{"526771":{"#nid":"526771","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Student Spotlight: ISyE First-year Ph.D. Candidate Pravara Harati Awarded  2016 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering (ISyE) has announced that Pravara Harati, a first-year Ph.D. student, is the recipient of a prestigious 2016 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Only a few fellowships were awarded for IE\/OR nationwide this year, making this achievement even more special.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHarati earned her undergraduate industrial engineering degree (IE 2015) with an emphasis on quality and statistics at Georgia Tech. As an undergraduate student, she received the Henry Ford II Scholar Award and the President\u2019s Undergraduate Research Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs an undergraduate researcher, Harati worked with ISyE Coca-Cola Associate Professor Nicoleta Serban, focusing on health care access. Specifically, Harati determined the supply and demand for primary care services for both children and adults. She also found that if Medicaid is expanded, overall access will not, in fact, be decreased due to higher demand and a resulting supply shortage.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a graduate student at ISyE, Harati has continued this work, specifically in the areas of predicting a child\u2019s risk for cavities based on demographic information and estimating the clinical risk levels for children insured by Medicaid.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAbout Harati\u2019s award, Alan Erera, ISyE Associate Chair for Graduate Studies and Coca-Cola Professor, said, \u201cPravara should be proud of her accomplishments, and she is very deserving of this honor.\u0026nbsp; We are looking forward to see how she uses this fellowship award to make a major impact in our field and on our world.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The Graduate Research Fellowship Program is a vital part of our efforts to foster and promote excellence in U.S. science, technology, engineering and mathematics by recognizing talent broadly from across the Nation,\u0022 said Joan Ferrini-Mundy, NSF assistant director for Education and Human Resources. \u0022These awards are provided to individuals who have demonstrated their potential for significant research achievements, and they are investments that will help propel this country\u0027s future innovations and economic growth.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe fellowship provides three years of financial support within a five-year fellowship period ($34,000 annual stipend and $12,000 cost-of-education allowance to the graduate institution). That support is for graduate study that leads to a research-based master\u0027s or doctoral degree in science or engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EISyE first-year Ph.D. candidate Pravara Harati was awarded a prestigious 2016 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE first-year Ph.D. candidate Pravara Harati was awarded a prestigious 2016 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2016-04-19 13:39:57","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:21","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-04-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-04-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"526751":{"id":"526751","type":"image","title":"ISyE Ph.D. student Pravara Harati","body":null,"created":"1461268800","gmt_created":"2016-04-21 20:00:00","changed":"1475895298","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:58","alt":"ISyE Ph.D. student Pravara Harati","file":{"fid":"205536","name":"pravara_harati_headshot.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/pravara_harati_headshot_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/pravara_harati_headshot_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":59453,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/pravara_harati_headshot_0.jpg?itok=gWpnEYrR"}}},"media_ids":["526751"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"363","name":"NSF"},{"id":"170139","name":"Ph.D. candidate"},{"id":"170140","name":"Pravara Harati"}],"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\u003EWriter\/Editor\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":""}}}