{"296121":{"#nid":"296121","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Savelsbergh Joins ISyE as James C. Edenfield Chair","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMartin Savelsbergh\u003C\/strong\u003E will be joining the ISyE faculty as the James C. Edenfield Chair this August 2014. Savelsbergh, currently a professor at the University of Newcastle in Australia, is well known to ISyE, having served on the faculty for over 15 years, from 1993 to 2010.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; At ISyE, he was a Schneider professor and Research Director at The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL). As Research Director, Savelsbergh was responsible for SCL\u2019s Leaders in Logistics program, an industry outreach\/partnership program focused on developing innovative solutions that enhances companies\u2019 competitiveness.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMartin has a strong international reputation for outstanding scholarship involving the solution of challenging and important problems in supply chain and logistics and also for important methodological and computational developments,\u201d said Jane Ammons, Stewart School chair.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESavelsbergh is a logistics and optimization specialist with over 20 years of experience in mathematical modelling, optimization methods, performance analysis, supply chain management, production planning, and transportation. He has published over 120 research papers in many of the top operations research and optimization journals. He has a track record of creating innovative techniques for solving large-scale optimization problems in a variety of areas, ranging from vehicle routing and scheduling, to service network design, to stockyard management.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESavelsbergh has demonstrated ability to design and implement highly sophisticated and effective optimization algorithms as well as an ability to analyze practical decision problems and translate the insights obtained into optimal business solutions. Before joining the University of Newcastle in October of 2011, Savelsbergh led the Business and Services Analytics research program in the Mathematics, Informatics, and Statistics division of the CSIRO (Commonwealth Industrial and Scientific Research Organization).\u0026nbsp; Savelsbergh is a Fellow of INFORMS, the largest society in the world for professionals in the field of operations research, management science, and\u0026nbsp;analytics.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMartin Savelsbergh\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;will be joining the ISyE faculty as the James C. Edenfield Chair this August 2014.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Martin Savelsbergh will be joining the ISyE faculty as the James C. Edenfield Chair this August 2014."}],"uid":"27868","created_gmt":"2014-05-09 10:34:39","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:22","author":"Lizzie Millman","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-05-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-05-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"50145":{"id":"50145","type":"image","title":"Professor Martin Savelsbergh","body":null,"created":"1449175428","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:43:48","changed":"1475894468","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:08","alt":"Professor Martin Savelsbergh","file":{"fid":"127114","name":"tgh30876.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tgh30876_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tgh30876_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":21907,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tgh30876_0.jpg?itok=fIykdEa6"}}},"media_ids":["50145"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"8047","name":"Martin Savelsbergh"}],"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":""}}}