Robin Lougee is the Associate Vice President for Advanced Analytics at Ascena and the Vice President for Practice of INFORMS, the largest society in the world for professionals in the field of operations research, management science and analytics. She serves as a board member for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine and on advisory councils at the University of Florida and Cornell University. Robin was awarded the INFORMS Impact Prize and the George E. Kimball Medal. She earned a Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences from Clemson University.