{"568401":{"#nid":"568401","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Student Spotlight: Two ISyE Graduate Students Awarded ARCS Scholarships","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn Connelly and Amelia Musselman, Ph.D. students in the Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering (ISyE), have each have been awarded an ARCS Scholars Award from Georgia Tech. According to the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.arcsfoundation.org\/atlanta\/current-scholars\u0022\u003EARCS Atlanta website\u003C\/a\u003E, ARCS awardees are selected by their respective schools and meet the ARCS Foundation\u2019s high standards of academic excellence.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EConnelly, who received an ARCS Scholar Award in the amount of $7,500, is a first-time ARCS award recipient. His research focuses on efficiently solving time-dependent integer programming problems, both in theory and in practice.\u0026nbsp; He is seeking to improve a theoretical framework used to solve these problems, and, in parallel, is working with an airline to implement a time-discretized model to address workforce challenges they are facing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI was drawn to the ISyE department due to the range and depth of research areas I would be able to explore,\u201d he said. \u201cThe possibility to pursue both my interests in advancing fundamental theory as well having the opportunity to implement ideas in practice was very attractive. The fact that Georgia Tech was located in such an amazing city as Atlanta was simply an added bonus.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EConnelly\u2019s anticipated graduation date is spring 2020.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Roche\/ARCS Foundation Award in the amount of $7,500 represents the second ARCS award for Musselman, who plans to finish her dissertation early next summer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHer research interest focuses on applied optimization, in particular as it relates to renewable energy and national security challenges. For her dissertation, she is studying three problems in these areas. Two of these problems are related to electricity development: One focuses on challenges specific to sub-Saharan Africa, and the other addresses the impacts of wind variability. The third project she is working on involves selecting resources to defend against the illicit transport of nuclear material.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u0027ve always been interested in research problems that I hope will have some positive societal impact,\u201d Musselman said. \u201cReceiving the ARCS award twice now has encouraged me that other people care about what I\u0027m doing and think it\u0027s meaningful as well.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn Connelly and Amelia Musselman, Ph.D. students in ISyE, have each have been awarded an ARCS Scholars Award from Georgia Tech. \u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"John Connelly and Amelia Musselman, Ph.D. students in the Stewart School of Industrial \u0026 Systems Engineering (ISyE), have each have been awarded an ARCS Scholars Award from Georgia Tech."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2016-08-25 16:04:25","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:22:26","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-08-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-08-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"568361":{"id":"568361","type":"image","title":"Amelia Musselman","body":null,"created":"1472153971","gmt_created":"2016-08-25 19:39:31","changed":"1475895374","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:56:14","alt":"Amelia Musselman","file":{"fid":"206994","name":"amelia_musselman.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/amelia_musselman.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/amelia_musselman.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1081755,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/amelia_musselman.jpg?itok=fCW5bcTV"}},"568371":{"id":"568371","type":"image","title":"John Connelly","body":null,"created":"1472154033","gmt_created":"2016-08-25 19:40:33","changed":"1475895374","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:56:14","alt":"John Connelly","file":{"fid":"206995","name":"john_connelly3.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/john_connelly3.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/john_connelly3.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1065955,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/john_connelly3.jpg?itok=PCUIQLvW"}}},"media_ids":["568361","568371"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"170630","name":"Amelia Musselman"},{"id":"172294","name":"ARC Awards"},{"id":"366","name":"Graduate"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"170632","name":"John Connelly"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"},{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"},{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"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\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":""}}}