Julie S. Ivy
Office Fax: (919) 515-5281
Office location: Daniels 380
E-mail: jsivy@ncsu.edu
Associate Professor
Fitts Faculty Fellow
Ph.D., Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, 1998
M.S., Operations Research, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1992
B.S., Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, 1991
Julie Ivy is an Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University in the Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering. She previously spent several years on the faculty of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Ivy is actively involved in INFORMS and is a past president of the Health Applications Section of INFORMS. She has co-authored more than twenty journal articles, working papers, and conference proceedings.
Areas of Interest
Dr. Ivy's primary research interests are in the mathematical modeling of stochastic dynamic systems with emphasis on statistics and decision analysis as applied to health care, manufacturing, and service environments. The focus of her research is decision making under conditions of uncertainty with the objective of improving the decision quality. Dr. Ivy's research program seeks to develop novel concepts of maintenance and monitoring policies and associated scientific theories, and apply them specifically to two important application domains: industrial and medical decision making. She has experience in medical decision making as it relates to women's health including studying breast cancer screening and treatment policy development, policies for complex patients, health disparities and modeling of the patient and physician decision problem associated with birth delivery choice.
Selected Publications
- Ana, Vila-Parrish R., Ivy, Julie Simmons, King, Russell E., "A simulation-based approach for inventory modeling of perishable pharmaceuticals", Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference, 2008, p 1532-1538.
- Maillart, Lisa M., Ivy, Julie Simmons, Ransom, Scott, Diehl, Kathleen, "Assessing dynamic breast cancer screening policies", Operations Research, November-December 2008, v 56, n 6, p 1411-1427.
- Ivy, Julie S., Nembhard, Harriet Black, "A modeling approach to maintenance decisions using statistical quality control and optimization", Quality and Reliability Engineering International, June 2005, v 21, n 4, p 355-366.
- Ivy, Julie S., Pollock, Stephen M., "Marginally monotonic maintenance policies for a multi-state deteriorating machine with probabilistic monitoring, and silent failures", IEEE Transactions on Reliability, September 2005, v 54, n 3, p 489-497.
- Ivy, Julie S., Pollock, Stephen M., "Classification of spot welds using power factor time profiles", International Journal of Production Research, Febrary 15, 2001, v 39, n 3, p 549-566.
