Team with IÉSEG professor selected as a finalist for the 2017 INFORMS Franz Edelman Award
12/22/2016
INFORMS, a leading international association for professionals in operations research and analytics, has this week named the six finalists that have been selected for the 46th annual Franz Edelman Award for Achievements in Operations Research and Management Science, a prestigious international award for achievement in the practice of analytics and O.R.
Professor Maud VAN DEN BROEKE
IÉSEG is delighted to announce that Professor Maud VAN DEN BROEKE is a member of one of the six ‘analytics teams’ that have been selected as finalists. The Award will be presented at the INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics and Operations Research taking place in Las Vegas from 2th-4th April.
Together with researchers from KU Leuven and Vlerick Business School in Belgium she has been working in partnership with Barco (a global technology company that manufactures products for the entertainment, healthcare, and enterprise markets) to support the assessment and development of product platforms for the company’s production and development of high-tech screens used in medical devices.
INFORMS notes that “the researchers created a mathematical optimization model that enabled Barco to easily asses the number of platforms to develop and which products should be included in each platform, and ultimately develop multi-functional product platforms that reduced product development time by 46 percent and increased on-time customer deliveries by 8 percent.”
More information on the award and the five other finalists is available here.