{"47632":{"#nid":"47632","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Mei receives 2009 Abraham Wald Prize in Sequential Analysis","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EYajun Mei, assistant professor in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, received the 2009 Abraham Wald Prize in Sequential Analysis for his paper entitled \u0022Is Average Run Length to False Alarm Always an Informative Criterion?\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMei received the award on June 16 at the second International Workshop on Sequential Methodologies (IWSM) in Troyes, France. The Abraham Wald Prize honors annually the best publication in the journal \u003Cem\u003ESequential Analysis\u003C\/em\u003E. Established in 2004, the prize bears the namesake of Abraham Wald, a Hungarian-born mathematician who founded the field of sequential analysis in response to the demand for efficient methods of industrial quality control during World War II. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022What this paper is about is to challenge the traditional thinking of how to evaluate procedures,\u0022 said Professor Mei. \u0022Normally in the field of sequential change-point detection, people use the criterion of \u0027average run length until false alarm\u0027 to evaluate procedures. In this paper, I try to challenge researchers to think about whether this is the appropriate way to do it.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMei\u0027s current research interests include change-point problems, sequential methodologies, sensor networks, and their applications to engineering and biomedical sciences. Mei joined the Stewart School of ISyE in 2006 after performing postdoctorate research in biostatistics for two years at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. He holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics with a minor in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Yajun Mei, assistant professor in the Stewart School of ISyE, received the 2009 Abraham Wald Prize in Sequential Analysis at the second International Workshop on Sequential Methodologies (IWSM) in Troyes, France.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Mei receives 2009 Abraham Wald Prize in Sequential Analysis"}],"uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2009-07-07 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:53","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-07-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-07-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"47633":{"id":"47633","type":"image","title":"Yajun Mei, Ph.D.","body":null,"created":"1449175354","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:42:34","changed":"1475894447","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:47","alt":"Yajun Mei, Ph.D.","file":{"fid":"101249","name":"txe91030.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/txe91030_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/txe91030_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":46351,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/txe91030_0.jpg?itok=fHhSm4KJ"}}},"media_ids":["47633"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"7935","name":"Abraham Wald"},{"id":"7933","name":"Mei"},{"id":"170907","name":"Sequential Analysis"},{"id":"7932","name":"Yajun"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}