{"586482":{"#nid":"586482","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Mohit Singh, ISyE New Faculty Hire","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMohit Singh joined the Georgia Tech H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering (ISyE) as the H. Milton Stewart Associate Professor in January 2017. Prior to this, he served as a researcher in the Theory Group at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESingh\u0026rsquo;s research interests include discrete optimization, approximation algorithms, and convex optimization. His research is focused on optimization problems arising in cloud computing, logistics, network design, and machine learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESingh received the Tucker Prize in 2009 given by the Mathematical Optimization Society for an outstanding doctoral thesis \u0026ldquo;Iterative Methods in Combinatorial Optimization.\u0026rdquo; He also received the best paper award for his work on the traveling salesman problem at the Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) in 2011.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPreviously, Singh was an assistant professor at McGill University from 2010-2011 and a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research, New England from 2008-2009. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2008 from Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMohit Singh joined ISyE as the H. Milton Stewart Associate Professor in January 2017.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Mohit Singh joined the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial \u0026 Systems Engineering (ISyE) as the H. Milton Stewart Associate Professor in January 2017."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2017-01-26 15:10:46","changed_gmt":"2017-01-26 15:33:14","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-01-26T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-01-26T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"586478":{"id":"586478","type":"image","title":"Mohit Singh","body":null,"created":"1485441076","gmt_created":"2017-01-26 14:31:16","changed":"1485441076","gmt_changed":"2017-01-26 14:31:16","alt":"Mohit Singh","file":{"fid":"223520","name":"Mohit Singh Headshot.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Mohit%20Singh%20Headshot.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Mohit%20Singh%20Headshot.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":681989,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Mohit%20Singh%20Headshot.jpg?itok=PEgJ5BM8"}}},"media_ids":["586478"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"173310","name":"Mohit Singh"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"172747","name":"spotlight"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"},{"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\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404.385.4745\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["shelley.wunder-smith@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}