{"662749":{"#nid":"662749","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ISyE Faculty, Students Recognized for Research at INFORMS 2022 Annual Meeting","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA host of faculty and students from the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) attended the INFORMS annual meeting last month, networking with peers in the field, presenting research, attending keynotes, and more.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe conference, held from Oct. 16-19 in Indianapolis, Indiana, highlights research in the fields of operations research and analytics, proven scientific mathematical processes that enable organizations to turn complex challenges into substantial opportunities by transforming data into information, and information into insights that solve real-world problems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOnce again, ISyE researchers had a number of accomplishments at the meeting, being recognized for research on various topics. Explore the list below to see ISyE\u0026rsquo;s accomplishments.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIf you or someone you know received an award or recognition but did not make the list, please email Communications Manager David Mitchell at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:david.mitchell@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Edavid.mitchell@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EMehran Navabi-Shirazi, Mohamed El Tonbari, Natashia Boland, Dima Nazzal, and Lauren N. Steimle were selected as finalists for the Service Science Best Cluster Paper Award for their work\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EMulticriteria Course Mode Selection and Classroom Assignment Under Sudden Space Scarcity\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EPh.D. student Meghan Meredith received first place in the Minority Issues Forum student poster competition.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EPh.D. student Zihan Zhang won the INFORMS QSR Section Best Student Paper Award for work titled\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ETensor-based Temporal Control for Partially Observed High-Dimensional Streaming Data\u003C\/em\u003E. This is a joint work with Shancong Mou, Kamran Paynabar, and Jianjun Shi.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EGuanghui Lan, along with colleagues Saeed Ghadimi and Hongchao Zhang, earned the INFORMS Computing Society prize for pioneering work on nonconvex stochastic optimization methods, as detailed in three papers, which have a total of over 1,800 citations:\r\n\t\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003EStochastic First- and Zeroth-Order Methods for Nonconvex Stochastic Programming\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMini-Batch Stochastic Approximation Methods for Nonconvex Stochastic Composite Optimization\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAccelerated Gradient Methods for Nonconvex Nonlinear and Stochastic Programming\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\t\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EFormer ISyE Ph.D. student Sebasti\u0026aacute;n P\u0026eacute;rez-Salazar, now an assistant professor at Rice, received an honorable mention in the INFORMS Optimization Society student paper prize. He was co-advised by Alejandro Toriello and Mohit Singh.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EHenry Yuchi received a certificate for QSR Best Student Paper award finalist.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EA paper co-authored by Debankur Mukherjee and Ph.D. student Dan Rutten was a finalist in the INFORMS JFIG Paper Competition. It was titled\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EOnline Capacity Scaling Augmented with Untrusted Machine Learning Predictions\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe conference, held from Oct. 16-19 in Indianapolis, Indiana, highlights research in the fields of operations research and analytics, proven scientific mathematical processes that enable organizations to turn complex challenges into substantial opportunities by transforming data into information, and information into insights that solve real-world problems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A host of faculty and students from the H. 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