personnel profile

M. Elisabeth Paté-Cornell

Title: Professor; Burt and Deedee McMurtry Professor of Engineering Department(s): Management Science and Engineering Affiliation(s): Chair, Management Science and Engineering; Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, by courtesy. Location: Terman 340 Mail Code: 4026 Phone: 650.723.3823        Fax: 650.736.1945 E-mail: mep@stanford.edu URL: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/MSandE/people/faculty/mep/index.html Administrator: Rita Le Mon

Research Statement

Dr. M. Elisabeth Paté-Cornell was born in Dakar, Senegal, in 1948. She attended public high schools both in Dakar and in La Rochelle, France. Her undergraduate degree is in mathematics and physics (BS, Marseilles, France, 1968), and her first graduate degrees are in applied mathematics and computer science (MS and Engineer Degree, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, France, 1970; 1971). In 1971 she came to study and live in the United States, where she has been a citizen since 1986. She received a Masters degree in Operations Research (OR) in 1972 and a Ph.D. in Engineering-Economic Systems (EES) in 1978, both from Stanford University. She then was an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at MIT, before joining the Stanford faculty in 1981, where she became Professor (in 1991) and then Chair (in 1997) in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM). In 1999, she was named the Burt and Deedee McMurtry Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University. She is presently Professor and Chair of the Department of Management Science and Engineering, as well as a Senior Fellow (by courtesy) of the Stanford Institute for International Studies.
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Membership in National Academies

National Academy of Engineering

Academic Honors & Awards

• Military Operations Research Journal: Best-paper Award for the year 2002 for the paper entitled: “Probabilistic Modeling of Terrorist Threats: a Systems Analysis Approach to Setting Priorities Among Countermeasures” co-authored with Seth Guikema, published in December 2002; award in April 2003
• Society for Risk Analysis: Distinguished Achievement Award, December 2002
• Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS): Fellows Award, November 2002
• U.S. Air Force Award for Meritorious Civilian Service, October, 2002
• Stanford Department of Management Science and Engineering: Teaching Award for graduate teaching at the doctoral level, June 2002
• IEEE Engineering Management Society (EMS): Best paper of the year for “Success Factors and Future Challenges in the Management of Faster-Better-Cheaper Space Missions”, with Robin Dillon, published In February 2001. Prize in February 2002
• National Academy of Engineering: Member, elected 1995 (see “Public Service” for NAE committee membership). Council member elected 2001, re-elected April 2004. 2001-present
• Society for Risk Analysis, President 1995-1996. Fellow since 1995
• Académie des technologies (French Academy of Engineering): Conseiller, (Advisor), January 2001. Member elected November 2003
• Decision Analysis Society of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences: Chair, 2002-03
• Decision Analysis Publication Award for 1994, Decision Analysis Society of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (with Paul Fischbeck)
• NASA-ASEE-Stanford Fellow, Summer 1994
• Edelman Management Award (The Institute for Management Science): Finalist, May 1993 (with Paul Fischbeck)
• Best Paper Award, American Nuclear Society, Reactor Safety Division, PSA '89. Organizational Extension of PRA Models and NASA Application, June 1990
• Ecole Normale Supérieure, Cachan, France: Visiting Professor, March 1996
• Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA, Visiting Scholar, January-March, 1995
• International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria: Visiting Scholar, July-August 1979