Jacqueline Akinpelu
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Johns Hopkins University (PhD, 1980)
Jacqueline Akinpelu | |
|---|---|
| Born | Jacqueline McKinney |
| Education | Duke University (BA, 1975) Johns Hopkins University (PhD, 1980) |
| Awards | 2011 Diversity Award, 2017 Heritage Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | mathematics |
| Institutions | Bell Labs Johns Hopkins University |
| Thesis | Optimal Multi-Product Scheduling on One Machine Over a Finite Horizon (1980) |
| Academic advisors | Eliezer Naddor |
Jacqueline M. Akinpelu (born 1953,[1] née McKinney) is an American applied mathematician and operations researcher who worked at Bell Labs on network performance under overloaded conditions, and later, as a research manager at the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University, developed a pipeline for students from Morgan State University to mentor them into careers in STEM fields.[2]
Akinpelu is African-American, and originally from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she was raised by a poor single mother in the 1960s. She was educated in the public school system there, and majored in mathematics at Duke University, graduating magna cum laude in 1975.[2]
She completed her doctorate in 1980, from the Johns Hopkins University Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, with the dissertation Optimal Multi-Product Scheduling on One Machine Over a Finite Horizon supervised by Eliezer Naddor.[3][4] Her doctoral research related to inventory management in operations research.[2]
