{"467111":{"#nid":"467111","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Making Bread \u0026 Butterfly: ISyE Grad and Restaurateur Kristin Allin","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhether you\u0026rsquo;re a foodie or not, chances are you\u0026rsquo;ve heard of Cakes \u0026amp; Ale, a downtown Decatur, Georgia-based restaurant that is consistently ranked among the top eateries in metro Atlanta. Cakes \u0026amp; Ale is owned and operated by Kristin Allin and her husband, Billy, who is the restaurant\u0026rsquo;s executive chef. Recently, I visited Allin \u0026ndash; who is an alumna of ISyE (1997) \u0026ndash; at Cakes \u0026amp; Ale to talk about the direction her life has taken since graduation, the Allins\u0026rsquo; two new ventures, Proof and Bread \u0026amp; Butterfly, what makes them feel happy and successful in their work, and the surprising ways her IE education helps her run her various restaurants.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWell before Cakes \u0026amp; Ale, Allin was learning industrial engineering at Georgia Tech where extended members of her family also attended. Her grandfather played on the golf team.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe says that she picked IE because it \u0026ldquo;was a nice mix of things. It had some management; statistics, I loved. [It was] engineering with some economics \u0026ndash; for my interests, it really clicked with me.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAllin and Billy were married, and she took her post-graduate career out to San Francisco, where she got her MBA and had a career in management. Billy was in finance, but, as she notes, \u0026ldquo;Life just takes different turns sometimes.\u0026rdquo; That turn was Billy\u0026rsquo;s decision to attend culinary school. Afterward, he worked at Alice Water\u0026rsquo;s famed and influential Chez Panisse. Allin herself decided to work at a winery. About the career change she explains, \u0026ldquo;I think I was just looking for a new challenge, a new way to use my skills.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA new challenge, indeed. When the couple started their family, they decided to move back to Georgia and, eventually, open a restaurant together: Cakes \u0026amp; Ale, which was one of Atlanta\u0026rsquo;s first casual fine dining establishments. When asked if being a restaurateur had been part of her future plans, Allin laughs. \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m surprised my husband and I are working together. I never saw that coming. The fact that we\u0026rsquo;re running a restaurant \u0026ndash; if you\u0026rsquo;d asked me when we got married if we\u0026rsquo;d be running a restaurant, I never would have seen that coming.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAllin calls Cakes \u0026amp; Ale a \u0026ldquo;teaching kitchen,\u0026rdquo; where the couple actively works with their employees to cultivate their careers. Part of what defines happiness for them is \u0026ldquo;seeing people progress \u0026ndash; moving people\u0026rsquo;s careers forward. Some of them are just starting out, and we train them up, but basically our whole mentality \u0026ndash; kitchen to front of house \u0026ndash; is trying to get people better and better and further grow everything.\u0026rdquo; \u0026nbsp;That progression is part of the impetus in opening their Inman Park bakery, Proof: to give their bakers a chance to really shine and get some recognition. \u0026ldquo;We took the leap,\u0026rdquo; she explains, \u0026ldquo;and decided we\u0026rsquo;re going to give them their own space. Even though they\u0026rsquo;re not the owners, they work as hard as if they were owners.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs Allin describes it, their new caf\u0026eacute;, Bread \u0026amp; Butterfly \u0026ndash; also located in Inman Park, represents yet another chance to see her employees grow in their careers. Cakes \u0026amp; Ale\u0026rsquo;s sous chef will be the executive chef at the restaurant, and their sommelier will also run the wine program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe caf\u0026eacute; is named after the butterfly-like creature with toast wings in Lewis Carroll\u0026rsquo;s \u003Cem\u003EThrough the Looking-Glass\u003C\/em\u003E. (As Allin points out, Inman Park\u0026rsquo;s symbol is, serendipitously, also a butterfly.) The eatery will have a bit of a European flair to it, as the Allins were inspired by seeing similar concepts in their travels. She says, \u0026ldquo;We see these concepts that are these really cool kind of caf\u0026eacute;\/restaurant\/bar\/coffee bars all combined into one. They [are open] all day, so they start at 7 AM and last until midnight or 1 AM, with after-dinner drinks, desserts. We felt like we need that in Atlanta, and that\u0026rsquo;s where the inspiration for Bread \u0026amp; Butterfly came from.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe also draws comparisons to their inspiration for Bread \u0026amp; Butterfly to the Beltline, having heard Georgia Tech alum Ryan Gravel speak at the Urban Explorers club, with which the Allins are involved. Gravel talked about having lived in Europe and then returning to Atlanta, wanting to create something similar to what he experienced overseas. Allin says, \u0026ldquo;On a much smaller scale with our restaurant, we\u0026rsquo;ve tried to do the same thing. Food-wise, we want Atlanta to be on the same plane that other cities are. That\u0026rsquo;s fitting into our goal of growing the vision that we have of furthering other people\u0026rsquo;s lives and careers, and that\u0026rsquo;s the path we chose to do that.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThat progression forward is one key component of the Allins\u0026rsquo; happiness in their jobs; another is the reception of their customers to what the Allins are trying to do with their various restaurants: \u0026ldquo;Nothing makes us happier than having someone say, \u0026lsquo;That was great. That was a great experience for everything from the food to the wine to the service to the dessert. We just had a fun time.\u0026rsquo; Or to even just look out at the dining room and see a table that\u0026rsquo;s really enjoying themselves.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPart of Allin\u0026rsquo;s role at Cakes \u0026amp; Ale is working with closely with her employees. So the employees are, in IE terms, her \u0026ldquo;system\u0026rdquo;? \u0026ldquo;Yes,\u0026rdquo; Allin says, laughing. \u0026ldquo;The employees are my system. And that\u0026rsquo;s great, because it\u0026rsquo;s human interaction, but it\u0026rsquo;s also challenging, because they\u0026rsquo;re people, and they\u0026rsquo;re not predictable. Everyone is very unique, and everyone has different goals.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIndustrial engineering even plays a role in how the restaurants are run, particularly at Cakes \u0026amp; Ale. Allin notes that her work, on a daily basis, uses a combination of her IE and business school training. As she explains, \u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;re always looking at systems here because restaurants are so unique \u0026ndash; in that you don\u0026rsquo;t have machines, [so] you don\u0026rsquo;t have things you can tweak. But you\u0026rsquo;re always looking at how your employees are working, at the time of day things are happening, and in a way, the systems you\u0026rsquo;re using to make it better, so that component is always there. And then also always looking at data. It\u0026rsquo;s constant: the statistics, the data of how your sales were, your projections, all of that.\u0026rdquo; She adds, \u0026ldquo;That\u0026rsquo;s an IE thing for sure \u0026ndash; the different stations back in the kitchen \u0026ndash; and how [the employees are] getting things out in a timely manner so that people don\u0026rsquo;t have to wait too long. That\u0026rsquo;s a big part of making a good guest experience.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPart of that good guest experience, she notes, starts with making people comfortable \u0026ndash; beginning with taking their reservation, keeping the meal flowing once the guests are seated, all the way to bringing the check out at the end. But part of the process is also earning customers\u0026rsquo; trust so that they can \u0026ldquo;push boundaries,\u0026rdquo; as Allin describes yet another element to what makes the couple happy in what they\u0026rsquo;re doing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;That can be hard,\u0026rdquo; she explains,\u0026rdquo; because you\u0026rsquo;re doing something a little bit different \u0026ndash; maybe the food \u0026ndash; or something that\u0026rsquo;s not mainstream. Maybe your wine\u0026rsquo;s a little different \u0026ndash; it\u0026rsquo;s not a California Pinot; it might be a French wine. We\u0026rsquo;ve worked a long time, and we work every day to get people to trust us\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp; in everything from asking the sommelier to recommend a wine to taking the server\u0026rsquo;s suggestion that guests try a new dish Billy has created.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne thing is clear: Running a restaurant is a constant, never-ending, always evolving process. Says Allin, \u0026ldquo;Every day is a new day, and so if we have a great night, you start over from scratch the next morning. If you have a bad night, you start over from scratch the next morning. And that\u0026rsquo;s the great thing about the restaurant industry \u0026ndash; and the bad thing \u0026ndash; because there\u0026rsquo;s never a chance to be like, \u0026lsquo;Whoo, yeah! We did it! We reached success.\u0026rsquo; Every day is like ground zero, starting over. It\u0026rsquo;s fun though.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAt the end of the conversation, Allin is asked how she ultimately measures success. \u0026ldquo;Happiness \u0026ndash; for all the reasons I said. Fulfillment, so we feel like what we\u0026rsquo;re doing is resonating with people. I don\u0026rsquo;t know that I would say I measure success financially. I think as long as you\u0026rsquo;re stable \u0026ndash; you\u0026rsquo;re a stable business \u0026ndash;that is success. And having guests who are happy, and making sure Cakes \u0026amp; Ale stays at a really high level. The things that we get notoriety for \u0026ndash; being one of the top three to five restaurants in the city. Those things I would say are success. 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They are already working with affiliated international centers and programs in Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama, and Singapore.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;If we are to assist in making supply chains more efficient and reliable, it is important to understand logistics from an international perspective,\u0026rdquo; said Edwin Romeijn, ISyE School Chair. \u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;And by working with DINALOG and VIL, we continue to expand our network to improve logistics performance worldwide.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;ISyE\u0026rsquo;s Physical Internet Center catalyzes and leads projects in collaboration with scientific, industrial, and governmental partners from around the world, enabled by its new leading-edge Physical Internet lab.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDINALOG is the national institute responsible for the execution of the innovation program of the Dutch focus sector logistics. Within DINALOG, around approximately 300 organizations (logistics service providers, port authorities, shippers and knowledge institutions) work together in open innovation to advance logistics and supply chain management. Currently, many Dutch professors perform joint research projects with professors at Georgia Tech, particularly associated to SCL and the Physical Internet Center.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe third signer of this MOU is VIL, an open innovation platform for the logistics industry. Approximately 500 companies (shippers, carriers, logistics services providers, and port authorities) are members of VIL. With public funding by the government of Flanders in Belgium, VIL along with Flemish member companies perform logistics innovation projects to increase their member companies\u0026rsquo; competitiveness.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs part of this mutual cooperation, the signees have agreed to:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EA grant scheme for Ph.D. candidates and post-doctoral researchers that will enable research visits to knowledge institutes in The Netherlands, Belgium, and at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EA jointly organized seminar for researchers and practitioners in all three countries on the subject of \u0026quot;Towards virtual ports in a physical internet.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EA jointly organized International Physical Internet Conference in 2017 or 2018 hosted by the University of Groningen.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EAs well as to foster other jointly developed projects and associated grant proposals.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDutch Signers:\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELiesbeth Staps-Br\u0026uuml;gemann\u003C\/strong\u003E, M.Sc., deputy director DINALOG\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIris Vis\u003C\/strong\u003E, Ph.D., on behalf of DINALOG, professor of Industrial Engineering, University of Groningen\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFlemish Signer:\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFrancis Rome\u003C\/strong\u003E, Ph.D., Director External Relations VIL and professor of Supply Chain Management of Antwerp University\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EU.S. A. 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He calls this system the \u0026quot;Physical Internet.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;We are trying to transform the logistics and supply chain system to \u0026nbsp;a new era of hyperconnectivity that is more sustainable and much more efficient than what we have now,\u0026rdquo; said Montreuil, who graduated from Universit\u0026eacute; du Qu\u0026eacute;bec \u0026agrave; Trois-Rivi\u0026egrave;res in 1978 and received a master\u0026rsquo;s and a Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Tech in 1980 and 1982 respectively.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;re using the Internet as a metaphor,\u0026rdquo; he explained, \u0026ldquo;but instead of moving data, we\u0026rsquo;re talking about moving physical goods. The Physical Internet takes some of the basic characteristics of the information Internet \u0026mdash; open access, standardization, \u0026nbsp;interconnectedness, digitization, speed \u0026mdash; and applies them to the operation of supply chains and logistics.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAt Georgia Tech, this ambitious effort is based at the ISyE\u0026rsquo;s new Physical Internet Center founded by Montreuil, who serves as its director.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe center\u0026rsquo;s mission is threefold. One is to provide worldwide scientific leadership in the development and implementation of the Physical Internet, and to position the center as the primary resource for education and innovation. The second is to pursue technological breakthroughs through the center\u0026rsquo;s research lab.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;In order for the Physical Internet to happen, we\u0026rsquo;re going to need technological innovation,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;We want to steer that process and work with industry, technologists, and scientists to develop breakthrough technologies.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAmong the areas of research interest are supply chain analytics, digital platforms, optimization, stochastics and simulation, and system informatics and control.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe third aspect of the Physical Internet Center\u0026rsquo;s mission is to engage its corporate partners as \u0026ldquo;living laboratories to enable change in the field\u0026rdquo; for testing and applying new technological advances in real-world, practical situations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo support its mission, the center plans to secure grants, pursue partnerships in academia and business, and participate in consortiums, Montreuil noted. It will also offer technical services in a range of areas related to the phase-in of the Physical Internet, which is expected to span decades, given the scope and complexity of the task.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s not something you can do overnight,\u0026rdquo; he emphasized. \u0026ldquo;The Physical Internet is a progressively deployable, long-term solution to achieving a more sustainable global supply chain.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;As Montreuil describes it, the Physical Internet is an open market where the transportation, storage, realization, supply and usage of goods conform \u0026nbsp;to common physical and operational standards worldwide. In other words, supply chains and logistics operate, in effect, as a single integrated, coordinated system worldwide. The system is highly computerized, allowing for continuous real-time tracking and monitoring, and features asset sharing across industries over interconnected networks and transportation modes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAt present, \u0026ldquo;everybody has their own supply chain,\u0026rdquo; he noted. \u0026ldquo;They have their own logistics, and they have their own manufacturing facilities and distribution centers, or they deal with their own service providers.\u0026rdquo; Even companies that conduct international business typically pool only their own assets to meet their needs, he added. \u0026ldquo;In the Physical Internet, we\u0026rsquo;re rather talking open asset sharing on a massive scale.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs an example of a potential Physical Internet innovation, Montreuil points to plans for new kinds of modular containers designed for efficient transportation, handling, and storage. Built to standard dimensions, they lock together somewhat like Lego blocks. They\u0026rsquo;d be durable, light, reusable, and fabricated from recyclable materials. Different structural grades would be available, notably transportation, handling, and packaging containers. These \u0026ldquo;smart\u0026rdquo; containers would be communication-enabled, giving each one a unique signature to facilitate tracking and provide relevant data about the container\u0026rsquo;s contents, and ultimately take autonomous action as needed along their journey through the Physical Internet.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEach link in the producer-to-customer chain \u0026mdash; from conveyor belts to trucks to warehouse layouts \u0026mdash; would be adapted or built to accommodate the containers\u0026rsquo; dimensions with little or no wasted space.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe benefits inherent in an integrated, standardized supply chain and logistics network include time- and energy-saving efficiencies that yield lower costs while boosting productivity, according to Montreuil.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe cites a study by the National Science Foundation indicating that if only one-fourth of U.S. manufacturers adopted the Physical Internet, and even if the transportation segment of that fraction was limited to trucks, the industry could realize $100 billion in annual savings while achieving a 32 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Physical Internet Center draws upon the research capabilities of resources from multiple disciplines, including ISyE centers such as the Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute, the Center for Health \u0026amp; Humanitarian Systems, the Center for Analytics Research and Engineering, the Center for Predictive Analytics and Real-time Optimization, and centers across campus, such as the Center for the Development of Applications of the Internet-of-Things.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;re going to work with the top minds on the academic side,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;At the same time, we want to be closely aligned with industry. We\u0026rsquo;re going to be very collaborative in Atlanta, and across the U.S. and the world. Many of the \u0026nbsp;large companies based in Atlanta want to move forward. They understand that the status quo is not going to work for the medium term, and they want to put themselves ahead of the game. We\u0026rsquo;ve got several companies lined up through next year to work together with us on projects.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA number of Physical Internet investigation and implementation efforts are taking place around the world, Montreuil observed, several with his assistance. Substantial investments already have been made in Europe, where the Physical Internet is the \u0026ldquo;official grand vision for all logistics and supply chains in the 2030-to-2050 time frame.\u0026rdquo; China has already established a Physical Internet research laboratory.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, the continuing globalization of the economy has fostered a number of free-trade agreements that make a case for deployment of the Physical Internet because it would help \u0026ldquo;make these agreements feasible and work at the ground level.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn North America, \u0026ldquo;achieving critical mass for the Physical Internet requires exploiting existing infrastructures and means, then gaining momentum through large-scale adoption and innovation,\u0026rdquo; said Montreuil. \u0026ldquo;We want to make sure we\u0026rsquo;re following a road map that makes sense in enabling this vast space of investigation, innovation, testing, and implementation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026quot;At the Physical Internet Center, we\u0026rsquo;re the nexus of this activity.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen it comes to supply chains and logistics, not only is Benoit Montreuil thinking outside the box, he\u0026#39;s rethinking the box itself.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"IsyE professor Benoit Montreuil is leading the way forward into the future of transportation and logistics with the new Physical Internet Center."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2015-11-05 15:41:25","changed_gmt":"2016-12-16 17:14:48","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-12-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-12-04T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"466881":{"id":"466881","type":"image","title":"ISyE Professor Benoit Montreuil in the Physical Internet Lab","body":null,"created":"1449257138","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:25:38","changed":"1475895213","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:33","alt":"ISyE Professor Benoit Montreuil in the Physical Internet Lab","file":{"fid":"203773","name":"benoit_lab_group_2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/benoit_lab_group_2_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/benoit_lab_group_2_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":323062,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/benoit_lab_group_2_0.jpg?itok=X-UEl9Fo"}},"466871":{"id":"466871","type":"image","title":"Physical Internet Lab","body":null,"created":"1449257138","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:25:38","changed":"1475895213","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:33","alt":"Physical Internet Lab","file":{"fid":"203772","name":"benoit-student_1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/benoit-student_1_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/benoit-student_1_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":257628,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/benoit-student_1_0.jpg?itok=uNBAeuP9"}}},"media_ids":["466881","466871"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"111271","name":"benoit montreuil"},{"id":"64421","name":"Internet-of-Things"},{"id":"143871","name":"Physical Internet Center"},{"id":"122741","name":"physical internet"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EShelley Wunder-Smith\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStewart School of Systems \u0026amp; Industrial Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404.385.4745\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["shelley.wunder-smith@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"466361":{"#nid":"466361","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech and JPMorgan Chase Work to Increase Atlanta Youth Participation in Trade and Logistics Careers","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology is launching a fast-track certification program to help promote increased participation from Atlanta\u0026rsquo;s minority youth in high-growth careers. Led by the Georgia Tech Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute (SCL), the program is supported by a $350,000 grant from JPMorgan Chase \u0026amp; Co. as part of its global \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.jpmorganchase.com\/corporate\/Corporate-Responsibility\/new-skills-at-work.htm\u0022\u003ENew Skills at Work\u003C\/a\u003E workforce development initiative.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nWith the goal of attracting 16-24 year olds in Metro Atlanta, the new program can help prepare participants to compete for jobs with a starting salary of $34,000 and relocation opportunities.\u0026nbsp; The program is also open to returning military veterans to help them transition into civilian roles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The road to economic opportunity and prosperity begins with great preparation, and we want to help our youth be ready to compete for and secure jobs that will lead to a strong future,\u0026rdquo; said David Balos, market leader for JPMorgan Chase and head of commercial banking in the area.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe first class will be open to 100 students, who will be invited to participate with tuition costs covered through the grant. 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Yildirim is co-advised by ISyE Chandler Family Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ENagi Gebraeel\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003EAndy Sun\u003C\/strong\u003E, assistant professor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe paper \u201cEbola Treatment Facility Location Planning in Guinea (Analysis for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)\u201d was a finalist in the Doing Good with Good OR Student Paper Competition. Contributors include ISyE graduates \u003Cstrong\u003EKimberly Adelaar\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003ECharmaine Chan\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EMatt Daniels\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EJaveria Javeria\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003ECaleb Mbuvi\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EChu Qian\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EIvan Renaldi\u003C\/strong\u003E, and \u003Cstrong\u003EJonathan Sutomo\u003C\/strong\u003E. The faculty advisor was Harold R. and Mary Anne Nash Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EJulie Swann\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe paper \u201cInfusion Center Process Improvement and Patient Wait Time Reduction\u201d was a finalist in the Doing Good with Good OR Student Paper Competition. Contributors include ISyE graduates \u003Cstrong\u003ESung Keun Baek\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EXiaoyang Li\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EAllen Liu\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EJames Micali\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EJisu Park\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EMengnan Shen\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EYunjie Sun\u003C\/strong\u003E, and \u003Cstrong\u003EEmilie Wurmser\u003C\/strong\u003E. The faculty advisor was William W. 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During his time in school, he has started a basketball analytics company, Lean Basketball Analytics, LLC (LBA) and after graduation plans to devote his attention full-time to furthering the reach of his company. In this interview, Mast talks about balancing school and entrepreneurship, his inspiration for LBA, and the company\u2019s current and future prospects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhy did you choose IE as your major and Georgia Tech as the place to pursue it?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen I was 16 and a junior in high school, my mom took me to the annual Sports Analytics Conference held at MIT. At the conference, I heard Daryl Morey, general manager of the NBA\u2019s Houston Rockets, speak. During his sessions, he spoke about applying advanced mathematics to the sport of basketball to make better decisions about team lineups, player acquisitions, and much, much more. It blew my mind that people were applying my favorite subject, math, to my favorite hobby, basketball. From that moment on, I have wanted to become a general manager of a NBA team, and so I\u0027ve modeled my academic career after him. Morey studied statistics at Northwestern; I went to Georgia Tech for its No.1-ranked industrial engineering program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhich came first \u2013 your desire to be an entrepreneur or your idea for Lean Basketball Analytics (LBA)?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;The idea came first. My idea was generated because I believed that basketball coaches were not playing their players optimally. So, I created a method that helps coaches make better in-game decisions. After successfully testing the program with Georgia Tech, I decided to pursue creating a company. The IE program teaches optimization; I transferred that to my favorite sport.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat inspired you to pursue developing LBA into a company, particularly while you\u2019re in school?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe success of my method at Georgia Tech. Trent Angelluci, the video-coordinator for Georgia Tech at the time, was my contact during the 2013-2014 season. He thought my idea was fantastic, and that it really had the ability to help teams and coaches. His endorsement to my idea ignited my pursuit.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETake us through the timeline and process of turning LBA from an idea into a company.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI had the idea in October 2013. Coincidentally, [Georgia Tech basketball] Coach Brian Gregory came and talked to my fraternity the same day I had this idea \u2013 talk about fate! So, I pitched my idea to Gregory, and he thought it could be useful.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFrom there, I created the [data] insight for Georgia Tech by myself on Excel during the 2013-2014 season. I gave Angelluci my first batch of data on the day of the home game against UNC in January 2014. On the phone, I walked him through the spreadsheet and how to obtain the insight. At the end [of the conversation,] he asked if I had any recommendations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI told Angelluci, \u201cYou\u0027re not going to believe this, but [then-redshirt sophomore] Corey Heyward is in seven of your top 10 scoring and four of your top five rebounding lineups. Heyward doesn\u0027t have any personal flashy stats, but when he\u0027s on the court, your team succeeds.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAngelluci remarked, \u201cThat\u0027s what I\u0027ve been saying!\u201d That was a great endorsement to the methodology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI talked with two of my fraternity brothers, Matt Creatore and Mason Dimarco, about forming a company. Creatore is an ISyE major here at Tech graduating in spring 2017, and Dimarco is a senior computer science major who transferred to Brown during his sophomore year. We formed an LLC in late 2014, and then beta-tested our software we created during the 2014-2015 season with teams such as UNC, Notre Dame, Stanford, Texas, Georgetown, and more. Their testimonies backed up our ambitions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETake us through a typical day for you. How do you balance running\/promoting LBA with your school responsibilities?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;It\u0027s hard. But LBA is a huge passion of mine, so I don\u0027t view it as work. It\u0027s fun. Overall, I have to map out my days to ensure I have enough time to tackle my responsibilities for both LBA and school. Sometimes the times can conflict, and in those situations, I have to do what\u0027s best for my future.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat does the future hold for LBA, both in the immediate and the long-term?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;We are innovating our Clinch\u003Csup\u003ETM\u003C\/sup\u003E software each and every day. We are making our software something that teams ranging from high school to college to even the professional leagues won\u0027t want to miss out on. This 2015-2016 season, we have about 25 Division 1 teams on board. If all goes well, other teams will follow suit. But I don\u0027t believe we will ever stop innovating our software. Currently, this is my career. I graduate in December 2015 and am not seeking a full-time job opportunity. If I\u0027m going to fail, it\u0027s because I tried and nothing else.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow do you see IE and entrepreneurship fitting together? For example, what does IE enable you to do that you might not be able to do with another major?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIE teaches you how to think with an efficiency-oriented outlook. IE has taught me to accomplish tasks as quickly and as best as possible. Bottom line: The IE major at this school teaches one how to think. 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Edwin Romeijn took the helm as ISyE\u2019s H. Milton and Carolyn J. Stewart School Chair in January 2015, making him the eighth school chair in ISyE\u2019s history.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u201cEdwin has a unique blend of research expertise, teaching excellence, and national leadership that makes him well suited to expand ISyE\u2019s tradition of excellence and leadership in research and education and to keep the program at the forefront internationally,\u201d said College of Engineering Dean Gary May.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPrior to joining ISyE, Romeijn was the program director for Service Enterprise Systems, Manufacturing Enterprise Systems, and Operations Research at the National Science Foundation in Arlington, Virginia, and Richard C. Wilson Faculty Scholar in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. He received his M.S. in econometrics and his Ph.D. in operations research from Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands in 1988 and 1992, respectively.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ERecently, I sat with Dr. Romeijn to chat with him about his vision, leadership, and what it is like to oversee a school consistently ranked the No. 1 industrial engineering program in both graduate and undergraduate education.\u003C\/em\u003E -- Barbara Christopher\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5\u003EWhat piqued your interest in becoming ISyE\u2019s school chair?\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHonestly, I did not have a career-long goal of going the administrative route. I used to view myself as a career researcher. Over time, I became more interested in looking at a bigger, more strategic view of our field. This came up for me, partly, due to my time as a program director at the National Science Foundation. At that time, I thought if the right opportunity came along I would be interested in taking on a larger administrative role. And by right opportunity, I meant finding something that had a combination of a strong program \u2014 a unique potential due to its history, environment, faculty, and student population \u2014 someplace close to my heart, and a place where I could contribute something.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen ISyE approached me, it qualified in all areas. ISyE has a long-standing reputation as the No. 1 program in both undergraduate and graduate studies, as well as having top-notch research programs. I was impressed with the size of the program, but mostly its diversity in both theory and application in optimization, statistics, manufacturing, supply chain, health care, energy, you name it. I was excited that my research has touched on a lot of the existing research groups in ISyE. That really spoke to me.