{{Short description|Scientist}} {{Infobox person | name = Eva Regnier | education = Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Georgia Institute of Technology | title = President of the INFORMS Forum on Women in Operations Research and Management Science }}

'''Eva Dorothy Regnier''' (born 1971){{r|born}} is a decision scientist whose research concerns the interaction between human decision-making and environmental prediction. She is a professor of decision science in the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy of the Naval Postgraduate School.{{r|eg}}

==Education and career== Regnier graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992 with a bachelor's degree in environmental engineering science. After working from 1993 to 1996 in industry as an environmental engineer, she went to the Georgia Institute of Technology for a master's degree in operations research in 1999 and a Ph.D. in industrial engineering in 2001.{{r|cv}} Her dissertation, ''Discounted Cash Flow Methods and Environmental Decisions'', was supervised by Craig Tovey.{{r|mg}}

She joined the Defense Resources Management Institute of the Naval Postgraduate School in 2001, moved to the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy in 2017, and was promoted to full professor in 2019.{{r|cv}}

Regnier was president of the INFORMS Forum on Women in Operations Research and Management Science for 2011.{{r|cv}}

==Contributions== Regnier has published well-cited works on volatility in energy markets<ref group=pub>{{citation | last = Regnier | first = Eva | date = May 2007 | doi = 10.1016/j.eneco.2005.11.003 | issue = 3 | journal = Energy Economics | pages = 405–427 | title = Oil and energy price volatility | volume = 29| bibcode = 2007EneEc..29..405R }}</ref> and on decision-making for evacuations based on hurricane predictions.{{r|eg}}<ref group=pub>{{citation | last = Regnier | first = Eva | date = January 2008 | doi = 10.1287/mnsc.1070.0764 | issue = 1 | journal = Management Science | pages = 16–28 | title = Public Evacuation Decisions and Hurricane Track Uncertainty | volume = 54| bibcode = 2008ManSc..54...16R | s2cid = 19971780 | hdl = 10945/32553 | hdl-access = free }}</ref> Other topics in her research include correlations between pirate activity and predicted changes in climate and weather.{{r|eg}}<ref group=pub>{{citation | last1 = Esher | first1 = Leslie | last2 = Hall | first2 = Stacey | last3 = Regnier | first3 = Eva | last4 = Sanchez | first4 = Paul J. | last5 = Hansen | first5 = James A. | last6 = Singham | first6 = Dashi | contribution = Simulating pirate behavior to exploit environmental information | contribution-url = https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a554287.pdf | date = December 2010 | doi = 10.1109/wsc.2010.5679060 | publisher = IEEE | title = Proceedings of the 2010 Winter Simulation Conference| pages = 1330–1335 | s2cid = 1499085 | hdl = 10945/35301 | isbn = 978-1-4244-9866-6 | hdl-access = free }}</ref> Her work on hurricane evacuation was a finalist for the INFORMS Junior Faculty Forum award, and her work developing a tool to simulate the hurricane decision-making process was a finalist in the INFORMS MSOM Practice Based Research Competition.{{r|informs}} She received the [https://www.informs.org/Recognizing-Excellence/Award-Recipients/Eva-Regnier INFORMS Decision Analysis Society Publication Award] for her work on probability forecasting.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Regnier|first=Eva|date=2018-05-01|title=Probability Forecasts Made at Multiple Lead Times|url=https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/mnsc.2016.2720|journal=Management Science|volume=64|issue=5|pages=2407–2426|doi=10.1287/mnsc.2016.2720|s2cid=46982491 |issn=0025-1909|hdl=10945/62014|hdl-access=free|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

==Selected publications== {{reflist|group=pub}}

==References== <references>

<ref name=born>Birth year and middle name from [https://www.worldcat.org/identities/np-regnier,%20eva%20dorothy$1971/ WorldCat identities], retrieved 2019-09-23</ref>

<ref name=cv>{{citation|url=https://my.nps.edu/documents/103424423/106950805/CVRegnier.pdf/dc5ce6aa-601a-4068-8b9c-2c7cc393cf07|title=Curriculum vitae|publisher=Naval Postgraduate School|accessdate=2019-09-23}}</ref>

<ref name=eg>{{citation|url=https://www.engineergirl.org/3046/Eva-Regnier|title=Eva Regnier|work=EngineerGirl|accessdate=2019-09-23|publisher=National Academy of Engineering}}</ref>

<ref name=informs>{{citation|url=https://www.informs.org/Recognizing-Excellence/Award-Recipients/Eva-Regnier|title=Eva Regnier|work=Recognizing excellence|publisher=INFORMS|accessdate=2019-09-23}}</ref>

<ref name=mg>{{mathgenealogy|id=97389}}</ref>

</references>

==External links== *[http://faculty.nps.edu/eregnier/ Home page] *{{Google Scholar id|kWlVp0sAAAAJ}}

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