Quarterly Newsletter

August 18, 2022

Winter/Spring 2022 Newsletter

DEPARTMENT NEWS | PUBLICATIONS | CONFERENCESDOCTORAL PROGRAM | MSIS PROGRAM | SEMINAR SERIES Congratulations to our department administrator Shawna Reimers, celebrating 20 years at Foster and at the UW! Thank you for being such a vital part of the department. After 47 years of service to the Foster School of Business and the University…

March 12, 2022

Autumn 2021 Newsletter

DEPARTMENT NEWS | PUBLICATIONS | CONFERENCESDOCTORAL PROGRAM | MSIS PROGRAMSEMINAR SERIES A word from our chair, Yong Tan: As we welcome 2022 with open arms, I would like to thank the entire ISOM department for their continued hard work to make this department grow and thrive towards greatness. I appreciate everyone’s cooperative spirit in…

October 7, 2021

Summer 2021 Newsletter

DEPARTMENT NEWS | PUBLICATIONS | DOCTORAL PROGRAM Yong-Pin Zhou was invited to present at the Bellingham Symposium on Modeling and Data Analytics on August 30, 2021. Michael Wagner gave a talk on “A Dynamic Programming Model for Crowdsourced Labor Planning at Amazon Flex” at Amazon’s 2021 Consumer Science Summit. Back To Top Yong-Pin…

July 2, 2021

Spring 2021 Newsletter

DEPARTMENT NEWS | PUBLICATIONS | CONFERENCESDOCTORAL PROGRAM | MSIS PROGRAMMSCM PROGRAM | SEMINAR SERIES Faculty News Elina Hwang presented the paper, “The Value of Online-Offline Return Partnership to Offline Retailers,” (coauthored by Leela Nageswaran and Soo-Haeng Cho) at the University of British Columbia Sauder School of Business in March 2021 and the Krannert School…

April 9, 2021

Winter 2021 Newsletter

DEPARTMENT NEWS | PUBLICATIONS | CONFERENCESDOCTORAL PROGRAM | MSIS PROGRAMMSCM PROGRAM | SEMINAR SERIES The busy autumn quarter morphed into the relatively quieter winter quarter as everyone adjusted to virtual learning and virtual gatherings as they became more commonplace. Nevertheless, the ISOM department has kept busy with research and teaching, leading to a productive…

January 21, 2021

Autumn 2020 Newsletter

DEPARTMENT NEWS | PUBLICATIONS | CONFERENCESDOCTORAL PROGRAM | MSIS PROGRAMMSCM PROGRAM | SEMINAR SERIES The normally raucous hustle and bustle of students was not present this quarter, with classes returning to the virtual realm instead of the buildings on campus. This didn’t make autumn quarter any less busy for the department – between welcoming…

October 2, 2020

Summer 2020 Newsletter

DEPARTMENT NEWS | PUBLICATIONS | DOCTORAL PROGRAM ISOM is excited to welcome a new faculty member to our department: Tayfun Keskin has joined the department as an Associate Teaching Professor of Information Systems. He previously taught at University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley, UW Bothell, and University of Texas at Austin. His current areas of…

July 1, 2020

Spring 2020 Newsletter

DEPARTMENT NEWS | PUBLICATIONS | CONFERENCESDOCTORAL PROGRAM | MSIS PROGRAMMSCM PROGRAM | SEMINAR SERIES A word from our chair, Kamran Moinzadeh: Time flies so fast and it was just like yesterday, nine years ago, when I agreed to become the department chair. During this last nine years, we achieved many things that we should all…

April 14, 2020

Winter 2020 Newsletter

DEPARTMENT NEWS | PUBLICATIONS | CONFERENCESDOCTORAL PROGRAM | MSIS PROGRAMMSCM PROGRAM | SEMINAR SERIES Winter quarter started off like any other, but ended on a quiet note due to the sudden spread of COVID-19 throughout the state, the country, and the world. We hope that everyone is keeping safe and healthy during these uncertain…

January 22, 2020

Autumn 2019 Newsletter

DEPARTMENT NEWS | PUBLICATIONS | CONFERENCESDOCTORAL PROGRAM | USTC-UW INSTITUTE | MSIS PROGRAMMSCM PROGRAM | SEMINAR SERIES | VISITING GUESTS It was a busy autumn quarter, with the start of the new school year and Seattle hosting the INFORMS annual meeting this year. Amid the hustle and bustle, a few of our faculty were invited…