{"50084":{"#nid":"50084","#data":{"type":"news","title":"INFORMS Honors ISyE Faculty and Graduate Students","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 2007 Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) annual meeting, held November 4-7 in Seattle, Washington.  Honorees included: \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFaculty:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n* \u003Cstrong\u003EWilliam J. Cook\u003C\/strong\u003E, Lanchester Prize;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n* \u003Cstrong\u003EJim Dai \u003C\/strong\u003E, INFORMS Fellow;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n* \u003Cstrong\u003EBill Cooper\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003ETito Homem-de-Mello\u003C\/strong\u003E, and \u003Cstrong\u003EAnton Kleywegt\u003C\/strong\u003E, Revenue Management and Pricing Section Prize (Bill Cooper and Tito Homem-de-Mello are former Ph.D. students in the School)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n* \u003Cstrong\u003EOzlem Ergun\u003C\/strong\u003E, Finalist, JFIG Paper Competition\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStudents:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n* \u003Cstrong\u003EJuan C. Morales\u003C\/strong\u003E, TSL Best Dissertation Prize, Co-advisors: Professors \u003Cstrong\u003EAlan Erera\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003EMartin Savelsbergh\u003C\/strong\u003E;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n* \u003Cstrong\u003EJuan Pablo Vielma\u003C\/strong\u003E, Optimization Society Student Paper Prize, Co-advisors: Professors \u003Cstrong\u003EGeorge L. Nemhauser \u003C\/strong\u003Eand \u003Cstrong\u003EShabbir Ahmed\u003C\/strong\u003E;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n* \u003Cstrong\u003ERicha Agarwal\u003C\/strong\u003E, Runner-Up, Computing Society Student Paper Competition, Advisor: Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EOzlem Ergun\u003C\/strong\u003E;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n* \u003Cstrong\u003EAlaa Elwany \u003C\/strong\u003Eand \u003Cstrong\u003EYing Hung\u003C\/strong\u003E, Finalists for their individual entries in the Quality Statistics and Reliability Best Student Paper competition, Elwany\u0027s advisor is Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ENagi Gebraeel\u003C\/strong\u003E, and Hung\u0027s co-advisors are Professors \u003Cstrong\u003EJeff Wu \u003C\/strong\u003Eand \u003Cstrong\u003ERoshan Vengazhilyil\u003C\/strong\u003E; and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n* \u003Cstrong\u003EAndreea Popescu\u003C\/strong\u003E, Honorable Mention, George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award, co-advised by Professors \u003Cstrong\u003EEllis Johnson \u003C\/strong\u003Eand \u003Cstrong\u003EPinar Keskinocak\u003C\/strong\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022INFORMS is the largest professional society in the world for professionals in the field of operation research, and I couldn\u0027t be more pleased to see ISyE\u0027s faculty and students honored at this year\u0027s INFORMS meeting,* said Chelsea C. White III, ISyE School Chair. \u0022Their exemplary contributions to the field of O.R. demonstrate our capabilities and show the depth of dedication to the field.*\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMore on INFORMS\u003C\/strong\u003E:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nEstablished 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\u0027s 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 information about INFORMS, visit \u003Ca href=\u0027www.informs.org\u0027\u003Ewww.informs.org\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Stewart School faculty and graduate students were honored at the 2007 Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) annual meeting held in Seattle, Washington on November 4-7.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"INFORMS Honors ISyE Faculty and Graduate Students"}],"uid":"27216","created_gmt":"2007-11-26 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:49","author":"Ruth Gregory","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2007-11-26T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2007-11-26T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"50085":{"id":"50085","type":"image","title":"tyr06292.jpg","body":null,"created":"1449175348","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:42:28","changed":"1475894445","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:45","alt":"","file":{"fid":"126864","name":"tyr06292.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tyr06292_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tyr06292_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":26767,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tyr06292_0.jpg?itok=NkRzrxvi"}},"50086":{"id":"50086","type":"image","title":"tnv06250.jpg","body":null,"created":"1449175348","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:42:28","changed":"1475894445","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:45","alt":"","file":{"fid":"126863","name":"tnv06250.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tnv06250_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tnv06250_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":34508,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tnv06250_0.jpg?itok=4JuCEA9l"}}},"media_ids":["50085","50086"],"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":"8013","name":"Cook"},{"id":"8021","name":"Dai"},{"id":"6204","name":"INFORMS"},{"id":"167205","name":"Stewart School"}],"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":""}}}