{"68938":{"#nid":"68938","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Turgay Ayer Joins School of Industrial and Systems Engineering","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETurgay Ayer will\njoin the faculty of the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and\nSystems Engineering as an assistant\nprofessor on August 1, 2011.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Ayer received his PhD in Industrial and Systems\nEngineering with a minor degree in Mathematics from the University of\nWisconsin (UW)-\nMadison.\u0026nbsp; He was a guest lecturer of\nhealth systems engineering and engineering economic analysis at the university\nfrom 2006-2010.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EHis research interests include stochastic optimization,\ncompletely and partially observable Markov decision processes, medical decision\nmaking, healthcare operations management, artificial intelligence, decision\nsupport systems, service operations, and public policy.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Ayer is the recipient of various awards including the\nINFORMS Seth Bonder Scholarship, Society of Medical Decision Making Lee Lusted\nAward, finalist in INFORMS Doing Good with Good OR competition, Radiology\nSociety of North America Best Informatics Session Presentation Award, and\nINFORMS Best Interactive Session Award. His works have been published or\naccepted for publication in \u003Cem\u003EOperations\nResearch, Cancer, RadioGraphics, Imaging in Medicine, \u003C\/em\u003Eand\u003Cem\u003E Encyclopedia of Operations Research and\nManagement Science.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETurgay Ayer will\njoin the faculty of the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and\nSystems Engineering as an assistant\nprofessor on August 1, 2011.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27511","created_gmt":"2011-07-26 13:05:12","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:09:48","author":"Ashley Daniel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-07-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-07-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"68939":{"id":"68939","type":"image","title":"Turgay Ayer","body":null,"created":"1449177214","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:13:34","changed":"1475894602","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:22","alt":"Turgay Ayer","file":{"fid":"192693","name":"ayer_photo.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ayer_photo_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ayer_photo_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1376846,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ayer_photo_0.jpg?itok=-Rfq78dO"}}},"media_ids":["68939"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1202","name":"H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering"},{"id":"13749","name":"Turgay Ayer"}],"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:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}