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnd being a part of Georgia Tech, one of the best technical institutes in the country \u2014 if not the world \u2014 creates unique opportunities for interdisciplinary research, which is important for all disciplines but especially for industrial and systems engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI\u2019ve been with ISyE for just under a year now, and I can say it is a great place to work.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5\u003EWhat are you responsible for as ISyE\u2019s school chair?\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGenerally speaking, I am responsible for creating and maintaining a healthy environment in which students, faculty, and staff can thrive and be the best that they can be.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022WordSection1\u0022\u003EAs part of your job as chair, you also meet and work with a lot of our alumni. How has that been so far?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMeeting with our alumni is one of my favorite parts of my job. They have been and continue \u0026nbsp;to be instrumental in maintaining the success of ISyE through their involvement on the advisory board, student mentoring and other volunteering activities, as well as through their generous philanthropy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI had the honor to meet the H. Milton Stewart family before I officially started this position and was impressed with their hospitality and dedication to ISyE. Since then I have gotten to meet many of our alumni, and I look forward to meeting many more. I continue to learn the history and culture of this remarkable school through their eyes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5 class=\u0022WordSection1\u0022\u003EWhat are some of the traits of a good leader that you strive to embody?\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022WordSection1\u0022\u003EThere are two different yet intertwined traits that I work toward \u2014 to be a good listener and to communicate clearly. It\u2019s important to make sure that everyone feels heard, that their opinion matters, and their input is, at the very least, being considered. However, not everyone can get their way each time. While my goal is to build consensus as much as possible, sometimes it will be necessary to make decisions when there is no consensus. At \u0026nbsp;the end of the day, I will always make a decision that I believe is for the good of the School as a whole and will work to communicate why a particular decision has been made.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5\u003EHow do you take a school that has had a long successful run as No. 1 and expand its tradition of excellence to have greater influence?\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt the core is the faculty. To a large extent they dictate any new directions or changes within the School. The chair cannot single-handedly decide the direction of the School. A chair suggests, points, and helps coordinate groups of faculty so that synergies are explored and exploited, but at the end of the day it should be the faculty who provides the new ideas. They are the true experts in the different fields of specialization. It is the faculty who will make sure we remain leaders in the field and the No. 1 program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5\u003EWhat is hot in ISyE at the moment?\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnalytics is a hot topic, of course. While ISyE can contribute to all three branches of analytics \u2014 descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive \u2014 \u0026nbsp;it can play a particularly unique role when it comes to prescriptive analytics, i.e., in decision-making. In a way, ISyE has been dealing with problems related to this area for a long time. Yet with the explosion of different types of data available in recent years, there is a need for more and new modeling, statistical, and operations research methodologies. It is exciting that the field is facing problems that \u0026nbsp;we could not conceive of five to 10 years ago, before this kind of data was available. The area of supply chains and logistics is seeing a reinvigoration, with new focus areas such as the Physical Internet and hyperconnected optimization. Areas such as health and humanitarian logistics, energy, and sustainability have been active areas in ISyE for some time but can only be expected to grow in importance in coming years. And with the advent of smart manufacturing, ISyE is poised to expand its role in the area of manufacturing as well.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5\u003EWhat do you think are the keys to success?\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHaving passion and enthusiasm for what you do.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents often ask me: What should I write my Ph.D. thesis about? What topics should I study to maximize my chances of a good position in five years?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI tell them to pick a topic that really excites them. If they are excited about the topic, most likely they will work hard and be successful at what they do. More often than not, having passion and enthusiasm for the work you do will take you a long way.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5\u003EWhat are some current opportunities for ISyE?\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere are several opportunities open to us. ISyE has been No. 1 for a long time and has an excellent reputation in a lot of areas. Part of this is because we have great researchers. Part of it is because we have a large program. As a group we are doing fantastic work, but I\u2019d like to see us further increase our leadership to the field as a whole. After all, it is the responsibility of the No. 1 school to do this.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlso, I\u2019d like to see more bridges built and synergies exploited between the various research groups. This is an ideal time to come together and think harder about ways to work across platforms to drive our impact to greater heights. ISyE has a great group of researchers with so many great opportunities to be a front runner in some important upcoming areas.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECurrently, we have a large number of undergraduate students. Our challenge there is to make sure we maintain the quality of the undergraduate program despite its growing size. But this is a challenge we are happy to face.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe have high-quality incoming students, and our outgoing students are in very high demand. Employers are scooping them up as soon as they graduate. So both the input and output is quite healthy, and we are dedicated to preserving and improving the quality of the program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5\u003ETell me a little about your research.\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMy research has been on analytics and optimization theory and applications, in particular in the area of supply chain optimization and optimization in healthcare. I started off more in the area of theoretical optimization, development, and analysis of algorithms. Then I moved to add the area of applied or application-driven research to my work.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn the supply chain optimization side, the problems I work on are more theoretical and motivated by problems that can or may occur in practice but not necessarily following from collaborations with industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn the health care side, my work is much more practical. I work closely with radiation oncologists and medical physicists in developing new models and algorithms for finding optimal treatment plans for cancer patients.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5\u003EHow do you balance your research with the administration side of ISyE?\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENow that has been a bit of a challenge over the last nine months. As time goes on and I get more fully acclimated, I hope to get more active on the research side again.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5\u003EYou have taught classes in operations research, stochastics processes, applied probability and statistics, supply chain management, and decision support systems. Can you tell me a little about how you teach?\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen I teach a class, I always try to set it up in such a way that I encourage the students to actively think along. I want a dialogue with the students, not just a one-way street. I am not interested in the students learning by heart; I\u2019m interested in them learning how things work. This way, they learn intuition behind things and how to approach problems in practice. That is the ideal situation for me.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5\u003EWhat brought you to the U.S.?\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI started my Ph.D. in 1988 in The Netherlands. At that time, quite a few Ph.D. students in The Netherlands spent part of their research time at top schools in the United States. I was fortunate to have the opportunity to spend a significant amount of my Ph.D. student years at the University of Michigan. After graduation, I received a grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research [the Dutch counterpart of NSF] to spend a year as a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University. I enjoyed the academic environment in the U.S.; it not only allows for a great deal of independence, but the tenure-track system is unique in that it rewards merit, motivation, and hard work.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5\u003EAnd on the more personal side, what is your idea of a perfect day outside of work?\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s relatively simple, really. My wife, Sylvia, and I like to go outside, whether it is for a walk in the park, a bike ride, or to eat lunch or dinner. We also enjoy home remodeling activities, which has been our hobby for the last few years. Between Michigan and Florida, we remodeled several houses together. I like to do the demolition. Sylvia enjoys painting. 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Kelly McKeague\u003C\/strong\u003E, IE 1981, MSIE 1987, joined the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering Advisory Board in the spring of 2015. These five alumni are joining 15 other distinguished professionals and community leaders, serving as a sounding board for the School Chair in an advisory capacity as well as assisting with the School\u2019s development goals. \u0026nbsp;Each member brings extensive industry knowledge and unique expertise to this role and will serve a four-year term (2015-2019).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EReed Baker \u003C\/strong\u003Eis currently senior vice president and principal of Advantage Industrial Automation based in Atlanta, Georgia. Advantage Industrial Automation provides OEMs, industrial end-users, and system integrators with intelligent manufacturing solutions by adding value to the leading products in factory automation and controls. After graduating from ISyE, Baker\u2019s first position was with Square D Company (now Schneider Electric) as a field engineer. He is married to Angie Baker, IMGT 1985, and has two children currently attending Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMichele Etheredge \u003C\/strong\u003Eretired in 1998 after a successful career with CAPS Logistics and Frito-Lay as a project manager implementing supply chain solutions. Etheredge has also raised funds for Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta and is currently assisting the Boy Scouts of America locally. She received her Georgia Tech degree with honors. She and her husband, Jimmy, IE 1985, have three children. Their oldest son is now a student in ISyE. They presently reside in Atlanta, Georgia, but enjoyed living in Surrey, England for six years.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Marshall \u003C\/strong\u003Eis the co-founder of AirWatch. Under his leadership, AirWatch became the largest enterprise mobility management provider in the world, with more than $200 million in 2014 bookings. AirWatch has more than 18,000 customers, including four of the top five global Fortune companies. VMware acquired AirWatch for $1.54 billion in 2014, the largest acquisition to-date for VMware. Marshall was named the 2013 Ernst \u0026amp; Young Entrepreneur of the Year for the Southeast and the Atlanta Business Chronicle selected him as one of \u201cAtlanta\u2019s Most Admired CEOs in 2014.\u201d Marshall is also a board member of the Georgia Tech Information Security Center Industry Advisory Board.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJim McClelland \u003C\/strong\u003Erecently retired as president and chief executive officer of Goodwill Industries in Central Indiana. \u0026nbsp;McClelland has been active in the international development efforts of Goodwill Industries International and was heavily involvedin starting new Goodwills in South Korea. He serves on the Dean\u2019s Council of the Indiana University Kelley School of Business \u2013 Indianapolis, the Georgia Tech Grand Challenges Advisory Board, the Board of Governors of the Economic Club of Indiana, the Executive Committee of the Central Indiana Education Alliance, and the Urban Areas Commission of the Indiana University Public Policy Institute. McClelland earned his MBA from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMajor General (Ret.) Kelly McKeague \u003C\/strong\u003Eis transitioning from the military to the civilian sector. He most recently served as deputy director of the Defense POW\/MIA Accounting Agency, which has worldwide responsibility for the analysis and investigation, search and recovery, and forensic laboratory operations to account for Americans missing from World War II to the first Persian Gulf War. 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The current class, which started in August 2015, drew more than 400 applicants, from which a class of 47 was selected.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022WordSection1\u0022\u003EThese numbers reveal a growing interest in analytics among businesses and organizations as a way to analyze and interpret the data they acquire. At ISyE, where analytics has been central to its educational mission for many years, this interest is reflected not only in the number of applications to the new master\u2019s program, but also in analytics research into contemporary problems and a rigorous interdisciplinary curriculum that includes Senior Design projects for undergraduate seniors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\u0022WordSection1\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat is analytics?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022WordSection1\u0022\u003EThe basic definition of analytics is the extraction of meaningful information from data. At ISyE, this definition goes a key step further.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFor us, analytics is not only the techniques to process data and extract information from data or even the knowledge obtained from data,\u201d says Martin Savelsbergh, James C. Edenfield chair and professor. \u201cIt is also how you can use that information or knowledge to improve business processes or make better decisions.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAnalyzing data per se is not what people are after,\u201d he adds. \u201cIn the end, you want to use what you learn from data to be better at something, and being better at something usually means that you make better decisions.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESavelsbergh points out that the ability to collect, store, and manipulate data has grown exponentially over the years, along with sophisticated techniques and algorithms for analyzing it. But more data in and of itself isn\u2019t necessarily the right objective.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere can be data overload, he says, citing an actual example of a trucking company that outfitted its vehicles with GPS and two-way communication so as to better keep track of its fleet.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEvery five minutes the company gets updated information from each truck regarding the time it is estimated to arrive at the distribution center. At one point, a signal is received that says a particular truck is expected in one and a half hours. Five minutes later the \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;signal says the truck is expected in one hour and 40 minutes. Five minutes after that the signal says the truck will arrive in an hour and 45 minutes \u2014 and so on.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u201cIs this really very useful information?\u201d Savelsbergh asks. \u201cWhat are you going to do with that information? Certainly the people at the trucking company don\u2019t know what to do with it.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile conceding that more information is generally better than less information, one must be careful to avoid collecting data simply for its own sake.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYou want to process, analyze, and understand the data \u2014 maybe understand trends \u2014 but whatever it is you\u2019re looking for in the data, you want to be sure it helps you make better decisions about something.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EM.S. in Analytics follows an interdisciplinary approach\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe practical, decision-enabling orientation of analytics at ISyE is evident in the new master\u2019s program as well, which includes an applied analytics practicum at the end of the one-year program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGraduate analytics degree programs are relatively uncommon in the U.S., and the majority of those that do exist are part of a particular college or school.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOurs is one of the handful that\u2019s interdisciplinary,\u201d says Sokol. \u201cIt\u2019s a joint program among the College of Engineering, the College of Computing, and the Scheller College of Business.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cStudents get an interdisciplinary core that covers a full range of analytics topics, and then they pick a track to get a deeper specialization. Each of the tracks is aligned with one of the three units. We have an analytical tools track that includes additional statistics, and ML and OR predictive and decision modeling material. Students who opt for the business analytics track get a deeper understanding of the practice of developing and executing analytics projects within businesses. In the computational data analytics track, students get additional depth in acquiring, managing, analyzing, and visualizing data.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnother unusual feature is that half or more of the 10 courses that students take are electives, which allows them to tailor their degree to fit their personal career interest.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThey may take courses in specific areas so they can perform the right \u0026nbsp;kind of analysis for whatever industry they want to go into,\u201d Sokol elaborates. \u201cFor example, if they want to do analytics in the hospitality industry, they might take electives on pricing \u0026nbsp;and revenue management, Web search and text mining, and optimization so they could capture and analyze data such as from TripAdvisor and, then use the results to suggest improved pricing policies.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe broad applicability of analytics is reflected in the diverse backgrounds of the program\u2019s applicants.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe majority of them come in with degrees in business, engineering, math, statistics, or computer science, but \u0026nbsp;we also get people with degrees in psychology, anthropology, astrophysics, linguistics, religion \u2014 a whole range of backgrounds,\u201d Sokol notes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA variety of job experience is represented as well, with about 60 percent of applicants having had some previous employment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir resumes run the gamut from just a few years of post-bachelor\u2019s degree work experience to positions as lead product engineers and corporate vice presidents. One applicant had spent the past few years in the U.S. Navy aboard a nuclear submarine, according to Sokol.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Analytics helps undergraduates solve problems\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen an Atlanta-area hospital wanted to cut wait time and provide more accurate wait-time estimates for its emergency room patients, it sought help from a group of Georgia Tech industrial engineering undergraduate students who took on the assignment as their Senior Design project.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESenior projects are an integral part of the undergraduate curriculum, says Sokol, who supervises the program each fall. \u201cAt the end of their time at Georgia Tech, students form groups and carry out real industrial engineering projects for companies and organizations that need their help. A lot of what they do involves analytics, but at the undergraduate level.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Back at the hospital, the team of six students observed emergency room operations over several months. They collected and analyzed data on patient arrivals and conditions as well as the amount of time taken to be seen by nurses, doctors, and other hospital staff. The students then used statistical techniques to model the emergency room system in a simulated environment, and devised process-improvement recommendations that would reduce wait time without changing the quality or quantity of care. They also developed a real-time simulation tool that helps the hospital give entering patients a more accurate estimate of their wait time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOther examples of senior capstone projects reveal the wide applicability of analytics and include delivery routing and logistics for supply chain design, pricing for hotels and parking, race strategy for a motor sports team, and the timing of trains and railcar sequencing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, student teams have worked with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on various aspects of their response to the Ebola outbreak, and improvements to the organ transplant system.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EAnalytics can improve medical decision-making\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EData analytics research conducted at ISyE explores innovative new methodologies and techniques for analyzing data across a spectrum of applications, from energy and finance to supply chains and sports.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut no other area affects the quality of daily life for more people than their health.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EArriving at the best medical and health care decisions relies heavily on data, says Nicoleta Serban, Coca-Cola Associate Professor of ISyE. \u201cWe are interested in finding ways to capture and analyze data to optimize the decision-making process in health care.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHer work extends into the arena of public health as well, where policymakers need data-driven conclusions to help them make effective problem-solving decisions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESerban is co-founder and co-leader, along with Harold R. and Mary Anne Nash Professor Julie Swann, of the Health Analytics Group. Its mission is to provide a foundation for better medical decisions by applying mathematical and computational modeling techniques to health services research data and health economics data.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of the challenges of health care analytics is that it may deal with so-called Big Data \u2014 huge data sets measured in terabytes and exabytes \u2014 but not always.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe quality of data is a more important consideration than the volume of data,\u201d Serban says. \u201cThe key term is \u2018decision-making\u2019 \u2014 that data is captured and analyzed for the purpose of making better decisions. Sometimes this involves Big Data, and sometimes it involves very little data.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Health Analytics Group\u2019s wide-ranging research interests address both traditional and emerging health analytics models, including:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDesigns for telemedicine interventions that improve health care access or balance cost and equity.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELogistics efficiencies that address patient flow at clinics or hospitals, the scheduling of medical residents and staffing of nurse call centers, and disaster-response planning.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDecision support tools to help health care providers schedule catch-up vaccinations for children and adults or to optimize radiation treatment for tumors.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EStatistical techniques to help clinicians identify patients with the greatest risk for nonconvulsive epileptic seizures.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EEvaluations and recommendations to inform public policy such as the effects of school closures during an influenza pandemic, identifying areas with the highest levels of childhood obesity, quantifying the status quo of health care service utilization and pathways, interventions to treat or prevent disease, and the analysis of health-related expenditures.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne example of a specific research initiative is the group\u2019s ongoing study of pediatric asthma.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAsthma \u2014 the second most common reason for pediatric emergency room visits in Georgia \u2014 impairs quality of life and contributes significantly to health care costs, particularly for emergency room visits and hospitalizations, many of which are preventable. These costs are especially burdensome to children from low-income households.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur immediate objective is to describe underlying asthma care pathways for children in the Medicaid program,\u201d Serban explains. \u201cFor each pathway, we evaluate utilization and costs to suggest potential policy and network interventions.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDesigning interventions with the greatest impact on patients with limited resources begins with the creation of an asthma care baseline.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe want to quantify a set of measures around pediatric asthma for the Medicaid population,\u201d she notes. \u201cOur initial baseline includes things related to outcomes and costs, and for geographical areas and subpopulations within the state of Georgia.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBaseline data would include many of the complicating factors in treating pediatric asthma such as age, severity of the condition, and environment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, there are different levels of asthma care to consider, from doing nothing to obtaining care from a primary care physician or asthma specialist, or visiting the emergency room.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cUsing retrospective Medicaid claims data, our research spans multiple directions,\u201d she says. \u201cIn addition to the set of baseline measures for asthma care, we\u2019re interested in linking access to outcomes, and identifying trends in care utilization and cost.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cUltimately, our goal is to design policy and network interventions to improve health outcomes and access for people with limited resources.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003ESpreading the word\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIndustrial engineers are problem solvers, which is why analytics is considered an engineering discipline.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re not concerned with building or designing physical objects,\u201d says Savelsbergh. \u201cWe\u2019re interested in processes and in finding ways to improve the performance of businesses and organizations.\u201d Thus, analytics is a natural fit.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere are still a lot of people who are trying to understand what is meant \u0026nbsp;by analytics,\u201d he continues, \u201cand this gives us an opportunity to interact with organizations either in government or private industry to not only talk about what we do in analytics, but to emphasize our belief that its goal is to improve decision-making.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u201cWe have been doing analytics for a long time -- and we\u0027re very good at it.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Analytics at Georgia Tech takes a multi-disciplinary approach."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2015-11-10 11:35:28","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:58","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-12-09T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-12-09T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"471271":{"id":"471271","type":"image","title":"Analytics at Georgia Tech","body":null,"created":"1449257176","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:26:16","changed":"1475895220","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:40","alt":"Analytics at Georgia Tech","file":{"fid":"203910","name":"analytics.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/analytics_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/analytics_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":90711,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/analytics_0.jpg?itok=-ztHgwa8"}}},"media_ids":["471271"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"7251","name":"analytics"},{"id":"145671","name":"M.S. in Analytics"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EShelley Wunder-Smith\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404.385.4745\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["shelley.wunder-smith@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"468291":{"#nid":"468291","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Theoretical Research at ISyE","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBy \u003C\/em\u003ESantanu S. Dey \u003Cem\u003Eand \u003C\/em\u003ER. Gary Parker\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe academic concentrations supported by the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering are myriad. Its graduates at all levels reflect this variety by making substantive contributions in a broad span of important practical settings, such as supply chain logistics, manufacturing, health care, finance, natural systems, energy, and others.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt is also the case that ISyE places great value in maintaining a strong theoretical research presence in our fields, and, in parallel, strives to educate the next generation of scholars so that they are well-positioned to thrive as contributors to that effort. The concrete value of our emphasis on theoretical work and, by extension, the profession we serve, deserves a closer look.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESliding into pedantry is easy when it comes to defining theoretical research. The term by its very nature describes a relative concept. What could be considered \u201ctheoretical\u201d by a software engineer might easily be declared \u201cvery applied\u201d by a number theorist. Here we have used the \u201cyou-know-it-when-you-see-it\u201d rule-of-thumb. Accordingly, a significant amount of theoretical research in our school takes place within the fundamental methodologies that are core to our discipline: mathematical optimization, stochastics and simulation, and statistics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5\u003ETheoretical research is often motivated by applications\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEngineering, by definition, is an applied field; its practitioners solve important and real- world problems, often in incredibly creative and ingenious ways. Engineers draw their most effective technical skills from the hard sciences, most prominent among which are physics and chemistry. In the final analysis, engineers are users, doers. This certainly includes industrial engineers, with the exception that their core science base tends to be mathematics and statistics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs is the case in most fields, the easy systems-level industrial engineering problems get solved routinely, and the genuinely hard ones ultimately prove resistant to existing methodological tools. Those hard problems don\u2019t go away, leaving shakier options for their treatment, including the design of ad hoc fixes or approximations that may be clever and work in some cases but that may also fail miserably in others. But seeking ways to solve \u2014 or at least handle effectively \u2014 the hard problems is where the need for advances in existing theory most clearly reveals itself. Necessity, it\u2019s true, is the mother of invention.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA commonly cited example \u2014 one that contributed directly to the development of what became the field known as Operations Research (OR) \u2014 relates to efforts by the British, in the years just prior to the outbreak of World War II. A multidisciplinary team of scientists, including many Nobel laureates, was assembled to conduct experiments on how fighter aircraft could be better deployed, based on radar-generated information. The need for success was obvious, and the groundbreaking work ultimately produced proved to be an important factor in winning the Battle of Britain. Similar teams helped to break enemy codes, optimize troop deployments, and even understand nuclear chain reactions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOur methodological fields \u2014 the theory-oriented ones identified in the introduction, and that are prominently identified with ISyE \u2014 are also rife with similar stories where this scenario has played out. Typical are settings that benefit, sometimes in very practical ways, from results focused on seemingly abstract research pursuits such as understanding deeply how known methodologies work, generalizing and extending what is known, and, possibly, establishing formal limits regarding what can be known.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESome examples of famous outcomes of theoretical research include the well-known work of George Dantzig, conducted shortly after WWII, including his invention of the simplex algorithm for solving linear programs; John von Neumann\u2019s anticipation of duality theory, actually motivated by discussions with Dantzig during this same period; Stan Ulam\u2019s development in the late 1940s, following work related to the Manhattan Project, of the process that became Monte Carlo simulation; Ralph Gomory\u2019s circa 1960 work that set the basis for a theory of cutting planes that played a pioneering role in initiating the field of integer programming; Jack Edmonds who in the mid-1960s coined the phrase \u201cgood algorithm,\u201d and demonstrated the relevance of its formalization by presenting an ingenious solution for the so-called matching problem \u2014 which in turn ushered in the field that would became combinatorial optimization; and Richard Karp who, in the early 1970s, showed how apparently different problems were fundamentally equivalent in that either they all were solvable by a good algorithm or none were.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECommon to all of these iconic contributions and developments that derived from theoretical research efforts is that they were authored by people educated and trained in mathematics. That this level of formal mathematical expertise was applied in producing these fundamental results is, of course, not a requirement, but neither should it be a surprise; such is the nature of the mathematical machinery and rigor needed to make substantive progress. And, no one should find it peculiar that some of the most productive theoretical research success stories affiliated with ISyE have been authored by faculty trained at a certain level of applied and even pure mathematics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe short historical list of work we\u2019ve identified above accurately reflects the complexion of what constitutes fundamental research efforts as they would be viewed and practiced by many who conduct their scholarly work in methodological areas directly supported by ISyE. With this deep emphasis on theoretical research, traced largely from the early to mid-1980s, the School is among the elites in terms of its theoretical research activity and its corresponding impact on our fields. We are in the company of such institutions as MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia, and Cornell.