Imre Balogh has been the Director of the MOVES Institute at NPS since 2014. The MOVES Institute is a research element of the Naval Postgraduate School focusing on the science and technology driving the development and novel application of M&S tools as is applicable to the Navy and DOD and the international M&S community. The work done at MOVES has a wide range of customers that includes training, analysis, operational planning, design methodology, acquisition, and other communities where M&S can provide a competitive advantage. Dr. Balogh has twenty-nine years of experience working on combat simulations. He was the Chief Architect and technical lead of COMBATXXI development team for seven years. COMBATXXI is a closed-form, high resolution combat simulation and is the primary analytical simulation used for analysis of the joint battlespace by the US Army and Marine Corps to support acquisition and future needs assessments. Dr. Balogh has been leading research projects at MOVES for over 13 years. These projects range from the development of combat simulations, creation of tools for modeling decision making processes, network interoperability and the use of augmented reality techniques in an operational setting.

STEPHEN CHICK is a Professor of Technology and Operations Management at INSEAD. He is the Academic Director of INSEAD’s Healthcare Management Initiative and Novartis Chair of Healthcare Management. He earned his MS and PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and his BS in Mathematics from Stanford University. Prior to joining INSEAD, he taught process modeling, simulation, and information systems as a faculty member at the University of Michigan and had worked for five years in the automotive and software industries. He has served in INFORMS editorial roles and subdivision officer positions in the INFORMS Simulation and Health Applications Societies. His research includes Bayesian learning, stochastic simulation, and mathematical models to inform health decision-making and policy.

Ann Dunkin currently serves as Chief Information Officer at the U.S. Department of Energy, where she manages the Department’s information technology (IT) portfolio and modernization; oversees the Department’s cybersecurity efforts; and leads tech innovation at DOE. She served in the Obama Administration as CIO of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Prior roles include chief strategy and innovation officer, Dell Technologies; CIO, County of Santa Clara, CA; CTO, Palo Alto Unified School District, California; and various leadership roles at Hewlett Packard focused on engineering, research and development, IT, manufacturing engineering, software quality and operations. Ann is a published author, most recently of the book Industrial Digital Transformation, and a speaker on the topics of government technology modernization, digital transformation and organizational development. She was named in ComputerWorld’s Premier 100 Technology Leaders for 2016, DC’s Top 50 Women in Technology for 2015 and 2016 and StateScoop’s Top 50 Women in Technology list for 2017. In 2018, she was inducted into Georgia Tech’s Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni.

HANS EHM is Senior Principal Supply Chain of Infineon Technologies AG and there responsible for supply chain innovations. He holds degrees in Physics (Dipl. Ing (FH) HS Munich, Germany) and a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from Oregon State University/USA. In his almost 40 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, he was granted managing and consulting positions at wafer fabrication, assembly and test, and global supply chains. Hans was at the Supervisory Board of camLine Holding AG, an IT company providing software for supply and quality chains for over ten years until 2020. He was chairman of the European Leadership Team of the Supply Chain Council and is a past Board Member of APICS SCC. He leads the working group (Arbeitskreis) SCM of the ZVEI. He is active in several EU projects like SC³ – semantically connected semiconductor supply chains. Hans teaches Supply Chain Management at universities and initiates innovative academic curriculums. In 2015, he was awarded with the renowned LEO-Award (Logistics Excellence Optimisation) in the category “Manager” from DVZ Media Group. SCM Movement listed him as one of the 10 most influential SCM Managers in the DACH region in 2018. Hans played an initiating role for the MASM conference in initiating together with John Fowler the MIMAC studies in a US/EU collaboration in 1995. Together with John Fowler, Lars Mönch, and Chen Fu-Chien, he is one of the Dagstuhl seminar organizers on planning and control approaches for semiconductor supply chains.

JOHN FOWLER is the Motorola Professor of Supply Chain Management in the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. He served as the department chair of supply chain management from 2011-2016. Prior to that he was the Avnet Professor of Industrial Engineering at ASU. His research interests include discrete event simulation, deterministic scheduling, and multi-criteria decision making. He has published more than 120 journal articles and more than 100 conference papers. Professor Fowler recently served as editor-in-chief for IIE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering and continues to be the department editor for Healthcare Operations Management at the journal. He is an editor of the Journal of Simulation and associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing. He is a fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers and recently served as the vice president for continuing education. He is a former INFORMS vice president, and served on the Winter Simulation Conference board of directors from 2005-2017. He was also the program chair for the 2002 and 2008 Industrial Engineering Research Conferences and the 2008 Winter Simulation Conference.