Julie Ivy


Julie Simmons Ivy is a professor of industrial and systems engineering and a Fitts Faculty Fellow in Health Systems Engineering at North Carolina State University. Her research involves health care statistics and the application of systems engineering to health care and to other social services including food bank distribution systems.

Education and career

Ivy graduated from the University of Michigan in 1991, and completed a master's degree in 1992 at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She returned to Michigan for doctoral study, completing a Ph.D. in 1998.
Her dissertation, Determining Maintenance and Replacement Policies for a Multi-State Deteriorating Process with Probabilistic Monitoring, was supervised by Stephen M. Pollock.
She worked as a faculty member in the School of Business at the University of Michigan from 1998 to 2007 before moving to North Carolina State University.

Service

Ivy is African-American, and was the president of the INFORMS Minority Issues Forum for 2011–2013. She also chaired the INFORMS Health Applications Section for 2007.
Since 2016 she has been chair of the board of directors of the Health Systems Engineering Alliance, an association of university programs focused on engineering approaches to health care delivery.

Recognition

In 2016, INFORMS gave Ivy their Moving Spirit Award for her work with their Minority Issues Forum.