{"54807":{"#nid":"54807","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Yajun Mei Receives NSF CAREER Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EYajun Mei, assistant professor in the Stewart School of\nIndustrial and Systems Engineering, has received the prestigious \nNational\nScience Foundation (NSF) CAREER award. The NSF recognized Mei.for his exemplary work in sequential \nanalysis and decentralized network.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003EThe NSF offers this prestigious\naward as part of the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program \nin\nsupport of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars \nthrough\noutstanding research, excellent education, and the integration of \neducation and\nresearch within the context of the mission of their organizations.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EJeff\nWu, Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics at IsyE, states that \n\u201cYajun\nbelongs to a select group of young statisticians who excel in esoteric \n(and\nelegant) theory such as sequential analysis as well as significant \napplications\nsuch as decentralized sensor network. ISyE is proud of having such \ntalented\nyoung researchers among its ranks.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Professor Mei is the fourth NSF\nCAREER Award winner in the statistics\/quality group at the Stewart \nSchool of\nISyE in the last four years. He joins the ranks of professors Roshan\nVengazhiyil, Nagi Gebraeel; and Ming Yuan, who received the award in \n2006, 2007\nand 2009, respectively. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Professor Mei\u2019s research interests include change-point\nproblems and sequential analysis in Mathematical Statistics; sensor \nnetworks\nand information theory in Engineering; and longitudinal data analysis, \nrandom\neffects models, and clinical trials in Biostatistics.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;He received a B.S. in Mathematics from Peking University in\nP.R. China, and a PhD in Mathematics with a minor in Electrical \nEngineering\nfrom the California Institute of Technology. Mei also worked as a \nPostdoc in\nBiostatistics for two years in the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research \nCenter in\nSeattle, WA.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EYajun Mei, assistant professor in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, has received the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-03-08 14:32:42","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:41","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-03-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-03-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"54664":{"id":"54664","type":"image","title":"Yajun Mei","body":null,"created":"1449175327","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:42:07","changed":"1475894403","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:03","alt":"Yajun Mei","file":{"fid":"172508","name":"Mei_Yajun_-_Bust.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Mei_Yajun_-_Bust_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Mei_Yajun_-_Bust_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2267567,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Mei_Yajun_-_Bust_0.jpg?itok=dP9g-_Fi"}}},"media_ids":["54664"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"7842","name":"NSF CAREER Award"},{"id":"170954","name":"Statistic \/ Quality Group"},{"id":"8907","name":"Yajun Mei"}],"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\n 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":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}