About me
Senior Manager, Industry Solutions and Emerging Business
Research lab: Watson Research Center (Yorktown)
Dr. Jane L. Snowdon is a Senior Manager and Research Staff Member in the Industry Solutions and Emerging Business Department at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. In this role, she is responsible for developing strategies and driving research efforts worldwide to create innovative solutions for small and medium-sized businesses in areas such as collaboration, security, remote systems management, cloud computing, and Smarter Planet. Prior to her current position, Jane managed the Emerging Systems Design Department at IBM Research where she led work in the design of new high performance computing servers, next generation technologies to simplify the personal computer life cycle process, and handwriting recognition. Jane has conducted research in schedule planning optimization, journey management, crew pairing, and recovery from irregular operations for domestic and international airlines. She also has expertise in business process modeling and business process simulation for manufacturing and transportation domains.
Jane received her Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering and a Certificate in Manufacturing Systems from the Georgia Institute of Technology, a M.S. degree in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan, and a B.S. degree with distinction in Industrial and Management Systems Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University.
She was selected as the General Chair for the 2002 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), Technical Program Chair and Council Member for the 2000 and 2001 AGIFORS (Airline Group of the International Federation of Operations Research Societies) Symposiums, Advisory Council Member of the 2001 INFORMS Practice Meeting, and Industry Liaison Chair of the 2000 INFORMS Annual Meeting.
Jane is an Advisory Board member for the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech and the Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology (CEWIT) Medical Division at Stony Brook University. She is a past Advisory Board member for the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University and for the College of Engineering at the University of South Florida.
She is a Senior Member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) and the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and a Member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). She was inducted into the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE) in 2006 and the Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni at Georgia Tech in 2008.
Jane is a leadership catalyst for the Watson Women’s Network (WWN) and is the WWN representative to the Watson Diversity Council. She mentors researchers in the United States and China, and is part of IBM’s Makocha Minds initiative for mentoring African university students.
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Last updated 26 Mar 2009