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M.
Elisabeth Paté-Cornell, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Management Science and Engineering
Stanford University
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Dr.
M. Elisabeth Paté-Cornell was born in Dakar, Senegal,
in 1948. She attended public high schools both in Dakar
and in La Rochelle, France. Her undergraduate degree is
in mathematics and physics (BS, Marseilles, France, 1968),
and her first graduate degrees are in applied mathematics
and computer science (MS and Engineer Degree, Institut Polytechnique
de Grenoble, France, 1970; 1971).
In 1971
she came to study and live in the United States, where she
has been a citizen since 1986. She received a Masters degree
in Operations Research (OR) in 1972 and a Ph.D. in Engineering-Economic
Systems (EES) in 1978, both from Stanford University. She
then was an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at
MIT, before joining the Stanford faculty in 1981, where
she became Professor (in 1991) and then Chair (in 1997)
in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering
Management (IEEM). In 1999, she was named the Burt and Deedee
McMurtry Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford
University. She is presently Professor and Chair of the
Department of Management Science and Engineering, as well
as a Senior Fellow (by courtesy) of the Stanford Institute
for International Studies.
Dr.
Paté-Cornell oversaw from 1999, the merger of two
Stanford departments of the School of Engineering (EES-OR
and IEEM) to form a new department of Management Science
and Engineering, which she has led since its formation in
2000. She has served for several years as a member of the
Stanford Academic Senate, and she is currently the chair
of the Stanford Committee on Research.
Dr.
Paté-Cornell was elected to the National Academy
of Engineering in 1995, and is currently a member of its
Council. She continues to serve on the President’s
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board since December 2001,
the Board of Advisors of the Naval Postgraduate School since
1998, and the Advisory Board of NASA’s Jet Propulsion
Laboratory since 2002. She has also served as a member of
the Army Science Board, of the NASA Advisory Council and
of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, where she was
a member of the panel on asymmetric warfare appointed by
the Secretary of the Air Force (2001-2002).
Dr.
Paté-Cornell is a world leader in research related
to engineering risk analysis, risk management, decision
analysis under uncertainty, and more generally, the use
of Bayesian probability to process incomplete information.
In recent years, her research and that of her Engineering
Risk Research Group at Stanford have focused on the inclusion
of both technical and organizational factors in probabilistic
risk analysis models. These models have been applied to
a wide variety of topics, ranging from the risk management
of the NASA shuttle tiles to that of offshore oil platforms
and medical systems such as anesthesia during surgery. She
is currently working on risk management processes for complex
projects and programs, with application to space, industrial
and medical systems. Since 2001, she has applied risk analytic
methods to the study of different types of terrorist attacks
on the United States, the assessment of intelligence information
and the effectiveness of counter measures.
Dr.
Paté-Cornell is a past president (1995) and a fellow
of the Society for Risk Analysis, and a fellow of the Institute
for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS).
She has been a consultant to industrial firms and government
organizations, including, recently, the Columbia Accident
Investigation Board. She is the author or co-author of more
than a hundred papers in refereed journals and conference
proceedings. She has received several best-paper awards
from professional organizations such as the American Nuclear
Society and the Decision Analysis Society of INFORMS (for
her work on the shuttle tiles), and peer-reviewed journals
such as Military Operations Research in 2002 for
a paper on the assessment of terrorist threats. She has
been invited to give many keynote addresses and has taught
in executive-education programs for several years.
Dr.
Paté-Cornell is married to Dr. C. Allin Cornell,
a U.S. citizen also a member of the Stanford faculty and
of the National Academy of Engineering.
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