{"70910":{"#nid":"70910","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Finalists Announced for 2011 INFORMS Prizes and Awards","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Institute for Operations Research and the Management\nSciences (INFORMS) has recently announced a list of finalists for\nits various prizes and awards to be given at the upcoming 2011 INFORMS Annual\nMeeting in Charlotte, North Carolina on November 13.\u0026nbsp; Students and faculty of the H. Milton Stewart\nSchool of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) were among those selected. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EStudents Morgan Doty, Bryce Dykes, Kathleen Hendrix,\nRalph Long, Dana Lupuloff, Douglas Meagh, Jeff Phillips, and Michael \u0026nbsp;Vallecoccia were selected as one of six\nfinalists for the Doing Good with Good OR Student Competition for their submission, \u201cGwinnett County Public\nSchools: OR\/MS Drives Improvements in Bus Logistics and School Times.\u201d\u0026nbsp; The submission was a a solution to help\nGwinnett County Public Schools reduce transportation expenses in the face of\nconsiderable budget cuts.\u0026nbsp; By developing\nassignment and scheduling heuristics implemented by a user friendly application\nand informed by a regression and forecast, the total number of buses needed for\ndaily transportation was reduced significantly.\u0026nbsp;\nThe overall reduction of over 100 buses resulted in an initial savings\nof $2.9 million and recurring savings of $2.6 million each year. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EGuided by faculty advisor Dr. Julie Swann, students Doty,\nDykes, Hendrix, Long, Lupuloff, Meagh, Phillips, and Vallecoccia completed this\nproject as part of their required ISyE course, Senior Design, where they were\nalso chosen as one of the top three finalists out of twenty-four Senior Design\nteams.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003ETurgay Ayer, assistant professor of ISyE, was also selected\nas a finalist for the Doing Good with Good OR Student Competition for his\nsubmission \u201cRedesigning the Breast Cancer Screening Policies: Personalized\nMammography Screening,\u201d which he submitted while studying for his doctorate at University of\nWisconsin-Madison.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Additionally, Ayer\nwas chosen as a finalist for the Decision Analysis Society Student Paper\nCompetition for his paper \u201cA POMDP Approach to Personalize Mammography Screening\nPolicies,\u201d as well as a finalist for the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society Student Paper Competition. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EDaniel Dadush,\nan Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization PhD student at Georgia Tech, was\nselected as the winner of the Optimization Society Student Paper\nPrize for his paper \u201cOn the Chvatal-Gomory Closure of a Compact Convex\nSet.\u201d\u0026nbsp; The paper was co-authored with\nSantanu Dey, assistant professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial\nand Systems Engineering (ISyE), and Juan Pablo Vielma, who received his PhD\nfrom ISyE in 2009 and was the 2007 recipient of the Optimization Society\nStudent Paper Prize. Vielma is currently the assistant professor in the\ndepartment of Industrial Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. The prize\nis awarded annually at the INFORMS Fall National Meeting for an outstanding\npaper in optimization by a student author.\u0026nbsp; Also for this paper submission, Dadush, Dey, and Vielma were nominated as finalists for the Junior Faculty Interest Group Paper Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEva K. Lee, professor of ISyE and director of the\nCenter for Operations Research in Medicine and HealthCare, was selected as a finalist\nfor the Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice.\nLee will deliver a thirty minute presentation on her submission \u0022Designing Guest Flow and Operations Logistics\nfor the Dolphin Tales\u0022 during one of the Wagner Prize sessions.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAntonius Dieker,\nassistant professor of ISyE, was nominated as a finalist for the Junior Faculty\nInterest Group Paper Competition for his submission \u0022Sensitivity Analysis for Diffusion\n            Processes Constrained to an Orthant.\u0022 The paper was co-authored by Dieker\u0027s PhD student, Xuefeng Gao.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShan Ba, PhD student in ISyE, was nominated as a finalist for the Quality, Statistics, and Reliability Best Student Paper Award for the paper \u0022Multi-layer Designs for Computer Experiments,\u0022 co-authored with Roshan Vengazhiyil, associate professor in ISyE.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EINFORMS,\nthe largest professional society in the world for professionals in the field of\noperations research (OR), management science, and business analytics, serves\nthe scientific and professional needs of Operations Researchers and those in\nthe Management Sciences including educators, scientists, students, managers,\nand consultants.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EINFORMS has announced a list of finalists for\nits various prizes and awards to be given at the upcoming 2011 INFORMS Annual\nMeeting in Charlotte, North Carolina on November 13.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27511","created_gmt":"2011-10-05 09:46:09","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:22","author":"Ashley Daniel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-11-10T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-11-10T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"14604","name":"2011 INFORMS Annual Meeting"},{"id":"14476","name":"Daniel Dadush"},{"id":"6204","name":"INFORMS"},{"id":"9278","name":"ISyE Senior Design"},{"id":"1123","name":"Juan Pablo Vielma"},{"id":"167192","name":"Santanu Dey"},{"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":""}}}