{"641562":{"#nid":"641562","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ph.D. Student Tyler Perini Receives 2020 ICS Best Student Paper Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/tyler-perini\u0022\u003ETyler Perini\u003C\/a\u003E, a Ph.D. student studying operations research in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), has been given the 2020 Best Student Paper Award by the INFORMS Computing Society. His winning paper is \u0026ldquo;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pubsonline.informs.org\/doi\/10.1287\/ijoc.2019.0887\u0022\u003EA Criterion Space Method for Biobjective Mixed Integer Programming: The Boxed Line Method\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026quot; which appeared in the INFORMS\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EJournal on Computing\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;32:1, 16-39 (2020).\u0026rdquo; Perini\u0026rsquo;s co-authors include ISyE faculty members\u0026nbsp;Fouts Family Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/natashia-boland\u0022\u003ENatashia Boland\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and James C. Edenfield Chair and Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/martin-savelsbergh\u0022\u003EMartin Savelsbergh\u003C\/a\u003E, and Diego Pecin, assistant professor at\u0026nbsp;the Erasmus School of Economics in Rotterdam, Holland.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the following Q\u0026amp;A, Perini discusses his research, how his ISyE skills have developed throughout the course of his graduate studies, and what he plans to do after graduation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECan you provide a high-level description of your research, and also share why you\u0026rsquo;re interested in these particular topics?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI work on multi-objective optimization algorithms, which extends classic optimization methods to problems with two or more competing objectives. I love this topic because I think that \u0026ndash; slowly but surely \u0026ndash; there will be a major paradigm shift in operations research where single objectives become mostly obsolete. Most problems in industry have naturally competing objectives, but they are often modeled by a substitute single objective, which easily misses valuable solutions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYou received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship your first year as a Ph.D. student at ISyE. How have your research and ISyE skills progressed since receiving that award?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDue to the focus of my dissertation work, I have certainly improved in developing algorithms and testing algorithms. I have also refined soft skills as a researcher, including working with two international collaborations, one in Germany and another in Australia. This year, I have also created a Covid-19 dashboard for the public, which provides interactive tools to view risk around Georgia.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYou once said that you considered becoming a high school math teacher. How and why did your love of math begin and evolve to where you are today?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI think part of loving math for me was that it usually came easily to me in middle school and high school. I knew that I was good at problem solving, and I enjoyed working with and tutoring others to teach them as well. During my undergraduate studies [at the College of Charleston], I realized I could use math to solve real-world problems, and I saw so much potential in operations research. Here at Georgia Tech, I\u0026rsquo;ve learned how to create advanced tools for solving large-scale problems. However, I have still yet to sink my teeth into many real-world problems; so that\u0026rsquo;s my goal for a postdoctoral research position.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat did it feel like to be notified that you won this year\u0026#39;s ICS Student Paper Prize?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nIt was both so surprising and so satisfying. I\u0026rsquo;ve often felt that multi-objective optimization research gets siloed away into its own corner, so I didn\u0026rsquo;t really expect to be seriously considered. Even then, I wasn\u0026rsquo;t confident that what I thought was novel and important in this paper would really be award-worthy. Obviously, I am very pleased to be wrong about both.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECan you tell us \u0026ndash; again, from a high-level \u0026ndash; what your paper is about, and the conclusions you draw in it?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis is an algorithm paper that presented a new approach for a broad class of problems with the following features: (1) some continuous variables; (2) some discrete variables; (3) two objectives; and (4) everything is linear.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe algorithm follows simple intuition. It finds pieces of the Pareto frontier, usually somewhere in the middle, and in a reasonable chunk. Both of these features mean that we can provide a very diverse approximate of the Pareto frontier very quickly, and that we can actually bound the number of subproblems we solve by the total number of chunks in the frontier.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis latter complexity result was the first of such results for this class of algorithms, and I believe that\u0026rsquo;s an important reason why it won this award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat are the next steps for your academic career?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nI am in my last year of my doctoral program at Georgia Tech. I am searching for postdoc research opportunities, mostly abroad, and after that I will likely apply for a faculty position \u0026ndash; somewhere in the world!\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn this Q\u0026amp;A, Perini discusses his research, how his ISyE skills have developed throughout the course of his graduate studies, and what he plans to do after graduation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In this Q\u0026A, Perini discusses his research, how his ISyE skills have developed throughout the course of his graduate studies, and what he plans to do after graduation."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2020-11-23 16:12:09","changed_gmt":"2020-11-23 19:21:50","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-11-23T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-11-23T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"641561":{"id":"641561","type":"image","title":"Tyler Perini","body":null,"created":"1606147584","gmt_created":"2020-11-23 16:06:24","changed":"1606147584","gmt_changed":"2020-11-23 16:06:24","alt":"Tyler Perini","file":{"fid":"243785","name":"Tyler P.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Tyler%20P.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Tyler%20P.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":32190,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Tyler%20P.jpg?itok=E7boe8Se"}}},"media_ids":["641561"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"174239","name":"Tyler Perini"},{"id":"186319","name":"ICS Student Paper Award"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"112821","name":"natashia boland"},{"id":"8047","name":"Martin Savelsbergh"},{"id":"1129","name":"healthcare"}],"core_research_areas":[{"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:swundersmith3@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EShelley Wunder-Smith\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EH. 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