We are very pleased to report that Jennifer K. Ryan joined Lehigh, with a main appointment at the College of Business (COB) as the Frank L. Magee Professor and a joint appointment at Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE). At COB, Jennifer is serving as Chair of the Decision and Technology Analytics Department. At ISE, her research appointment augments our critical mass in applied stochastic modeling, including supply chain and inventory models.
Prior to joining Lehigh in July 2025, Prof. Ryan served as the founding Chair of the Department of Supply Chain Management and Analytics in the College of Business at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where she also held the Van Horne Family Endowed Chair in Business. Jennifer’s research and teaching interests are in the areas of inventory management, supply chain management and applied stochastic modeling. Her work has appeared in a range of leading journals, including Management Science, Operations Research, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Decision Sciences, and IISE Transactions. She is the recipient of several National Science Foundation (NSF) grants, including an NSF CAREER grant. Jennifer has served as the Focused Issue Editor for the Supply Chain and Logistics focused issue of IISE Transactions.
It is rewarding to see Jennifer contributing to the consolidation of a strong hub in applied operations research at Lehigh, whose expertise includes that of Professors Alberto J. LaMadrid (COB & ISE) and Lawrence V. Snyder (ISE).
In Jennifer’s words, joining both Business and ISE at Lehigh opens “a great opportunity for collaboration on research and education, particularly related to the application of operations research to address the challenges associated with managing complex systems, such as supply chains".
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