Susan M. Sanchez
Susan Marie Malila Sanchez is an American applied statistician and an expert in military applications of operations research, agent-based simulation, and in data farming of simulation results. She is a professor of operations research at the Naval Postgraduate School.
Education
Sanchez is a graduate of Huron High School (Ann Arbor, Michigan), and earned a bachelor's degree in industrial and operations engineering from the University of Michigan in 1981. She completed a Ph.D. in operations research at Cornell University in 1986, with a dissertation on Contributions to the Bernoulli Selection Problem supervised by Robert E. Bechhofer.Career
She held a position as a faculty member in the College of Business and Public Administration at the University of Arizona from 1985 to 1992,and in the School of Business Administration of the University of Missouri–St. Louis from 1993 to 2001.
However, after visiting the Naval Postgraduate School from 1999 to 2000 on sabbatical, she decided to move there as a professor. At the Naval Postgraduate School, she is a professor in the Operations Research Department, and is also affiliated with the Graduate School of Business & Public Policy. Since 2006, she has directed the Simulation Experiments & Efficient Design Center for Data Farming at the Naval Postgraduate School.