{"628051":{"#nid":"628051","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Pascal Van Hentenryck Assumes Role of Associate Chair for Innovation and Entrepreneurship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) announced that A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Professor Pascal Van Hentenryck has assumed the role of associate chair for innovation and entrepreneurship (ACIE). This is a new position within ISyE\u2019s leadership structure.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs ACIE, Van Hentenryck will lead the development of \u201cblue sky\u201d initiatives, foster and nurture a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship, facilitate translational research, and build strategic partnerships.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI am happy that Pascal has agreed to serve as ACIE. In this role, he will be responsible for stimulating strategic thinking, innovation, and entrepreneurship within ISyE,\u201d said School Chair Edwin Romeijn. \u201cPascal has the energy and drive needed for this role, and he will provide tremendous value to ISyE. I look forward to working with him in this capacity.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EVan Hentenryck\u2019s own research complements this new position. His work centers on artificial intelligence, data science, and operations research. His current focus is to develop methodologies, algorithms, and systems for addressing challenging problems in mobility, energy systems, resilience, and privacy. In the past, his research focused on optimization and the design and implementation of innovative optimization systems, including the CHIP programming system (a Cosytec product), the foundation of all modern constraint programming systems, and the optimization programming language OPL (now an IBM Product).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI am deeply honored \u2013 and also delighted \u2013 to take on this new role. There is a convergence of technologies at the union of AI and OR that promises to fundamentally change industrial and systems engineering, and even engineering as a whole,\u201d said Van Hentenryck. \u201cISyE is ideally positioned to pursue these opportunities, given its strength in methodologies and its domain expertise in a number of disciplines. 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This year it was held on November 14 and 15 at Georgia Tech and was attended by more than 80 participants from Europe, Canada, and across the U.S. The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers, practitioners, and students from electric energy systems and operations research \u2014 typically separated communities \u2014 to have focused discussions on the nation\u2019s electric systems. The conference was organized by ISyE Anderson-Interface Early Career Professor and Associate Professor Andy Sun and featured more than 20 speakers from industry, academia, and research labs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt is encouraging to see the enthusiasm from the attendees of the past three workshops,\u201d said Sun. \u201cWe need a focused platform to bring together power engineering and optimization experts to help solve these problems. I think that\u2019s why we see people coming back every year from practical day-to-day operations of power markets and the most prestigious academic institutes.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EISyE Associate Chair for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Professor Pascal Van Hentenryck welcomed the group and reiterated the significance of a multidisciplinary approach to solve problems. Van Hentenryck also noted the importance of the informal discussions and networking that takes place during the workshop, in addition to the formal talks.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWorkshop themes included the challenges in operations of large-scale electricity markets; new approaches for managing risks and stochasticity in electric markets; contingency analysis, probabilistic operation, and machine learning; recent advancements in optimal power flow control and computation; distributed energy resources and storage; and dealing with uncertainty, contingency, and health considerations in power grids.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe most gratifying response is from students who attended and presented posters of their extremely high-quality research,\u201d added Sun. \u201cWe hope that the students are as inspired as we are about the future of research in energy systems.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFollowing the workshop, Professor Warren Powell from Princeton University, who was also one of the speakers, praised the event. \u201cFabulous workshop,\u201d said Powell. \u201cI think you have established this event as the best energy systems workshop in the country.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe 2019 Workshop on Energy Systems and Optimization was made possible by the generous support of sponsors, including ISyE, the Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute, and the ISyE Anderson-Interface Chair. 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Together they created the Seth Bonder Camp in Computational and Data Science for Engineering to help students better understand the careers and opportunities available in these fields.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen most people think about engineering, they think of mechanical or civil, but they don\u2019t know \u2014 until they are already in college \u2014 that they can use industrial engineering and operations research tools to analyze and solve scientific, real-world problems,\u201d explained Bonder. \u201cWe want to introduce high school students to the field and its many applications early, so they know it is a future career option.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBig data and data science are growing fields; and while people may have heard these terms, they typically don\u2019t fully understand their many applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cData science is the idea of using computation to transform data into information, knowledge, insights, and decisions,\u201d explained Van Hentenryck. \u201cData scientists are changing the world every day, and we want to help develop the next generation.