I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA.

My research focuses on robust optimization applied to revenue and portfolio management, and is currently funded in part by the National Science Foundation (grants DMI-0540143 and CMMI-0757983) and IBM.

For those of you interested in engineering education and research, or in my work at a non-technical level, feel free to read my blog on these issues here. I also serve as the Chairwoman of the Public Information Committee at INFORMS and the Junior VP of Communication for the Forum on Women in OR/MS.

I hold a SM and a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT and joined Lehigh University in 2004. I was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2010.

Feel free to contact me at aurelie dot thiele at lehigh dot edu.

News:

• I have been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.
• I have become the Chairwoman of the Public Information Committee at INFORMS and the Junior VP of Communication for the Forum on Women in OR/MS, effective January 2011 and March 2011, respectively..
• My students Ruken Duzgun, Katherine Glass-Hardenbergh and Sushan Zheng represented the ISE department at the Lehigh University Research Symposium in March 2011.
• My doctoral students Ban Kawas and Mike Dziecichowicz received their PhD degree from Lehigh in May 2010 and January 2011, respectively. Ban is now a post-doc at the IBM Research Lab in Zurich and Mike works in the Financial Services Office of Ernst & Young in New York City.
• Congratulations to my undergraduate student Phoebe Lai who was admitted to UC Berkeley for doctoral studies! I'll post more information on Phoebe's honors thesis soon. Congratulations also for her honorable mention in the CVCR (Center for Value Chain Research) poster competition!

I remain an academic advisor for the first-year students in the College of Engineering and continue to supervise graduate and undergraduate students.

Last updated March 31, 2011.