{"59981":{"#nid":"59981","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Best Paper Award at INFORMS to ISyE Student","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAbhyuday Mandal, an ISyE PhD student, won the Best Student Paper Award at the INFORMS Meeting in Denver this October. The QSR (Quality, Statistics, Reliability) Section of INFORMS sponsors the competition.  About 20 competitors submitted papers, and the QSR Section chose four for presentation at the Meeting. Mandal based his presentation on the written paper, \u0022SELC: Sequential Elimination of Level Combinations by Means of Modified Genetic Algorithms\u0022. This paper was a joint effort with Jeff Wu (thesis advisor) and Kjell Johnson (Pfizer statistician).\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2004-11-05 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:08","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-11-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2004-11-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}