The Height of Operations: Processes and People (Hopp) Conference
The Height of Operations: Processes and People (Hopp) Conference
Welcome to the The Height of Operations: Processes and People (HOPP) Conference
The conference will feature the latest research in operations management and related fields (healthcare, supply chain, AI and frontier operations management) and honor Wallace Hopp's contributions to our field and community. The conference will be held at Ross School of Business, University of Michigan on Tuesday July 29, 2025, with a dinner reception on Monday July 28, 2025 (5:30-8pm).
Dinner Reception, Social, and Individual Remarks (5:30-8pm, Monday, July 28, 2025)
Conference Breakfast (7:45-8:30am, Tuesday, July 29, 2025)
Conference Opening Remarks (8:30-8:45am, Tuesday, July 29, 2025)
Session 1: AI in Operations (8:45-9:30am, Tuesday, July 29, 2025)
Patient AIDE: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Devices and Experts for Personalized CARE
Augmenting a Human Newsvendor with a Prediction Machine
Panel: AI and Human in Health Care (10:00-11:00am)
Wallace Hopp University of Michigan
Anita Carson
Boston
University
Brian Denton
University of Michigan
Pinar Keskinocak
GeorgiaTech
Sridhar Tayur
Carnegie Mellon
Soroush Saghafian
Harvard
(Moderator)
Session 2: Service Operations Innovation (11:15-12pm)
From Design to Deployment: Modeling and Systems Thinking for Infectious Disease Interventions
The Impact of Redundant Tasks in Balancing Accuracy and Speed
Lunch, Social, and Individual Remarks (12-1pm)
Session 3: Operations Excellence (1-1:45pm)
Effort Decisions in Contests with Shared Attributes
Multi-Objective Operations
Panel: The Future of Operations: Scholarship and Practice (2:15-3:15pm)
Steve Graves
MIT
Bill Lovejoy
University of Michigan
David Simchi Levi
MIT
Mark Spearman Factory Physics, Inc.
Brian Tomlin Dartmouth
Izak Duenyas
University of Michigan
(Moderator)
Conference Organizers: Jun Li, Soroush Saghafian, Guihua Wang, and Ross School of Business