{"50080":{"#nid":"50080","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ISyE Graduate Wins INFORMS TSL Dissertation Prize","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFormer PhD student \u003Cstrong\u003EJuan C. Morales \u003C\/strong\u003Ewas awarded the prestigious TSL Dissertation Prize by the Transportation Science and Logistics Society (TSL) of INFORMS for his thesis entitled \u0022Planning Robust Freight Transportation Operations.*  In his dissertation, Morales focuses on the problems of fleet management in freight transportation systems, specifically considering alternative approaches inspired by recent work in robust optimization. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMorales was co-advised by Stewart School faculty members Dr. \u003Cstrong\u003EAlan Erera\u003C\/strong\u003E, and Dr. \u003Cstrong\u003EMartin Savelsbergh\u003C\/strong\u003E. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe TSL Dissertation Prize is the oldest and most prestigious honor for doctoral dissertations in the transportation science and logistics area.  It is accompanied by a $500.00 honorarium.  Morales received the award at the 2007 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Seattle on November 4.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Morales is currently a senior operations research specialist at BNSF Railway Company.\n\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":"Former Stewart School PhD student Juan C. Morales was awarded the TSL Dissertation Prize by the Transportation Science and Logistics Society (TSL) of INFORMS at the 2007 annual awards ceremony held in Seattle, Washington on November 4.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE Graduate Wins INFORMS TSL Dissertation Prize"}],"uid":"27216","created_gmt":"2007-11-26 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:49","author":"Ruth Gregory","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2007-11-26T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2007-11-26T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"50081":{"id":"50081","type":"image","title":"tje09375.jpg","body":null,"created":"1449175348","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:42:28","changed":"1475894445","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:45","alt":"","file":{"fid":"126866","name":"tje09375.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tje09375_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tje09375_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":32346,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tje09375_0.jpg?itok=65huxccO"}}},"media_ids":["50081"],"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":"6204","name":"INFORMS"},{"id":"8018","name":"Morales"},{"id":"167205","name":"Stewart School"},{"id":"8017","name":"TSL"}],"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":""}}}