{"105911":{"#nid":"105911","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ming Yuan Awarded Coca-Cola Junior Professorship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMing\nYuan, associate professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and\nSystems Engineering (ISyE), has been awarded the Coca-Cola Junior Professorship\nfor a three-year term.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cDuring Dr. Yuan\u2019s time on the ISyE faculty, he has made valuable contributions\nin research, teaching, and service. Dr. Yuan\u2019s exceptional teaching ability is\nevident in the excellent teaching evaluations and student praise he\nreceives.\u0026nbsp; We are fortunate to have him as a colleague and now as the\nISyE\u2019s newest Coca-Cola Junior Professor,\u201d said Jane C. Ammons, H. Milton and\nCarolyn J. Stewart School Chair.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Coca-Cola Junior Professorship is supported by a gift from Coca-Cola, in\norder to support research and development in ISyE. Endowed professorships, such\nas this one, are awarded to outstanding faculty, ensuring them the resources\nthey need to remain at the forefront of their fields and to lead teaching and\nresearch efforts in their key areas.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to this recent honor, Yuan was the recipient of the National\nScience Foundation Career Award in 2009 for his exemplary work in sparse\nmodeling and estimation with high-dimensional data.\u0026nbsp; He was also named as\na Distinguished Cancer Scholar from the Georgia Cancer Coalition in 2007, and\nwas the recipient of the John van Ryzin Award in 2004.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYuan received his PhD in statistics from the University of Wisconsin at\nMadison. He also holds a master\u2019s in computer science from the University of\nWisconsin, and a bachelor\u2019s in electrical engineering and information science\nfrom the University of Science \u0026amp; Technology of China. Yuan\u0027s current\nresearch interests include statistical learning, bioinformatics, and methods of\nregularization.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMing Yuan, associate professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of\n    Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), has been awarded the\n    Coca-Cola Junior Professorship for a three-year term.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27511","created_gmt":"2012-02-03 14:49:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:11:37","author":"Ashley Daniel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-02-03T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-02-03T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"105921":{"id":"105921","type":"image","title":"Ming Yuan, PhD","body":null,"created":"1449178174","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:29:34","changed":"1475894723","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:23","alt":"Ming Yuan, PhD","file":{"fid":"193969","name":"ming_yuan.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ming_yuan_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ming_yuan_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1894283,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ming_yuan_0.jpg?itok=b4_YwnKk"}}},"media_ids":["105921"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"22671","name":"Coca-Cola Junior Professorship"},{"id":"1202","name":"H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering"},{"id":"6107","name":"Ming Yuan"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}