{"267811":{"#nid":"267811","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Erera Appointed Coca-Cola Associate Professor","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlan Erera, \u003C\/strong\u003EISyE associate chair for graduate studies\u003Cstrong\u003E,\u003C\/strong\u003E has been named a Coca-Cola Associate Professor in the Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering (ISyE) for a three year term of service. The Coca-Cola\u0026nbsp;Early Career Professorship is designed to enhance the ability of ISyE to \u201cretain eminent teacher-scholars.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAlan\u2019s accomplishments to date are impressive. His stature in the community is evidenced by his recent selection as one of only twenty-five U.S. participants in the first EU-U.S. Transportation Research Symposium on City Logistics co-sponsored by the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies,\u201d said Jane Ammons, school chair.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to leading ISyE\u2019s graduate studies program, Erera also has a large and active research program.\u0026nbsp; His research focuses primarily on transportation and logistics systems planning and control, with a focus both on innovative modeling and solution methodologies.\u0026nbsp; He works on challenging application areas including dynamic and stochastic vehicle routing and scheduling, robust asset management, logistics service network design, integrating security and efficiency in logistics systems, and highway traffic network analysis. Erera\u0027s research has been funded by both government agencies such as USDOT, DHS, and NSF, and through grants from industry partners in manufacturing and logistics.\u0026nbsp;He currently co-directs the Center for Global Transportation at ISyE\u0027s Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EErera received his B.S. in engineering from Princeton University, and his Ph.D. in industrial engineering and operations research from the University of California, Berkeley.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlan Erera,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EISyE associate chair for graduate studies\u003Cstrong\u003E,\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;has been named a Coca-Cola Associate Professor in the Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering (ISyE) for a three year term of service. The Coca-Cola\u0026nbsp;Early Career Professorship is designed to enhance the ability of ISyE to \u201cretain eminent teacher-scholars.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE\u0027s Alan Erera named Coca-Cola Associate Professor for a three year term of service."}],"uid":"27868","created_gmt":"2014-01-15 12:11:55","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:15:40","author":"Lizzie Millman","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-01-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-01-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"229871":{"id":"229871","type":"image","title":"Alan Erera","body":null,"created":"1449243582","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:39:42","changed":"1475894901","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:21","alt":"Alan Erera","file":{"fid":"197498","name":"erera_alan_-_bust.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/erera_alan_-_bust_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/erera_alan_-_bust_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":3464086,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/erera_alan_-_bust_1.jpg?itok=6tHc5p73"}}},"media_ids":["229871"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"9700","name":"Alan Erera"},{"id":"7881","name":"Coca-Cola Chair"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"}],"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":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}