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis summer, 30 high school students gathered at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering on July 22 to participate in the Seth Bonder Camp in Computational and Data Science for Engineering. The five-day camp, led by Van Hentenryck, teaches basic programming and computer science skills to participants with little or no prior experience in these areas.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEach day began with an interactive lecture from Van Hentenryck, followed by an afternoon in the lab getting hands-on experience to implement the concepts learned. The camp uses Snap!, a visual programming language designed to teach basic programming concepts without the mathematical component. The lessons built on these ideas to show how data science is changing social science, machine learning, medicine, biology, and engineering. The campers even learned how to create a program to solve Sudoku in seconds.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cPascal does a wonderful job taking a difficult concept and breaking it down so the students can understand it,\u201d said Bonder. \u201cHe makes it fun and lighthearted, which makes it more appealing to the students who may be considering industrial engineering or operations research as a career choice.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EVan Hentenryck thoroughly enjoyed his time working on the camp. \u201cIt is an opportunity to go back in time and rediscover the awe I felt when I realized how to use computing for solving complex engineering problems,\u201d he reflected. \u201cI try to give them the confidence to dive into the field and build solutions.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAt the conclusion of the camp, several students told Van Hentenryck that they wanted to become engineers and asked to keep in touch. A few even asked him to serve as a mentor for high school research projects in the coming year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo further their mission of increased awareness of data science and operations research among as many high school students as possible, Van Hentenryck and Bonder hope to eventually create a free online version of the course that will be open to anyone interested in learning more about this growing field.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESeth Bonder (1932-2011) was the founder and CEO of Vector Research, an operations research consulting firm. He served as faculty, and then adjunct faculty, in the industrial engineering department at the University of Michigan and as the 27th president of the Operations Research Society of America. Bonder won numerous awards throughout his career and was an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering. 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After Amazon decided to build new headquarters operations in D.C. and New York City, some \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.citylab.com\/transportation\/2018\/11\/amazon-hq2-chose-transit-new-york-dc-subway-metro-mta\/575932\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer\u0022\u003Especulated\u003C\/a\u003E Atlanta\u2019s comparatively limited public transportation system might have been a factor.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPascal Van Hentenryck, A. Russell Chandler III Chair and\u0026nbsp;professor in\u0026nbsp;the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) at Georgia Tech, has a few ideas as to why MARTA has problems:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe public system here is not as developed as in other cities,\u201d said Van Hentenryck, a Belgium native. \u201cIt only has a few train lines, which were originally developed for other purposes. So, you\u2019re really not connecting people to where they want to go. 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At one competition, we practiced a dance we had just learned for an hour and then went and competed it.\u0026rdquo; The partnership has been successful, as the pair has won the silver division and placed high in the gold and open divisions at competitions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring a dance competition, groups of up to 20 couples compete in heats. The lead \u0026ndash; usually male \u0026ndash; is dressed plainly in black pants, a black tie, and a white shirt with a number pinned to the back. The follow \u0026ndash; usually a female and the focal point of the pair \u0026ndash; wears an elaborate dress. During each heat, judges walk around and comparatively evaluate each couple. Then the judges call pairs back so that eventually, the eight best dancers are on the floor for the finals.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn total, the Ballroom Dance Club has around 36 members on the competition team, which travels to various national ballroom dance competitions throughout the year. The club also has begun hosting its own annual dance competition at Tech, Helluva Dance Competition, in coordination with other collegiate dance clubs. This year, about 100 competitors attended.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWarner takes his studies as seriously as he takes dancing. This past spring, he received the ISyE College of Engineering Honors Day Award, which is given to the engineering student with the best academic performance at the end of the third year. He has served as an undergraduate teaching assistant and participated in a co-op. Dancing lets him take a break from his academic pursuits.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;For me, dancing is a form of stress relief, since classes at Tech can be so intense. And it\u0026rsquo;s something I can keep doing even after I graduate. A professional dancer once told me they had a student begin dancing at the age of 84. So I could keep doing this until I\u0026rsquo;m 100,\u0026rdquo; Warner said, laughing. \u0026ldquo;The other part of it is that it\u0026rsquo;s a real community. It\u0026rsquo;s been a great way to meet people outside of Georgia Tech, because when you\u0026rsquo;re at a competition for 24 hours, you make some friends. You\u0026rsquo;re all there to dance, for a common hobby.