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBy any measure, at least a third of ISyE\u2019s full- time academic faculty are active in theory-based research as their primary focus \u2014 a remarkable number for industrial and systems engineering programs. In some facets of our methodological disciplines, our respective faculty have few (if any) peers. \u0026nbsp;The ISyE faculty boasts some very famous scholars. In particular, the contributions to discrete optimization by George Nemhauser, convex optimization by Arkadi Nemirovski, stochastic optimization by Alex Shapiro, graph theory by Robin Thomas, design and analysis of algorithms by Santosh Vempala, and industrial statistics by Jeff Wu are unparalleled in the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5\u003ETheoretical research breeds new application areas\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhy even bother with something as obscure as theoretical research? The answer is that not much gets done without it. In fact, one of the outcomes of basic theoretical research is that \u0026nbsp;it very often produces valuable and important practical results as spin-offs, especially as the work progresses. New questions often arise that open new avenues for fundamental research; much of this occurs along the way, even if the original problem being pursued remains elusive or resistant. It\u2019s not at all uncommon for these so-called spin-off results to sometimes rival, ifnot overshadow \u2014 in both elegance and utility \u2014 the anticipated outcome when the research was initiated\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESometimes knowing that a tool has been invented for solving a problem in one context facilitates the search for related ones, where the newly discovered methodology can be applied. For instance, similar to the research group working on behalf of the British military, groups of interdisciplinary scientists in the U.S. army were formed to protect convoys, improve anti- submarine warfare, and increase success with bombers during the war. Then, by the 1950s, the methodological tools developed explicitly to solve military problems began to be useful in addressing many other postwar applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe typical paradigm is as follows: A scientist trained in various theoretical methodologies is introduced to a new and complex (and perhaps pressing) practical problem. The setting in which the problem arises need not be familiar \u0026nbsp;to the scientist. Usually, the first step is to state this problem in a familiar mathematical form. Once this possibly difficult feat is accomplished, known algorithms, mathematical techniques, and theoretical results can take over to solvethe problem. Indeed, the theoretical research accomplishments mentioned in the previous section, along with significant contributions by faculty at ISyE, are used daily to solve new problems for industry, business \u2014 \u0026nbsp;and humanity in general.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe above described process often involves heavy lifting; there are no easy problems anymore, and seldom does the resolution of these problems follow as a routine or obvious application of what is known, even if the latter is a newly discovered outcome of an arduous theoretical effort. And, even knowing that a problem is solvable in theory does not mean that the solution will be instantaneously useful in business and industry. Often a gap needs to be bridged in moving from theory to practice, which can require some effort and time. Still, knowing that a problem is solvable, even in a theoretical sense, is a major hurdle to overcome if any hope for practical impact is to ultimately be realized.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENaturally, when the progression from theory to algorithm-creation to practical application plays out, limits inevitably will be reached. Sometimes, known theoretical methodologies will be stymied. But then the investigative cycle repeats, and ultimately progress is made. This understanding is what motivates the research efforts of many of the aforementioned faculty in ISyE. That the School has attained its elite status as a center of serious theoretical research validates their efforts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5\u003EFinal remarks\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe intent here has not been to claim, or even suggest, that all theoretical research in our methodological fields can be painted with the same colors. The quality of theoretical work, no matter the field or discipline, can sometimes only be judged by experts, and certainly, its true worth is often gauged over time. Above all, since theoretical research is basic research, its value \u2014 or the justification of its worthiness for pursuit \u2014 cannot be exclusively influenced by utilitarian requirements or prospects of immediate payoff. For the payoff to become obvious and substantial can take time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheoretical research of the sort that we\u2019ve been addressing here requires a great deal of support for its development. It\u2019s true that much of this support involves material resources such as time and money, but equally important is the need for support in terms of a strong institutional commitment in the endeavor\u2014a genuine belief that a serious engagement in theoretical research is valuable and important. While ISyE has been a proud producer of strong, applications-focused research, it has also been enormously successful in building a strong and visible presence in the extremely competitive field of theoretical research. It is crucial that the School continues to solidify its place among those few, highly regarded academic programs with which it has earned the right to be considered a peer. The strongest evidence serving to corroborate this intention to stay at the theoretical forefront, in terms of quality and level of activity, can be gleaned from ISyE continuing to add young \u0026nbsp;and exceptionally talented faculty to its roster. Many of these young stars were attracted by the heritage of excellence in fundamental research that has evolved in ISyE over the last 30 years, and it will be up to them to continue it.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A significant amount of theoretical research in ISyE takes place within the fundamental methodologies that are core to our discipline: mathematical optimization, stochastics and simulation, and statistics."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2015-11-10 13:17:24","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:58","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-12-10T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-12-10T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"468271":{"id":"468271","type":"image","title":"ISyE\u0027s Titans of Theory: Santosh Vempala, Jeff Wu, George Nemhauser, Alex Shapiro, Arkadi Nemirovski","body":null,"created":"1449257147","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:25:47","changed":"1475895216","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:36","alt":"ISyE\u0027s Titans of Theory: Santosh Vempala, Jeff Wu, George Nemhauser, Alex Shapiro, Arkadi Nemirovski","file":{"fid":"203818","name":"theorytitans.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/theorytitans_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/theorytitans_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":153055,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/theorytitans_0.jpg?itok=gx8TWcKN"}}},"media_ids":["468271"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"147491","name":"theoretical research"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["Barbara.Christopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"466611":{"#nid":"466611","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Student Spotlight: From Mission Possible to Endless Possibilities","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn 2013, during the summer before my senior year in high school, I attended Mission Possible, an ISyE program designed to introduce high school students to the field of industrial engineering. My dad earned his Ph.D. in industrial engineering at Purdue and encouraged me to try out this major. I Google-searched \u201cGeorgia Tech industrial engineering camps for high school students\u201d and found Mission Possible. While it was only for five days, Mission Possible completely changed me from thinking, \u201cGeorgia Tech is a top engineering school\u201d to \u201cThis is exactly where I belong.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt the camp, we explored campus and received an overview of industrial engineering through hands-on activities and field trips. We interacted with professors \u0026nbsp;and several current ISyE students. As a high school student, I really looked up to these incredibly intelligent and motivated people who were only a couple years older than me. This motivated me to push myself to the limit to achieve my goals.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of the many people who stood out to me during Mission Possible was Stephanie Kalman, IE 2009 and MBA 2015. We walked across the street from campus to visit the Coca-Cola Company headquarters, where Kalman co-oped as an undergraduate and then joined full-time after she graduated. She gave us a presentation of what she did as an industrial engineer at Coca-Cola. \u0026nbsp;I was inspired by her career path, and I knew that I had found the perfect school and major for me.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI have finished my first year at ISyE and am now in my sophomore year. \u0026nbsp;It has been an amazing experience so far. One of my favorite things about industrial engineering is its endless career possibilities and how it helps me build a mindset to make systems more efficient and effective for people in everyday life. While the program is not \u0026nbsp;easy, Georgia Tech offers plenty of resources for students to succeed, such as the TA help desk, one-on- one tutoring, and group tutoring sessions. In only one year, my mind, my attitudes, and my social skills have all been challenged.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s ISyE program has given me new perspectives and many opportunities. I have maintained contact with Kalman, keeping her in the loop about my freshman year and future plans. It is astounding how two years ago, during my first time at Georgia Tech, I was inspired to pursue an industrial engineering degree from visiting the Coca-Cola headquarters. Now I am very excited to have received a co-op offer at Coca-Cola, and I will start working there this fall for the next three alternating semesters.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI am very thankful to have attended Mission Possible and for its positive impact on me. I hope future high school participants take advantage of this program and have the same great experience I did or better. It\u2019s truly an honor to be at Georgia Tech, especially the No. 1-ranked school for industrial and systems engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Sophomore Georgia Tech student Hannah Chen attended Mission Possible and then came to ISyE to study industrial engineering."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2015-11-05 09:59:22","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:54","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-12-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-12-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"466281":{"id":"466281","type":"image","title":"Hannah Chen, Sophomore ISyE Student","body":null,"created":"1449257138","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:25:38","changed":"1475895213","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:33","alt":"Hannah Chen, Sophomore ISyE Student","file":{"fid":"203756","name":"11174593_10206464016622101_8377426253809588644_o.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/11174593_10206464016622101_8377426253809588644_o_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/11174593_10206464016622101_8377426253809588644_o_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":483556,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/11174593_10206464016622101_8377426253809588644_o_0.jpg?itok=At5M-p7v"}}},"media_ids":["466281"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"141411","name":"Hannah Chen"},{"id":"1191","name":"industrial engineering"},{"id":"52121","name":"Mission Possible"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EShelley Wunder-Smith\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404.385.4745\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["shelley.wunder-smith@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"466351":{"#nid":"466351","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Field-testing in Rural Ethiopia a Portable Technology for Predicting Obstructed Labor Complications","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn developing countries where access to obstetric care is limited, pregnancy complications can have a devastating outcome for both mother and child if not detected in a timely manner. Unfortunately, in low-resource settings such as rural regions of Ethiopia, pregnancy diagnostics that might \u0026nbsp;present a significant improvement in pregnancy outcomes are not readily available to the general population, due to their high cost.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of the most common preventable causes of fetal and maternal mortality is obstructed labor caused by the mismatch between baby size and maternal pelvis. A possible preventive approach to obstructed labor is early identification of high-risk patients for timely referral to a district hospital for medically assisted delivery or Caesarean section.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Sebastian Pokutta, Coca-Cola Assistant Professor in the Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering (ISyE) at Georgia Tech, has been researching machine learning using 3-D scan technology. He has developed a working prototype to address detection problems in obstructed labor complications. The technology uses economical off-the-shelf sensors together with a low-cost workstation and screen. At a price point of less than $1,500, this noninvasive and contact- free technology is magnitudes lower in cost than comparable technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPokutta\u2019s scanner produces a large amount of 3-D streaming data. The measurement time is minimal, between five and 10 seconds, which results in minimal discomfort for the patient, compared to MRIs that require long exposure times. Moreover, this smart technology is easy to use and does not require highly skilled personnel to operate and interpret results.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Pokutta \u2014 along with research team ISyE Ph.D. student Daniel Zink and Professors Brandon Dixon and Rudolph Gleason from the School of Mechanical Engineering \u2014 will use this technology to obtain skeletal tracking data to detect architectural and volumetric body features in real-time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOutput will be a digital 3-D model of the patient, from which standard measurements such as body height, hip height, width, and circumference, waist height, width, and circumference, shoulder height and width, as well as more involved volumetric measures such as abdominal volume and shape are inferred and various measures can be derived,\u201d said Pokutta. \u201cBased on these measurements, decisions can be made in advance to help ensure a safer delivery.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECurrently, the technology is being field-tested in rural Ethiopia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith minor modifications, this device has a broader application appeal, including monitoring for malnutrition to find out which food programs are working better, and diagnosing lymphedema, the chronic swelling of arms and legs of some cancer survivors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;The initial funding for this project, in the form of a seed grant from the George Family Foundation, defined the feasibility of the technology. In July 2015, the team won a seed grant challenge from Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development, where they were one of 17 award nominees selected to receive funding from more than 750 submissions. 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During this intense semester-long course, ISyE students form teams to work with a business or organization on a specific issue. By addressing complex problems, students learn about project management, problem solving, team building, and get a chance to hone their professional communication skills.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENo doubt, working on real-world problems adds value to a student\u2019s education, but when the project is actually implemented, the broader impact of the work is something worth talking about.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn one such case, a team of eight ISyE students, pictured on the next page with faculty advisor Pinar Keskinocak, worked with the Emory Winship Cancer Institute\u2019s Ambulatory Infusion Center (AIC) during the fall semester of 2014. AIC wanted to shorten the amount of time patients waited before being taken to their infusion chair, to help reduce stress and anxiety for their cancer patients. The ISyE team focused on identifying the causes of delays and finding practical ways to curtail them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAfter interviewing and shadowing staff and patients, collecting data, and conducting time studies, the ISyE team proposed that improved workflow, increased ability to know where patients were located during the various phases of the treatments, and a better system to notify nurses when chairs were available would shorten patient wait times.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team then developed a Real-time Visibility Tool, a web- based app that allows the Infusion Center to communicate with and notify each other throughout the steps of the process. They also developed a comprehensive simulation model with a user interface enabling them to modify flow and observe results as well as a list of recommendations to improve AIC\u2019s process flow.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAIC, impressed with the tool and recommendations, implemented the project.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe impact of this [project] has been huge,\u201d said Catherine Parker RN, MSN, OCN, the unit director at the Infusion Center. \u201cThe development and implementation of the visibility tool has helped the triage RNs significantly by providing a technological solution for what was extremely manual and inefficient. The tool has also made it possible on extremely short-staffed days to utilize only one triage RN, which helped the overall staffing for the team by adding the second triage RN back to direct care. This is substantial for the staff and patient flow.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of the implemented recommendations involved changes in the check-in process. Previously at check-in, paperwork was placed in a rack until one of the triage RNs could retrieve it. After implementing the ISyE team\u2019s recommendations, the front-desk staff member delivered the paperwork to the triage office immediately after patient check-in.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;AIC patients have reported to AIC that wait times have decreased due to this change.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe Real-time Visibility Tool created by the Georgia Tech students has been one of the best tools I have ever worked with here at Winship,\u201d said Claudia Giddings, RN. \u201cAs a triage nurse, it has cut down on time by more than 30-40 percent.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Eight ISyE Senior Design students created a tool to shorten wait times at Emory Winship cancer Institute\u0027s Ambulatory Infusion Center."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2015-11-05 13:32:56","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:54","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-12-07T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-12-07T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"466771":{"id":"466771","type":"image","title":"ISyE Senior Design Team -- Emory Winship Cancer Institute","body":null,"created":"1449257138","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:25:38","changed":"1475895213","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:33","alt":"ISyE Senior Design Team -- Emory Winship Cancer Institute","file":{"fid":"203768","name":"img_9488.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_9488_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_9488_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1457735,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/img_9488_0.jpg?itok=D3_i8b7c"}},"466781":{"id":"466781","type":"image","title":"Emory Winship Triage nurse using the Real-time Visibility Tool to seat a patient.","body":null,"created":"1449257138","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:25:38","changed":"1475895213","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:33","alt":"Emory Winship Triage nurse using the Real-time Visibility Tool to seat a patient.","file":{"fid":"203769","name":"img_20141119_171246.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_20141119_171246_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_20141119_171246_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1489011,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/img_20141119_171246_0.jpg?itok=zt_tWp8V"}}},"media_ids":["466771","466781"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"140","name":"Cancer Research"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"385","name":"cancer"},{"id":"146991","name":"Emory Winship Cancer Institute"},{"id":"9278","name":"ISyE Senior Design"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EShelley Wunder-Smith\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404.385.4745\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["shelley.wunder-smith@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"466201":{"#nid":"466201","#data":{"type":"news","title":"INFORMS Presents Wagner Prize for Matching Vaccines \u0026 Genes to Optimize Vaccine Effectiveness to CDC, Georgia Tech, Emory University","body":[{"value":"\u003Ch5 class=\u0022 text-left\u0022\u003EPointer to Designing a Universal Flu Vaccine\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPHILADELPHIA, PA, November 4, 2015 \u2013 The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.informs.orINFORMS\u0022 target=\u0022_self\u0022\u003EINFORMS\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Csup\u003E\u00ae\u003C\/sup\u003E), the leading professional association in analytics and operations research, today announced that the winner of the Daniel H. Wagner Prize is a team comprising researchers from the CDC, Georgia Tech, and Emory University for creating a model that uses genetic signatures to predict the efficacy of vaccines on an individual by individual basis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe winner of the INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Prize competition was named on Tuesday, November 3 at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/meetings2.informs.org\/wordpress\/philadelphia\/\u0022 target=\u0022_self\u0022\u003E2015 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Philadelphia\u003C\/a\u003E. The competition is judged by CPMS, the association\u2019s practice section. Over 5,500 academics and practitioners attended the conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMachine Learning Framework for Predicting Vaccine Immunogenicity, \u003C\/strong\u003Eis by Eva K. Lee, Fan Yuan, Georgia University of Technology; Bali Pulendran, Helder Nakaya, Emory University; and Ferdinand Pietz and Bernard Benecke, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEva K. Lee is the winner of numerous INFORMS awards. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.informs.org\/About-INFORMS\/News-Room\/Press-Releases\/2015-INFORMS-Fellows\u0022 target=\u0022_self\u0022\u003EShe was named an INFORMS Fellow \u003C\/a\u003Eat the INFORMS annual meeting.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe ability to better predict how different individuals will respond to vaccination and to understand what best protects them from infection marks an important advance in developing next-generation vaccines. It facilitates the rapid design and evaluation of new and emerging vaccines. It also identifies individuals unlikely to benefit from the vaccine.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe authors created a general-purpose machine learning framework, called DAMIP, for discovering gene signatures that can predict vaccine immunity and efficacy. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUsing DAMIP, implemented results for yellow fever demonstrated that, for the first time, a vaccine\u2019s ability to immunize a patient could be successfully predicted with greater than 90% accuracy within a week after vaccination. A gene identified by DAMIP decrypted a seven-decade-old mystery of vaccination. Results for flu vaccine demonstrated DAMIP\u2019s applicability to both live-attenuated and inactivated vaccines. Similar results in a malaria study enabled targeted delivery to individual patients.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe project guides the rapid development of better vaccines to fight emerging infections and improve monitoring for poor responses in the elderly, infants, and those with weakened immune systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EImportantly, the project\u2019s work is expected to help design a universal flu vaccine.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe other four finalists for the 2015 Wagner Prize were:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIntegrated Planning of Multi-type Locomotive Service Facilities under Location, Routing and Inventory Considerations\u003C\/strong\u003E by Kamalesh Somani, Jing Huang, CSX Transportation; Xi Chen, Yanfeng Ouyang, Zhaodong Wang, and Siyang Xie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EScheduling Crash Tests at Ford Motor Company \u003C\/strong\u003EbyDaniel Reich, Ellen Barnes, Erica Klampfl, Ford Motor Company; Marina Epelman, Amy Cohn, and Yuhui Shi, University of Michigan\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStrategic Re-design of Urban Mail and Parcel Networks at La Poste \u003C\/strong\u003Eby Stefan Spinler, WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management; Matthias Winkenbach, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Alain Roset, La Poste\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUsing Analytics to Enhance Shelf Space Management in a Food Retailer\u003C\/strong\u003E by Teresa Bianchi de Aguiar, Maria Ant\u00f3nia Carravilla, Luis Guimar\u00e3es, Jos\u00e9 Oliveira, and Elsa Silva, University of Porto; Jorge Liz, Jo\u00e3o G\u00fcnther Amaral, and S\u00e9rgio Lapela, Sonae MC\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A team of researchers from three institutions were awarded the prestigious INFORMS Daniel H. 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What follows is a short summary of the highlights of the related discussions at the conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile the Internet of Things is getting increased attention among stakeholders in industry and government across all markets and countries, the Physical Internet is progressively considered as an approach worthy of consideration in rethinking the global supply chain (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/site\/special\/supply\/index.xhtml\u0022\u003EScience\u003C\/a\u003E, June 6, 2014).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.manufacturing.net\/blogs\/2015\/11\/the-physical-internet-will-rest-on-the-internet-of-things\u0022\u003ERead the article in its entirety\u003C\/a\u003E within Manufacturing.net\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhile the Internet of Things is getting increased attention among stakeholders in industry and government across all markets and countries, the Physical Internet is progressively considered as an approach worthy of consideration in rethinking the global supply chain.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Dr. Benoit Montreuil discusses the synergetic interaction of the two revolutionary concepts."}],"uid":"27233","created_gmt":"2015-11-06 17:11:44","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:54","author":"Andy Haleblian","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-11-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-11-04T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"467281":{"id":"467281","type":"image","title":"The Physical Internet Will Rest On The Internet Of Things","body":null,"created":"1449257147","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:25:47","changed":"1475895216","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:36","alt":"The Physical Internet Will Rest On The Internet Of Things","file":{"fid":"203789","name":"homepage-benoit_pi_iot.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/homepage-benoit_pi_iot_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/homepage-benoit_pi_iot_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":85512,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/homepage-benoit_pi_iot_0.jpg?itok=dBckN1XA"}}},"media_ids":["467281"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.manufacturing.net\/blogs\/2015\/11\/the-physical-internet-will-rest-on-the-internet-of-things","title":"Read the article in its entirety within Manufacturing.net"},{"url":"http:\/\/physicalinternetinitiative.org\/","title":"Physical Internet Initiative website"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/research\/physical-internet","title":"Georgia Tech Physical Internet website"}],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"111271","name":"benoit montreuil"},{"id":"68951","name":"Internet of Things"},{"id":"122741","name":"physical internet"}],"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:info@scl.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Einfo@scl.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"462311":{"#nid":"462311","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech\u2019s M.S. of Analytics Program Achieves 100 Percent Placement","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOnly a little over a year old, and Georgia Tech\u2019s interdisciplinary M.S. in Analytics program has something to brag about: its 100 percent employment placement for its first graduating cohort this past summer. When asked about these impressive results, Joel Sokol, Fouts Family Associate Professor and director of the M.S. in Analytics program, said, \u201cThere is an increasing need for top-flight, top-trained analytics talent locally, regionally, nationally, and even worldwide.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe analytics world significantly lacks qualified employees. In 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute determined that by 2018, the U.S. will face a shortage of 140,000-190,000 employees with deep analytical skills, and a shortage of analytics-trained managers by 1.5 million. Employees who are well-versed in analytics are in high demand \u2013 and that demand will only increase in years to come. This \u201cdeep need,\u201d as the program\u2019s Corporate Relations Manager Candice McLemore describes it, results from \u201cso many companies that have all this data, and they don\u2019t know what to do with it. The companies that are going to be most successful in the future are the ones making data-driven decisions.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESam Franklin, Head of Decision Sciences at 360i, a New York City-based digital marketing firm, concurs: \u201cData-driven decision-making is fundamental to running a successful business. Large amounts of data are continuously generated by every part of an organization, from HR to logistics to marketing. That data is full of hidden opportunities for organizational improvement and growth.\u201d These opportunities, explains Franklin, created by such intense data generation, are why \u201crealizing their full potential requires thoughtful, creative analytics professionals.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnd the graduates of the M.S. in Analytics program at ISyE are particularly well-placed to help propel that data-driven future forward and meet the challenges of the opportunities Franklin describes. This is partly because of the training they receive in the program and partly because of the strong qualities the students themselves bring with them on entering the program. As Sokol explains, \u201cWe have an outstanding set of students. They come in with a wide variety of backgrounds: Some have academic backgrounds in analytics-related fields while others might not. The common threads we look for in all of them are intelligence, creativity, quantitative talent, ability to communicate well, and overall outstanding potential for success in analytics.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETake Gautam Krishna, a summer 2015 graduate who was hired by 360i as a data scientist, as an example. He helps his company\u2019s clients make data-driven decisions in their paid social media campaigns. Krishna received his undergraduate degree in IE from a university in India, and then after working for a few years, he came to Atlanta from India in 2014 to enter the M.S. in Analytics program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;When asked why he selected GT\u2019s ISyE for his graduate work, Krishna explained, \u201cThe advanced statistics courses, combined with the computing courses, provides a strong base for building\/learning new approaches and tools. Compared to my previous work experience (before the M.S. program), now I feel more self-reliant and confident in dealing with data and generating insights from the data.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERufus Frazer, another summer 2015 graduate, speaks to a similar experience. Prior to entering the program, he had worked as a math teacher, earned his MBA, and worked for AT\u0026amp;T \u201cdoing something,\u201d he says, \u201cthat might be called \u2018analytics\u2019 but wasn\u2019t strictly within the job title; they started pushing me more toward project management work and as I started looking around at AT\u0026amp;T at what I wanted to do, it was more in the analytics field.\u201d He focused on the program\u2019s analytical tools track, which helped refine and extend what Frazer learned from his MBA work. Frazer now works for Ernst \u0026amp; Young as a traveling consultant based in Philadelphia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn fact, Ernst \u0026amp; Young made Frazer a job offer in November 2014 \u2013 well before Frazer had graduated from the program. This is typical for M.S. in Analytics participants. Sokol says, \u201cThe combination of student quality and program quality is reflected in the number of employers asking to meet our students in the hopes of hiring them. Many companies even make offers before our students have even completed their first semester of coursework, an indicator of how much they value our students and the education we give them.\u201d In fact, GT\u2019s M.S. in Analytics is the only program in the United States that brings together top 10 departments in statistics\/OR, computer science, and business-quantitative analysis in its interdisciplinary approach.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESummer 2015 graduate Ari Siesser was hired by Atlanta-based Cardlytics, a digital advertising company, as a senior analyst. He calls what the program graduates learned \u201cdata literacy,\u201d explaining that \u201cincreasingly we\u2019re relying on numbers to answer questions that humans might have tried to answer with intuition before. We want data-driven decision making, and not management using their gut to influence decisions \u2013 and to explain your results in ways that people care about.\u201d He says that the business classes he took as part of the program helps him convey the results so that they answer the \u201cso-what\u201d question, rather than just being about the numbers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E360i\u2019s Franklin notes, \u201cGeorgia Tech\u2019s M.S. in Analytics program\u2019s interdisciplinary approach is the key to developing versatile data scientists who are able to tackle a wide variety of analytics problems.\u201d\u0026nbsp;And it is part of the equation, along with the high qualities that program participants bring with them, that has contributed to the graduates\u2019 100 percent job placement. This is an achievement of which program director Sokol is justifiably proud. Adds Frazer, \u201cThe M.S. in Analytics program is putting it all together.