{"305371":{"#nid":"305371","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Shabbir Ahmed Appointed Dean\u2019s Professor and Stewart Fellow","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EISyE Professor Shabbir Ahmed has recently been honored with two prestigious appointments.\u0026nbsp; Dean Gary May and the College of Engineering have appointed Ahmed to the position of Dean\u2019s Professor. Ahmed has also been appointed with a three year term as a Stewart Faculty Fellow by the Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe designation of Dean\u0027s Professor is rare and is intended to honor young, up and coming full professors who are rising stars. Ahmed was selected for his outstanding scholarship, dedication to education, and excellence in service at Institutional and national\/international levels.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Stewart Faculty Fellow appointment also recognizes Ahmed\u2019s outstanding accomplishments and future potential for leadership of the field.\u0026nbsp; This term position will provide him with resources to advance his research program and expand the reach of its important impact.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAhmed\u2019s research interests are in optimization, specifically stochastic and integer programming. Past honors include the National Science Foundation CAREER award, two IBM Faculty Awards, the Coca-Cola Junior Professorship from ISyE, and the INFORMS Dantzig Dissertation award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe has served as the chair of the Community of Stochastic Programming (2007-2010), and as a Stochastic Programming vice-chair of the INFORMS Optimization Society (2006-2008). He serves as associate editor of a number of journals including \u003Cem\u003EMathematical Programming and Operations Research. \u003C\/em\u003EAhmed received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EISyE Professor Shabbir Ahmed has recently been honored with two prestigious appointments.\u0026nbsp; Dean Gary May and the College of Engineering have appointed Ahmed to the position of Dean\u2019s Professor. Ahmed has also been appointed with a three year term as a Stewart Faculty Fellow by the Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE Professor Shabbir Ahmed has recently been honored with two prestigious appointments."}],"uid":"27868","created_gmt":"2014-06-26 15:09:15","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:41","author":"Lizzie Millman","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-06-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-06-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"305381":{"id":"305381","type":"image","title":"Shabbir Ahmed Appointed Dean\u2019s Professor and Stewart Fellow","body":null,"created":"1449244637","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:57:17","changed":"1475895012","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:12","alt":"Shabbir Ahmed Appointed Dean\u2019s Professor and Stewart Fellow","file":{"fid":"199689","name":"ahmed_shabbir_-_bust.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ahmed_shabbir_-_bust_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ahmed_shabbir_-_bust_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2511584,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ahmed_shabbir_-_bust_0.jpg?itok=HDCXgq8D"}}},"media_ids":["305381"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"169661","name":"Shabbir Ahmed"}],"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":""}}}