Mariana Escallon Barrios

Mariana Escallon-Barrios earned her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences from Northwestern University, where she worked on modeling and solution approaches for logistic problems in nonprofit settings. As a graduate student, she received the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in 2020 and was the chair of the McCormick Graduate Teaching Committee. She also holds a B.Sc in Industrial Engineering and a M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from Los Andes University in Bogota, Colombia.

Mariana is a current active member of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS), where she serves as the Co-Chair for the Early Career Teaching Network (ECTN) pre-conference workshop, and as a DEI liason for the Women in OR/MS group. She has been an active member of INFORMS since 2018 serving as President of the Northwestern INFORMS Student Chapter in 2020 and as Student liason for the Women in OR/MS in 2022 and 2023.