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd what should students do if they want to get involved in ballroom dancing?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;Come to our social dance,\u0026rdquo; Warner said. \u0026ldquo;We always hold one the first week of the semester. 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We decided that since we are targeting a global market, our products should be something many people can relate to. At the same time, we want to showcase the different techniques our artisans use.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIf you browse through the Bent Chair website, many products show a blend of the traditional and the contemporary. We\u0026rsquo;ve tried to be consistent with that design aesthetic. We try to make home d\u0026eacute;cor fashionable.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow do you stay current with design trends?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe best way to stay on top is to constantly accommodate customer feedback. You have a vision for your brand, but at the end of the day, your product needs to sell to your customers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWe also reach out to the design community and get their input because interior designers and architects are key influencers in this industry. 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I can\u0026rsquo;t explain queuing theory or bin packing. I know these words, because I\u0026rsquo;ve heard them, but I\u0026rsquo;ve never used the processes taught here [at ISyE]. And I\u0026rsquo;m super excited to be able to use what I\u0026rsquo;ve learned to explain what I\u0026rsquo;ve done, and how to improve it.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDespite the fact that Brown is just now beginning his ISyE-specific studies, he has solid proof that his system functions: During the 2016 holiday season, hundreds of orders unexpectedly came in when both the \u003Cem\u003EAtlanta Journal-Constitution \u003C\/em\u003Eand \u003Cem\u003EWall Street Journal \u003C\/em\u003Efeatured articles about TTA.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It was madness,\u0026rdquo; he remembered. \u0026ldquo;On a day just before Christmas, we received over 1,500 orders. Never on the same day have we received that many orders. Our system handled it, which I didn\u0026rsquo;t expect at all. I was so happy it worked!\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETin Toy Arcade is a successful online retailer \u0026mdash; in fact, Amazon is the company\u0026rsquo;s main competitor. Brown attributes TTA\u0026rsquo;s ability to challenge Amazon largely because of its same-day shipping policy. In addition, TTA carries exclusive toy lines from manufacturers in Germany and India.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe met Joseph Wagner, his German manufacturer, through the international New York Toy Fair.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I snuck onto the floor of the toy fair when I was nine \u0026mdash; the age requirement is 18 \u0026mdash; and started handing out business cards,\u0026rdquo; Brown said, laughing. \u0026ldquo;I ran into Joseph, who\u0026rsquo;s the last tin toy manufacturer in Nuremberg, which is the home of the original tin toys.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen Brown was in ninth grade, he visited Wagner in Nuremberg and learned more about the international history behind the original tin toys.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Joseph\u0026rsquo;s manufacturing plant is his garage,\u0026rdquo; Brown said. \u0026ldquo;After WWII, he bought the Nazis\u0026rsquo; bullet presses and turned them into machines to make toys.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe toys are litho-plate printed: Paint \u0026mdash; now lead- free \u0026mdash; is spread onto flat tin, which is then put onto the metal press that indents the toy\u0026rsquo;s shape.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen asked what delights him so much about selling these retro toys, Brown responded, \u0026ldquo;I think it comes from the first day of this business, at an art show. I was selling photographs of my grandparents\u0026rsquo; toys and displaying the actual toys alongside the photos. One of my first customers was probably in her mid-40s, and she was super happy to see the toys she grew up with. She brought over her four kids and told them that these were the toys she had when she was a kid. She loved them, and then the kids instantly loved them too. There\u0026rsquo;s no disconnect between generations with these toys.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I think this is one of the best jobs out there, playing with and selling toys for a living,\u0026rdquo; Brown added. \u0026ldquo;We say that we sell happiness. I\u0026rsquo;ve kept the legacy of them alive. Seeing how I can improve TTA is a lot of fun, and in turn, that made me an engineer.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs a child, Brown started Tin Toy Arcade, which sells retro and vintage toys.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"As a child, Brown started Tin Toy Arcade, which sells retro and vintage toys."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2019-01-15 17:53:30","changed_gmt":"2021-02-03 16:16:03","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-01-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-01-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"616437":{"id":"616437","type":"image","title":"ISyE second-year Aaron Brown","body":null,"created":"1547574289","gmt_created":"2019-01-15 17:44:49","changed":"1547574289","gmt_changed":"2019-01-15 17:44:49","alt":"ISyE second-year Aaron Brown","file":{"fid":"234637","name":"Aaron_Brown_square.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Aaron_Brown_square.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Aaron_Brown_square.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1340723,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Aaron_Brown_square.jpg?itok=IjcxAe4F"}},"616438":{"id":"616438","type":"image","title":"Aaron Brown with D-Cell the robot, his favorite vintage toy.","body":null,"created":"1547574326","gmt_created":"2019-01-15 17:45:26","changed":"1547574326","gmt_changed":"2019-01-15 17:45:26","alt":"Aaron Brown with D-Cell the robot, his favorite vintage toy.","file":{"fid":"234638","name":"AB with D Cell.