Jessica Stamm

Jessica Heier Stamm joined the department of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering at K-State as an assistant professor in 2010 and was promoted to associate professor in 2018.. She holds a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from K-State and a doctorate in industrial and manufacturing systems engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research and teaching collaborations span numerous public and private sector organizations, including Heart to Heart International, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Pan American Health Organization, Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Kansas Department of Agriculture, FedEx Express and BNSF Railway. Heier Stamm won the 2016 Kansas State University College of Engineering Outstanding Assistant Professor Award. In 2014, Heier Stamm was named a fellow in the NSF-funded Enabling the Next Generation of Hazards and Disasters Researchers program. This honor recognizes her group’s contributions to interdisciplinary scholarship in the area of disaster research. Dr. Stamm’s research interests include the development of quantitative models and algorithms to design and improve humanitarian relief and public health logistics systems. In particular, she uses operations research and game theory tools to analyze systems in which decisions about system control are made in a decentralized way.