Dr. M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor and dean of engineering, has appointed Dr. Lewis Ntaimo head of the Wm Michael Barnes ’64 Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University. The appointment is effective Sept. 1.
Ntaimo is currently a professor and has served as the interim department head since Jan. 1. He joined the department in 2004 as an assistant professor.
His research interests include mathematical models and algorithms for decision-making problems involving data uncertainty and risk in the general area of stochastic optimization, systems and process modeling and optimization, and computer simulation.
He is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Systems (INFORMS) and the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE). He served as the president of the INFORMS Minority Issues Forum for 2018-19 and was the INFORMS 2018 Tutorials Chair and the INFORMS 2019 George Nicholson Prize Chair. He is the associate editor of the INFORMS Journal on Computing, IISE Transactions, IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Global Optimization.
Ntaimo earned his Ph.D. in systems and industrial engineering, master’s degree in mining and geological engineering, and bachelor’s degree in mining engineering, all from the University of Arizona.