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/AB%20with%20D%20Cell.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/AB%20with%20D%20Cell.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":404819,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/AB%20with%20D%20Cell.jpg?itok=YCXb48_D"}}},"media_ids":["616437","616438"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"180218","name":"Aaron Brown"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"180219","name":"Tin Toy Arcade"},{"id":"180220","name":"vintage toys"},{"id":"180221","name":"retro toys"},{"id":"180222","name":"D-Cell"},{"id":"2352","name":"robots"},{"id":"31571","name":"Alumni 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:swundersmith3@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EShelley Wunder-Smith\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EH. 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In addition, Atlanta has a significant public transportation problem, with only 3% of residents using the MARTA system.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPascal Van Hentenryck, A. Russell Chandler III Chair and professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) is on a mission to solve this challenging problem through the application of optimization and machine learning to the MARTA system. He specifically plans to increase accessibility to public transportation by creating a scalable, On-Demand Multimodal Transit System (ODMTS) model that will be validated through implementation in the Atlanta region.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe backbone of the proposed ODMTS is small shuttles that take passengers to and from high-frequency light rail and bus hubs, which will only be used in high-density corridors. The shuttles will expand the reach of the system, so people are picked up much closer to their homes and dropped off at or near their destination, making it significantly more convenient for riders to use.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo date, Van Hentenryck has conducted successful case studies on the transit systems in the mid-sized cities of Canberra, Australia and Ann Arbor, Michigan. In both cities, his multi-modal approach has shown a significant reduction in both cost and passenger wait times, and he hopes to apply the same strategies in Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn July 2019, Van Hentenryck and his team were awarded a $1.7 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant through the LEAP HI Program to scale the optimization and machine learning algorithms that were created in Ann Arbor and Canberra for a large city like Atlanta. And in late October 2019, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sam.isye.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESocially Aware Mobility\u003C\/a\u003E (SAM) Lab opened for business. The SAM Lab has an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sam.isye.gatech.edu\/team#researchers\u0022\u003Einterdisciplinary research team\u003C\/a\u003E from Georgia Tech and the University of Michigan and an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sam.isye.gatech.edu\/team#board\u0022\u003Eexternal advisory board\u003C\/a\u003E comprising representatives of many key metro Atlanta transportation agencies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The purpose of NSF\u0026rsquo;s Leading Engineering for America\u0026rsquo;s Prosperity, Health and Infrastructure (LEAP HI) Program is to identify opportunities for fundamental engineering research to address major societal problems,\u0026rdquo; said NSF Program Director Bruce Kramer, who attended the opening event. \u0026ldquo;The SAM Lab will use new mathematics to reduce the congestion in transportation systems that impacts every resident of our major cities. The enthusiastic cooperation of local agencies has made it possible to use Atlanta as a living laboratory where potential breakthrough methods can be evaluated. NSF looks forward to following the progress of Professor Van Hentenryck and his students.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe inauguration of the SAM Lab began with a meeting of the external advisory board followed by a panel discussion and reception to which the public was invited. The panel included Van Hentenryck, City of Atlanta Senior Transportation Policy Advisor Jacob Tzegaegbe; Uber Public Affairs Manager (Southeast) Evangeline George; The Ray Executive Director Allie Kelly; and Cox Automotive Mobility Vice President of Business Development and New Ventures Daniel Liniado. The discussion was moderated by Debra Lam, managing director for Smart Cities and Inclusive Innovation at Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Institute for People and Technology. Steve McLaughlin, dean of the College of Engineering and Southern Company Chair, gave the opening remarks.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;With traffic you always have to be aware that fixing a problem in one place may create a problem in another,\u0026rdquo; said McLaughlin. \u0026ldquo;The SAM Lab knows that for reducing congestion, it requires minds that can break apart a problem and work through complexity. Road congestion is the product of interconnectedness that requires an interdisciplinary team working through all facets of the problem.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EVan Hentenryck is eager to get started on the practical aspects of the project. \u0026ldquo;We have the NSF grant, which provides for the theory, the foundation, the algorithms behind the redesign of the entire MARTA system,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;But we don\u0026rsquo;t want this to stay in the lab \u0026ndash; we want to have a pilot program in place by the end of the project. The next step is to get the partners to work together on this. We have an excellent team put together to make all this happen.