{"658825":{"#nid":"658825","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Asensio Wins Emerging Sustainability Scholar Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS) has named Omar Isaac Asensio, assistant professor in the School of Public Policy, the 2022 recipient of its Emerging Sustainability Scholar Award. The prestigious \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/corporate-sustainability.org\/awards\/emerging-sustainability-scholar-award\/\u0022\u003Eaward\u003C\/a\u003E, given to one or two early-career researchers each year, \u0026ldquo;is granted in recognition of a scholar\u0026rsquo;s existing body of research and in anticipation of future work,\u0026rdquo; according to the ARCS.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/omar-isaac-asensio\u0022\u003EAsensio\u003C\/a\u003E, director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/datasciencepolicy.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EData Science \u0026amp; Policy Lab\u003C\/a\u003E, focuses his research at the intersection of big data and public policy, particularly how they apply to such topics as energy systems and consumer behavior, smart cities, and machine learning in transportation and electric mobility.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAsensio\u0026rsquo;s research has been published in several high-profile journals, including a 2020 \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41893-020-0533-6\u0022\u003Earticle\u003C\/a\u003E on consumer innovation in electric vehicle charging stations published in \u003Cem\u003ENature Sustainability\u003C\/em\u003E. Most recently, he drove machine learning discovery with a team of public policy students and faculty who \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/news\/item\/655705\/study-reveals-strong-demand-open-access-science\u0022\u003Epublished a study\u003C\/a\u003E on open-access science in the \u003Cem\u003EProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This is truly a wonderful honor,\u0026rdquo; Asensio said. \u0026ldquo;I am very grateful for this award, which reflects the growing significance of high-resolution data and field experiments to sustainability research challenges.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAsensio accepted the Emerging Sustainability Scholar Award at the ARCS\u0026rsquo; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/corporate-sustainability.org\/event\/arcs-14th-annual-research-conference\/\u0022\u003E14\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E annual research conference\u003C\/a\u003E in Milan, Italy. He is the second Georgia Tech scholar to win the award after Basak Kalkanci, associate professor in the Scheller College of Business, did so in 2019.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe award is given to an early-career researcher by the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The award is given to an early-career researcher by the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability."}],"uid":"34946","created_gmt":"2022-06-13 14:25:26","changed_gmt":"2022-06-13 16:15:41","author":"gwyner3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-06-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-06-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"647379":{"id":"647379","type":"image","title":"Omar Asensio","body":null,"created":"1620837489","gmt_created":"2021-05-12 16:38:09","changed":"1620923484","gmt_changed":"2021-05-13 16:31:24","alt":"Omar Asensio","file":{"fid":"245796","name":"asensio 169.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/asensio%20169.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/asensio%20169.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":393357,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/asensio%20169.jpg?itok=HEnTaT8e"}},"658824":{"id":"658824","type":"image","title":"Omar Asensio received the Emerging Sustainability Scholar Award in June 2022.","body":null,"created":"1655130140","gmt_created":"2022-06-13 14:22:20","changed":"1655130140","gmt_changed":"2022-06-13 14:22:20","alt":"Omar Asensio holds a plaque for the Emerging Sustainability Scholar Award alongside the award\u0027s chair.","file":{"fid":"249729","name":"SPPINTA 16x9 (1).png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/SPPINTA%2016x9%20%281%29_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/SPPINTA%2016x9%20%281%29_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":1646810,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/SPPINTA%2016x9%20%281%29_0.png?itok=r2IsfzGf"}}},"media_ids":["647379","658824"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"101","name":"Award"},{"id":"166890","name":"sustainability"},{"id":"190779","name":"sustainability award"},{"id":"182439","name":"corporate sustainability"},{"id":"365","name":"Research"},{"id":"181248","name":"sustainability research"},{"id":"733","name":"Research award"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:gwyner3@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGrace Wyner\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Public Policy | Sam Nunn School of International Affairs\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}