{"49772":{"#nid":"49772","#data":{"type":"news","title":"2009 INFORMS Honors ISyE Students and Faculty","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESeveral faculty and students of the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) were honored this year at the 2009 Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) annual meeting held in October in San Diego. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEvren Ozkaya \u003C\/strong\u003Ereceived an Honorable Mention, George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award. Advisors: \u003Cstrong\u003EPinar Keskinocak \u003C\/strong\u003Eand \u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Vande \u003Cstrong\u003EVa\u003C\/strong\u003Ete\u003C\/strong\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJiheng Zhang \u003C\/strong\u003Ereceived an Honorable Mention, Nicholson Student Paper Competition. Zhang is the former student of \u003Cstrong\u003EJim Dai \u003C\/strong\u003Eand \u003Cstrong\u003EBert Zwart\u003C\/strong\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EF. Engineer \u003C\/strong\u003Ereceived an Honorable Mention, Doing Good with Good OR Student Paper Competition with \u0022Catch-up Scheduling for Childhood Immunization.\u0022 Co-authors: \u003Cstrong\u003EP. Keskinocak\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003EL. Pickering\u003C\/strong\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELulu Kang \u003C\/strong\u003Ewon the Best Student Paper Award from the Quality, Statistics, and Reliability section of INFORMS. Advisor: \u003Cstrong\u003ERoshan Vengazhiyil\u003C\/strong\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERensheng Z\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ehou\u003C\/strong\u003E was among the four finalists for the Best Student Paper Award from the Quality, Statistics, and Reliability section of INFORMS. Advisor: \u003Cstrong\u003ENagi Gab\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Eriel\u003C\/strong\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGizem K\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Eeysan\u003C\/strong\u003E won the Dissertation Prize of the Aviations Applications Section of INFORMS. Advisors: \u003Cstrong\u003EMartin Savelsbergh \u003C\/strong\u003Eand \u003Cstrong\u003EGeorge Nemhauser\u003C\/strong\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGizem Keysan \u003C\/strong\u003Ewas the runner-up in the 2009 AGIFORS Anna Valicek Medal. Co-authors: \u003Cstrong\u003EMartin Savelsbergh \u003C\/strong\u003Eand \u003Cstrong\u003EGeorge Nemhauser\u003C\/strong\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EO. Ergun\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EJ. Heier Stamm\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EP. Keskinocak\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EJ. Swann\u003C\/strong\u003E, first runner-up, 2009 Best Teaching Case Award with \u0022Lessons in Disaster Supply Chain Management from Waffle House Restaurants\u0022 from INFORMS Forum on Education.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAli Ekici\u003C\/strong\u003E, finalist, 2009 Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (MSOM) Society Student Paper Competition with ``Modeling Influenza Pandemic, Intervention Strategies, and Food Distribution.\u0027\u0027 Co-authors:  \u003Cstrong\u003EPinar Keskinocak \u003C\/strong\u003Eand \u003Cstrong\u003EJulie S\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ewann\u003C\/strong\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EINFORMS is the largest professional society in the world for professionals in the field of operation research. Established in 1995, INFORMS serves the scientific and professional needs of O.R. educators, investigators, scientists, students, managers, and consultants, as well as the organizations they serve. The society organizes national and international conferences for academics and professionals, as well as members of the society;s special interest groups, permitting them to communicate and reach out to other professional societies and the varied clientele of the profession\u0027s research and practice. For more about information about INFORMS, visit \u003Ca href=\u0027www.informs.org\u0027\u003Ewww.informs.org\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Several faculty and students of the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) were honored this year at the 2009 Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) annual meeting held in October in San Diego.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"2009 INFORMS Honors ISyE Students and Faculty"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2009-10-28 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:59","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-10-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-10-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"7882","name":"Annual Meeting"},{"id":"276","name":"Awards"},{"id":"6204","name":"INFORMS"},{"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":"\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","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}