Sigrún Andradóttir
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.
Education and career
[edit]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]
Personal life
[edit]Andradóttir was married to Czech mathematician Robin Thomas (1962–2020), also a professor at Georgia Tech.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Sigrun Andradottir", People, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, retrieved 2025-04-04
- ^ Sigrún Andradóttir at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Sigrún Andradóttir", IEEE Xplore, IEEE, 6 January 2011, retrieved 2025-04-04
- ^ In Memoriam: Robin Thomas, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 22 April 2020, retrieved 2025-04-04
External links
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- Living people
- Icelandic emigrants to the United States
- Icelandic scientists
- Icelandic women scientists
- American operations researchers
- American industrial engineers
- American women engineers
- Women industrial engineers
- University of Iceland alumni
- Stanford University alumni
- University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
- Georgia Tech faculty