{"164731":{"#nid":"164731","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ISyE Faculty and Students Honored at 2012 INFORMS Annual Meeting","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFaculty and students in the Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering (ISyE) were among those selected as winners for the various prizes and awards given at the 2012 INFORMS Annual Meeting, held October 14-17 in Phoenix, AZ.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/news-events\/news\/release.php?nid=163221\u0022\u003EJohn Bartholdi\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, Manhattan Associates Chair of Supply Chain Management, along with Don Eisenstein (MS IE 1983, PhD IE 1992), were awarded the 2012 TSL Best Paper Prize for their paper, \u0022A self-coordinating bus route to avoid bus bunching.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/news-events\/news\/release.php?nid=163411\u0022\u003EJim Dai\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, Edenfield Professor in ISyE, delivered the Markov Lecture, a prestigious honor bestowed by the Applied Probability Society of INFORMS.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAssistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/news-events\/news\/release.php?nid=163601\u0022\u003ETon Dieker\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E won the prestigious Erlang Prize for his outstanding contributions to several areas, including the theory of stochastic processes, stochastic networks, and stochastic analysis of algorithms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/news-events\/news\/release.php?nid=157451\u0022\u003EGeorge Nemhauser\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, the A. Russell Chandler Chaired Professor in ISyE, along with his colleague Laurence Wolsey, professor at the Catholic University of Louvain, were named winners of the prestigious John von Neumann Theory prize.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003ERodolfo Carvajal\u003C\/strong\u003E won the Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment Best Paper Award in Environment and Sustainability Sponsored Sessions for his paper, \u201cImposing Connectivity Constraints in Forest Planning Models,\u201d co-authored by\u0026nbsp; R. Carvajal, M. Constantino, M. Goycoolea (Ph.D. IE 2006), J.P. Vielma (Ph.D. IE 2009.), and A. Weintraub.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. student\u003Cstrong\u003E Kaibo Liu\u003C\/strong\u003E, advised by Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EJianjun Shi\u003C\/strong\u003E, won the 2012 INFORMS Data-mining Section Best Student Paper Competition for his paper \u0022Health Index Development Based on Sensory Data Fusion for Degradation Modeling and Prognostic Analysis.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003EDiego Mor\u00e1n\u003C\/strong\u003E won the 2012 INFORMS Optimization Society Student Paper Prize for his paper \u0022A Strong Dual for Conic Mixed Integer Programs,\u201d co-authored with his advisor, Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ESantanu S. Dey\u003C\/strong\u003E, and \u003Cstrong\u003EJuan Pablo Vielma\u003C\/strong\u003E, Ph.D. IE 2009.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJon Petersen\u003C\/strong\u003E, Ph.D. IE 2012, advised by Professor Emeritus \u003Cstrong\u003EEllis Johnson\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003EJohn-Paul Clarke\u003C\/strong\u003E, associate professor in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering with a courtesy appointment in ISyE, won the 2012 Transportation Science and Logistics Society Dissertation Prize for his thesis \u201cLarge-Scale Mixed Integer Optimization Approaches for Scheduling Airline Operations Under Irregularity.\u201d\u0026nbsp; Jessica Heier Stamm, Ph.D. IE 2010, won the prize in 2011 under the direction of Associate Professors Ozlem Ergun and Julie Swann, and Juan Morales, Ph.D. IE, won in 2007 under the guidance of Associate Professor Alan Erera and former Professor Martin Savelsbergh.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003EMatthew Plumlee\u003C\/strong\u003E, advised by Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ERoshan Vengazhiyil\u003C\/strong\u003E and Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EJianjun Shi\u003C\/strong\u003E, won the Quality, Statistics, and Reliability (QSR) Best Student Paper Competition for his paper \u201cTractable Functional Response Modeling using Nonstationary Covariance Functions.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003ELuyi Gui\u003C\/strong\u003E won an honorable mention in the SPPSN Best Paper Competition for her paper \u0022Fair and Efficient Implementation of Collective Extended Producer Responsibility Legislation,\u0022 co-authored by her advisor, Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EOzlem Ergun\u003C\/strong\u003E, and Assistant Professor Atalay Atasu and Professor Beril Toktay from the Georgia Tech College of Management.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGuided by faculty advisor \u003Cstrong\u003EDonna C. Llewellyn\u003C\/strong\u003E, ISyE Senior Design undergraduate students \u003Cstrong\u003EJacmara Katheryn Ching Sanchez, Santiago Diaz Kieffer, Antonio Elosua Cantu, Oscar Andres Harasic-Yaksic, Yonatan Dov Mintz, \u003C\/strong\u003Eand\u003Cstrong\u003E Mario Solares Nassarwere\u003C\/strong\u003E were named honorable mention winners for the INFORMS Undergraduate Research Award for their project \u201cWind Turbine Offloading Optimization Strategy.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EISyE faculty and students were also among those named finalists for this year\u2019s INFORMS awards.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAssistant Professor\u003Cstrong\u003E Santanu Dey \u003C\/strong\u003Eand Ph.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003EDiego Mor\u00e1n\u003C\/strong\u003E were named finalists in the Junior Faculty Interest Group Paper Competition for their paper \u201cSome Properties of Convex Hulls of Integer Points Contained in General Convex Sets.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProfessor \u003Cstrong\u003EEva Lee\u003C\/strong\u003E was named a finalist for the Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice for her paper \u201cBiological Planning for High-Dose Rate Brachytherapy: Application to Cervical Cancer Treatment.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAdditionally, two students in the System Informatics and Control graduate program in ISyE were named finalists for the QSR Competition. \u003Cstrong\u003ELinkan Bian\u003C\/strong\u003E, advised by Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ENagi Gebraeel\u003C\/strong\u003E, was selected for his paper \u201cReal-Time Prognostics for Multi-Component Systems with Degradation-Rate-Interactions,\u201d and \u003Cstrong\u003EKaibo Liu\u003C\/strong\u003E, advised by Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EJianjun Shi\u003C\/strong\u003E, was selected for his paper \u201cPhysician Performance Assessment Using a Composite Quality Index.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EINFORMS, the largest professional society in the world for professionals in the field of operations research, management science, and business analytics, serves the scientific and professional needs of Operations Researchers and those in the Management Sciences including educators, scientists, students, managers, and consultants.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFaculty and students in ISyE were among those selected as winners and fnialists for the various prizes and awards given at the 2012 INFORMS Annual Meeting, held October 14-17 in Phoenix, AZ.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27511","created_gmt":"2012-10-23 16:02:42","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:02","author":"Ashley Daniel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-10-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-10-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"7952","name":"INFORMS Awards"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"}],"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":""}}}