{"587269":{"#nid":"587269","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tuo Zhao, ISyE New Faculty Hire","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETuo Zhao is an assistant professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering (ISyE) at Georgia Tech, one of several new faculty hires for the School in January 2017.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EZhao\u0026rsquo;s current research focuses on developing a new generation of optimization algorithms with statistical and computational guarantees, as well as user-friendly open source software for machine learning and scientific computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe received his Ph.D. in computer science at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in 2016 before joining ISyE. He was a visiting student in the Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health from 2011-2012, and the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University from 2014-2016.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EZhao has received several awards and scholarships for his work. He was the core member of the JHU team winning the INDI ADHD 200 global competition on fMRI imaging-based diagnosis classification in 2011. He received the Siebel scholarship in 2014, the Baidu Fellowship in 2015-2016, and a Chinese Government Scholarship for Outstanding Graduates Abroad in 2016. He was the co-recipient of the 2016 ASA Best Student Paper Award on Statistical Computing and the 2016 INFORMS SAS Best Paper Award on Data Mining.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETuo Zhao joined ISyE as an assistant professor in January 2017.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tuo Zhao joined ISyE as an assistant professor in January 2017. "}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2017-02-09 21:08:23","changed_gmt":"2017-02-09 21:08:23","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-02-09T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-02-09T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"587264":{"id":"587264","type":"image","title":"Tuo Zhao","body":null,"created":"1486669995","gmt_created":"2017-02-09 19:53:15","changed":"1486669995","gmt_changed":"2017-02-09 19:53:15","alt":"Tuo Zhao","file":{"fid":"223813","name":"TZ-Web.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/TZ-Web.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/TZ-Web.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1263113,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/TZ-Web.jpg?itok=X9uj_lbq"}}},"media_ids":["587264"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"172805","name":"Tuo Zhao"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"1646","name":"New Faculty"},{"id":"172747","name":"spotlight"}],"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:shelley.wunder-smith@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EShelley Wunder-Smith\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["shelley.wunder-smith@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}