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMore on the program\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhat makes Georgia Tech\u2019s M.S. in Analytics program unique compared to most other programs of this type is its interdisciplinary approach. The Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering (ISyE), the College of Computing\u2019s School of Computational Science and Engineering, and the Scheller College of Business offer coursework in business intelligence, data analytics, statistics and operations research, machine learning, big data, visualization, and more.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents take required courses offered by all three schools, and what McLemore calls \u201cboot camps\u201d or other special sessions in leadership, creativity, ethics, programming languages such as Python and software like SAS, advanced math and statistics, and communications. About the latter she explains, \u201cOne of the biggest things that we\u2019ve heard from employers is that communication skills are very important \u2013 particularly verbal communication \u2013 not just being able to crunch the numbers, but be able to solve problems and communicate with nontechnical people about what that data means.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFifty percent of the curriculum is in electives. After taking the boot camps and foundational courses, students can select electives from one of three tracks: an analytical tools track, a business track, or a computational data analytics track. They then select a personalized set of coursework from over 40 possible electives. The program also includes a mandatory applied analytics practicum experience working with a company on an analytics project.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor additional information, visit the program\u2019s website \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/analytics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The first cohort of Georgia Tech\u0027s interdisciplinary master\u0027s degree in analytics are all hired by graduation."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2015-10-26 10:13:25","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:51","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-10-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-10-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"654","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"594","name":"college of engineering"},{"id":"35541","name":"Ernest Scheller Jr. College of Business"},{"id":"145671","name":"M.S. in Analytics"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"},{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EShelley Wunder-Smith\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404.385.4745\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["shelley.wunder-smith@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"464191":{"#nid":"464191","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Student Spotlight: Creating Their Own Future: Student Entrepreneurs at ISyE","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWe all know about Silicon Valley as \u003Cem\u003Ethe\u003C\/em\u003E place for startup ventures. That said, Georgia Tech now offers a variety of ways for students to gain entrepreneurial experience: The \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/inventureprize.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInVenture Prize\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/venturelab.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EVentureLab\u003C\/a\u003E are already well known for helping students get their new businesses up and running, but attracting increasing attention is \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/create-x.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECREATE-X\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cCREATE-X is an initiative to instill entrepreneurial confidence in our undergraduate students.\u201d says CREATE-X director Raghupathy Sivakumar, also Wayne J. Holman Chair Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECREATE-X is an umbrella program that encourages students to learn about starting their own business, make their product, and then launch their own startups. In particular, Startup Summer is the \u201claunch\u201d portion of CREATE-X. Each startup team is given seed money, legal guidance, and hands-on help to get their businesses going. Recently, two ISyE students participated in Startup Summer on two different teams, and both students are living different versions of the startup life.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn Frederick Grimm\u2019s case (BSIE 2014), he came to Georgia Tech specifically because he was interested in entrepreneurship. However, Grimm\u2019s path to his current startup, FIXD, did not take a direct route. He originally participated in Startup Summer 2014 with a team called Sucette, which developed temperature-sensitive pacifiers. Due to development complications, he and his partner, Rachel Ford (BSBME 2015), are pursuing a patent for Sucette but have otherwise put the company on hold.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt the time, Grimm had graduated and planned to work for McKinsey in August 2015, but that left a gap of eight months to fill, so when he was invited to join FIXD \u2013 another Startup Summer team on which Ford was also working \u2013 he took the opportunity. Grimm has been with FIXD ever since.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe FIXD team \u2013 four of whom are Georgia Tech alums and two of whom are current students \u2013 has developed a diagnostic sensor that plugs in below a car\u2019s steering column, and then connects via Bluetooth with an app they created. Once the app is opened, if the car\u2019s check-engine light is on, the app will identify the problem and its severity, and translate this information back to the operator in comprehensible English. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to help people better understand and maintain their cars,\u201d explains Grimm. \u201cYou can leave the sensor plugged in and whenever you have a problem, it\u2019s like a roadside assistant or a mechanic in your car.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen asked how his background in IE helps support the rest of the FIXD team, Grimm says, \u201cMy role right now at FIXD is business strategies; we\u2019re looking at forming a lot of larger partnerships that can help us distribute our product and increase our revenue. We have mechanical engineers, computer science majors, electrical engineers, and they\u2019re very much concerned with building the product.\u201d In the longer term, Grimm very much sees an IE component for FIXD: He gives the example of aggregating data from customers to create a knowledge base for when specific parts will be needed based on a car\u2019s mileage, make, and model. This will enable auto-parts stores to carry certain parts at certain times. He describes this as a way to \u201cbetter manage the supply chain.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGrimm is fully committed to helping FIXD take off and getting the product into the hands of consumers. Having decided not to pursue his job at McKinsey, he\u2019s living the full-time startup life: \u201cIt\u2019s a lot of work. You wake up in the morning and talk to people all day and try to get your product off the ground \u2013 there\u2019s not a lot of separation between work life and [personal life] right now. It\u2019s fun because I enjoy it. That helps a lot.\u201d He adds, \u201cI don\u2019t want to make it sound like it\u2019s the easiest path ever \u2013 all the profits we\u2019re making we\u2019re reinvesting back in the company, so we\u2019re not taking a salary at the moment, just drawing off savings. We\u2019re going through the investment process right now.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn fact, in terms of funding, FIXD has taken the path of many startups \u2013 by launching its own Kickstarter campaign in September 2014. The campaign was 100 percent funded and attracted the attention of such tech-oriented websites as Mashable and Engadget, as well as support from the Georgia Tech community. And, as Grimm noted, the campaign verified that FIXD is creating a product that consumers want and need.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGrimm recommends CREATE-X \u2013 and specifically, the Startup Summer program \u2013 for fellow IEs without reservation: \u201cI feel like sometimes ISyE students feel like they\u2019re at a disadvantage in terms of these startup programs because we\u2019re not taught to build physical objects. But that doesn\u2019t mean we don\u2019t have value on a startup team. ISyE students are very entrepreneurial themselves. I feel like I can see an idea and see the potential in it. A lot of classes teach [you to consider] how from a theoretical perspective can I optimize this? How can I take this from a small idea and make it huge potentially? If you have a team of all MEs, eventually they\u2019re going to face roadblocks that IEs could help them solve.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERicardo De Andrade, who is currently a junior in ISyE with a double major in computer science, also went through the Startup Summer process this past summer, with the Shortweb team. Shortweb, as he describes it, \u201cmakes it extremely easy for people to do research by allowing them to search, aggregate, and reference the information they care about. We\u0027re making a research engine that delivers content that you can aggregate into relevant topics. We take it a step further than Google. Our search results aren\u0027t web pages, they are highlights of the relevant web page\u0027s content. Ranking of search results is based on content relevance and not page relevance.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlthough both companies were launched via Startup Summer, Shortweb\u2019s development took a slightly different route than did FIXD. First, the Shortweb team participated in HackGT, Georgia Tech\u2019s national hackathon, and then in the University of Michigan\u2019s equivalent, MHacks. Ultimately, Shortweb reached the finals for GT\u2019s 2015 InVenture Prize \u2013 all of which was encouraging. So, when summer arrived, De Andrade had a decision to make: study abroad in France, while co-founder Miguel Oller (BSME 2015) interned on Wall Street, or together spend the summer developing Shortweb. In the end, he says, \u201cWe decided to apply to Startup Summer because we though that being part of an accelerator was going to bring a lot of value to the company, which it did. We managed to finish a usable product by the end of summer.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDe Andrade is currently balancing the demands of starting his own company with being a full-time student. He typically wakes up between 2 and 4 AM and works on Shortweb until lunchtime. After lunch, he goes to class and takes care of school responsibilities such as homework until 8 PM. Then, work on Shortweb begins again until midnight, which is when he finally sleeps. When asked what drives him to keep such a demanding pace, De Andrade explains, \u201cLearning. One of the things that I like the most about entrepreneurship is how much one can learn in such a small amount of time. For example, during the summer, Miguel and I taught ourselves a new computer language, and we built the whole app with it. With Shortweb, I feel that I have learned so much, not only technical stuff, but also in business, legal, marketing, and many other fields.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShortweb is evolving quickly, he adds. It started out as a Google Chrome extension that let people highlight stuff in any website. De Andrade and Oller have further tweaked the idea, and they are building a research engine that will help people find relevant content online. Anyone from bloggers to students can benefit from this.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELike Grimm, De Andrade talks about how Georgia Tech encourages entrepreneurship in its students, and how IE fits in well with business: \u201cWhen I arrived to Tech, I was not thinking at all about building my own company. As time passed, I became aware of the entrepreneurship environment that was flourishing on campus. With Shortweb I have learned that entrepreneurship is what I really want to do, because it is what I am really passionate about. IE may sometimes teach concepts focused in big, well-established companies, but almost everything that is learned during the degree can actually be applied to one\u2019s company. IE and entrepreneurship are not mutually exclusive.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESanjay Parekh, Associate Director of CREATE-X, has plenty to say about nurturing entrepreneurship in Georgia Tech\u2019s students. \u201cThis is really the next frontier for universities; we\u2019re educating them to get jobs but we need to educate them to be able to create jobs. This is really going to change the face of Georgia Tech. I can\u2019t wait for the day when there are kids saying, \u2018I want to go to Georgia Tech because I want to be an entrepreneur, and they have this great program. 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His mom was a teacher; his dad worked the late shift. They named their son Guy\u2014Guy Primus\u2014and with a name like that, it\u2019s no wonder the kid had dreams.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn high school, Guy worked at his cousin\u2019s convenience store. Saturday would come, and he\u2019d pick up his $20 for the week and head down the street to Stedeford\u2019s Record Shop, where he dropped every last cent to buy four 12-inch singles.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGuy dreamed of music. He wanted to be a DJ, so he built up his record collection, bought a turntable, taught himself to spin. But he wasn\u2019t content to be just another DJ. He wanted to be great.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESo Guy built his own setup, decked everything out with fabric and lights. He disassembled a telephone handset and rebuilt it to be his earpiece, a little touch of style to set him apart.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs much as Guy loved the music, the mechanics of the equipment fascinated him even more. His turntable broke, so he picked it apart, fixed it. Same with the TV at home\u2014well, except he never could get that working again.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis dreams changed, and he saw himself designing and building speakers, a scientist with style, just like Amar G. Bose, the MIT professor whose eponymous company was overtaking the sound system industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESo Guy would be a physicist. And to excel at that, he\u2019d have to head south, to Georgia Tech. It was 1987, and fresh out of high school, he moved away from Pittsburgh for the first time\u2014off to Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe stepped onto campus, just another freshman. But he had conviction. He believed he would do something great. 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But, as he says, \u201cI wasn\u2019t going to establish a legacy, working for someone else.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESo he\u2019s taking what is just the latest in a long series of risks, building up an industry that doesn\u2019t yet exist.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cVirtual reality is revolutionary,\u201d Guy says. \u201cThere is no seminal work of VR. Being there at such an early, foundational stage is daunting, but it\u2019s a great place to be at. I wouldn\u2019t trade it for the world.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGuy asks you to imagine the future of entertainment, a world transformed, of revolutionary technology partnered with world-class content.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut you don\u2019t have to imagine it. You can see it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECOURSE CORRECTION\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe vision grew hazy, obscured. It wasn\u2019t so simple as just learning to build the world\u2019s best speakers. Most physics majors ended up working in the federal government, not a path Guy wanted to walk.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGuy struggled to stay interested in his classes, and he questioned himself, his vision of the future. He didn\u2019t know what he\u2019d do. Then he heard the song.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019m a Ramblin\u2019 Wreck from Georgia Tech and a hell of an engineer.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhat the hell was he doing at Georgia Tech if he wasn\u2019t going to be an engineer? He cast around, examining schools, programs. Industrial and systems engineering struck his interest.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIndustrial engineers don\u2019t really create things, but they like to work with people, not stuck in a lab all day,\u201d he says. \u201cOptimization was really appealing.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring the first quarter of his senior year, he enrolled in a distributions systems class under Don Ratliff, now the Regents\u2019 Professor Emeritus of ISyE. Even among some fifty students, Guy stood out, \u201cby far the best student in the class,\u201d Ratliff remembers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne day they talked, and Guy revealed he wasn\u2019t sure what to do after graduation. He told Ratliff that the course was the first one he\u2019d really liked. Ratliff suggested graduate school, but Guy worried his grades weren\u2019t good enough. \u201cI said, \u2018That doesn\u2019t make sense. You\u2019re the brightest guy in the class, the top score on everything,\u2019\u201d Ratliff says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe grades were subpar, but Guy had been involved in more organizations and activities than Ratliff could count, and was a leader in many of them. Ratliff saw that Guy could succeed when he was working on something he was passionate about, so he went to the head of graduate studies and lobbied for Guy\u2019s admission.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cNormally, I didn\u2019t do anything like this,\u201d Ratliff says. \u201cBut I thought this guy was special. I personally vouched for him. They let him in, and he did great; he made all A\u2019s.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAfter graduate school, Guy joined Ratliff\u2019s software company, Caps Logistics. During his two years there, Guy saw a new world open up, one beyond the blue-collar setting of his youth. He also felt the familiar tug of ambition, to explore the world of management.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe took a job as a consultant at A.T. Kearney, solving business problems using analytics. The firm offered to send him to business school, and he went to Harvard. There, he remembers talking to famed professor Carl Sloane, who told him, \u201cYou\u2019re at the West Point of capitalism. You can do anything you want to do. Follow your passion, and the money will come.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGuy realized he\u2019d gotten away from his first love\u2014music\u2014thinking he had to choose between entertainment or a career in business.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI stepped back and said I had always wanted to work in entertainment, but I had this analytical bent,\u201d Guy says. \u201cSo how could I combine them?\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe set his imagination to work, combining his passions. While others saw the worlds of art and technology as wholly separate, he saw a way to unite them. He would be a bridge.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EARTIFICE\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn one desk sit a pair of what looks almost like ski goggles\u2014it\u2019s a brand-new pair of Rift virtual reality glasses built by Silicon Valley darling Oculus. Guy picks them up, hands them to you.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYou pull on headphones, then the glasses. The world goes black, disappears.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThen it reappears, but, no, this isn\u2019t the same world. You tilt your head left and right, up and down. You stand on an island. And the island floats in the sky. In the near distance are other islands. A whale rises suddenly from the ether, and you instinctively reach out to touch it as it flies past.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYou\u2019re in a dream, except it\u2019s real. No matter how hard you look for a crack, a seam, you find none. There\u2019s a rustle of wind in your ear, and the knee-high grass undulates with the breeze.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYou follow a small girl, running from something now, something dark. She leads you out onto a rickety wooden pier, which extends out into the sky, then stops. The girl leaps, disappears.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYou\u2019re at the edge of the pier. You have to jump, or the dark thing will catch you. You look down at the drop, down and down forever.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYou\u2019re afraid of heights. Your whole body tenses. Your stomach churns. But the momentum takes you. You leap into the blue.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThen the glasses come off, and the old world returns. And you wish you could go back, to see what comes next.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECUTTING EDGE\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOut of business school, Guy began using the analytics training he\u2019d picked up at Georgia Tech and applying it to the world of marketing. That drew the interest of Bad Boy Entertainment, the media giant run by Sean Combs, the producer and rapper formerly known as Puff Daddy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere, Guy learned the power of tastemakers first hand. Combs had street teams, people who knew what parties to be at, to get a feel for what the crowd wanted, what was becoming popular. Bad Boy also leveraged connections to DJs, getting their feedback, testing out music before widely releasing it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s not enough to just put out a great product,\u201d Guy says. \u201cYou have to market it, you have to promote it, you have to connect it to the tastemakers.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFrom there, he went to Microsoft, where he saw early the rise of digital music and leveraged it across the company\u2019s platforms like MSN Messenger. Guy reached out to his friends in the music industry to create the Microsoft DJ Summit, which led to a series of playlists from DJs like DJ Spooky and a young Kanye West. The effort won a major advertising industry award. It also confirmed Guy\u2019s theory that the key to success is finding the best content and then using emergent technology to bring it to consumers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt Starbucks, Guy continued to work in music, developing a partnership with Apple that gave customers download cards for new songs, a different track every week. It became the company\u2019s Pick of the Week program, which is still running strong, almost eight years later.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGuy moved his family from Seattle to Los Angeles to become the chief operating officer of Overbrook Entertainment, the production company of film star Will Smith. Though Guy says he\u2019s never been in awe of celebrities, there\u2019s a definite benefit to working with big names.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019m not the most talkative person,\u201d he says. \u201cSo I choose who I work with. People know Sean Combs. They know Will Smith. Microsoft and Bill Gates, everyone knows. It opens a door a lot more quickly.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut, after several years at the company developing its interactive portfolio, Guy felt a familiar pull. He wanted to stay on the cutting edge of technology, as he had his entire career. But he also wanted to build something of his own. Again, it was time to reflect on the vision, to see where it would lead next.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGuy started a handful of companies and worked as an adviser to startups. It was a systematic approach to testing out opportunities, seeing what resonated. It was also exhausting.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI was stretched too thin,\u201d Guy says. \u201cI was finding myself shortchanging projects that deserved attention and putting too much effort into things that weren\u2019t going anywhere.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne project that did well was the Marvel Experience, a virtual tour through the company\u2019s world of superheroes that Guy helped develop. Through it, he saw the power of taking people through an immersive experience. He saw the future, and it looked virtual.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EARTIFICE\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVirtual reality.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe term first appeared in a 1938 book by French playwright, actor and director Antonin Artaud. He described theater as \u201cla r\u00e9alit\u00e9 virtuelle,\u201d a space where actors, directors, playwrights, set designers take part in an alchemical process, uniting to create a new reality.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut it is not just those who take part in the process that are transported. No, this new plane of existence is one that the audience enters and experiences.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EARRIVAL\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYou know a little about virtual reality, that it\u2019s been around in some form since the 1980s, when technologists commandeered the term for the new computer-designed virtual spaces they were constructing. You know that since then, VR has grown and developed in fits and starts, used mostly for training simulation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile it hasn\u2019t taken off, the signs of its potential are there. You read a recent study by researchers at Georgia Tech and Emory that says virtual reality is a very effective treatment for people who suffer from fear of flying. It allows them to go through their fears, to process them, and to learn to cope. It\u2019s powerful, you see, but relatively untapped.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut VR has never taken off as a form of entertainment. In part because the technology has been too expensive for broad adoption, and in part, Guy tells you, because VR lacks the powerful stories that draw readers and viewers to other media.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTed Turner took the best of content and had this distribution that was novel,\u201d he says. \u201cPeople didn\u2019t know what to do with cable TV, but he did know what to do with it. He made the Braves America\u2019s team just because he knew what to do with emergent technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re in the same space today. There\u2019s this really great technology platform that exists, in virtual reality, but there\u2019s no content. There\u2019s zero content. Most of the content being created is very gimmicky. We\u2019re looking to create really immersive, story-driven, character-driven content. It feels like you\u2019re there, as opposed to sitting there and watching.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYou think it\u2019s a risky plan, relying entirely on a technology that remains mostly foreign to consumers. But, you realize, the same could be said for the television, or the computer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSilicon Valley only invests in technology,\u201d Guy admits. \u201cIt\u2019s a challenge for us. We\u2019re in a tech-driven form of media. Billions are going into VR tech. But no one will buy a headset without content.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYou look at Guy\u2019s three partners in the business, and you think that if anyone could pull this off, this would be the group to do it. The VR you just watched is a preview of There, a fantastical story from the mind of the chief creative officer, Robert Stromberg, who created the virtual world of Avatar and directed the recent Disney hit Maleficent. The chief production officer is Chris Edwards, head of Third Floor, a firm that has created a revolutionary way to streamline the filmmaking process. And the president is Joel Newton, a producer whose credits include the film The Kids are All Right.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir advisers include former Tech president G. Wayne Clough and Steven Spielberg. You\u2019ve seen all of his movies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt wasn\u2019t his name,\u201d Guy tells you. \u201cIt\u2019s that he has a vision. He can make a project that still resonates, 40 years later.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYou hear that Spielberg is developing a story for the Virtual Reality Company, a family-oriented project. You make a note, to make damn sure you experience it. You hear about other projects in development, including a documentary about Jerome Bettis, the NFL running back recently inducted into the Hall of Fame, as well as one called The Museum of Supernatural History, and another that\u2019s a virtual concert venue, allowing you to experience a show and even go backstage, all from your living room.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSomething about being in the world, it connects you more deeply,\u201d Guy says. \u201cYou feel it.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYou ask Guy about the stories he likes. Family, he says. He lists off a string of shows and movies: Frasier, Scarface, Godfather, E.T. All stories about families, the blood-relation kind and the kind we create.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGuy has a young daughter, and he talks about her, how she\u2019s brought into focus the importance of women\u2019s issues, how technology still has so far to go to be as diverse and welcoming as it can be.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWomen and people of color, historically, we\u2019re always playing catch up,\u201d he says. \u201cWe want to have women and people of color involved in the creative process, and to make sure the content is connected to them, that it speaks to them.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe vision grows, changes, evolves. But it is clearer now, crystal. You can see that Guy knows it, that he sees his moment has come.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI literally have been waiting for this moment in time since 1988,\u201d he tells you.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe dreamed it, then made it so. 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Das is a busy young woman who is clearly going places: She juggles a job with Deloitte in California as a business technology analyst, along with developing careers as a \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/missmillmag.com\/speaking-likeagirl-shinjini\u0022\u003Eprofessional speaker\u003C\/a\u003E and\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.india.com\/arts-and-culture\/media-personality-shinjini-das-advocates-for-womens-empowerment-internationally-475796\u0022\u003E media personality\u003C\/a\u003E through an increasing number of TV interviews, blog contributions to the Huffington Post and Elite Daily, and her growing social media presence, which includes reaching almost 7,000 followers on \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/speakershinjini\u0022\u003ETwitter\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/speakershinjini\u0022\u003EFacebook\u003C\/a\u003E in less than a year. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor Das, the breakthrough moment \u2013 and her favorite story from the past year \u2013 was getting her first piece published on Huffington Post this past January \u2013 a post called \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/shinjini-das\/5-secrets-of-a-gogetter-g_b_6417254.html\u0022\u003E\u201c5 Secrets of a Go-getter Girl.\u201d\u003C\/a\u003E \u201cNo one talks about this,\u201d Das says. \u201cNo one says that being an ambitious woman is cool, at least that\u2019s what I saw. \u2026 It\u2019s not just \u2018okay\u2019 or \u2018acceptable\u2019 to be ambitious; it\u2019s great to be ambitious, and why are we shying away from that?\u201d The post garnered international attention and generated a cultural discussion. \u201cPeople have blogged about this saying they have go-getter girls in their lives, and one woman blogged that \u2026 her husband is helping her embrace the go-getter in her.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor Das, being a go-getter girl is more than just words: She embodies it \u2013 a process that began in high school and continued while she was at Georgia Tech. She chose industrial engineering as her major because of its combination of business and engineering, which would give her an \u201canalytical background and foundation \u2026 the career paths were appealing,\u201d she says. \u201cISyE being No. 1 also helped!\u201d Each IE class emphasized leadership, the thought process being, she explains, \u201cWHEN [rather than \u201cif\u201d] you become a business leader.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe also pursued leadership in other ways at Georgia Tech, joining the public speaking club and conducting workshops, and becoming a student ambassador. In many ways, being a representative for Georgia Tech prepared Das to become her own personal brand ambassador. \u201cThat is literally my job now \u2026 representing something. Then it was representing Georgia Tech; now I\u2019m representing my brand, what I stand for, my values, my thoughts \u2026 It\u2019s very, very similar.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGiven that she is building her own personal brand, Das was asked if everyone should consider developing their own personal brand, and what some steps toward doing so might be. Her response was emphatic: Every person is in fact his or her own brand. The first step toward developing that is to \u201cidentify your value proposition: Who are you? Why should people buy your product?\u201d The process requires time and thought \u2013 time and thought Das also put in for herself. \u201cIt\u2019s not magic,\u201d she notes. Next, \u201cidentify your goals. What do you want to do?\u201d Your goals will determine your branding strategy. And finally, \u201cidentify and create an action plan.\u201d She encourages people to not only \u201cdream and take time to think\u201d about these issues, but also \u201cto act. Without an action plan, a dream is not a completed task.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDas is continuing her pursuit of being a go-getter girl \u2013 and she\u2019s seeing results. In November 2015, she will be honored as one of 50 global heroes for her work to empower youth and advocate for gender equality by a top United Nations partnership. Further, she will soon be profiled by the Institute of Industrial Engineers in \u201cFinal Five\u201d for engaging in nontraditional work. In 2016, she will embark on her first national speaking tour.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDas is returning to Georgia Tech on Tuesday, October 6\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E as a guest lecturer for Professor Bill Todd\u2019s Principles of Management Consulting class, where she will be speaking on \u201chuman factors in consulting \u2026 client skills, relationship skills \u2026 How do you deal effectively with so many different people?\u201d After all, Das points out, \u201cThat is life. How do you get the most of out of every transaction?\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYou can connect with Das on \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/speakershinjini\u0022\u003ETwitter\u003C\/a\u003E or \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/speakershinjini\u0022\u003EFacebook \u003C\/a\u003Eand visit her website: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.shinjinidas.com\u0022\u003Ewww.shinjinidas.com\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE alumna Shinjini Das is making a career out of personal branding."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2015-09-29 15:23:39","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:40","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-09-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-09-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"453601":{"id":"453601","type":"image","title":"Alumna Shinjini Das Is Pursuing Her Dreams","body":null,"created":"1449256319","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:11:59","changed":"1475895197","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:17","alt":"Alumna Shinjini Das Is Pursuing Her Dreams","file":{"fid":"203415","name":"shinjini_microphone.