{"628500":{"#nid":"628500","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ISyE Faculty and Students Receive Awards at 2019 INFORMS Conference","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAt the annual Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) conference, a number of faculty members and students from Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) received awards for their research. The conference was held from October 20-23, 2019, in Seattle, Washington.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWilliam W. George Chair and Professor\u003Cstrong\u003E Pinar Keskinocak\u003C\/strong\u003E was installed as the president of INFORMS.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EPascal Van Hentenryck\u003C\/strong\u003E gave a keynote address with outgoing INFORMS President President\u0026nbsp;Ramayya Krishnan on \u0026quot;AI Strategy: Opportunities at the Intersection of AI and Operations Research.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorge Family Foundation Early Career Professor and Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ETurgay Ayer\u003C\/strong\u003E was selected as one of the Health Applications Society Distinguished Speakers and gave a talk, \u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026ldquo;\u003C\/strong\u003EPerspectives On Successful Healthcare Analytics Projects,\u0026rdquo; as part of the Distinguished Speakers Series.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFirst Place\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETurgay Ayer\u003C\/strong\u003E, along with former advisee \u003Cstrong\u003ECan Zhang \u003C\/strong\u003E(Ph.D. 18) and Atalay Atasu and Beril Toktay (both from Scheller College of Business), won the MSOM Responsible Research in OM Award for \u0026ldquo;Truthful Mechanisms for Medical Surplus Product Allocation.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBurak Kocuk\u003C\/strong\u003E (Ph.D. 16), along with his former advisors A. Russell Chandler III Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ESantanu Dey\u003C\/strong\u003E and Anderson-Interface Early Career Professor and Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EAndy Sun\u003C\/strong\u003E, won the ENRE Best Publication Award in Energy for \u0026ldquo;Strong SOCP Relaxations for the Optimal Power Flow Problem.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAssistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EHe Wang\u003C\/strong\u003E received first place in the MSOM Student Paper Competition for the work \u0026ldquo;Dynamic Learning and Pricing with Model Misspecification,\u0026rdquo; coauthored with Mila Nambiar (MIT Ph.D. student) and David Simchi-Levi (MIT).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003EZhen Zhong\u003C\/strong\u003E received first place in the QSR Best Student Paper Competition for \u0026ldquo;Image-based Feedback Control using Tensor Analysis,\u0026rdquo; co-authored with his advisors, Carolyn J. Stewart Chair and Professor\u003Cstrong\u003E Jan Shi\u003C\/strong\u003E and Fouts Family Early Career Professor and Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EKamran Paynabar\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESecond Place\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EShixiang Zhu\u003C\/strong\u003E received second place in the \u0026ldquo;Doing Good with Good OR\u0026rdquo; Student Paper Competition for \u0026ldquo;Atlanta Police Zone Redesign: A Data-driven Optimization Approach,\u0026rdquo; co-authored with his advisor, Harold R. and Mary Anne Nash Early Career Professor and Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EYao Xie\u003C\/strong\u003E, and Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EHe Wang\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFinalists\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003EYufeng Cao\u003C\/strong\u003E was a finalist for the Aviation Applications Section (AAS) Best Student Presentation Competition for the work \u0026ldquo;Network Revenue Management Under a Spiked Multinomial Logit Choice Model,\u0026rdquo; coauthored with his advisors, Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EAnton Kleywegt\u003C\/strong\u003E and Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EHe Wang\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003EZhehui Chen\u003C\/strong\u003E was a finalist for the Data Mining Best Student Paper Competition for the paper, \u0026ldquo;A Hierarchical Expected Improvement Method for Effective Bayesian Optimization,\u0026rdquo; co-authored with Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics and Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EJeff Wu\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003ESimon Mak \u003C\/strong\u003E(Ph.D. 18). His advisors are \u003Cstrong\u003EWu \u003C\/strong\u003Eand Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ETuo Zhao\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003EAmanda Chu\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EPinar Keskinocak\u003C\/strong\u003E, and \u003Cstrong\u003EMonica Villarreal\u003C\/strong\u003E (Ph.D. 14) were finalists for the Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice for the project \u0026ldquo;Empowering Denver Public Schools System to Optimize School Bus Operations.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003EZhaowei She\u003C\/strong\u003E was a finalist for the MSOM Student Paper Competition for the paper, \u0026ldquo;Can Big Data Cure Risk Selection in Healthcare Capitation Programs?,\u0026rdquo; co-authored with his advisor \u003Cstrong\u003ETurgay Ayer\u003C\/strong\u003E and Daniel Montanera (Georgia State University).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESIAC Ph.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003EAndi Wang\u003C\/strong\u003E was a finalist for the Data Mining Section Best Paper Award for \u0026ldquo;Ranking Features to Promote Diversity: An Approach Based on Sparse Distance Correlation,\u0026rdquo; co-authored with his advisor, \u003Cstrong\u003EJan Shi\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELiyan Xie\u003C\/strong\u003E was a finalist for the QSR Best Student Paper Competition for \u0026ldquo;Optimal Sequential Subspace Change-point Detection,\u0026rdquo; co-authored with her advisor, \u003Cstrong\u003EYao Xie\u003C\/strong\u003E, and George Moustakides (Rutgers University).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003ERunner-up\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EACO Ph.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003ESebastian Perez \u003C\/strong\u003Ewas runner-up in the Computing Society Student Paper Prize for \u0026ldquo;Dynamic Resource Allocation in the Cloud with Near-optimal Efficiency\u0026rdquo; co-authored with his advisors, H. Milton Stewart Early Career Professor and Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EMohit Singh \u003C\/strong\u003Eand Leo and Louise Benatar Early Career Professor and Associate Professor\u003Cstrong\u003E Alejandro Toriello\u003C\/strong\u003E, and Ishai Menache (Microsoft Research).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELiyan Xie\u003C\/strong\u003E was runner-up in the Computing Society Student Paper Prize for \u0026quot;Robust Hypothesis Testing with Wasserstein Uncertainty Sets,\u0026quot; co-authored with her advisor, \u003Cstrong\u003EYao Xie\u003C\/strong\u003E, and \u003Cstrong\u003ERui Gao\u003C\/strong\u003E (Ph.D. 18).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EHonorable Mention\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECan Zhang\u003C\/strong\u003E (Ph.D. 18), co-advised by \u003Cstrong\u003ETurgay Ayer\u003C\/strong\u003E and Schneider National Chair in Transportation and Logistics and Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EChip White\u003C\/strong\u003E, received an honorable mention for the George B. 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