Supply Chain Engineering

Lauren M. (Berrings) Davis Page *

Lauren M. (Berrings) Davis

Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Associate Professor

North Carolina

A&T State University 336-***-**** x 518

**** **st Market Street, Greensboro, NC 27411 abo31v@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION

EXPERIENCE

RESEARCH Supply Chain Optimization

INTERESTS Research is largely focused on analyzing the impact of emerging trends

(increased availability of information, disruptions caused by supply

shortages, and natural or man-made disasters) on optimal stocking

decisions within a supply chain. The modeling approaches for these

problems have largely been stochastic, with particular emphasis on the

use of Markov Decision Processes to represent the system under study.

Supply chains in for profit as well as non-profit industries are considered,

with growing interest in supply chains supporting humanitarian relief

efforts.

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering (May 2005)

Concentration: Production Management and System Analysis &

Optimization;

Thesis: State Clustering in Markov Decision Processes with an

Application in Information Sharing; Advisor: Drs. Russell King and

Thom Hodgson

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

M.S. in Industrial and Management Engineering (December 1992)

Project: A decision support system for the design of batch manufacturing

systems; Advisor: Dr. Charles Malmborg

Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

B.S. in Computational Mathematics (May 1991)

North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC

Assistant Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering (2005-Present)

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Teaching Assistant, Stochastic Processes, (Fall 2002)

Instructor, (Spring 2003)

IBM Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC

Senior Software Engineer (1993-2005)

SAP Systems Integration Analyst for Worldwide PC Manufacturing

(Guadalajara, Mexico; Shenzen, China; Research Triangle Park, NC)

Technical lead for SAP-Workflow development activities

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7.,, Stochastic Model to evaluate L Mota, D. . Davis, H. Abdus-Salaam

RFID Information Value in Maintenance Strategy, Proceedings of

the Institute of Industrial Engineers Annual Conference 2009, Miami,

Fl, May 2009.

8. Samanlioglu, F., L. Davis, A heuristic approach for allocation of

data to RFID tags, Proceedings of the Institute of the Industrial

Engineers Annual Conference 2009, Miami, Fl, May 2009.

9. Qu, X, L . Davis, K. Johnson, C. Benson, Investigating the

relationship between use of Inpatient Care and Chronic Diseases in

Urban Hospitals, Proceedings of the Institute of the Industrial

Engineers Annual Conference 2009, Miami, Fl, May 2009.

PI,

Department of Homeland Security, Interactive Simulation Model for

Evaluating the Impact of Port Disruptions, $249,204, 2/2010-1/2013.

PI, National Science Foundation, Collaborative Research: Engineering

Efficient and Equitable Food Distribution Under Uncertainty, $196,247,

5/2010-4/2013. (w/ J. Ivy North Carolina State University)

PI, Department of Homeland Security, Developing Expertise of

Minority Students in managing threats and response to emergency

situations through Interdisciplinary Research and Education, $332,809,

1/2008-12/2010.

PI, North Carolina A & T State University Futures Ventures Fund,

AggiEmentor: Increasing the retention of undergraduate students in

STEM disciplines, $15,000, 7/06-6/07.

Co-PI, Department Of Defense - Army, AMRDEC Engineering

Logistics Support, $98,539 5/2009 [Contribution: Disruptive

Technologies ]

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Conference, Healthcare Systems Engineering Track, 2011, Reno,

Nevada

HONORS/AWARDS 1. Outstanding Young Investigator Award,

North Carolina A&T State University, 2010

SERVICE

2. Division of Research Summer Faculty Fellowship Award,

North Carolina A&T State University, 2007

Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Sciences 3.

Fellow, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1991-1992

4. Preparing for the Professoriate

North Carolina State University, 2002-2003

5. IBM Excellence Award, 1998, 1999, 2002

Outstanding Service on SAP Development Project

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Department 1. Undergraduate Committee (2005-2008)

2. Graduate Committee (2005-2006, 2008-Present)

3. INEN270 Course Committee (2005-Present)

4. INEN335 Course Committee (2005-Present)

5. Department Library Liaison (2005-2007)

Faculty Search Committee (2006) 6.

7. Senior Design Project Advisor (2005,2006 2 groups)

8. Institute of Industrial Engineer s Faculty Advisor (2007-Present)

College 1. Statistics Common Course Committee (2007-Present)

2. NSF Bridges to Engineering Research Conference Organizing

Committee (2008)

College Research Awards Committee (2010-2011) 3.

University 1. Junior Faculty Task Force (2007)

2. NC First Lego Robotics Tournament, Judge (2005)

Professional 1. Co-Chair local arrangements, Informs 2011 Charlotte Organizing

Committee. (2011)

Associate Editor, Interfaces Special Issue: Humanitarian 2.