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/shinjini_microphone_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/shinjini_microphone_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":19492,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/shinjini_microphone_0.jpg?itok=Tle99QnA"}}},"media_ids":["453601"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"}],"keywords":[{"id":"10806","name":"personal branding"},{"id":"169338","name":"shinjini das"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:shelley.wunder-smith@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EShelley Wunder-Smith\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIndustrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404.385.4745\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["shelley.wunder-smith@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"450681":{"#nid":"450681","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Montreuil Receives Most Distinguished Award from Alma Mater","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBenoit Montreuil, Coca-Cola Material Handling \u0026amp; Distribution Chair and professor of the Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech, has been selected to receive the 2015 Pythagore Award from his alma mater, the Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Trois-Rivi\u00e8res (UQTR).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe award recognizes the exceptional accomplishments of an alumnus, including professional achievements, peer recognition, community engagement, and a strong relationship with UQTR. The award is \u201cthe equivalent of a gold medal,\u201d which the recipients receive for offering out-of-the-ordinary education, application of their work, and their achievements.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMontreuil is also the director of the Physical Internet Center and a leader within the Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute. He received his B.S. from UQTR in 1978, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech in 1980 and 1982, respectively.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Pythagore Award is another in Montreuil\u2019s long list of awards, which recently include DC Velocity\u2019s Rainmaker of the Year and The Physical Internet Pioneer Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhat makes the Pythagore Award really special, says Montreuil, is that \u0026nbsp;it\u2019s \u201cfrom my alma mater where I have been a student and then a professor (1998),\u201d and that he \u201cwas nominated by a large group of people (engineers and business notably) \u2026 and I feel that it may help people in the region [where he was born] believe that they can follow their dreams and passions and succeed to thrive with the best.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMontreuil can indeed be considered to be among the best of the best. He has become known worldwide for his breakthrough research contributions at the intersection of industrial and systems engineering, operations research, logistics, supply chain engineering, business design, strategic management, and sustainability.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMontreuil will travel to the awards gala on October 16\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E, 2015 to receive the award at UQTR.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Benoit Montreuil, Coca-Cola Material Handling \u0026 Distribution Chair and professor of the Stewart School of Industrial \u0026 Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech, has been selected to receive the 2015 Pythagore Award from his alma mater, the Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec"}],"uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2015-09-23 10:03:52","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:36","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-09-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-09-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"450671":{"id":"450671","type":"image","title":"Benoit Montreuil, Coca-Cola Material Handling \u0026 Distribution Chair and professor of the Stewart School of Industrial \u0026 Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech","body":null,"created":"1449256280","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:11:20","changed":"1475895192","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:12","alt":"Benoit Montreuil, Coca-Cola Material Handling \u0026 Distribution Chair and professor of the Stewart School of Industrial \u0026 Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech","file":{"fid":"203327","name":"benoit_headshot_1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/benoit_headshot_1_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/benoit_headshot_1_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":726387,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/benoit_headshot_1_0.jpg?itok=6imuw3yu"}}},"media_ids":["450671"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"452181":{"#nid":"452181","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Student Spotlight: ISyE Grad Students Awarded ARCS Scholarships","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EISyE graduate students Kevin Ryan and Amy Musselman each have been awarded an ARCS Scholars Award from Georgia Tech. According to the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.arcsfoundation.org\u0022\u003EARCS Atlanta website\u003C\/a\u003E, ARCS awards recognize the \u201cbest and brightest\u201d students in their fields \u2026 and meet high standards for academic excellence.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EISyE graduate student Kevin Ryan has received $7,500 from the Achievement Rewards for Academic Scientists program (ARCS). When asked how he felt about receiving the award, he said, \u201cHumbled and a bit vindicated. On the one hand, I know the history of the award and the amazing researchers who have won it in the past.\u0026nbsp;To live up to the standards that they have set will be a challenge.\u0026nbsp;On the other hand, I feel that now I can say with more confidence that I must be doing something right in my research.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERyan chose Operations Research at ISyE because of the depth and breadth of the faculty. He looks forward to pursuing \u201cthe best research opportunities\u201d as a result of the award, and participating as a future ARCS member.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EISyE graduate student Amy Musselman has been awarded the $10,000 Global Impact Award from the Achievement Rewards for Academic Scientists (ARCS). Musselman chose to do her Ph.D. at ISyE because of the numerous faculty doing applied research in a wide array of fields. When she received notification about winning the ARCS award, she was sitting on the beach in Belize with two friends, and she thought, \u201cCould my life be much better right now?\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMusselman has tried to focus her research on areas that will have a positive social or environmental impact and see the ARCS award as confirmation that others see her work as valuable as well.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Amy Musselman and Kevin Ryan, both ISyE grad students, have been awarded scholarships from ARCS"}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2015-09-25 09:21:21","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:36","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-09-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-09-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"452151":{"id":"452151","type":"image","title":"Kevin Ryan Wins ARCS Scholarship","body":null,"created":"1449256280","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:11:20","changed":"1475895194","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:14","alt":"Kevin Ryan Wins ARCS Scholarship","file":{"fid":"203365","name":"kevinarcsphotot.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/kevinarcsphotot_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/kevinarcsphotot_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":59091,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/kevinarcsphotot_0.jpg?itok=xExUfxew"}},"452161":{"id":"452161","type":"image","title":"Amy Musselman Wins ARCS Award","body":null,"created":"1449256280","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:11:20","changed":"1475895194","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:14","alt":"Amy Musselman Wins ARCS Award","file":{"fid":"203366","name":"musselman-photo2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/musselman-photo2_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/musselman-photo2_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":77186,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/musselman-photo2_0.jpg?itok=lq5CaPue"}}},"media_ids":["452151","452161"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"142701","name":"Amy Musselman"},{"id":"133321","name":"ARCS"},{"id":"142691","name":"Kevin Ryan"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:shelley.wunder-smith@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EShelley Wunder-Smith\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIndustrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404.385.4745\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["shelley.wunder-smith@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"446331":{"#nid":"446331","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ISyE\u0027s Undergraduate Program Retains Longstanding Position as # 1 in USNWR Best College Rankings","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering\u2019s (ISyE) undergraduate program retained its longstanding position as the # 1 program of its kind in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com\/best-colleges\/rankings\/engineering-doctorate-industrial-manufacturing\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EU.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E Best College Rankings released on September 9, 2015. \u0026nbsp;This makes 21 consecutive years that the undergraduate program has held this top ranking.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u201cWe are proud that ISyE\u2019s hard work and dedication to excellence in education and research continues to be recognized,\u201d said Edwin Romeijn, professor and H. Milton and Carolyn J. Stewart Chair.\u0026nbsp; \u201cThis long-held position as # 1 in its field is a tribute to our world-class faculty, outstanding students, dedicated staff, and engaged alumni who can be found around the globe in leadership positions.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s College of Engineering also continues to be recognized as one of the best in the nation, tying for sixth place in the annual undergraduate engineering program in the \u003Cem\u003EUSNWR\u003C\/em\u003E rankings. 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Using a highly sophisticated economic model, ISyE Assistant Professor Turgay Ayer and Ph.D. student Qiushi Chen along with researchers at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University used an example of a new lung cancer drug. The study findings was published August 27, 2015 in JAMA Oncology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearchers focused their investigation on a drug called necitumumab, which is awaiting approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Previous studies have shown that the drug extends the life in patients with metastatic squamous lung cancer by about seven weeks.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers used their economic model to factor medication and administration costs with life expectancy, frequency and management of adverse effects, and quality of life. 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The new generation of logistics must integrate supply chains, movement of goods, manufacturing innovation, data analysis for predictive logistics, and growth of urban regions and megacities. It represents the future, and we are thrilled to define that future together with our Singaporean partners.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EChelsea C. White III, Schneider National Chair in Transportation and Logistics and Professor in the Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering, has spearheaded Georgia Tech\u2019s participation in this initiative and is co-leader of the center with the NUS principal investigators, Professors Lee Loo Hay and Chew Ek Peng.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are delighted to be collaborating with NUS in an area of research and innovation that has such potential societal and economic impact for both our countries. 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It also shows both rural and urban communities are in need of improvements in accessibility or travel distance for publicly insured children, although at varying levels across states.\u0026nbsp; Read more:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2015\/08\/150810110632.htm\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2015\/08\/150810110632.htm\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDuring an invited presentation titled \u0022Quantifying Disparities in Accessibility and Availability of Pediatric Primary Care with Implications for Policy Making,\u0022 ISyE\u2019s Nicoleta Serban said the study shows disparities in wait times for pediatric primary care are not as significant as the disparities in travel distance.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"During an invited presentation titled \u0022Quantifying Disparities in Accessibility and Availability of Pediatric Primary Care with Implications for Policy Making,\u0022 ISyE\u2019s Nicoleta Serban said the study shows disparities in wait times for pediatric primary ca"}],"uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2015-08-12 08:49:25","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:22","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-08-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-08-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"54665":{"id":"54665","type":"image","title":"Nicoleta Serban","body":null,"created":"1449175459","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:44:19","changed":"1475894478","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:18","alt":"Nicoleta Serban","file":{"fid":"172607","name":"Serban_Nicoleta_-_Bust.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Serban_Nicoleta_-_Bust_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Serban_Nicoleta_-_Bust_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2967607,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Serban_Nicoleta_-_Bust_1.jpg?itok=smlKoSnl"}}},"media_ids":["54665"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"137681","name":"analysis of disparities"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"398","name":"health"},{"id":"2493","name":"health care"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"3502","name":"nicoleta serban"},{"id":"7867","name":"pediatric care"},{"id":"169752","name":"Stewart School of Industiral \u0026 Systems Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"429711":{"#nid":"429711","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ISyE\u2019s Summer Program, Mission Possible, Introduces High School Students to Industrial Engineering","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIt is no secret ISyE\u2019s esteemed alumni have what it takes to make the impossible possible and have the skills to work in a plethora of areas. They are responsible for such acts as utilizing operating rooms efficiently to serve patients, producing high quality automobiles, and solving problems with the Central Intelligence Agency.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBecause of this, ISyE is making sure students in high school learn just how exciting and rewarding a career in industrial engineering can be. Enter Mission Possible, an annual one-week summer program providing rising 9th through 12th grade students with an overview of the industrial and systems engineering major at Georgia Tech. The program demonstrates how IE is utilized in real-world settings through field trips, game competitions, and lectures. For this camp, ISyE partners with the Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC), which is dedicated to the enhancement of K-12 STEM education.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring Mission Possible 2015, students participated in interactive learning sessions in order to better understand how industrial engineers are changing the world. For example, two companies, Caterpillar and Procter \u0026amp; Gamble (P\u0026amp;G), ran manufacturing games with the students, emphasizing process flow improvements. Students building cars and Lego structures on assembly lines witnessed bottlenecks and struggled with quality control. Caterpillar\u0027s game focused on reducing or eliminating waste in the process and finding ways to make the customer happy. P\u0026amp;G\u0027s game emphasized creating and selling products under a strict production schedule. Both companies gave the students the opportunity to improve by changing processes\u2014from altering their production schedule to cross-training their workers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlso on the agenda was a tour of the Coca-Cola Headquarters, where the students were given a presentation on the company\u2019s supply chain. Through this experience, students heard firsthand how industrial engineering is directly related to products they enjoy every day.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe week ended with student presentations demonstrating all they learned. ISyE hopes to challenge these students to see if they have what it takes to become an industrial engineer and one day make the impossible possible.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis year\u2019s action packed program was made possible, in part, by sponsorship from Procter and Gamble. If you would like to sponsor next year\u2019s program or provide assistance to a student with financial need contact: \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:nancy.sandlin@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Enancy.sandlin@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIf you know of a student who may be interested in attending, contact: \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:brandy.blake@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ebrandy.blake@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E or \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:dawn.strickland@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Edawn.strickland@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMission Possible is where students in high school learn just how exciting and lucrative a career in industrial engineering can be for them.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Mission Possible is a  program that engages students in how IE is utilized in real-world settings through field trips, game competitions, and lectures."}],"uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2015-07-30 10:39:16","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:19","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-07-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-07-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"429671":{"id":"429671","type":"image","title":"Mission Possible: High School Students Learn About Industrial Engineering","body":null,"created":"1449254358","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:39:18","changed":"1475895169","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:49"}},"media_ids":["429671"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"136981","name":"induatrial engineering"},{"id":"52121","name":"Mission Possible"},{"id":"167366","name":"summer camps"},{"id":"167370","name":"summer programs"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"430081":{"#nid":"430081","#data":{"type":"news","title":"EMIL-SCS Currently in Open Enrollment for Class of 2017","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAre you an executive in the supply chain and logistics field, with at least 7-10 years of industry experience? Are you looking to further your education of the supply chain and logistics field? Do you want to explore the globe, tackling challenges in the supply chain and logistics industry first-hand? If you answered yes to any or all of these questions, the EMIL-SCS program is right for you! \u003Cstrong\u003EThe EMIL-SCS Program is currently in open enrollment for the Class of 2017\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe EMIL-SCS Program is the premiere executive-style masters degree in supply chain and logistics. EMIL-SCS is delivered in an Executive format over an 18-month period. Participants meet for two-weeks of intensive classes (residences) every 3-4 months. Members participate via distance learning alternatives between residences. In total, there are 5 EMIL-SCS residences. This unique 18-month masters program keeps key employees on-the-job while teaching them practical techniques for decreasing logistics costs and improving supply chain efficiencies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe EMIL-SCS is currently looking for the next class of supply chain and logistics leaders! \u003Cstrong\u003EThe application window is now open, and will remain open until December 15, 2015\u003C\/strong\u003E. The program admits students on a first-come-first-served basis, until the class is full. The program will accept applications after the December 15, 2015 deadline, as long as spots in the new class are still available.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Class of 2017 will begin classes in Atlanta, GA on January 31, 2016. 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W. Tucker Prize","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDaniel Dadush, Ph.D. ACO 2012, has received the A. W. Tucker Prize of the Mathematical Optimization Society. The A. W. Tucker Prize was established by the Society in 1985, and is awarded at each International Symposium on Mathematical Programming for an outstanding doctoral thesis. At most three finalists are chosen. The finalists and winner are announced and the Prize is awarded at the plenary session of the International Symposium on Mathematical Programming at which prizes are announced, which is customarily the opening ceremony. The finalists are invited to give oral presentations of their work at a special session of the Symposium.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFollowing his Ph.D., Daniel spent two years as a Simons Postdoctoral Fellow in the Computer Science department at New York University. In September 2014 he joined Centrum Wiskunde \u0026amp; Informatica (CWI), a Dutch national research institute for mathematics and computer science, as a tenure track researcher in the Networks and Optimization group.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe is currently interested in developing techniques for solving a broad range of optimization problems, where he particularly likes those benefiting from geometric thinking. In his free time Daniel enjoys traveling, swing dancing, and riding his bike through the canals of Amsterdam.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe citation for the prize reads:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDaniel Dadush obtained an ScB in Mathematics from Brown University in 2006, and a PhD from the Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization program at Georgia Tech under the guidance of Santosh Vempala in 2012. He is currently a tenure track researcher at Centrum Wiskunde and Informatica in Amsterdam.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EIn his PhD thesis \u0022Integer Programming, Lattice Algorithms, and Deterministic Volume Computation\u0022 Dadush presents several impressive results on algorithmic convex geometry, geometry of lattices, and the complexity of integer programming. His results include a proof of the claim that the Chvatal-Gomory closure of a convex body is a rational polyhedron, improved algorithms for finding the shortest and closest lattice vectors, an optimal deterministic algorithm for computing an M-ellipsoid of a convex body, and a much-improved and nearly-optimal deterministic algorithm for computing the volume of a convex body. By combining all the techniques derived in his thesis, Dadush derives the fastest currently known algorithm for integer programming. The complexity of the algorithm represents a significant improvement over classical algorithms by Lenstra and by Kannan and shows Dadush\u0027s deep understanding of lattice techniques and convex geometry. In his work Dadush pays great attention to detail and exposition, which results in a thesis that is truly worthy of the 2015 A.W. Tucker prize.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDaniel Dadush, Ph.D. ACO 2012, has received the A. W. Tucker Prize of the Mathematical Optimization Society.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Daniel Dadush, Ph.D. ACO 2012, has received the A. W. 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Villafane ultimately chose ISyE because of the versatility of the program and its distinction of its well-rounded courses that combined a solid foundation and strong analytical mindset for those who became industrial engineers. \u201cI chose Georgia Tech because its reputation and the quality of its education. I continue to be very proud of being part of the Georgia Tech family. I truly am a rambling wreck from Georgia Tech, and a helluva an Engineer\u201d.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVillafane\u2019s distinguished career path has led him to his current position, VP of Sales and Business Development (Commercial) at SES.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow has ISyE prepared you for your career?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe program, its emphasis, and courses provide a world class foundation that is very relevant in most industries, even complex sales and business development which is my career focus area. Another important part of the answer has to do with the large, proud ISyE community worldwide. I am originally from El Salvador, and while at Tech, I was part of a very tight-knit Latino community. To this day, we remain connected, and the camaraderie and support is still there, strong as ever. It is great to see that many of them are leaders in their respective fields, contributing in positive ways to the societies where they live. One example is my friend \u0026amp; ex-classmate, Juan Carlos Varela, who now is the President of Panama.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat does SES do?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESES is one of the largest satellite solutions companies in the world (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ses.com\u0022 title=\u0022www.ses.com\u0022\u003Ewww.ses.com\u003C\/a\u003E). We are part of the communications platform that allows people to be connected at all times and deliver communication services that help improve people\u2019s lives.\u0026nbsp; With our partners, we focus on being the most customer centric satellite solutions provider in the industry. We have over 1,200 professionals in offices around the world.\u0026nbsp; We run, operate, and commercialize a robust, modern satellite infrastructure comprised of over 50 satellites that cover 99% of the world population.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAs VP of Sales and BD (Commercial) at SES, what do you oversee?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMy responsibility is Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America and certain U.S. service providers that utilize satellite communications to provide services to the Latin America Region. I spend most of my time in the Mexico facility as it is one of our key markets and we have several strategic initiatives in process.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDescribe a typical work day.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVery simple, I strive daily to do what is necessary by: (1) Maintaining a healthy personal\/work balance. (2) Maintaining and improving our revenue position. (3) Maintaining and improving customer satisfaction and customer intimacy (4) Continuing to develop a high performance organization focused on value selling. 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Ahmed\u003C\/strong\u003E, Dean\u0027s Professor and Stewart Faculty Fellow, co-authored the paper \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.optimization-online.org\/DB_HTML\/2014\/05\/4342.html\u0022\u003ELarge scale Decentralized Unit Commitment\u003C\/a\u003E that was published in the \u003Cem\u003EInternational Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems\u003C\/em\u003E along with Mohammad Javad Feizollahi, ISyE Ph.D. student, Santiago Grijalva, associate professor at the School of Electrical Engineering (ECE), and Mitch Costley, an ECE Ph.D. student. Their paper focuses on a method for formulating and solving a decentralized unit commitment problem. The method, which extends the alternating direction method of multipliers, is presented along with several heuristics and refinements to mitigate oscillations and traps in local optimality that result from the nonconvexity of unit commitment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EShabbir Ahmed, Santanu Dey\u003C\/strong\u003E, Fouts Family Associate Professor, \u003Cstrong\u003EGustavo Angulo\u003C\/strong\u003E, ISyE Ph.D. student, and Volker Kaibel, \u0026nbsp;Chair for Mathematical Optimization at the Institute for Mathematical Optimization co-authored the paper \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.optimization-online.org\/DB_HTML\/2013\/09\/4041.html\u0022\u003EForbidden Vertices\u003C\/a\u003E that was published in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EMathematics of Operations Research\u003C\/em\u003E, vol.40\u0026nbsp; In this work, they introduce and study the forbidden-vertices problem and provide additional tractability results and extended formulations when P has binary vertices only. Some applications and extensions to integral polytopes are discussed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EShabbir Ahmed, George Nemhauser\u003C\/strong\u003E, A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Institute Professor, and Qie He, assistant professor at the University of Minnesota, co-authored the paper \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.optimization-online.org\/DB_HTML\/2012\/10\/3637.html\u0022\u003EMinimum Concave Cost Flow Over a Grid Network\u003C\/a\u003Ethat was published in\u003Cem\u003EMathematical Programming \u003C\/em\u003Evol.150. They studied the minimum concave cost network flow problem over a grid network with a general nonnegative separable concave cost function and showed that this problem is polynomially solvable when all sources are in the first echelon and all sinks are in two echelons, and when there is a single source but many sinks in multiple echelons.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESantanu Dey,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EFouts Family Associate Professor,\u0026nbsp;had his paper,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bit.ly\/1CV2IfZ\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAnalysis of MILP Techniques for the Pooling Problem\u003C\/a\u003E, published in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EINFORMS Journal of Operations Research. In this paper, we prove that the ratio of the upper bound obtained by solving piecewise-linear relaxations (objective function is maximization) to the optimal objective function value of the pooling problem is at most n, where n is the number of output nodes.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPaul Griffin\u003C\/strong\u003E, Virginia C. and Joseph C. Mello Chair and Professor, and ISyE Ph.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003ENathanial Bastian\u003C\/strong\u003E published two papers. The first one, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007%2Fs11590-015-0888-1\u0022\u003EMulti-criteria Logistics Modeling for Military Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Aerial Delivery Operations\u003C\/a\u003E, is on a supply network design model that was developed for the military for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief for their work with USAID that is published in \u003Cem\u003EOptimization Letters\u003C\/em\u003E.\u0026nbsp; The second one, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/pubsonline.informs.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1287\/inte.2014.0779\u0022\u003EThe AMEDD Uses Goal Programming to Optimize Workforce Planning Decisions\u003C\/a\u003E, is a workforce planning model they built for the army medical system that is published in \u003Cem\u003EInterfaces\u003C\/em\u003E.\u0026nbsp; The results and models in both of these papers are already in practice.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpyros Reveliotis\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor, had his paper \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www2.isye.gatech.edu\/~spyros\/publications\/IEEE-RAM.pdf\u0022\u003ECoordinating Autonomy: Sequential Resource Allocation Systems for Automation\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;published in the June issue of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EIEEE Robotics \u0026amp; Automation Magazine.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003EThe paper is an invited tutorial overviewing a theoretical framework that is developed in an effort to support effective and efficient resource allocation in the context of many complex technological applications; these applications range from automated production and other workflow management systems, to intelligent transportation systems, to multi-threaded software and the quantum computing paradigm that is currently explored for the future computing systems. A large part of the presented results are coming from the author\u2019s research program and his collaborations with other researchers in the relevant area.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEdwin Romeijn\u003C\/strong\u003E, ISyE School Chair, co-authored the paper \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/scitation.aip.org\/content\/aapm\/journal\/medphys\/42\/3\/10.1118\/1.4908224\u0022\u003EOptimization Approaches to Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy Planning\u003C\/a\u003E that was published in \u003Cem\u003EMedical Physics. \u003C\/em\u003EIn this paper, the authors review the state-of-the-art in volumetric modulated arc therapy planning from an algorithmic perspective.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECraig Tovey,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EDavid M. McKenney Family Professor,\u0026nbsp;published two papers within the Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Autonomous Agents\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.aamas2015.com\/en\/AAMAS_2015_USB\/aamas\/p1757.pdf\u0022\u003ETowards Completely Decentralized Mustering for StarCraft\u003C\/a\u003E was co-authored with \u003Cstrong\u003EZach Suffern,\u003C\/strong\u003E undergrad research assistant at Georgia Tech, and Sven Koenig, professor at the University of Southern California. The paper studied decentralized agent coordination with performance guarantees by developing a primitive for mustering teams of agents of minimum acceptable team sizes for StarCraft using randomization to accurately estimate the size of the team\u003Cstrong\u003E. \u003C\/strong\u003EHis second paper,\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.aamas2015.com\/en\/AAMAS_2015_USB\/aamas\/p1851.pdf\u0022\u003EProbabilistic Copeland Tournaments\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E,\u003C\/em\u003Ewas co-authored with Sam Saarinen, undergrad research assistant at the University of Kentucky and Judith Goldsmith, professor at the University of Kentucky. In this paper, they consider a probabilistic model of round-robin tournaments, or equivalently, Copeland voting, where candidates are the voters.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKeynotes, Panels, and Presentations:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EShabbir Ahmed\u003C\/strong\u003E, Dean\u0027s Professor and Stewart Faculty Fellow, gave the keynote on \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bilkent.edu.tr\/BT_Memorial_2015.pdf\u0022\u003EScenario Decomposition of Stochastic 0-1 Problems\u003C\/a\u003E at the Barbaros Tansel Memorial Lecture held at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey on May 8. He presented a scenario decomposition algorithm for stochastic 0-1 programs. The algorithm recovers an optimal solution by iteratively exploring and cutting-off candidate solutions obtained from solving scenario subproblems. Ahmed was also the keynote speaker on \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.pqm.unibe.ch\/content\/cuso\/summer_seminar\/index_ger.html\u0022\u003EStochastic Integer Programming\u003C\/a\u003E at the CUSO Summer Seminar held in Zinal, Switzerland June 7. He gave four lectures: stochastic integer programming, exploiting submodularity in stochastic integer programming, and lastly scenario decomposition of stochastic integer programs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProfessor\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ESpyros Reveliotis\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Egave a plenary talk \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gdl.cinvestav.mx\/dcds2015\/plenary.html\u0022\u003EReal-Time Management of Complex Resource Allocation Systems: Necessity, Achievements and Further Challenges\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;at the 5th International Workshop on Dependable Control of Discrete Systems. \u0026nbsp;To effectively support and manage the extensive levels of concurrency and operational flexibility that are contemplated for these environments, and the ensuing complexity, there is a substantial need for Formal models and tools that will enable the modelling, analysis and eventually the control of aforementioned resource allocation function so that the resulting dynamics are, both, behaviorally correct and operationally efficient. His talk gave an overview of a research program that seeks to address the aforementioned need by using the unifying abstraction of the resource allocation system and supporting modelling frameworks.