Erica L. Plambeck

For applying innovative approaches to optimize real-time information for industrial issues such as movement in the supply chain, and dynamic control of pricing and production. Her use of game theory, statistics, adaptive control and dynamic programming, among others, will provide results that will be widely shared with industry and incorporated into business and engineering schools' M.B.A. and Ph.D. teaching materials, to prepare students to become future industrial and academic leaders.