{"533271":{"#nid":"533271","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ISyE Undergraduate and Graduate Awards","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EISyE Undergraduate and Graduate Awards\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EISyE\u2019s undergraduate and graduate students continue to earn numerous awards and honors. Here are a few highlights from the past two semesters.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUndergraduate Awards\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHarshil Goel\u003C\/strong\u003E, a third-year, was awarded the John L. Imhoff Globalization Scholarship from Alpha Pi Mu, the national industrial engineering honor society. The award is given to a student who has demonstrated globalization activities, cooperation, and understanding through leadership and related initiatives.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKiran Rampersad\u003C\/strong\u003E, a junior, was awarded the Southeastern Writing Center Association (SWCA) Undergraduate Peer Tutor of the Year. This is the first time the award has gone to a Georgia Tech student and recognizes leadership, commitment, and overall excellence of individuals working in an SWCA writing center.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPrashant Tailor\u003C\/strong\u003E, a graduating senior, was part of an interdisciplinary team who won first place in the technical paper competition at the IIE Southeast Regional Conference. Their award-winning paper is titled \u0022FindED.io - A Patient Decision Tool for Determining the Optimal Emergency Room for Non-Ambulance Emergencies.\u0022 The team developed a web application that compares hospital ERs by wait time, quality, and travel time.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGraduate Awards\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPravara Harati\u003C\/strong\u003E was the recipient of a 2016 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines who are pursuing research-based master\u0027s and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAmelia Musselman\u003C\/strong\u003E was awarded the $10,000 Global Impact Award from the Achievement Rewards for Academic Scientists (ARCS). ARCS awardees have been selected by their respective schools for meeting and maintaining the high standards of academic excellence required by ARCS Foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKevin Ryan\u003C\/strong\u003E was awarded $7,500 from the Achievement Rewards for Academic Scientists program (ARCS). ARCS awardees have been selected by their respective schools for meeting and maintaining the high standards of academic excellence required by ARCS Foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETeam O-Mazing\u003C\/strong\u003E, consisting of students in Georgia Tech\u0027s interdisciplinary M.S. of Analytics program, won the Krannert Walmart Data Dive Competition. Teams of graduate and undergraduate students from around the country used Walmart trend data and were tasked with developing solutions in two areas\u2014customer segmentation and predicting products for efficient shelf space usage in a 24-hour competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHao Yan\u003C\/strong\u003E, along with Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/kamran-paynabar\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKamran Paynabar\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and Carolyn J. Stewart Chair and Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/jianjun-shi\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJianjun (Jan) Shi\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, won the Quality, Statistics and Reliability Refereed Track Best Paper Competition at INFORMS. Their paper is entitled \u201cReal-time Monitoring and Diagnosis of High-Dimensional Data Streams via Spatio-Temporal Smooth Sparse Decomposition.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChenxi Zeng\u003C\/strong\u003E won the 2015 Doing Good with Good OR Award at INFORMS, which identifies and honors outstanding projects in the field of operations research and the management sciences conducted by a student or student group that have a significant societal impact. \u003Cstrong\u003EZeng\u003C\/strong\u003E also received the Georgia Tech Research and Innovation Conference (GTRIC) fellowship for his dissertation. GTRIC convenes hundreds of graduate students annually to present their research to the Georgia Tech community. 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