Susan Marie Malila Sanchez (born 1959)[1] is an American applied statistician and an expert in military applications of operations research, agent-based simulation, and in data farming of simulation results.
[3] 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.
[3] However, after visiting the Naval Postgraduate School from 1999 to 2000 on sabbatical, she decided to move there as a professor.
Since 2006, she has directed the Simulation Experiments & Efficient Design (SEED) Center for Data Farming at the Naval Postgraduate School.
[3] Sanchez chaired an Ad Hoc Committee on Women in Operations Research from 1993 to 1995 that led to the foundation of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Forum on Women in OR/MS.