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMartin Salvesbergh,\u003C\/strong\u003E James C. Edenfield Chair and Professor,\u0026nbsp;gave the plenary lecture\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/verolog2015.univie.ac.at\/\u0022\u003ESupporting Innovations in Transportation: Research Opportunities\u003C\/a\u003E at the 4th Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics Optimization on June 9 held in Vienna, Austria. His lecture focused on the ever-increasing digital connectivity, automotive technology advances, and societal changes that have resulted in a proliferation of disruptive and innovative transportation services, for both passengers and freight. Salvbergh reviewed some of these transportation services and highlight how they can lead to new, interesting, and challenging routing and scheduling problems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EValerie Thomas, \u003C\/strong\u003EAnderson Interface Professor of Natural Systems,\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Epresented \u003Cem\u003ESolar Air Heaters: Enhancing Heat Transfer with Artificial Roughnes\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003Es\u003C\/em\u003E with co-author Professor Abdul-Malik E. Momin, of Sana\u2019a University, Yemen, at the International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology (ISSST), in Dearborn Michigan on May 20.\u0026nbsp;ISSST is the premier conference for research related to the sustainability of science and technology systems. The program covers the spectrum of issues for assessing and managing products and services across their life cycle, and the design, management, and policy implications of sustainable engineered systems and technologies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETim Brown\u003C\/strong\u003E, managing director of the Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute, moderated the panel \u003Cem\u003EIgniting Innovation through Incubation\u003C\/em\u003E at the APEC Global Supply Chain Event for SMEs on June 8. \u0026nbsp;The panel discussed how incubated process coordinated with academic institution creates better global export opportunities and financing technical capability training that can be provided to SMEs. The panel included: Tod R. Burwell, president and CEO at the Bankers\u2019 Association for Finance and Trade, David J. Closs, John H. McConnell Chaired Professor of Business, at Michigan State University, and Marcos Vaena, International Trade Centre.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProfessor\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EXiaoming Huo\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Ewas invited to be a panelist at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bit.ly\/1zSRZMG\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EStatistical Challenges in Assessing and Fostering the Reproducibility of Scientific Results Workshop\u003C\/a\u003E. The panel was organized by the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics, originally established by the National Research Council. Other panelists and speakers included Giovanni Parmigiani from the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Lida Anestidou from the National Research Council, Tim Errington from the Center for Open Science, and Roger Peng, from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChip White\u003C\/strong\u003E, Schneider National Chair in Transportation and Logistics, was selected to moderate the panel on \u201cStrategies to Identify and Manage Supply Chains\u201d at The 2015 SelectUSA Investment Summit Summit on March 23-24, in Washington, DC. The topic of discussion focused on how the U.S. offers access to strong networks of small and medium-sized suppliers and the opportunities for connecting with innovative U.S. suppliers, including access to resources, programs, and case studies. Included on the panel was The Honorable Steve Beshear, Governor of Kentucky, Reginaldo Ecclissato, Senior Vice President of Supply Chain at Unilever North America, Cindi Marsiglio, Vice President of U.S. Manufacturing at Walmart, and Michael McNamara, Chief Executive Officer of Flextronics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChip White, Tim Brown\u003C\/strong\u003E and\u003Cstrong\u003E Carole Bennett\u003C\/strong\u003E, SCL marketing and administrative manager, were largely involved with organizing the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/export.gov\/apecsme\/\u0022\u003EAPEC SME Global Supply Chain Event\u003C\/a\u003E. This event provides a unique opportunity for U.S. SMEs to engage with other SMEs from the Asia-Pacific region while learning about multinational corporation requirements, government regulations, supply chain financing, cold chain technology, smart chain and logistics management, and IT chain solutions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EISyE Ph.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003EAmelia Musselman\u003C\/strong\u003E presented \u003Cem\u003EAnalyzing Wind Location Options for the Southwest Power Pool\u003C\/em\u003E at the 2015 ISERC Conference in Nashville, Tenn. She is co-advised by \u003Cstrong\u003EValerie Thomas\u003C\/strong\u003E, Anderson Interface Professor of Natural Systems,and \u003Cstrong\u003EDima Nazzal\u003C\/strong\u003E, executive director of academic administration and student experience.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENew Grants:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlan Erera\u003C\/strong\u003E, associate chair for graduate studies and Coca-Cola Professor, and\u003Cstrong\u003E Martin Salvesbergh,\u003C\/strong\u003E James C. Edenfield Chair and Professor, jointly received a foundation research grant from GrubHub for a 12-month research effort.\u0026nbsp; They will work on methodology and algorithms for optimizing their meal delivery processes, with the intent of maximizing the diner delivery experience and improving utilization of their independent delivery driver contractors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMathworks, the leading developer of mathematical computing software for engineers and scientists, has awarded a grant to ISyE for the development of computational tools to support undergraduate education in material flow systems.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cstrong\u003ELeon McGinnis, \u003C\/strong\u003EProfessor Emeritus, and \u003Cstrong\u003EDima Nazzal\u003C\/strong\u003E, executive director of academic administration and student experience, are leading the design effort, with \u003Cstrong\u003EGeorge Thiers\u003C\/strong\u003E, post-doc, and \u003Cstrong\u003ETim Sprock\u003C\/strong\u003E, ISyE Ph.D. student, leading the implementation. The goal is to enable students to use standard analytical approximations as well as discrete event simulations to evaluate and design a wide variety of flow processes, developing not only analytical skills but also intuition about the roles and limits of engineering approximations.\u0026nbsp; In addition, the project will explore the potential for students to use Mathworks\u0027 Notebook to create a digital archive containing, in an executable form, the models they have learned and used in their homework and projects.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA few highlights of papers published, keynotes, and new grants from our esteemed ISyE faculty.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A few highlights of papers published, keynotes, and new grants from our esteemed ISyE faculty."}],"uid":"27868","created_gmt":"2015-06-09 10:49:41","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:33","author":"Lizzie Millman","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-06-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-06-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"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\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"406381":{"#nid":"406381","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Alumni Spotlight: Stan Chia, IE 2005, Optimizing a Feeding Frenzy","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStan Chia\u003C\/strong\u003E, IE 2005, grew up fascinated with anything that had to do with outer space and especially space shuttles. So it should come as no big surprise that he originally wanted to be an aerospace engineer. So how did he become an industrial engineer?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a Singapore citizen by birth, he served in the military right after high school. It was through that experience that he realized he didn\u2019t want to pursue a career in such a specialized field as aerospace engineering. He still wanted the discipline of engineering, but preferred a broader discipline, and \u201clo and behold, [he] discovered industrial engineering.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOnce I was set on industrial engineering, it was clear to me that Georgia Tech was the best choice. I had already applied to the Aerospace Engineering program, so I requested a switch over to IE,\u201d says Chia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESince graduating ten years ago, Chia\u2019s colorful career is one that many IE\u2019s dream of having.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;And the main theme of his dream is delivering value to his customers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChia currently serves as senior vice president of operations at GrubHub\u0026nbsp;(\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/labs.grubhub.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/labs.grubhub.com\/\u003C\/a\u003E),\u0026nbsp;an online and mobile food ordering and\u0026nbsp;delivery\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Ecompany that connects you with a plethora of takeout restaurant choices delivered right to your door. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this interview, Chia brings us up to speed on his life as an industrial engineer as well as how many times a week he orders through GrubHub.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStart from the beginning and tell us how you got to where you are now.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;I like to think of myself as a Singapore born New Yorker. I was born in Singapore and moved to New York when I was about 10 months old.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;So consider me a Yankee loving pizza snob. I had the privilege of living in New York, Hong Kong, and Singapore, and then served in the Singapore Armed Forces as an Armored Infantry Lieutenant.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;I credit the diversity of my upbringing and the amazing experience in the military for helping me to develop into who I am today.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERight out of school, I started in General Electric\u2019s Operations Management Leadership Program, a fantastic entry-level program that allowed me to gain some core supply chain knowledge and develop my leadership skills.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Upon finishing the program, I took on a variety of leadership roles at GE in Six Sigma, Operations, and Business Management. While there, I also pursued and received my MBA from Emory. I transitioned from GE to Cisco systems, because my inner geek always told me that eventually I wanted to get into the hi-tech space, and while I loved my experience at GE, I wasn\u2019t involved in one of their hi-tech businesses.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;At Cisco, I was able to transition some of my knowledge and experience from a long-cycle business to a shorter-cycle space \u2013 as well as engage deeply with the customer base. I then had the opportunity to join Amazon, where customer obsession rules, you work hard, play hard and make history. My first role with Amazon was leading the World Wide Amazon Customer Excellence Systems Supply Chain team. It was a wild ride, working with critical vendors, and technology, and operations teams, determining innovations in the rapidly changing e-commerce world.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFrom there, I had the opportunity to run the U.S. Amazon Retail Toys business. If you ever thought that the toy industry was a fun place to work, it is.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Working with the toy companies you grew up with, determining the best way to delight customers, while working for a technology company obsessed with customers \u2013 was the most challenging and fun job I\u2019ve ever had the privilege of having.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Most recently, I was presented a new challenge and opportunity \u2013 to help grow and develop the operations infrastructure at the nation\u2019s leading online and mobile food ordering\u0026nbsp;and delivery\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Ecompany, GrubHub, where I began in April of 2015 as Senior Vice President of Operations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAs the senior VP of operations, what exactly do you do?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003EI\u2019m responsible for developing and managing the operational infrastructure of the company, as well as the P\u0026amp;L (profit and loss) for our delivery business units.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDescribe a typical work day.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003EI begin by reviewing a summary of the previous day\u2019s performance in our various markets to identify issues with our diners or restaurants that require immediate attention. I don\u2019t see that changing in the foreseeable future, as our priority will always be our diners and restaurants. Other than that, I don\u2019t have a \u201ctypical\u201d workday, as each day brings new and exciting challenges.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow do you pull in restaurants to work with you?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe strive to provide a valuable offering to our restaurants so they want to work with us. Their success is our success. To continue being that positive business partner, we are always looking for ways to bring even more value to both our diners and restaurants. This has proved to be an effective strategy that is enticing to our growing two-sided network.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow do you optimize your fleet of deliverers?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003EEvery decision we make regarding our drivers is in consideration of our customers. We want to make sure that our restaurants and our diners are getting the optimum takeout experience.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat is on the biggest challenges you face in this business?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003EAs with everything in a digital and technologically-advanced age, the landscape we deal with is always changing, with innovation happening at historically unsurpassed rates.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Ensuring that we stay ahead of the curve to continue delivering value remains our utmost priority as well as our biggest challenge.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat do you find the most enjoyable about your work?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003EI love working in an organization with amazing people that are unwaveringly focused on customers. It\u2019s a recipe for success, and it\u2019s what GrubHub is all about.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow often do you order using the GrubHup app?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003EHonestly?\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;When I consider lunch and dinner, and with a 20-month-old at home, I use it at the very least 5 \u2013 6 times a week, but often more than that.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;It\u2019s so easy. Click, click, food.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAre there any new developments on the horizon for GrubHub that you can talk about?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI would simply say that our focus on continuous innovation on behalf of our diners and restaurants has us consistently focused on new developments.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Keep watching!\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStan Chia\u003C\/strong\u003E, IE 2005, grew up fascinated with anything that had to do with outer space and especially space shuttles. So it should come as no big surprise that he originally wanted to be an aerospace engineer. So how did he become an industrial engineer? Read on.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Stan Chia, IE 2005, grew up fascinated with anything that had to do with outer space and especially space shuttles. 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No surprise, being that they are twins.\u0026nbsp; The powerful pair both studied supply chain engineering at ISyE and post-graduation are beginning their careers at Johnson \u0026amp; Johnson, albeit in different states.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir most recent accolade was the ISyE Alpha Pi Mu Academic Excellence Award for their GPA, and rigor of curriculum and research. The award was presented by ISyE Professor Dave Goldsman who has witnessed their inseparable bond. He says, \u201cTheir close relationship as twins is a pleasure to observe \u2013 they often finish each other\u2019s sentences as well as challenge one another on academic, political and other issues.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFrom playing significant roles on their senior design team last semester where they were finalists and winners of the Southeastern IIE Student Technical Paper Competition, to both leading a public speaking club for Georgia Tech students, it is clear that this duo will be doing big things in the future. We were able to talk to the two about their time at ISyE and what lies ahead for them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat motivated you to become an industrial engineer? Were you always interested in ISyE?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDylan\u003C\/strong\u003E: Originally, I enrolled into Georgia Tech as a BMED major. I changed to an ME major, before ultimately deciding to be an ISyE major. I became interested in industrial engineering because I like how it is a hybrid of technical and business acumen.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENick:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp; I was looking for a major in which I could combine my passion for data analytics and business.\u0026nbsp; I found that ISyE allowed for just that after I attended Freshmen Orientation for ISyE and heard Dr. Chen Zhou\u0027s presentation about industrial engineering.\u0026nbsp; As a high school student in California, I originally applied to Georgia Tech as an applied mathematics major and was going to double major in business.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat was it like to go through this program together as twin brothers and now classmates? What is it like to be twins going through the same academic program at the same time?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDylan:\u003C\/strong\u003E I really enjoyed having gone through the program with Nicholas. I believe we had around 20 of the courses together, so it was nice to have a majority of the program with each other. I always felt like I had a \u201cstudy buddy\u201d in my course with Nick, and would trust his input with any questions I had on the course material.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENick:\u003C\/strong\u003E It was awesome. I believe in the majority of our ISyE courses we were enrolled in the same class times, so outside of class it was nice to be on the same schedule. One benefit that comes to mind in going through the same classes together is that we were able to study\/do homework together.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDo you compete or complement each other?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDylan:\u003C\/strong\u003E I like to think that we complement each other.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENick:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;I\u0027d say complement. We both have different strengths and may thus approach problems from different perspectives.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStudies have shown that twins usually think alike; do you find this to be true with both of you?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDylan:\u003C\/strong\u003E I think that our mindsets are similar yet different. It is similar in that we have similar aspirations and motivation. However, it is different in that Nicholas tends to think in the \u201cbig picture\u201d, while I think in terms of the \u201cspecific details\u201d.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENick:\u003C\/strong\u003E Growing up, we were always together. Thus, I think personality and interests we tend to be similar. However, in terms of problem solving, we approach problems with different perspectives.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Can you tell us about the public speaking club you led for GT Tech students? Why do you think this is important to be a part of? \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDylan:\u003C\/strong\u003E The goal of the Public Speaking Club is to provide a positive informal setting for peers to learn many essential elements of public speaking such as volume, eye contact, hand gestures, and body movement, etc. Over the years, I have seen many undergraduate and graduate students greatly improve and develop confidence in public speaking from partaken in this club. I feel that developing this skill is important because in the business world, effective communication skills are highly desired.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENick:\u003C\/strong\u003E When Dylan and I were part of the public speaking club, what we enjoyed most about it was in seeing individuals have a growth in confidence.\u0026nbsp; Thus, I feel like the most important thing is not the \u0022little pieces\u0022 of advice for how to improve a speech.\u0026nbsp; I believe it is more than that; I think the importance of the organization is thus the confidence it helps individuals grow so that the next time a presentation opportunity arises, he or she will be looking forward to it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHave you had a dream come true while at ISyE?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDylan:\u003C\/strong\u003E I am really appreciative at everything the ISyE program has offered to me in my 4.5 years. Through my three internships with General Motors, General Electric, and Johnson \u0026amp; Johnson, I got to learn about different industries and see different parts of the United States (Michigan, Arizona, New Jersey). Also, I am a glad to have done the GT Lorraine program where I got to visit 17 cities and 7 countries through Europe.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENick\u003C\/strong\u003E: Looking back at my 4.5 years at Georgia Tech, I am grateful for the opportunities it has allowed for me to travel throughout the world.\u0026nbsp; Through Georgia Tech, I\u0027ve been able to have internship experiences in Alaska with BP, New Jersey with Johnson \u0026amp; Johnson, and Kentucky with Toyota.\u0026nbsp; Also was able to spend a summer in Europe through the GT Lorraine Study Abroad program.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat can you attribute your academic success to?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDylan:\u003C\/strong\u003E Showing up to a professor\u2019s office hours with prepared questions. After each class, I would review and rewrite my notes from the lecture, and if I didn\u2019t understand something, I would reach out to the professor. By doing this consistently, I felt that I never really fell behind in the course.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENick:\u003C\/strong\u003E Hard work ethic is one aspect.\u0026nbsp; I\u0027ve also been lucky to have great professors who were more than happy to answer any questions I\u0027d have in office hours and emails.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat is one thing you couldn\u2019t live without?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDylan\u003C\/strong\u003E: I would say my smartphone. I like to always be reachable, and have access to instant information.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENick:\u003C\/strong\u003E Cell phone.\u0026nbsp; Post college, it has been even more important, as it is allows for me to keep in touch with my buddies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat are three traits you would use to describe each other?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDylan:\u003C\/strong\u003E I would say that Nicholas is loyal, caring, and hardworking. I know that Nicholas always \u201cgot my back\u201d and has my best interests in mind.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENick:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp; Diligent, loyal, and well-rounded.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Do you feel anything will change when you start work at Johnson \u0026amp; Johnson, since you\u2019ve spent most of your life together?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDylan:\u003C\/strong\u003E So far in the four months we have been working with Johnson and Johnson, I would say that things really haven\u2019t changed. During the weekdays, I am so focused on my work that it doesn\u2019t really hit me that we are separated from each other. We have been separated before during past internships, so we have been through this before. Fortunately, we are only two hours away from each other - I am in Pennsylvania, while Nick is in New Jersey - so we try to see each other every other weekend.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENick:\u003C\/strong\u003E In the past four months since we have started work, not much has changed.\u0026nbsp; We typically see each other every other weekend, and sight-see around the Northeast.\u0026nbsp; During the weekdays, work has been quite busy so I haven\u0027t really thought about it much during the weekdays. The times that we get to see each other we make the most of it, and it is just like our old days before college and Georgia Tech. Most of our buddies are in Atlanta, but we are lucky to have one in New York who we are looking forward to continue spending time with them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat do you do for fun?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDylan:\u003C\/strong\u003E For fun, I like playing sports, lifting weights, traveling, and reading.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENick:\u003C\/strong\u003E I like to play sports (basketball and baseball), travel, and root on my New York Yankees!\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENick\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Dylan Buczek\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;have been together their whole life, as best friends and biggest supporters of one another. 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Three ISyE alumni received awards at this year\u2019s induction ceremony.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMichelle Jarrard\u003C\/strong\u003E, IE 1989, and \u003Cstrong\u003EMajor General Kelly McKeague\u003C\/strong\u003E, BSIE 1981, MSIE 1987, both received The Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award for their distinguished contributions to the profession, field, Institute, or society at large. \u003Cstrong\u003EDennis V. Vohs\u003C\/strong\u003E, IE 1976, received an Engineering Alumni Hall of Fame Award is for his meritorious engineering and managerial contributions during his career.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMichelle Jarrard\u003C\/strong\u003E is a director of McKinsey \u0026amp; Company. In her capacity as director of firm personnel (CHRO), she leads the firm\u2019s people functions for all firm members globally, which includes: Recruiting; Learning; Compensation; Benefits; Evaluation and Promotion; Diversity; Workforce Planning; HR Tools, Metrics, Policies and Risk Management. She serves on the firm\u2019s operating committee, the group of directors appointed by the managing director to oversee the firm\u2019s operations worldwide. Jarrard originally joined McKinsey in 1989 in the Atlanta office. Her client service focused on operational transformations for clients in industrial and service-based industries. In 2004, she moved to London for an assignment as the chief of staff to the firm\u2019s managing director, and she accepted her current role in 2007. 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Tell me about your experience there and what you learned?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E Both my internships with Deloitte Consulting were quite different. The first summer I was on an SAP project where I had the opportunity to not only learn how to work with the software but also closely observe how technology has become a crucial component in firms\u0027 successes. The second summer I worked with a relatively small team with senior client executives. I had a chance to observe and learn from senior clients about the challenges they faced. 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This is the first year that ISyE has given this award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur outstanding graduate students are integral to the teaching mission of the Stewart School,\u201d said Alan Erera, associate chair for graduate studies and Coca-Cola Professor at ISyE. \u201cTugce and Simon have demonstrated a commitment to excellence in teaching that is exemplary and worthy of commendation, providing our undergraduate students with top notch instruction and course support.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe GSI award\u0026nbsp;is given to recognize excellence in teaching by a graduate student as measured by exceptional scores on the Course-Instructor Opinion Survey and other evidence of teaching effectiveness including accessibility to all students and passion about teaching and learning.\u0026nbsp;Tugce Isik won the award this year for teaching ISYE 3044 Simulation Analysis and Design; a required course in the IE curriculum.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETugce motivates her students through her strong curiosity and enthusiasm for the topics she teaches. She sets clear teaching goals, has strong communication with her students in and outside the classroom, and helps the students to see the values of the course material for themselves, \u201cnot just something they want to get over with.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Tugce says of her class: \u201cMy class is not necessarily the easiest, but I think being open, fair, and friendly helps a great deal.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe GTA award recognizes ISyE graduate students who have demonstrated exceptional performance in the execution of their TA responsibilities. Simon Mak received nominations from both the students he assisted and the faculty member he worked with in the required foundational course ISyE 2027 Probability with Applications.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a teaching assistant, Simon strives for an engaged and interactive teaching and learning environment. He works with his students to ensure a strong foundation of concepts as well as to build problem-solving strategy thinking rather than merely showing students how to solve a specific homework problem.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;His goal is to provide students with the tools they need to solve any problems they face, within the course or otherwise, rather than having them try to follow step-by-step solutions without understanding why such steps were taken.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe awards were presented at the Graduate Student Honors Luncheon on April 16, 2015.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EISyE Ph.D. students\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ETugce Isik\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ESimon Mak\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Ereceived ISyE graduate awards this year: the ISyE Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award and the ISyE Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, respectively.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE Ph.D. students Tugce Isik and Simon Mak received ISyE graduate awards this year: the ISyE Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award (GSI) and the ISyE Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award (GTA), respectively."}],"uid":"27868","created_gmt":"2015-04-20 06:55:06","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:03","author":"Lizzie Millman","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-04-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-04-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"397621":{"id":"397621","type":"image","title":"Tugce Isik","body":null,"created":"1449246361","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:26:01","changed":"1475895115","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:55","alt":"Tugce Isik","file":{"fid":"75709","name":"tugce2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tugce2.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tugce2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":890339,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tugce2.jpg?itok=7S5qll5-"}},"397611":{"id":"397611","type":"image","title":"Simon Mak","body":null,"created":"1449246361","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:26:01","changed":"1475895115","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:55","alt":"Simon Mak","file":{"fid":"75708","name":"img_0075_-_edited.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_0075_-_edited.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_0075_-_edited.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1311674,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/img_0075_-_edited.jpg?itok=oD57HMMk"}}},"media_ids":["397621","397611"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"18461","name":"graduate awards"},{"id":"109851","name":"isye students"},{"id":"168869","name":"Student Spotlight"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"397811":{"#nid":"397811","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Undergraduates Honored at Annual ISyE Awards Ceremony","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStudents, faculty, parents, alumni, and award sponsors joined together to recognize some of ISyE\u2019s exceptional undergraduate students for their outstanding academic achievement as well as for their contributions to the School and the community on April 7, 2015 at ISyE\u2019s annual Undergraduate Awards Ceremony.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECongratulations to the following students: \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPeter Gumulia \u003C\/strong\u003Eand\u003Cstrong\u003E Haley Hahmann\u003C\/strong\u003E received The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering Leadership Award for their strong leadership in the ISyE community and beyond. Peter served as president of the Student Chapter of IIE and has made a lasting and positive impact on the ISyE community.\u0026nbsp; His leadership skills show in the many well-planned and executed events and activities that provided development opportunities and enhanced students\u2019 exposure to academic and career opportunities. He established stronger partnerships with other organizations in ISyE and is an inspiring person who is admired by his peers. During her tenure as the president of the ISyE ambassadors, Haley created a new vision for the organization that broadened its impact and improved its efficiency and effectiveness. For example, during Haley\u2019s leadership the ambassadors launched a new outreach program at Atlanta high schools to introduce underrepresented minorities to the field of Industrial Engineering.