the position permanently. Prior to the interim appointment Rogers served as the dean of BGSU’s College of Business Administration.

In This Issue Department News College of Business Administration News Chair Note New Undergraduate Program Department Personnel News

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Department Alumni News 2011 James A. Sullivan Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award Annual ASOR Picnic Ralph C. St. John Guest Speaker Series

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Chair’s Note We are now on 'BDFCPPL +VTU TFBSDI Department of Applied Statistics and Operations Research at #(46 JO 'BDFCPPL BOE MJOL UP UIF %FQBSUNFOU 'BDFCPPL QBHF ɨJT JT a great way to stay current with the department and share your news with all the ASOR alumni, faculty, students and staff. You can also follow the Department on twitter@asoratbgsu.

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Herb McGrath was promoted to full professor in the TQSJOH PG "GUFS ZFBST PG TFSWJDF UP UIF 6OJWFSTJUZ 1BU 1SF[LPQ PVS GPSNFS TFDSFUBSZ SFUJSFE JO "QSJM 4IF T been enjoying her retirement. We are very grateful for her willingness to come out of retirement to help us due to Marsha’s departure.

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We greatly appreciate those who have made financial contributions to the ASOR Foundation or assisted the department in other ways during the past year. Your tax deductible contributions support a variety of departmental BDUJWJUJFT ɨF 3PCFSU " 1BUUPO #PPL 4DIPMBSTIJQ BOE UIF +BNFT " 4VMMJWBO 0VUTUBOEJOH (SBEVBUF "TTJTUBOU "XBSE SFDPHOJ[F FYDFQUJPOBM TUVEFOUT XJUI B NPEFTU ÍOBODJBM SFXBSE ɨF 3BMQI 4U +PIO (VFTU 4QFBLFS 4FSJFT CSJOHT HVFTU TQFBLFST UP DBNQVT UP TIBSF UIFJS LOPXMFEHF BOE experience. Further, we are in the planning process of starting a scholarship for undergraduate business students XIP TQFDJBMJ[F JO #VTJOFTT "OBMZUJDT BOE *OUFMMJHFODF 8F would really appreciate your help in getting this scholarship off the ground. Also in the planning is a student club/ PSHBOJ[BUJPO GPS TUVEFOUT XIP IBWF BO JOUFSFTU JO CVTJOFTT BOBMZUJDT 4VDI BO PSHBOJ[BUJPO DPVME CF VTFE BT B WFOVF for promoting business analytics on campus and bringing business analytics practitioners to campus. We would be most delighted if you could return to BGSU to share your career experiences at an upcoming seminar. For those of ZPV XIP XJTI UP NBLF B ÍOBODJBM DPOUSJCVUJPO UIJT ZFBS B DPOUSJCVUJPO GPSN BOE B QPTUBHF QBJE FOWFMPQF BSF FODMPTFE GPS ZPVS DPOWFOJFODF 1MFBTF BMTP DIFDL UP TFF JG ZPVS employer has a contribution matching program.

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New Undergraduate Program: Business Analytics and Intelligence Specialization We are very excited about the new undergraduate program that was started this year. Business analytics are sought after in a wide variety of industries and CVTJOFTTFT TVDI BT NBSLFUJOH BOE sales, human resources, logistics, transportation, manufacturing, SFUBJM UFMFDPNNVOJDBUJPOT CBOLJOH insurance, investment, health NBOBHFNFOU PSHBOJ[BUJPOT JOUFSOFU BEWFSUJTJOH TPDJBM OFUXPSLT FUD The BGSU College of Business Administration is the only college of business in the State of Ohio to PĂŞFS B TQFDJBMJ[BUJPO JO CVTJOFTT analytics and intelligence. The College of Business Administration is a target school for domestic and global companies in recruiting.

Some examples of the companies that recruit for business analysts include PNC, Nationwide Insurance, American Greetings, 5BSHFU BOE $BSEJOBM )FBMUI

One important aspect of the program is personal attention and this includes: Âť Intimate applied learning labs provide students with IBOET PO CVTJOFTT FYQFSJFODF JOUFSBDUJOH XJUI BDUVBM companies and their customers. All business students participate in this unique opportunity in each academic year while at BGSU.

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More information is available at: http://www.business.bgsu.edu/cba/specialization.html

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Department Personnel News Nancy Boudreau OCPVESF!CHTV FEV

is on faculty improvement leave this academic year and is a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Michigan.

Jane Chang DIBOHK!CHTV FEV

continues as an Associate Professor with the department.

Diane Conway EDPOXBZ!CHTV FEV

M.S.A.S., continues as an Instructor with the department.

Leigh Devine MEFWJOF!CHTV FEV

M.S.A.S., continues as an Instructor with the department.

Herb McGrath SONDHSB!CHTV FEV JT Graduate Coordinator for the M.S. in Applied Statistics program. Herb was promoted to full professor this year, is Chair Elect of the American Society for 2VBMJUZ T 5PMFEP 4FDUJPO BOE DPOUJOVFT as Secretary of the American Society for Quality’s Statistics Division.

Madhu Rao SBP!CHTV FEV JT OPX Interim Dean of the College of Business Administration.

