{"163411":{"#nid":"163411","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Dai Gives Markov Lecture at 2012 INFORMS Annual Conference","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJim Dai, Edenfield Professor in the Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering (ISyE), delivered the Markov Lecture at the 2012 INFORMS Annual Conference in Phoenix, AZ on October 15. The Markov Lecture is a prestigious honor bestowed by the Applied Probability Society (APS) of INFORMS with the intent to both honor the associated speaker and to bring to the APS membership topical work of the highest calibre in the discipline.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor the lecture, Dai discussed his project, \u201cStochastic Network Models for Hospital Inpatient Flow Management,\u201d which he has been collaborating on for the last three years with Ph.D. student Pengyi Shi, who is jointly advised by Dai and Pinar Keskinocak, the Joseph C. Mello Professor in ISyE.\u0026nbsp; Other team members on the project include Ding Ding, from the University of International Business \u0026amp; Economics in Beijing, Jame Ang and Mabel Chou of the National University of Singapore, and Jin Xin and Joe Sim, with the National University Hospital.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDai received B.A. and M.S. degrees from Nanjing University and a Ph.D. degree from Stanford University, all in mathematics. He is an elected fellow of Institute of Mathematical Statistics and an elected fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). He has received a number of awards for his research contributions including The Best Publication Award in 1997 and The Erlang Prize in 1998, both from the Applied Probability Society of INFORMS. He is currently an Area Editor and the Interim Editor-in-Chief for \u003Cem\u003EMathematics of Operations Research\u003C\/em\u003E, an Area Editor for \u003Cem\u003EOperations Research\u003C\/em\u003E, and a past Series Editor for \u003Cem\u003EHandbooks in Operations Research and Management Science\u003C\/em\u003E. He was recently appointed by INFORMS to be the next Editor-in-Chief for \u003Cem\u003EMathematics of Operations Research\u003C\/em\u003E effective January 1, 2013.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe APS initiated the annual Markov Lecture in 2005, to be delivered at the INFORMS Annual Conference each year. The Markov Lecturer is selected by a committee consisting of the APS Prize Committee for the year in question and the APS track organizers involved in organizing that year\u0027s INFORMS conference.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJim Dai, Edenfield Professor in ISyE, delivered the Markov Lecture at the 2012 INFORMS Annual Conference in Phoenix, AZ on October 15. The Markov Lecture is a prestigious honor bestowed by the Applied Probability Society of INFORMS.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27511","created_gmt":"2012-10-18 14:06:34","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:02","author":"Ashley Daniel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-10-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-10-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"50149":{"id":"50149","type":"image","title":"Professor Jim Dai","body":null,"created":"1449175428","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:43:48","changed":"1475894468","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:08","alt":"Professor Jim Dai","file":{"fid":"127116","name":"txi37661.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/txi37661_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/txi37661_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":25988,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/txi37661_0.jpg?itok=VcmfRef8"}}},"media_ids":["50149"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"6204","name":"INFORMS"},{"id":"8015","name":"Jim Dai"},{"id":"47061","name":"Markov Lecture"}],"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\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}