\u0026nbsp; During the same year, she streamlined multiple processes and increased and diversified the organization\u0027s membership.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDylan and Nicholas Buczek\u003C\/strong\u003E received the ISyE Alpha Pi Mu Academic Excellence Award for their GPA, rigor of curriculum, research, and other scholarly accomplishment. Dylan and Nicholas Buczek have made their mark in ISyE.\u0026nbsp; According to their professor, Dave Goldsman, their close relationship as twins is a \u201cpleasure to observe \u2013 they often finish each other\u2019s sentences as well as challenge one another on academic, political and other issues.\u201d\u0026nbsp; Dylan and Nicholas played significant roles on their senior design team last semester.\u0026nbsp; The team\u2019s project, which was ultimately selected as one of the finalists, focused on the development of a decision support system that improved the accuracy of predicting infectious organs from 70% to 90%.\u0026nbsp; Their report won the Southeastern IIE student Technical Paper Competition in 2015.\u0026nbsp; They also worked together to form a public speaking club for Georgia Tech students that helps other students improve this very important skill.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAnubhav Jain\u003C\/strong\u003E received The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering Service Award for his exceptional service to ISyE. Anubhav has supported the ISyE program and his fellow students immensely throughout his tenure at Georgia Tech. He has served and contributed through multiple roles on the IIE board during his time here. He has helped countless students, and cares for his fellow peers\u2019 academic success as much as his own success.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlex Moran\u003C\/strong\u003E received the Henry Ford II Best Junior Award for best academic performance in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering. This award is administered in the College of Engineering and given to the student at the end of the third year with best academic performance in the ISyE. In addition to a 4.0 GPA, he conducts high quality research under demanding advisors. Julie Swann, Harold R. and Mary Anne Nash Professor, who presented Moran the award, said he is one \u0022of ISyE\u2019s brightest stars.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJisu Park\u003C\/strong\u003E received the COE Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award organized by The Undergraduate Student Research Program (USRP). Jisu won the PURA award and conducted research under the supervision of Professor Seong-Hee Kim, who says of Jisu is curious, creative, enthusiastic, and possesses excellent skills in analysis and computing. Jisu\u2019s research shows the impact of measurement errors in surveillance sensor networks and his research paper was selected as a finalist for the Undergraduate OR Research Prize in INFORMS in 2014.\u0026nbsp; He is also the co-author of a journal paper under review.\u0026nbsp; He will attend graduate school at Columbia in fall 2015.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGabriel Paik received the\u003C\/strong\u003E ISyE Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award. Gabriel was a teacher assistant in ISyE Adjunct Porfessor Alisha Walker\u2019s ISYE2027 class last fall. She says, \u201cHe was the best teacher assistant I have had so far at Georgia Tech. He made complex concepts seem really simple and helped me learn everything in depth.\u201d Students says he is always available for questions, help, or just being a good resource in general.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELorenzo Azarcon, Marco Ferro, Zulqar Islam, Tommy Lam, Alnoor Ruhani, Kyle Seebohm and Diem Tran\u003C\/strong\u003E received the Jack C. Webb Scholarship based on their scholarship, leadership, extracurricular and community activities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECheyenne Cazaubon, Lisa Liu and Macie Whatley\u003C\/strong\u003E received the Kurt Salmon Associates Scholarship in Industrial and Systems Engineering for their academic merit and contribution to ISyE.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENoland Smith\u003C\/strong\u003E received the KS2 Technologies, Inc. Entrepreneurship Award for his entrepreneurship spirit while pursuing his degree. Noland has always been on the lookout for different business ideas, starting out by selling English study guides while in high school. Although additional income is good, Noland believes that the art of creating and maintaining a business is appealing.\u0026nbsp; He has started and continues to operate two businesses:\u0026nbsp; Sideways Promotions, LLC since 2012, and Aerial Cinematography since 2014.\u0026nbsp; Sideways Promotions has generated over $100,000 in revenue and provided work experience for many college students. Aerial Cinematography uses drones to provide aerial photography and videography for the construction industry, sporting venues, real estate agents and much more.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJulie Deng\u003C\/strong\u003E has received the KS2 Technologies, Inc. Innovative Technology Award. Julie is co-owner of Leia Naturals, a provider of organic cosmetic solutions for skin and hair. Julie combined her strong background in Industrial Engineering and her work experience in technology to provide the best customer experience through marketing, supply chain optimization, and utilization of multichannel retailing. Leia Naturals recently launched on Amazon.com and will continue launching on other sites for the rest of the year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech IIE Student Chapter Awards were given to \u003Cstrong\u003ENishi Anand\u003C\/strong\u003E, who received the Outstanding Senior Award, \u003Cstrong\u003EAnmol Chhabria\u003C\/strong\u003E who received the Rising Star Award, and \u003Cstrong\u003EHojin Lee\u003C\/strong\u003E, who received the Top International Student Award. The student chapter of IIE gives these awards to recognize those with strong academic performance, service and leadership. Nishi is a 4th year graduating this May. She has demonstrated exceptional leadership experience and academic achievement. She is the president of the Undergraduate Consulting Club, Vice President of Enterprise to Empower, and she co-founded The National Organization of Business and Engineering @ GT. Hojin is on the executive board of the Korean-American Scientists Engineers Association. His ability and commitment to balance both the Korean and American culture make him the ideal candidate for this award. In working with 1st generation Korean and Korean American scientists and engineers, he has helped countless students celebrate and learn about their Korean culture while adjusting and contributing to the Georgia Tech community. In addition to his cultural contributions on campus, Hojin placed 5th out of 100 teams and 1st place out of 18 Georgia Tech teams in the 2015 JDA Supply Chain Challenge in February. Amnol will be graduating in the spring of 2017. During her time at Tech, she has demonstrated ongoing and exceptional growth in leadership, service, and academics. She has been involved in AOE, the Residence Hall Association, and India Club. As an Executive Board member for India Club, Amnol planned Garba 2014, Diwali Dinners 2014, and she is currently planning Holi Show 2015. Through her role as Philanthropy Chair for AOE, she has sustained participation in Service Events in the Atlanta area, which include Dress for Success, the Hot Chocolate 5K, Be The Change, and Team Buzz. In the future, Amnol is interested in pursuing a career in Analytics, and as a result, is pursuing a minor in Computer Science.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStudents, faculty, parents, alumni, and award sponsors joined together to recognize some of ISyE\u2019s exceptional undergraduate students for their outstanding academic achievement as well as for their contributions to the School and the community at ISyE\u2019s annual Undergraduate Awards Ceremony.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE\u2019s exceptional undergraduate students were recognized for their outstanding academic achievement as well as for their contributions to the School and the community at ISyE\u2019s annual Undergraduate Awards Ceremony."}],"uid":"27868","created_gmt":"2015-04-20 13:10:05","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:03","author":"Lizzie Millman","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-04-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-04-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"397951":{"id":"397951","type":"image","title":"ISyE\u0027s Annual Undergraduate Awards Ceremony","body":null,"created":"1449246371","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:26:11","changed":"1475895115","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:55","alt":"ISyE\u0027s Annual Undergraduate Awards Ceremony","file":{"fid":"75717","name":"img_9758.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_9758.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_9758.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2143496,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/img_9758.jpg?itok=VPvYO-VG"}}},"media_ids":["397951"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"124361","name":"isye spotlight"},{"id":"64551","name":"Undergraduate Awards Ceremony"}],"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\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"398021":{"#nid":"398021","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Opens Supply Chain \u0026 Logistics Institute Office on Savannah Campus","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute (SCL) at Georgia Tech, the world\u2019s largest supply chain and logistics research and education enterprise, recently opened an office on the Georgia Tech-Savannah campus. The Savannah office location will offer tailored workforce development courses, online training, supply chain short courses and executive seminars.\u0026nbsp; Additionally, the office will serve as a mechanism for dialoging with local businesses regarding challenges that can be addressed as student group projects or research engagements.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWith ongoing record-breaking port activity, the deepening of the channel, continued strong growth in global trade, and the widening of the Panama Canal, Savannah is poised for a continued run of strong supply chain and logistics employment growth,\u201d said Tim Brown, managing director of the Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute. \u201cFurthermore, with the decommissioning of more than 3,000 military personnel each year, Savannah is well-positioned to provide a solid workforce to meet these needs. The Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute is doing its part to prepare the region for continued success by providing a means for the workforce, at all levels, to continually enhance their supply chain and logistics skills.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the coming months, the SCL Savannah campus will be offering programming related to sourcing and procurement, international logistics and compliance, and lean logistics, among others. SCL enables supply chain professionals, businesses and governments to transform complex supply chains and trade corridors to improve logistics performance by providing education, innovation and solutions for global and domestic supply chains.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information on the upcoming SCL programming offered at the Georgia Tech-Savannah campus, please visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ewww.scl.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EABOUT THE SUPPLY CHAIN AND LOGISTICS INSTITUTE: \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Supply Chain and Logistics Institute is a unit of the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. The Stewart School is the largest industrial engineering program in the United States (more than 60 faculty members, 1,500 undergraduate students and 400 graduate students). For 25 consecutive years, U.S. News and World Report has ranked the Stewart School as the best undergraduate and graduate industrial engineering program in the United States.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EABOUT GEORGIA TECH PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtpe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Professional Education\u003C\/a\u003E is an academic division of the Georgia Institute of Technology, offering professional master\u0027s degrees, short courses, and certificate programs to meet the needs of working professionals and industry partners. Programs are available at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center in Atlanta, the Georgia Tech-Savannah campus, and worldwide through a variety of formats. In addition to professional course offerings, the division manages meeting and event facilities, and administers K-12 outreach and English as a Second Language programs. Last year alone, Georgia Tech Professional Education served individuals representing more than 3,000 companies, with an enrollment of more than 26,000.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute (SCL) at Georgia Tech, the world\u2019s largest supply chain and logistics research and education enterprise, recently opened an office on the Georgia Tech-Savannah campus.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Supply Chain \u0026 Logistics Institute (SCL) at Georgia Tech, the world\u2019s largest supply chain and logistics research and education enterprise, recently opened an office on the Georgia Tech-Savannah campus."}],"uid":"27868","created_gmt":"2015-04-21 08:55:05","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:03","author":"Lizzie Millman","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-04-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-04-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDiane Lee\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech-Savannah\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E912.695.1763 or \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:carolyn.perry@ceismc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ecarolyn.perry@ceismc.gatech.edu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["carolyn.perry@ceismc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"398611":{"#nid":"398611","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Supply Chain \u0026 Logistics Institute Offers Courses in Brunswick","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute (SCL) at Georgia Tech, the world\u2019s largest supply chain and logistics research and education enterprise, is pleased to announce a sourcing and procurement short course will be offered in Brunswick, Ga., on June 23-25, 2015, in conjunction with the Brunswick \u0026amp; Glynn County Chamber of Commerce.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe course, \u003Cem\u003EDefining and Implementing Effective Sourcing Strategies\u003C\/em\u003E, is intended to provide sourcing, procurement, and supply chain professionals with the skills needed to be effective in strategically sourcing materials and components worldwide. The course is part of a three course sequence in SCL\u2019s Strategic Sourcing and Supply Management Certificate program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith the recent opening of a SCL office at the Georgia Tech-Savannah campus, SCL is positioned to offer the Coastal Empire tailored workforce development courses, online training, supply chain short courses and executive seminars.\u0026nbsp; Additionally, the Savannah office will serve as a mechanism for dialoging with local businesses regarding challenges that can be addressed as student group projects or research engagements.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWith ongoing record-breaking port activity, the substantial capital investment in port capacity enhancement, continued strong growth in global trade, and the widening of the Panama Canal, the Coastal Empire is poised for a continued run of strong supply chain and logistics employment growth,\u201d said Tim Brown, managing director of the Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute. \u201cThe Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute is doing its part to prepare the region for continued success by providing a means for the workforce, at all levels, to continually enhance their supply chain and logistics skills.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGoing forward, SCL will be offering Coastal Empire businesses with programming related to sourcing and procurement, international logistics and compliance, and lean logistics, among others at its Savannah office location. Programs may be public offerings, custom courses, or a hybrid. For more information, please visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ewww.scl.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor information on the upcoming sourcing course offered in Brunswick, please visit pe.gatech.edu\/scl-sourcing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EABOUT THE SUPPLY CHAIN AND LOGISTICS INSTITUTE: \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Supply Chain and Logistics Institute is a unit of the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. The Stewart School is the largest industrial engineering program in the United States (more than 60 faculty members, 1,500 undergraduate students and 400 graduate students). For 25 consecutive years, \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News and World Report\u003C\/em\u003E has ranked the Stewart School as the best undergraduate and graduate industrial engineering program in the United States.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EABOUT GEORGIA TECH PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtpe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Professional Education\u003C\/a\u003E is an academic division of the Georgia Institute of Technology, offering professional master\u0027s degrees, short courses, and certificate programs to meet the needs of working professionals and industry partners. Programs are available at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center in Atlanta, the Georgia Tech-Savannah campus, and worldwide through a variety of formats. In addition to professional course offerings, the division manages meeting and event facilities, and administers K-12 outreach and English as a Second Language programs. Last year alone, Georgia Tech Professional Education served individuals representing more than 3,000 companies, with an enrollment of more than 26,000.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute at Georgia Tech is pleased to announce a sourcing and procurement short course will be offered in Brunswick, Ga., on June 23-25, 2015, in conjunction with the Brunswick \u0026amp; Glynn County Chamber of Commerce.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Supply Chain \u0026 Logistics Institute at Georgia Tech is pleased to announce a sourcing and procurement short course will be offered in Brunswick, Ga., on June 23-25, 2015."}],"uid":"27868","created_gmt":"2015-04-23 07:47:25","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:03","author":"Lizzie Millman","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-04-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-04-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"124621","name":"brunswick"},{"id":"3151","name":"courses"},{"id":"167077","name":"scl"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDiane Lee\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech-Savannah\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E912.695.1763 or carolyn.perry@ceismc.gatech.edu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["carolyn.perry@ceismc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"394141":{"#nid":"394141","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Dima Nazzal Receives Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDima Nazzal\u003C\/strong\u003E has received the Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence for her positive impact on the student\u2019s lives through her teaching and efforts to enrich the student\u2019s\u2019 learning experience. This award is based \u0026nbsp;on the nomination of the undergraduate female engineering body at Georgia Tech at was given at the 2015 Women in Engineering (WIE) banquet on March 31.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENazzal is a faculty member and director of student services for the Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering. She is responsible for the management and coordination of operational issues associated with ISyE\u2019s academic processes including management of academic resources allocation and instructional budget planning, coordination with the associate chairs of undergraduate and graduate programs on course assignments. Nazzal directs undergraduate students academic and career advising policies and procedures, registration, the technical communication program, and serves as the faculty lead for the Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and the Master of Science in Operations Research programs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENazzal received her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2006. Her research focuses on the applications of operations research methodologies to design sustainable supply chain systems. Her recent work has addressed production planning and inventory decisions in cold supply chain systems aiming to reduce costs and green gas house emissions. She has worked on projects with companies, and healthcare providers, including Walt Disney World, Lucent Technologies, Brinks Securities, and Emory Healthcare.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis WIE banquet brings together nearly 500 students, alumni, corporate partners and Institute leaders to recognize and celebrate the accomplishments of female engineering students who have achieved a cumulative GPA of 3.0 and above. As a testimony to the excellence of College of Engineering\u2019s female undergraduate students, about 1,800 female engineering students, representing over half of the College\u0027s female engineering students, qualify to attend the banquet each year. This event recognizes student and faculty leaders through Student Mentoring Awards, and Faculty Teaching Excellence Awards.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDima Nazzal\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;has received the Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence at the 2015 Women in Engineering banquet.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Dima Nazzal has received the Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence at the 2015 Women in Engineering banquet."}],"uid":"27868","created_gmt":"2015-04-06 15:58:27","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:17:58","author":"Lizzie Millman","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-04-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-04-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"394151":{"id":"394151","type":"image","title":"Dima Nazzal Receives Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching","body":null,"created":"1449246346","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:25:46","changed":"1475895110","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:50","alt":"Dima Nazzal Receives Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching","file":{"fid":"75628","name":"img_7435.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_7435.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_7435.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":4649238,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/img_7435.jpg?itok=SNyef-kq"}}},"media_ids":["394151"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"64561","name":"Dima Nazzal"},{"id":"13511","name":"faculty award"},{"id":"10626","name":"WIE"}],"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\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"395061":{"#nid":"395061","#data":{"type":"news","title":"SCL on the GT Savannah campus","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWith ongoing record-breaking port activity, the widening of the Savannah River, and the widening of the Panama Canal, Savannah is poised for a continued run of strong supply chain and logistics employment growth. Furthermore, with the decommissioning of over 3,000 military veterans per year in the Savannah area, Savannah is well positioned to provide a solid workforce to meet these needs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute is doing its part to prepare the region for continued success by opening an office on the Georgia Tech Savannah Campus which is launching tailored workforce development courses, online training, supply chain short courses, and executive seminars.\u0026nbsp;More details on these programs to come this summer!\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELaunching courses, seminars and more on Georgia Coast with the opening of its office at GT Savannah campus\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Launching courses, seminars and more on Georgia Coast with the opening of its office at GT Savannah campus"}],"uid":"27233","created_gmt":"2015-04-09 14:27:16","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:17:58","author":"Andy Haleblian","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-04-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-04-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"395051":{"id":"395051","type":"image","title":"GTSCL at Georgia Tech Savannah","body":null,"created":"1449246346","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:25:46","changed":"1475895112","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:52","alt":"GTSCL at Georgia Tech Savannah","file":{"fid":"75654","name":"gtscl-savannahoffice.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gtscl-savannahoffice.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gtscl-savannahoffice.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":80152,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/gtscl-savannahoffice.jpg?itok=TIa3vxO9"}}},"media_ids":["395051"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/pe.gatech.edu\/savannah-campus","title":"Professional Education at Georgia Tech Savannah"}],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"42911","name":"Education"}],"keywords":[{"id":"167277","name":"Savannah"},{"id":"167323","name":"Seminars"},{"id":"170920","name":"supply chain professional education"}],"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:info@scl.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Einfo@scl.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"395471":{"#nid":"395471","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Nemhauser Honored with Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EGeorge Nemhauser is widely considered to be one of the world\u2019s top optimization researchers, and he has received the official recognition to match: He is the A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Institute Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering (ISyE), recipient of the inaugural Khachiyan Prize for lifetime contributions to the field, and the only person to twice receive the Lanchester Prize for best publication in operations research. He is also the first sitting professor at Georgia Tech to be elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Now, he is receiving the Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cAlmost all the awards I have received have been from my profession,\u201d Nemhauser said. \u201cThis is \u003Cem\u003Ethe\u003C\/em\u003E Georgia Tech award. This means a lot to me because it connects directly to Georgia Tech.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EThe Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award recognizes outstanding achievement in teaching, research, and service. It is the highest award given to a faculty member. The award, instituted in 1984 by the Class of 1934 in observance of its 50th reunion, is presented to an active professor who has made significant, long-term contributions \u2014 contributions that would have brought widespread recognition to the professor, to his or her school, and to the Institute.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003ELetters of support for Nemhauser\u2019s nomination came from colleagues and former students around the world.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cMy stimulation and the fact that I can still be working and having lots of fun \u2014 as old as I am \u2014 is because of what these people give to me,\u201d said the 77-year-old. \u201cI\u2019m not this great humanitarian, unselfish guy by any means. It\u2019s completely a two-way deal. When I get a chance to work with these young people, to me, that\u2019s the greatest pleasure in life. That\u2019s always been the best thing for me: to work one-on-one or with a small number of undergraduate and graduate students and young faculty. Those are the people who keep me on my toes.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5 class=\u0022p6\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFrom Center Field to Operations Research\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EGrowing up in New York, Nemhauser dreamed of playing center field for the Yankees. He estimated that by the time he was ready for the position, Joe DiMaggio would be retiring. That didn\u2019t happen. He was a teen when DiMaggio retired, and Mickey Mantle took the position.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E \u201cI played all sports \u2014 with lots of effort and very limited ability. I did not have talent,\u201d Nemhauser laughed. \u201cBut I love math. I was the kid who could compute the other kids\u2019 batting average. I wasn\u2019t the best player, but if they wanted to know their batting average \u2014 see George.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E When it was time to head to college, Nemhauser was leaning toward majoring in math, but his mother encouraged him to study engineering. It was during a summer internship that he first learned about optimization and game theory, and he was fascinated. He started graduate school in chemical engineering, but switched to operations research as the field was just starting academically.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E \u201cMan, was I lucky,\u201d he said. \u201cAny success like this \u2014 honestly, so much of it is luck: being in the right place at the right time. I believe that 100 percent.\u201d \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5 class=\u0022p6\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat is Optimization?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cOptimization is about decision making. Whether it\u2019s a problem in business or a problem related to health or medicine, the notion is: \u2018How can we use optimization to make better decisions?\u2019\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E \u201cMost of these optimization problems have a huge number of variables and constraints. The contribution from our optimization group here at Georgia Tech \u2014 which, by the way is the best optimization group in the world, independent of me \u2014 is that we build the algorithms that allow [for] efficient computations for problems with thousands of variables.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E Nemhauser\u2019s company, the Sports Scheduling Group, schedules games for the ACC, the SEC, the Big 10, and Major League Baseball.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E \u201cScheduling Major League Baseball is a big optimization problem. You have all of these games to schedule, and a lot of it is driven by television contracts, which is where the revenue comes from. If you don\u2019t get the right games at the right time \u2014 that Saturday or Sunday afternoon game between the Yankees and the Red Sox \u2014 the contracts won\u2019t be what they would be otherwise.\u201d \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5 class=\u0022p6\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHaving Fun\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EHaving started teaching in 1961, Nemhauser has advised 65 doctoral students. Many of them are now on the faculty at MIT, Chicago, Northwestern, Carnegie Mellon, Berkeley, and other top universities around the world. One of the biggest changes he\u2019s noticed over the 54 years he\u2019s had dealings with graduate students is the interaction with them.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cI\u2019ve always tried to eliminate formality. I hate formality. I\u2019m a very, very casual person,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen I started, there was more formality. To get a graduate student to call me \u2018George\u2019 was hard. But I needed to do that from the get-go, so I spent time trying to break down the formality that existed between faculty and students. Now, I think that problem has gone away. Things are much more casual.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EIn keeping with his casual approach, Nemhauser says he doesn\u2019t have a specific plan for the future.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cI don\u2019t know what\u2019s next,\u201d he said. \u201cIf I can keep my health and I\u2019m having fun\u2026 \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cI\u2019ve never made long-term plans. I don\u2019t believe in them,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve never had a five-year-plan in my whole life,\u201d he said. \u201cA one-year-plan? That\u2019s good.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cMy basic philosophy is: No. 1 \u2014 have fun in what you\u2019re doing. 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A high response rate (85% or greater) and a near-perfect evaluation score are required for consideration. A maximum of 40 awards are made to Georgia Tech faculty annually.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis award will be formally celebrated in March when CETL holds its annual Celebrating Teaching Day.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Sigr\u00fan Andrad\u00f3ttir\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;and Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDave Goldsman\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;have received this year\u2019s Class of 1940 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award by the Georgia Tech Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) for their excellence in teaching at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Professor Sigr\u00fan Andrad\u00f3ttir and Professor Dave Goldsman have received this year\u2019s Class of 1940 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award by the Georgia Tech Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL)."}],"uid":"27868","created_gmt":"2015-01-09 14:40:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:17:50","author":"Lizzie Millman","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-01-09T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-01-09T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"247691":{"id":"247691","type":"image","title":"Sigrun Andradottir","body":null,"created":"1449243772","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:42:52","changed":"1475894926","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:46","alt":"Sigrun Andradottir","file":{"fid":"197980","name":"andradottir_sirgun_-_bust.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/andradottir_sirgun_-_bust_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/andradottir_sirgun_-_bust_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2478509,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/andradottir_sirgun_-_bust_0.jpg?itok=UneV9B64"}},"54736":{"id":"54736","type":"image","title":"Dave Goldsman, ISyE Professor","body":null,"created":"1449175474","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:44:34","changed":"1475894481","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:21"}},"media_ids":["247691","54736"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"53361","name":"Dave Goldsman"},{"id":"7955","name":"ISyE faculty"},{"id":"167222","name":"Sigrun Andradottir"}],"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":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"362751":{"#nid":"362751","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Dawn Strickland Joins ISyE Faculty","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDawn Strickland\u003C\/strong\u003E joined the ISyE faculty as an academic professional with the title of faculty advisor this January.\u0026nbsp; Her primary responsibilities will focus on academic advising for our ISyE undergraduate students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStrickland will also be working with ISyE student organizations, industry representatives, the Mission Possible summer camp, our ISyE GT 1000 seminars, and teaching one class per semester.\u0026nbsp; Her office will be in the Academic Office area on the 2nd floor of Groseclose.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPreviously, Strickland served as the assistant dean of Graduate Student Services and Postdoctoral Affairs for the Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science in New York City. 