{"54883":{"#nid":"54883","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Nicoleta Serban Receives NSF CAREER Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENicoleta\nSerban, assistant professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), has\nreceived the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award. NSF\nrecognized Serban for her innovative proposal and work in statistical modeling\nof service distribution equity. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe\nNSF offers this prestigious award as part of the Faculty Early Career\nDevelopment (CAREER) Program in support of junior faculty who exemplify the\nrole of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education, and\nthe integration of education and research within the context of the mission of\ntheir organizations.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cNicoleta\nis a promising and innovative researcher in the emerging and important area of\nresearch into the use of statistical modeling techniques in the service sector\u201d\nstates Jeff Wu, ISyE professor and Coca Chair in Engineering Statistics. \u201cIn\nparticular, she is looking into the development of novel spatio-temporal\nmodeling of service distribution equity with applications to financial and\nhealthcare industries. ISyE is proud of having such talented young researchers\namong its ranks. \u201c\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EProfessor\nSerban is the fifth NSF CAREER Award winner in the statistics\/quality group at\nthe Stewart School of ISyE in the last four years. She joins the ranks of\nprofessors Roshan Vengazhiyil, Nagi Gebraeel; and Ming Yuan, who received the\naward in 2006, 2007 and 2009, respectively, and Professor Yajun Mei, who also\nreceived the award this year.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EProfessor\nSerban received her B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Theoretical Statistics\nand Stochastic Processes from the University of Bucharest. She went on to earn\nher Ph.D. in Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University. Before joining Georgia\nTech,\u0026nbsp; Professor Serban\u0027s research\nfocused on nonparametric statistical methods motivated by recent applications from\nproteomics and genomics. Her current research focuses on multiple functional\nestimation and clustering with applications to industrial performance, service\nsite location, socio-economics and NMR biomolecular studies. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn\naddition to the NSF CARRER Award, Professor Serban has also received the\nfollowing honors and awards:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EClass of 1969 Teaching\n     Fellow, CETL, Georgia Institute of Technology. 2007\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ENew Researcher Fellowship,\n     Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute 2007-08\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDavid Byar Young Investigator\n     Award, ASA Biometrics Section, 2004\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EBiopharm Honorable Mention\n     Paper Award, ASA Biopharmaceutical Section 2004\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EBiopharm Student Paper Award,\n     ASA Biopharmaceutical Section 2003\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENicoleta\nSerban, assistant professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering \n(ISyE), has\nreceived the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award.\n NSF\nrecognized Serban for her innovative proposal and work in statistical \nmodeling\nof service distribution equity.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-03-10 17:00:32","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:41","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-03-11T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-03-11T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"54665":{"id":"54665","type":"image","title":"Nicoleta Serban","body":null,"created":"1449175459","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:44:19","changed":"1475894478","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:18","alt":"Nicoleta Serban","file":{"fid":"172607","name":"Serban_Nicoleta_-_Bust.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Serban_Nicoleta_-_Bust_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Serban_Nicoleta_-_Bust_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2967607,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Serban_Nicoleta_-_Bust_1.jpg?itok=smlKoSnl"}}},"media_ids":["54665"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"8934","name":"ISyE; Nicoleta Serban"},{"id":"8935","name":"NSF CAREER Awawrd"}],"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":""}}}