Mark Lewis
Mark Lewis received his undergraduate degree in mathematics and political science from Eckerd College in 1992, his master's degree in theoretical statistics from Florida State University in 1995, and a PhD in industrial engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1998. After receiving his doctorate, Lewis spent a year at the University of British Columbia as a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Operations Excellence. He joined Cornell as an associate professor in 2005 after teaching industrial and operations engineering at the University of Michigan. Mark is a longtime member of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS). He is one of original organizers of the Minority Issues Forum, former chair of the Applied Probability Society, and has been the secretary of INFORMS. In January 2026, Professor Lewis will be the first African American to be the president of INFORMS. He has been an Amazon Scholar since May 2024 in the Middle Mile Science team.