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Before Columbia, she served as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Winthrop University.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStrickland received her B.S. in mathematics from Duke University in 1997 and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Operations Research from ISyE Georgia Tech in 1999 and 2002, respectively.\u0026nbsp; While a graduate student in ISyE, she was a Presidential Fellow and an ARCS Fellow.\u0026nbsp; Her thesis was advised by Fouts Family Associate Professor Joel Sokol and Professor Earl Barnes.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDawn Strickland joined the ISyE faculty as an academic professional with the title of faculty advisor this January.\u0026nbsp; Her primary responsibilities will focus on academic advising for our ISyE undergraduate students.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Dawn Strickland joined ISyE faculty as an academic professional with the title of faculty advisor this January.  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He earned a master\u2019s and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from ISyE, in 1980 and 1982 respectively. After serving on the industrial engineering faculty of UQTR and Purdue University, he was a Professor of operations and decisions systems in the faculty of Business Administration at Universit\u00e9 Laval in Quebec City, Canada since 1988.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis main research interests lie in developing concepts, methodologies and technologies for creating, optimizing, transforming and enabling businesses and value creation networks to thrive in a fast evolving world. He stands at the crossroads of industrial and systems engineering, operations research, computer science and operations, logistics, supply chain, strategic management. His research builds mostly on a synthesis of optimization modeling \u0026amp; mathematical programming, discrete \u0026amp; agent-based simulation modeling, systems science \u0026amp; design theory. Montreuil has extensive advisory, entrepreneurial and collaborative research experience with industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMontreuil holds the Canada Research Chair in Enterprise Engineering. He is a founding member of the CIRRELT Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation. 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Patients with FL can have a long survival of about two decades, but they usually experience multiple relapses, along with poorer responses to treatments and lower quality of life.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAn analysis of two treatment strategies for follicular lymphoma, conducted by researchers at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/winshipcancer.emory.edu\/\u0022\u003EWinship Cancer Institute of Emory University\u003C\/a\u003E, indicates that the treatments are cost-effective. The team included Turgay Ayer, ISyE assistant professor, Qiushi Chen, operations research graduate student at ISyE, Loretta J. Nastoupil MD, Christopher R. Flowers, MD, MS, and Adam C. Rose, MD, of the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology and the Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers looked at maintenance therapy with rituximab (MR) versus observation, and radioimmunotherapy consolidation (RIT) versus observation, immediately following the first-line treatment for FL.\u0026nbsp; Clinical research has established that these treatment strategies can effectively extend the duration of remission after the first-line treatment and help patients maintain good quality of life. Given the current costs of therapy for individuals with FL of about $20,000-$36,000 per patient per year, it is also important for physicians and policy makers to understand whether the additional costs of MR and RIT are worth their clinical benefits.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe main results of the study indicate that both MR and RIT are cost-effective strategies, at an additional cost of about $40,000 per additional quality-adjusted life-year, given that a threshold of $50,000 to $100,000 has been commonly used to justify cost-effective health intervention programs in health economics studies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers concluded that MR and RIT following frontline FL therapy demonstrate favorable and similar cost-effectiveness. These findings support the coverage and use of both approaches in clinical practice, although RIT has been less commonly used. 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While applied mathematics and modeling were favorite subjects of hers, she also reveled in the problem-solving and thought processes involved with engineering. She browsed the required courses for almost all of the other engineering disciplines before finally stumbling on ISyE. Reading over the description was like \u201cfinally putting a name to what she had always wanted to do.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAfter deciding on ISyE, Alex didn\u2019t think twice before choosing operations research as her concentration. She had some exposure in high school with tasks such as modeling a baseball game with Markov chains. \u201cOperations research is all about using mathematical tools to solve real world problems. I love problem-solving and formulating models to the specifics of the situation, rather than memorizing a one-size-fits-all formula.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s no secret that life at Georgia Tech and ISyE can be demanding. 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I always knew I would be back in politics one day.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOn life outside the classroom:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo be at Georgia Tech is not easy. Chemistry, physics, statics, calculus \u2014 the first two years are very tough. I remember the classes very well. I did go to the football games, but I am not saying what else we did. We will keep that to ourselves. I always enjoyed seeing the freshmen, the RATS, on the football field. I will remember that. I still have my RAT cap.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOn engineers as politicians:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs president, I use daily my engineering training. As industrial engineers, we simulate the future, we see alternatives. We see the future and then come back to the present.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat has helped me a lot in my political career. I am president today because I made some decisions in my career, and I made those decisions because I was simulating the future. When you graduate from Tech and in industrial engineering, you may not remember all that was in the books, but the training of the mind lasts forever. The problems that the people in Panama and worldwide are facing today require good minds and training to solve it. An engineer\u2019s mind. Being an engineer means trying every day to improve people\u2019s lives.\u0026nbsp; Engineering is a beautiful career.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlthough I am not working for a technical company, I use my engineering training every day. It helps me with the design of the transportation system for our cities. I use it to help establish my budget. I use critical paths for making decisions and implementing solutions to problems. Right now, I am doing a test of 3,600 sources of drinking water in my country. 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Milton Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering gets a sudden spike in traffic, jumping from a handful\u0026nbsp;of visitors per week to thousands in a few days.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat\u0027s because Joel Sokol,\u0026nbsp;Fouts Family Associate Professor,\u0026nbsp;and his colleagues happen to conduct research on one of the biggest sporting events of the year- the NCAA basketball tournament. Their Logistic Regression\/Markov Chain (LRMC) ranking system is a computerized model that has had a respectable level of success in picking the men\u0027s national basketball champion and overall tournament results over the last several years.\u0026nbsp;During the season, the LRMC uses basic scoreboard data to create a weekly ranking of all 351 Division I NCAA teams. The mathematical formula looks at every game and factors in the margin of victory and where each game is played. 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The model also predicts some early upsets- Texas over Butler and Ohio State over Virginia Commonwealth, as well as a few ninth seeds knocking off eighth seeds.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more about their methodology\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www2.isye.gatech.edu\/~jsokol\/lrmc\/about\/lrmcteam\/\u0022 rel=\u0022nofollow\u0022\u003Evisit the LRMC website\u003C\/a\u003E, or skip ahead and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www2.isye.gatech.edu\/~jsokol\/profspicks\/profspicks15.pdf\u0022 rel=\u0022nofollow\u0022\u003Ego straight to their complete bracket\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www2.isye.gatech.edu\/~jsokol\/profspicksW\/profspicks15w.pdf\u0022 rel=\u0022nofollow\u0022\u003EOn the women\u0027s side\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;the professors and their model have projected a final consisting of Connecticut and Notre Dame with no major upsets in\u0026nbsp;the opening round.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESokol is joined on the LRMC team by fellow IGeorgia Tech professors Paul Kvam and George Nemhauser\u0026nbsp;and professor Mark Brown of City College, City University of New York, as well as a dedicated group of undergraduate students.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELRMC\u0026nbsp;basketball ranking system a value source for bracketologists\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"LRMC basketball ranking system a value source for bracketologists"}],"uid":"27868","created_gmt":"2015-03-17 13:44:30","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:54","author":"Lizzie Millman","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-03-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-03-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"107631":{"id":"107631","type":"image","title":"Joel Sokol Makes NCAA Tournament Predictions","body":null,"created":"1449178188","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:29:48","changed":"1475894725","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:25","alt":"Joel Sokol Makes NCAA Tournament Predictions","file":{"fid":"194004","name":"12c3046-p1-003.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/12c3046-p1-003_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/12c3046-p1-003_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2221546,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/12c3046-p1-003_0.jpg?itok=-ZtTMAl6"}}},"media_ids":["107631"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1200","name":"joel sokol"},{"id":"8967","name":"LRMC; Final Four; NCAA"}],"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":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"388701":{"#nid":"388701","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Hunger Heroes","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThere\u2019s enough food in the world\u0026nbsp;to feed everyone\u2014all 7-plus billion of us. So why are so many people going hungry?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u201cThe core problem is food distribution, not supply,\u201d says Ozlem Ergun, Georgia Tech professor of industrial and systems engineering. \u201cIt\u2019s quite expensive and challenging to deliver food that is abundant in one region of the world to another.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003EAs co-founder and co-director of Georgia Tech\u2019s Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems, Ergun and her team of faculty, staff and students work with groups such as the United Nations\u2019 World Food Programme to create more efficient food distribution systems. When thinking about who can solve the world\u2019s hunger crisis, industrial and systems engineers may not exactly be the heroes that jump to mind. But Ergun says the engineers who make these sorts of logistical and supply chain improvements not only save time, effort and money, but also human lives.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003EMallory Soldner, PhD IE 14, is one of these unsung hero engineers. As a graduate student, Soldner spent more than a year in Rome helping the World Food Programme create a supply chain dashboard designed to help humanitarian workers track problem areas using key performance indicators. For example, one aspect the dashboard measures is the reliability of food commodity orders placed by a country office. The dashboard uses graphs to show what percentage of orders have arrived on time, in good quality and in the right amount to their destination. If orders are arriving early or late, the dashboard will help pinpoint what\u2019s causing the problems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u201cIt promotes a better dialogue around what\u2019s happening, why it\u2019s happening and what you have to do to tweak things to get where you want,\u201d Soldner says. \u201cIt\u2019s a really digestable way to focus on the most important pieces.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003ESoldner, who now works at UPS\u2019 corporate headquarters in the advanced analytics group, says engineers indeed have an important role to play in the humanitarian arena. \u201cEngineers help translate solutions to areas where tradeoffs are difficult,\u201d she says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003EThe Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems was what initially attracted Soldner to Georgia Tech. She attended the Center\u2019s annual logistics conference before she decided to pursue her doctorate at Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThe center was established in 2007 as a way for students and faculty to share their skills to improve logistics in the public sector. And that\u2019s important because resources in the nonprofit world are often limited.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cEvery dollar that can be saved in operational costs can be used to help another person,\u201d Ergun says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EBut humanitarian organizations present some very unique challenges. Unlike at a typical private-sector company, it\u2019s very difficult to predict what demand will be like from one day to the next. A typical corporation can predict demand for its products in the future based on sales from past years. But predicting a tsunami or political revolution isn\u2019t quite as straightforward.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EHumanitarian organizations often struggle with consistent funding as well.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cEven if you can estimate demand, without a confirmed donation you cannot start your supply chain action,\u201d Ergun says. \u201cThe money starts to trickle in when there\u2019s an emergency. But when there\u2019s an emergency or humanitarian event\u2014such as a storm that wipes out food supplies\u2014it\u2019s already too late to start buying.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003ESimply put, Ergun says one of the goals of the center and its partnerships with humanitarian organizations is to help ensure that they get the right amount of food, at the right price, to the right place at the right time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cThat really fits into our expertise at Tech,\u201d Ergun says. \u201cWe have one of the best departments in the world in this area and we have a lot of experience.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EIn fact, Ergun believes the Institute deserves some credit for the growing prominence of engineering in the humanitarian sector. \u201cWe were one of the pioneer groups, but it has become quite a big field for academia,\u201d Ergun says. \u201cAnd I think part of it is due to our leadership.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThis article first appared in the \u003Cem\u003EGeorgia Tech Alumni Magazine\u0026nbsp;Vol. 91, No. 1 2015.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFaculty, staff and students use logistics to help save lives across the globe through Tech\u2019s Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Faculty, staff and students use logistics to help save lives across the globe through Tech\u2019s Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems."}],"uid":"27868","created_gmt":"2015-03-19 07:12:16","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:54","author":"Lizzie Millman","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-03-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-03-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"388711":{"id":"388711","type":"image","title":"Faculty, staff and students use logistics to help save lives across the globe through Tech\u2019s Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems","body":null,"created":"1449246288","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:24:48","changed":"1475894349","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:39:09","alt":"Faculty, staff and students use logistics to help save lives across the globe through Tech\u2019s Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems","file":{"fid":"75486","name":"hunger_heros.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hunger_heros.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hunger_heros.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":63567,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/hunger_heros.jpg?itok=e5bPeCYq"}}},"media_ids":["388711"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"72881","name":"Dr. ozlem ergun"},{"id":"121801","name":"health systems. center for health and humanitarian systems"},{"id":"1238","name":"Ozlem Ergun"}],"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":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"370301":{"#nid":"370301","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ayer Receives National Science Foundation CAREER Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EISyE Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ETurgay Ayer \u003C\/strong\u003Ereceived\u0026nbsp;a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER award to study the design of optimal population-based disease surveillance policies and treatment prioritization strategies for chronic infectious diseases in resource-limited settings.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe project particularly focuses on the optimal control of hepatitis C Virus. This study will use data-driven mathematical models to underpin some of such complex health policy decisions.\u0026nbsp; From an educational standpoint several high school and undergraduate students will be engaged into these research activities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe abstract of Ayer\u2019s grant reads:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe research objective of this Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award is to study the design of optimal population-based disease surveillance policies and treatment prioritization strategies for chronic infectious diseases in resource-limited settings. The project particularly focuses on the optimal control of hepatitis C Virus (HCV), an epidemic affecting nearly 2 percent of the entire US population, fastest-growing cause of cancer-related deaths in the US. If successful, results from this research may improve hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance and HCV treatment prioritization decisions in practice and can inform prevention and treatment decisions at the national level in terms of guideline development. Under this project, in collaboration with several medical researchers, a PhD student will be rigorously trained to apply systems modeling methodologies to the healthcare area. In addition, several high school and undergraduate students will be engaged into these research activities. The results of the project will be widely disseminated to both engineering and medical communities through paper publications and conference presentations.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMany health policy questions, such as optimal disease surveillance and treatment prioritization decisions for chronic infectious diseases, cannot be answered through the traditional research methods in medicine, such as randomized control trials and observational studies. This study will use data-driven mathematical models to underpin some of such complex health policy decisions. The resulting stochastic optimization models are non-standard, large scale, and computationally challenging. Therefore, this study will either create new approaches or extend the existing methodology to account for the critical features of the disease epidemiology, resource limitations, and management strategies. An important component of the research is careful parameterization and calibration of the models using some of the largest datasets in the nation. While this project mainly focuses on hepatocellular carcinoma and HCV, the themes of this study can be generalized and applied to several other disease management problems.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAyer conducts research on stochastic modeling and optimization, with applications in medical decision making, health policy, healthcare and humanitarian operations.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EISyE Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ETurgay Ayer \u003C\/strong\u003Ereceived\u0026nbsp;a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE Assistant Professor Turgay Ayer received a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award."}],"uid":"27868","created_gmt":"2015-01-29 16:09:38","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:50","author":"Lizzie Millman","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-01-29T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-01-29T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"73308":{"id":"73308","type":"image","title":"Turgay Ayer","body":null,"created":"1449177990","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:26:30","changed":"1475894676","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:36","alt":"Turgay Ayer","file":{"fid":"193747","name":"turgayayer_graybg.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/turgayayer_graybg_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/turgayayer_graybg_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":285854,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/turgayayer_graybg_1.jpg?itok=hRziGjab"}}},"media_ids":["73308"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"7955","name":"ISyE faculty"},{"id":"13749","name":"Turgay Ayer"}],"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":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"370311":{"#nid":"370311","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Goldberg Receives National Science Foundation CAREER Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EISyE Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EDavid Goldberg\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;received a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award to develop algorithmic and modeling tools and methodologies for inventory control problems. Such models have many applications critical to the American economy, including: supply chains, healthcare, energy, cloud computing, military operations, and advanced manufacturing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe award will help with the integration of undergraduate engineering students\u0027 experiences in senior design projects enabling students to connect their coursework directly to interesting real-world applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe abstract of Goldberg\u2019s grant reads:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program grant will develop algorithmic and modeling tools and methodologies for inventory control problems. The problem of managing inventory when demand is stochastic is one of the core problems of Operations Research. Such models have many applications critical to the American economy, including: supply chains, healthcare, energy, cloud computing, military operations, and advanced manufacturing. It is common wisdom that the more noise, uncertainty, and high-dimensionality that one introduces into such a model, the more difficult that model becomes to solve. This award supports the development of algorithmic and modeling frameworks which break this fundamental barrier by embracing randomness and uncertainty as an algorithmic and modeling tool, turning the associated hardness into an advantage. The award will also advance the state of pedagogy, by integrating undergraduate engineering students\u0027 experiences in senior design projects into their introductory Operations Research and Industrial Engineering courses, enabling students to connect their coursework directly to interesting real-world applications pertaining to actual inventories and related models. The award will also lead to the development of new Ph.D. courses, and the integration of students at all levels into the supported research.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe award will support research into two fundamental families of inventory models. Lost sales inventory models with positive lead times are appropriate for many applications, but have resisted solution due to the curse of dimensionality. This has led to the use of incorrect models in many applications, for example the use of models with backlogged demand when lost sales models are more appropriate. If successful, the supported research will create an algorithmic framework and supporting methodologies aimed at developing efficiently implementable heuristics which provably perform nearly optimally as more randomness is introduced into the problem, for example through longer lead times, and generalize the approach to related models. The second modeling framework to be considered is that of (distributionally) robust inventory control, in which one takes model misspecification into consideration when performing the relevant optimizations. The supported research will develop a modeling framework and solution methodology for analyzing such models in the presence of demand forecasting and dependencies, by considering settings in which one has limited information regarding the conditional distribution and moments of demand over time. The research will also create a theory explaining how different approaches to modeling uncertainty in the joint distribution of demand over time lead to qualitatively different inventory control policies, and explore these questions in related models.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGoldberg works in applied probability, interpreted broadly, on topics ranging from inventory control and queueing theory to distributionally robust optimization, Markov random fields, and combinatorial optimization.\u0026nbsp; Much of his recent work on inventory control centers around using insights from applied probability and the theory of random walks to develop efficient algorithms and policies for challenging and fundamental inventory problems (e.g. models with lost sales).\u0026nbsp; Here he has also studied how uncertainty in the joint distribution of demand impacts policy decisions, through the lens of robust optimization.\u0026nbsp; His work on queues centers around developing novel stochastic comparison techniques for bounding the congestion in large-scale networks, and studying how quickly such systems approach their steady-state behavior.\u0026nbsp; Also, his work on Markov random fields and combinatorial optimization has focused on applications of the correlation decay phenomena and techniques from statistical mechanics to the independent set and matching problems on large graphs, and has been applied to certain problems in economics involving bartering networks.\u0026nbsp; Goldberg has also recently begun a collaboration with the Georgia Tech and Atlanta Police departments, working with a team of undergraduates to analyze crime data.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EISyE Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDavid Goldberg\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;received a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE Assistant Professor David Goldberg received a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award."}],"uid":"27868","created_gmt":"2015-01-29 16:11:45","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:50","author":"Lizzie Millman","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-01-29T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-01-29T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"370321":{"id":"370321","type":"image","title":"David Goldberg","body":null,"created":"1449245856","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:17:36","changed":"1475894344","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:39:04","alt":"David Goldberg","file":{"fid":"74996","name":"davidgoldberg_nobg.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/davidgoldberg_nobg.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/davidgoldberg_nobg.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":482457,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/davidgoldberg_nobg.jpg?itok=NI0oNiQS"}}},"media_ids":["370321"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"117041","name":"dave goldberg"},{"id":"13768","name":"David Goldberg"},{"id":"7955","name":"ISyE faculty"}],"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":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"370331":{"#nid":"370331","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Pokutta Receives National Science Foundation CAREER Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESebastian Pokutta\u003C\/strong\u003E, ISyE Coca-Cola Assistant Professor, received a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award\u0026nbsp;to help explore the power of Semidefinite Optimization problems, a broad class of optimization problems fundamental to solving many real-world problems in engineering and computer science. Pokutta will also have an integrated educational program which will broaden the involvement of under-represented groups and enhance engineering education.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe abstract of Pokutta\u2019s grant reads:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program grant will explore the power of Semidefinite Optimization problems. This broad class of optimization problems is fundamental to solving many real-world problems in engineering and computer science as well as pivotal in analyzing the theoretical performance of algorithms. Approaches based on semidefinite optimization often provide superior algorithms yet at the same time the power of semidefinite optimization problems is only partially understood. The leitmotif of this grant is: How best to exploit the power of semidefinite optimization problems? This grant will relate the structure of optimization problems to their representability as semidefinite optimization problems and explore new ways of solving large semidefinite programs efficiently. Moreover, it will relate semidefinite optimization to the weaker but more easily solvable class of so called linear optimization problems. Understanding the power of semidefinite optimization problems will advance both our understanding of theoretical computational complexity as well as practical feasibility of solving semidefinite optimization problems. As such the results will positively impact both society and the U.S. economy. The tightly integrated educational program will broaden the involvement of under-represented groups and enhance engineering education.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe expressive power of semidefinite programs will be studied in the natural framework of extended formulations, which is a unified way of denoting optimization problems. Extended formulations have been highly successful for linear programming, answering long standing open problems. However very little is known about the more general and significantly more complex semidefinite case. A major aspect of this CAREER grant is to study both the construction of small semidefinite extended formulations, as well as strong lower bounding techniques, potentially allowing for efficient approximations of hard combinatorial optimization problems. Structured extended formulations derived from hierarchies have proven to be powerful however it is not well-understood when they can be outperformed by more general formulations. Closely related to these aspects is the question regarding the relation between semidefinite extended formulations and linear extended formulations. While linear programs can be solved rather efficiently for largest scale instances, semidefinite programs are notoriously hard to solve in practice, so that it can be desirable to solve a linear approximation instead. It is known that this is not possible in general, however for large classes of problems of interest linear programming based approximation might provide sufficient guarantees and identifying sufficient conditions is part of this grant.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPokutta\u0027s research concentrates on combinatorial optimization and polyhedral combinatorics, and in particular focuses on cutting-plane methods, extended formulations, and on applications of optimization methods in supply chain management, production planning, mechanical engineering, and especially finance. His research is motivated by exploring these limits of computation and by applications in various disciplines requiring the solution of non-standard, highly complex optimization problems. 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Supply Chain Strategy (EMIL-SCS) class of 2015 recently completed their fourth residence, with visits to Hong Kong, China, Dubai, and Mumbai.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe class began the residence in Hong Kong, a longtime favorite of the program.\u0026nbsp; To kick things off, the class met with Dr. Ping Ping Fu, Associate Professor of Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.\u0026nbsp; Fu provided the students with an introduction to the region, focusing on leadership challenges and successes in China.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe following morning, the class traveled to a corporate site visit at DKSH, the leading Market Expansion Services Group with a focus on Asia.\u0026nbsp; The class met with Victor Hew, Head of Central Management Team at DKSH to discuss the company and logistics in Hong Kong.\u0026nbsp; The class then traveled to the DKSH warehouse in the Hutchison Logistics Center to discuss healthcare logistics, supply chain management.\u0026nbsp; The class finished the day with a tour of the facility.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDay 2 in Hong Kong began with a meeting with Mark Millar, Managing Partner of MPower Associates for a discussion on the Pearl River Delta and Hong Kong region.\u0026nbsp; Millar led the class through discussions about the business climate in China, special incentives for companies to use Hong Kong, variety, complexity, opportunities and challenges across Asia, and Asia\u2019s key emerging markets.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAfter lunch, the class took the MTR to Li \u0026amp; Fung, for a meeting with their President of Logistics, Joseph Phi.\u0026nbsp; Phi engaged the class in a presentation about Li \u0026amp; Fung, the company\u2019s business opportunities, and innovations in the supply chain field.\u0026nbsp; Phi also discussed global sourcing opportunities offered by the company.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAfter 2 full days in Hong Kong, the class traveled by train to Shenzhen, China for a day trip full of visits.\u0026nbsp; 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In the afternoon, the class took a desert safari, which included dune buggy driving, sand surfing, camel riding, and henna tattoos.\u0026nbsp; The day ended with a delicious Middle Eastern meal in the desert before heading back to the hotel.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EClasses resumed on Sunday, beginning week two with a site visit to the Caterpillar (CAT) Parts Middle East Distribution Center.\u0026nbsp; The class met with Dale Carr, Logistics Center Manager for a presentation on CAT in the Middle East, managing labor in the Gulf, and reaching customers in the region.\u0026nbsp; The class traveled back to the hotel in the afternoon for Part I of a course on Labor, taught by Owen Darbishire, Rhodes Trust Associate Professor in Management Studies at Said Business School at Oxford University.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDay three in Dubai began with the final part of Darbishire\u2019s Labor presentation, discussing labor relations, issues, opportunities and risks in the UK, EU, and USA.\u0026nbsp; 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