{"308601":{"#nid":"308601","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Yajun Mei Appointed Coca-Cola Associate Professor","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYajun Mei\u003C\/strong\u003E has been appointed as the Coca-Cola Associate Professor in the H. Milton School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering for a three year term effective July 1, 2014. Coca-Cola Early Career Professorships are designed to enhance the ability of ISyE to support outstanding ISyE junior faculty at the assistant and associate levels.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMei was selected because of his research on change-point problems and sequential analysis in mathematical statistics; sensor networks and information theory in Engineering; as well as longitudinal data analysis, random effects models, and clinical trials in Biostatistics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to joining ISyE in 2006, he worked as a Postdoc in Biostatistics for two years in the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, WA. Mei received a B.S. in Mathematics from Peking University in P.R. China, and a Ph.D. in Mathematics with a minor in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYajun Mei\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;has been appointed as the Coca-Cola Associate Professor in the H. Milton School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering for a three year term effective July 1, 2014. Coca-Cola Early Career Professorships are designed to enhance the ability of ISyE to support outstanding ISyE junior faculty at the assistant and associate levels.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Yajun Mei has been appointed as the Coca-Cola Associate Professor in the H. Milton School of Industrial \u0026 Systems Engineering for a three year term effective July 1, 2014."}],"uid":"27868","created_gmt":"2014-07-15 07:18:25","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:45","author":"Lizzie Millman","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-07-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-07-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"54664":{"id":"54664","type":"image","title":"Yajun Mei","body":null,"created":"1449175327","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:42:07","changed":"1475894403","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:03","alt":"Yajun Mei","file":{"fid":"172508","name":"Mei_Yajun_-_Bust.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Mei_Yajun_-_Bust_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Mei_Yajun_-_Bust_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2267567,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Mei_Yajun_-_Bust_0.jpg?itok=mS0zVRWs"}}},"media_ids":["54664"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}