She received her Undergraduate and Master’s degrees in Business Administration from the University of Liege, in Belgium and a Ph.D. in Operations Management from New York University. Her research interests include inventory management, assortment planning, retail operations, behavioral operations management and transportation theory. She is an Associate Editor for the Management Science and 4OR journals, the president-elect of the Women in OR/MS organization and the VP of communications/president-elect for the POMS College of Supply Chain Management. She is also the co-chair of the planning committee for the 2018 MSOM conference.