Eva K. Lee

Eva K. Lee
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHong Kong Baptist University, Rice University
Awards
  • Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2019)
  • Fellow of Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (2015)
  • Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in the Practice (2015)
  • Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Advanced Analytics (2007)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Doctoral advisorRobert E. Bixby
Martin Grötschel (postdoc)

Eva K Lee is an American applied mathematician and operations researcher who applies combinatorial optimization and systems biology to the study of health care decision making and organizational transformation. She is an analytic member of the Medical and Public Health Information Sharing Environment (MPHISE) system. Since July 2021, Lee has been the chief scientific officer for a private technology company, heading the Center for Operations Research in Medicine and Healthcare and the Center for Operations Research in Homeland Security. Previously she was a professor at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering of Georgia Institute of Technology. She was also the Founder and Director of Georgia Tech's Center for Operations Research in Medicine and Healthcare from 1999 until June 30, 2021. She was a Distinguished Scholar in Health Systems, Health System Institute at Georgia Tech and Emory University. Lee was the Virginia C. and Joseph C. Mello Chair from 2017 to 2019.