Chris Rump DNSVNQ!CHTV FEV JT serving as Advisor of the new Business "OBMZUJDT BOE *OUFMMJHFODF 4QFDJBMJ[BUJPO While on his faculty improvement leave

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Erin Telecky FUFMFDL!CHTV FEV XBT IJSFE UP SFQMBDF 1BU 1SF[LPQ JO UIF Graduate and Executive Programs in Business area and is now graduate secretary for the M.S. in Applied Statistics program.

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Department Alumni News Jason Bumgarner, M.S.C.S./O.R.

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Ho Joon Choi . 4 " 4

returned to South Korea and accepted a position with MOERI, Maritime Ocean Engineering Research Institute.

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continues in the Ph.D. program in Biostatistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

Mario Colangelo . 4 " 4 JT an Associate Manager of Data Analysis at Progressive Insurance in the Cleveland, OH, area.

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continues in the Ph.D. program in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University PG 5PMFEP BOE JT %JSFDUPS PG 8JOE and Solar Research at Wind Energy Corporation.

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continues as a Consulting Actuary with 5PXFST 8BUTPO JO $MFWFMBOE 0) Adrian Cuc . 4 " 4 JT Director of Insurance Analytics at 5SBOT6OJPO JO UIF $IJDBHP BSFB Ling (Julia) Deng . 4 " 4

continues as a Statistician with W.L. Gore and Associates in China.

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is a Business Intelligence Engineer at "NB[PO DPN JO 4FBUUMF 8BTIJOHUPO Mark Ewing . 4 " 4 JT JO the Applied Statistics group at Eastman Chemical Company in Kingsport, 5FOOFTTFF .BSL DPOUBDUFE VT FBSMJFS UIJT year about a job opening for a statistician and reports that his job is very heavy on experimental design but includes opportunities to use discrete data analysis, multivariate, nonparametric and other statistical tools.

Paul Hurd . 4 " 4 JT BO Actuarial Manager at Grange Insurance in Columbus, OH. Nan Jia . 4 " 4 DPOUJOVFT JO the Ph.D. program in Biostatistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Yin “Meggie� Jiang . 4 " 4

is a Senior Pricing Analyst at Nationwide Insurance, Columbus, OH. Meggie is NBSSJFE UP 5JHFS 4IFO Vahid Joshaghani, M.S.C.S./O.R.

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Sheela Kolluri . 4 " 4 JT Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics at Columbia University and "TTPDJBUF %JSFDUPS $MJOJDBM 4UBUJTUJDT BU 1ĂŤ[FS *OD /:)2 /FX :PSL /: Erin Leatherman . 4 " 4

continues in the Ph.D. program in Statistics at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. John Leopold . 4 " 4

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Yu (Diana) Li, . 4 " 4 GPVOEFS BOE $&0 PG 4IBOHIBJ :VSPOH /FUXPSL 5FDIOPMPHZ $PSQ XIJDI PXOT BOE PQFSBUFT B TPDJBM OFUXPSLJOH TJUF V5BO com. Diana continues her successful career in online entertainment and social OFUXPSL FOUFSQSJTFT Manoj Mohite . 4 $ 4 0 3

continues as an Assistant Vice President, HSBC EDPI, Bangalore, India.

Mukund Padmanabhan, M.S.A.S.

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Tim Keaton . 4 " 4 HSBEVBUFE His specialties are CNS, Oncology and in August and is a Visiting Instructor in Diabetes. the Department of Decision Sciences and Management Information Systems at Andrea Reese . 4 " 4

Miami University, Oxford, OH. is Chairperson, Honors College and Associate Professor, School of Mathematics at Daytona State College, Daytona Beach, FL.

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Heidi Rico . 4 " 4 JT 4FOJPS Manager, Predictive Analytics North America at HAVI Global Solutions in the Chicago area.

Jim Roll . 4 " 4 DPOUJOVFT in the Ph.D. program in Statistics with the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at BGSU. Sai Sampathkumar . 4 " 4

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B.S.Econ, is an Account Manager at 4D in the Los Angeles, California, area.

Zhiyuan “Samuel� Sun, M.S.A.S.

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is an Assistant Professor, Operations and Industrial Engineering, Worchester Polytechnic Institute, Worchester, MA. Andy and his wife, Natasha, M.S.C.S./ O.R., are the parents of two young children.

Xue Wu . 4 " 4 . " &DPO is in the Ph.D. program in Economics at the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. Xi Xia . 4 " 4 DPOUJOVFT JO the Ph.D. program in Biostatistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

Jim Velayas . 4 " 4 DPOUJOVFT with his consulting firm, Empirical Research Solutions, in San Antonio, 5FYBT

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Bindu Viswanathan . 4 " 4

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Steven Wang . 4 " 4 JT a Director, Aon Hewitt/Health and #FOFĂŤUT BU "PO $0'$0 *OTVSBODF #SPLFST $P -UE #FJKJOH $IJOB

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continues in the Ph.D. program in Statistics with the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at BGSU.

Bingqing (Teresa) Zhou, M.S.A.S.

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Brad Whittaker . 4 " 4 JT Director of Performance Improvement at Kaiser Permanente in the San Diego, California, area.

2011 James A. Sullivan Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award This spring the outstanding graduate assistant award was presented to Tim Keaton, M.S.A.S., in recognition of his superior contributions to and performance of his graduate assistantship duties.

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