Erica L. Plambeck is an Americanoperations researcher specializing insupply chain management[1] andenvironmental sustainability.[2] She is Charles A. Holloway Professor of Operations, Information & Technology in theStanford Graduate School of Business,[3] professor in theStanford University Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering,[4] senior fellow in theStanford Woods Institute for the Environment, and the 2022–2023 Dhirubhai Ambani Faculty Fellow in Entrepreneurship atStanford University.[3]
Plambeck majored inindustrial engineering and mathematics at theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison, graduating in 1994.[3] After traveling to England as aMarshall Scholar[4] and earning a master's degree in management studies at theUniversity of Cambridge and a diploma in economics at theLondon School of Economics, she returned to the US for doctoral study in engineering economic systems and operations research atStanford University, where she completed her Ph.D. in 2000.[3] Her dissertation,Dynamic Incentive Problems in Operations Management, was jointly supervised by Stefanos Zenios andStephen M. Robinson [de].[5]
She became an assistant professor in the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, affiliated with its program in Operations, Information & Technology. There, she became a full professor in 2005, was named Walter Kenneth Kilpatrick Professor in 2010, and was named Charles A. Holloway Professor in 2015.[3] She also holds an affiliation as professor in Stanford's Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, part of both theStanford University School of Engineering andStanford Doerr School of Sustainability.[4]
Plambeck was a 2003 recipient of thePresidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, "for applying innovative approaches to optimize real-time information for industrial issues such as movement in the supply chain, and dynamic control of pricing and production".[1] TheAspen Institute gave Plambeck a Faculty Pioneer Award in 2005.[6]
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