Eva K. Lee

Eva Kwok-Yin Lee is an American operations researcher who applies combinatorial optimization and systems biology to the study of health care decision making. She was the Virginia C. and Joseph C. Mello Chair from 2017-2019. Also, she was a professor at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering of Georgia Institute of Technology and currently suspended. She admitted to two counts of fraud in December 2019 and will be sentenced in May 2020.

Lee graduated from Hong Kong Baptist University in 1988 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. She completed her Ph.D. in 1993 in computational and applied mathematics at Rice University. Her dissertation, Solving Structured 0/1 Integer Programs Arising from Truck Dispatching Scheduling Problems, was supervised by Robert E. Bixby.

She joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 1997, after previously working in industrial engineering and operations research at Columbia University.

Lee's work has included collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control on defenses against biological weapons, travel to Japan to develop rapid responses to radiation poisoning from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the optimization of influenza vaccines based on data to how people respond to the vaccines, and the early detection of chronic diseases.

With Marco Zaider at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Lee was the 2007 winner of the Franz Edelman Award of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), for their use of operations throughout the center and particularly in treating prostate cancer. She was elected to the 2015 class of Fellows of INFORMS, and in the same year won the INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice, which has listed her as a finalist in many other years.

Lee plead guilty in the U.S. District Court to lying to National Science Foundation (NSF) investigators and falsifying membership certificate for a $40,000 NSF grant.