Brenda L. Dietrich
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Brenda Lynn Jorgensen Dietrich is an American operations researcher, the Arthur and Helen Geoffrion Professor of Practice in the School of Operations Research at Cornell University. She has been Vice President of Business Analytics and Mathematical Sciences at IBM, and a president of INFORMS.
After earning a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1980 from the University of North Carolina, with highest honors and Phi Beta Kappa,[1][2] Dietrich went to Cornell University intending to get a graduate degree in mathematics. However, after working as an intern at the United States Department of Energy, she switched to operations research.[3] She completed her Ph.D. in 1986; her dissertation, A Unifying Interpretation of Several Combinatorial Dualities, was supervised by Robert G. Bland.[4]
Dietrich began working at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center while still a graduate student.[3] She was president of INFORMS in 2006,[1] and became a vice president at IBM in 2008. In 2017, she moved to Cornell as the Geoffrion Professor.[5]
