About Me

Dr. Aurelie Thiele is an academic expert on quantitative risk and uncertainty management. She has a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT and holds a chaired Assistant Professorship in Industrial and Systems Engineering at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Her work on robust decision-making, with applications in finance and retail, is currently funded in part by the National Science Foundation. In 2007 she received an IBM Faculty award in Services Science, Management and Engineering.

She blogs on business, engineering and higher education. While at MIT, she was a co-founder of GW6, the Graduate Women Group in Course 6 (MIT-speak for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) and a co-chair of the Academics, Research and Careers Committee of the Graduate Student Council. She is now an academic advisor for the engineering freshmen at Lehigh University and a mentor in Lehigh's mentoring program for minorities. She is committed to encouraging more students, in particular girls, to pursue engineering and science careers, and serves as a judge for the Lehigh Valley Science and Engineering Fair and Lehigh University's CHOICES day, an engineering program directed at girls in middle school. Dr. Thiele comes from a family uprooted by war and genocide and strongly believes in education as a path toward a better future, because education is what allowed her relatives to rebuild their lives from scratch. She wishes more people from low-income families were given the same opportunity, and often blogs on the inequalities in the educational system. Her extensive record as an accomplished educator has been recognized by her inclusion in Who's Who in America 2009.

Dr. Thiele is a member of the Public Information Committee of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS), which aims to improve the visibility, understanding and support of operations research by the general public. She is the Director of Cultural Affairs for the MIT Club of New York and currently lives in Pennsylvania. You can reach her at: aurelie at aureliethiele dot com.

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