{"68815":{"#nid":"68815","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Wu Honored by Chinese Academy of Sciences as Einstein Chair Professorship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJeff Wu, Coca-Cola Chair in\nEngineering Statistics at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and\nSystems Engineering, has been awarded the Einstein Chair Professorship, the\nhighest honor for visitors of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe awards ceremony was held\nat the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, a CAS national institute, in\nBeijing on April 27.\u0026nbsp; At the ceremony, Wu delivered a lecture titled,\n\u201cStatistical Design and Modeling of Experiments with High-Tech Applications,\u201d\ndrawing on his ongoing research at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAs part of the professorship,\nWu visited two branches of CAS in April and May, the Academy of Mathematics and\nSystems Science in Beijing and the University of Science and Technology of\nChina in Hefei.\u0026nbsp; In Hefei, he gave a lecture titled, \u201cA Fresh Look at\nEffect Aliasing and Interactions: Some New Wine in Old Bottles\u201d.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EWu\u2019s research achievements\ncover mathematical statistics and industrial statistics theories, methods and\napplications.\u0026nbsp; Wu\u0027s honors include membership on the National Academy of\nEngineering, Member of Academia Sinica, Committee of Presidents of Statistical\nSocieties Presidents Award in 1987, honorary professor at Chinese Academy of\nSciences, and an honorary doctor of mathematics at University of Waterloo. He\nearned his BS in Mathematics from National Taiwan University and a Ph.D. in\nStatistics from the University of California, Berkeley.\u0026nbsp;Wu joined Georgia\nTech in the summer of 2003.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Einstein Professor\nProgram aims to enhance the training of strategic science and technology\nexperts and talented senior scientific leaders, and to strengthen Chinese\nscientists\u0027 contacts and exchanges with top scientists throughout the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ECAS is a leading academic\ninstitution and comprehensive research and development center in natural\nscience, technological science and high-tech innovation in China.\u0026nbsp; CAS\nstrives to build itself into a scientific research base at an advanced\ninternational level, a base for fostering and bringing up advanced S\u0026amp;T\ntalents, and a base for promoting the development of China\u0027s high and new\ntechnology industries.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJeff Wu, Coca-Cola Chair in\nEngineering Statistics at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and\nSystems Engineering, has been awarded the Einstein Chair Professorship, the\nhighest honor for visitors of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27462","created_gmt":"2011-07-13 14:31:57","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:09:44","author":"Liz Klipp","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-07-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-07-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"55297":{"id":"55297","type":"image","title":"Jeff Wu, professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics","body":null,"created":"1449175507","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:45:07","changed":"1475894489","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:29","alt":"Jeff Wu, professor in the H. 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