Sigrún Andradóttir
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Sigrún Andradóttir is an Icelandic and American operations researcher, and a professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. Her research focuses on discrete-event simulation and simulation-based optimization.
Andradóttir graduated from the University of Iceland with a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1986. She continued her studies at Stanford University, where she received a master's degree in statistics in 1989 and completed her Ph.D. in operations research in 1990.[1] Her dissertation, Stochastic Optimization with Applications to Discrete Event Systems, was supervised by Peter W. Glynn.[2]
She became an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1990; she was affiliated there with the Departments of Industrial Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Sciences, and was tenured as an associate professor, before moving to her present position at Georgia Tech.[1][3]
