{"485501":{"#nid":"485501","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Faculty Spotlight: ISyE Professor Nagi Gebraeel Named to Appointment as Georgia Power Associate Professor","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering\u2019s (ISyE) Nagi Gebraeel has been appointed as the Georgia Power Associate Professor by College of Engineering Dean Gary S. May, effective January 1, 2016.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis selection came about \u201cbecause of the close alignment between his analytics research and Georgia Power\u2019s business interests,\u201d says Dean May. \u201cSince arriving at Georgia Tech, Nagi has focused on power generation and help provide leadership to the Strategic Energy Institute. His work in predicting degradation and useful life of mechanical and electric power generation equipment is particularly important to companies like Georgia Power.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to ISyE Chair Edwin Romeijn, Gebraeel was chosen \u201cfor this professorship because of his exceptional record of scholarship and service to Georgia Tech, and his leadership in the area of prognostics and sensor data analytics.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout ISyE\u2019s Georgia Power Associate Professor Nagi Gebraeel\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGebraeel\u0027s research interests are in (1) equipment prognostics and diagnostics for improving reliability, maintainability, and availability by leveraging degradation-based sensor data streams, and (2) the integration of these results in subsequent maintenance, operational and logistical decision making. His specific focus is on tackling these problems in Big Data settings involving massive amounts of data streams and large equipment fleets. From the standpoint of application domains, Professor Gebraeel has a general interest in the energy industry with a focus on power generation, and the manufacturing industry with a focus on discrete and continuous manufacturing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGebraeel also currently serves as an associate director at Georgia Tech\u0027s Strategic Energy Institute with the responsibility of identifying and promoting research activities and thought leadership at the intersection of Data Science and Energy. He is also the director of the Analytics and Prognostics Systems laboratory at Georgia Tech\u0027s Manufacturing Institute.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe is a member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), and The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He was the former president of the IIE\u0027s Quality Control and Reliability Engineering Division.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EISyE Professor Nagi Gebraeel has been named to an appointment as Georgia Power Associate Professor in the College of Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE Professor Nagi Gebraeel has been named to an appointment as Georgia Power Associate Professor in the College of Engineering."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2016-01-13 11:07:31","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:24","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-01-13T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-01-13T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"234021":{"id":"234021","type":"image","title":"Dr. Nagi Gebraeel","body":null,"created":"1449243641","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:40:41","changed":"1475894908","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:28","alt":"Dr. Nagi Gebraeel","file":{"fid":"197624","name":"gebraeel_nagi_-_bust.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gebraeel_nagi_-_bust_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gebraeel_nagi_-_bust_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2683014,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/gebraeel_nagi_-_bust_1.jpg?itok=8omPRuuR"}}},"media_ids":["234021"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"594","name":"college of engineering"},{"id":"6411","name":"Dr. Nagi Gebraeel"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"},{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"},{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EShelley Wunder-Smith\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["shelley.wunder-smith@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}