Eva K. Lee

Eva Kwok-Yin Lee is an American operations researcher who applies combinatorial optimization and systems biology to the study of health care decision making. She was the Virginia C. and Joseph C. Mello Chair from 2017-2019. Also, she was a professor at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering of Georgia Institute of Technology and currently suspended. She pled guilty to two counts of falsifying supporting documents for a grant in December 2019 and will be sentenced in May 2020.[1]

Education and career

Lee graduated from Hong Kong Baptist University in 1988 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics.[2] She completed her Ph.D. in 1993 in computational and applied mathematics at Rice University. Her dissertation, Solving Structured 0/1 Integer Programs Arising from Truck Dispatching Scheduling Problems, was supervised by Robert E. Bixby.[3]

She joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 1997, after previously working in industrial engineering and operations research at Columbia University.[4]

Contributions

Lee's work has included collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control on defenses against biological weapons, travel to Japan to develop rapid responses to radiation poisoning from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the optimization of influenza vaccines based on data to how people respond to the vaccines, and the early detection of chronic diseases.[5]

Recognition

With Marco Zaider at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Lee was the 2007 winner of the Franz Edelman Award of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), for their use of operations throughout the center and particularly in treating prostate cancer. She was elected to the 2015 class of Fellows of INFORMS, and in the same year won the INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice, which has listed her as a finalist in many other years.[6]

Crimes and Arrest

Lee plead guilty in the U.S. District Court to lying to National Science Foundation (NSF) investigators and falsifying membership certificate for a $40,000 NSF grant[7].

References
  1. . The Atlanta Journal-Constitution https://www.ajc.com/news/local/the-world-needs-this-researcher-help-covid-why-she-can-help/MZSnUknKjvabcO1QvKfXLL/. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. Eva Lee, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, retrieved 2019-11-18
  3. Eva K. Lee at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. For Lee's Columbia affiliation, see e.g. Gallagher, R. J.; Lee, E. K. (1997), "Mixed integer programming optimization models for brachytherapy treatment planning", Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Fall Symposium, pp. 278–282, PMC 2233571, PMID 9357632
  5. Horner, Peter (April 2015), "The most interesting person in the (O.R.) world: Interview with Georgia Tech professor Eva Lee, whose applied work on biomedicine, healthcare delivery, pandemics, disaster response and other projects has global implications", OR/MS Today, 42 (2)
  6. "Eva K. Lee", Recognizing Excellence: Award Recipients, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, retrieved 2019-10-18
  7. Bill Rankin, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "Why an acclaimed Georgia Tech professor is barred from her COVID-19 research". ajc.
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