Applications: Doing Good with Good OR. (2009)

3. Reviewer, Computers and Industrial Engineering (2008-Present)

4. Reviewer, Operations Research (2009)

5. Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Operations

Research and Information Systems

6. Reviewer, Transportation Research Part B (2007).

Reviewer, International Journal of Manufacturing and Technology 7.

Management (2008)

8. Session Chair, Humanitarian Logistics, Society for Public Programs,

Service, and Needs, Informs Annual Meeting (2010).

9. Session Chair, Supply Chain Risk Management, MSOM Cluster,

Informs Annual Meeting (2010).

10. Session Chair, Planning under uncer tainty, Institute of Industrial

Engineering Annual Research Conference, Cancun, MX (2010).

an open-access scheduling system, Completed 5/2011. Winner of

Best Doctoral Dissertation Award- NCAT Division of Research.

2. Luther Brock, A distributed approach to secondary food network

coordination.

M.S. 1. D Javon Alston, An Interactive Simulation Model for Evaluating the

Impact of Port Disruptions. December 2011.

2. Jessye Bemley, A stochastic facility location model for pre-

positioning port commodities during a disaster. August 2011.

Sylvester Winbush, A Predictive Model to Determine Monthly 3.

Demand Estimates for the Durham Branch of the Food Bank of

Central and Eastern North Carolina, August 2011.

4. Christina Harris, Forecasting Supply of Donated Goods, August

2011.

5. Christopher Baker, A dynamic decision model for port hurricane

preparation and shutdown. December 2009.

Daniel de-Oliveira Mota, A Stochastic Coordinated Humanitarian 6.

Relief Supply Chain Network based on multiple objectives. December

2009.

7. Nolan Applewhaite, The effect of unplanned donations on

humanitarian logistics coordination, May 2009.

8. Stacey Hollis, Inventory Scheduling and Cash Management in Bank

of America s Supply Chain, December 2008.

9. Chanel Helper, Information Sharing in a supply chain and it s value

to the retailer, August 2008.

10. Andrea Dinkins, Quantifying the value of radio frequency

identification information in maintenance modeling, May 2008.

11. Tamario Howze, Maximizing profit in make versus buy situations,

May 2008.

12. Jarrett Chapman, Utilizing stochastic linear programming and

network flow to model pre-positioning and emergency response,

December 2007. (w. F. Samanlioglu)

13. Deanna Tinnin, Cultural Differences in the perception of quality in

the healthcare sector, May 2007.

14. Ubong Effanga, A decision support tool for location of information

and technology in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, May 2007 (w S.

Udoka).

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

1. Institute of Industrial Engineers

2. INFORMS

3. ASEE

4. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (INFORMS

Society)

Public Programs, Service, and Needs (INFORMS Society) 5.

6. WORMS (INFORMS FORA)

Minority Issues Forum (INFORMS FORA) 7.

COURSES

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Undergraduate 1. INEN270: Engineering Statistics

Discrete and Continuous Probability Distributions, Sampling

distributions, hypothesis testing

2. INEN435: Stochastic Operations Research

Markov Processes, Queuing theory, Decision Making under

Uncertainty

3. IE401: Stochastic Processes (at NC State)

Markov Processes, Queuing Theory, Dynamic Programming,

Reliability

PROFESSIONAL 1. Summer 2009 Advance Peer Mentoring Conference for

DEVELOPMENT Underrepresented Minority Women Engineering Faculty, Pasadena,

CA (August 2009)

2. Humanitarian Logistics Conference, Georgia Tech (2009,2010)

3. Women in Industrial Engineering Academia, Istanbul, Turkey (July

2008)

4. Advance Faculty Career Success Workshop, Rice University (April

2008)

Writing Winning Grants, NCAT Division of Research (October 5.

2006)

6. Academy for Teaching and Learning Summer Teaching Institute:

Creating significant learning experiences in your courses, NCAT

(May 2006)

7. Eric Mazur s teaching/learning seminars, NCAT (November 2005)

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Annual New Faculty Colloquium, Institute of Industrial Engineers 8. 4

Research Conference, (May 2006)

9. Academy for Teaching and Learning New Faculty Lunch Series,

NCAT, (2005-2006)

10. SAS Data mining for Educators, SAS Institute (2007)

11. SAS Exploring interacting and Visual Data Mining with JMP, SAS

Institute, (2009)

12. GIS Workshop, Elon University, (2009)

Developed Graduate 1. INEN885: Advanced Stochastic Processes

Discrete and Continuous time Markov Chains, Markov Decision

Processes

2. INEN685/885: Homeland Security

Engineering applications in Homeland Security Survey Course

Graduate 1. INEN854: Inventory and Warehouse Systems

Deterministic and Stochastic Inventory Theory, Facility Location

2. INEN831: Service Sector Engineering

Service System Design, Service Quality, service operations

Management

INEN833: Supply Chain Systems Engineering 3.

Network Design Models, Inventory management and Coordination

4. INEN843, Queueing Theory

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