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe SAM Lab pilot program is projected to be ready for implementation in two or three years. In the meantime, Van Hentenryck is refining the ODMTS algorithm with his research partners Subhrajit \u0026ldquo;Subhro\u0026rdquo; Guhathakurta, chair and professor of the Georgia Tech School of City and Regional Planning; Patricia L. Mokhtarian, Susan G. and Christopher D. Pappas Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering; and Yafeng Yin, professor in the University of Michigan School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, Van Hentenryck\u0026#39;s work on mobility issues includes student researchers. Through the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.vip.gatech.edu\/teams\/reinventing-mobility-atlanta\u0022\u003EVertically Integrated Projects\u003C\/a\u003E program, a team is using data and decision science to improve mobility and accessibility in Atlanta through optimization and machine learning. He is also advising an ISyE Senior Design team that is working with MARTA to create a hypothetical redesign of MARTA\u0026rsquo;s bus network to better align routes with current usage.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Given the rapidly evolving mobility landscape and attendant challenges facing MARTA, the opening of the SAM Lab couldn\u0026rsquo;t have happened at a more opportune time,\u0026rdquo; said Rob Goodwin, director of research and analytics at MARTA. \u0026ldquo;I look forward to working with Professor Van Hentenryck to explore new technologies and approaches that will help shape the future of transit in metro Atlanta.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;If we successfully implement the ODMTS here in Atlanta, it will prove that the algorithm can be scaled for a major city,\u0026rdquo; Van Hentenryck added. \u0026ldquo;And then it can be effectively used in large cities around the world.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EYou can stay updated on the SAM Lab\u0026#39;s work through its Twitter account: \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/AwareSam\u0022\u003E@AwareSam\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe interdisciplinary SAM Lab is working to improve Atlanta\u0026#39;s traffic problem by making public transportation more user-friendly and convenient.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The interdisciplinary SAM Lab is working to improve Atlanta\u0027s traffic problem by making public transportation more user-friendly and convenient."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2019-11-20 16:51:52","changed_gmt":"2020-07-16 20:13:59","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-11-20T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-11-20T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"629162":{"id":"629162","type":"image","title":"A. 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During my Ph.D. I wanted to expand my skillset, so I completed two master\u0026#39;s to enable me to conduct research from a variety of lenses, broadening the impact,\u0026quot; said Sanders, whose goal is to become a research professor.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESanders is already enrolled in the MBA program at the Scheller College of Business. For anyone who\u0026rsquo;s counting, that\u0026rsquo;s two master\u0026rsquo;s degrees in hand, and an MBA in progress, while continuing her Ph.D. through the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Her Ph.D. research focuses on fresh and cold supply chains, studying the delivery of perishables such as food and flowers, and the logistics of consolidating multiple deliveries to restaurants from different farms.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESanders came to Tech in 2016, after earning a bachelor\u0026rsquo;s degree in mathematics from MIT.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;At MIT there weren\u0026rsquo;t a lot of women in my classes, and usually not a lot of American women, if any women,\u0026rdquo; said Sanders, who is passionate about encouraging women to pursue STEM degrees. In her second year there, she joined Undergraduate Women in Math and served as president for two years.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;A lot of women would leave math for another major, so we were trying to get women excited to stay in the field,\u0026rdquo; she said. \u0026ldquo;When I got to Georgia Tech I was looking for the same type of community.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAt Tech, Sanders was instrumental in reestablishing the graduate group within the Georgia Tech Society of Women Engineers, serving as president for the past two years. She is the graduate programming coordinator-elect and will assume the role in January. The Tech chapter was named Best New Graduate Group at the most recent Society of Women Engineers annual conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We wanted to bring together graduate women from different majors,\u0026rdquo; she said. \u0026ldquo;Often in graduate school you only know people from your major. I wanted to make friends outside my major, and I also wanted more girlfriends.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESanders lives by a personal motto when it comes to seizing opportunities: \u0026ldquo;Take advantage of as many opportunities as you can. You never know when they will come again. You can learn from everything and everyone!\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhile working on her Ph.D. and MBA, Isabella Sanders has earned two master\u0026#39;s degrees along the way.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"While working on her Ph.D. and MBA, Isabella Sanders has earned two master\u0027s degrees along the way."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2020-01-23 16:14:53","changed_gmt":"2020-01-23 19:09:05","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-12-16T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-12-16T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"630040":{"id":"630040","type":"image","title":"Isabella Sanders and Eli Sanders","body":null,"created":"1576503140","gmt_created":"2019-12-16 13:32:20","changed":"1576503169","gmt_changed":"2019-12-16 13:32:49","alt":"Isabella and Eli Sanders ","file":{"fid":"239938","name":"20C10200-P23-001.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/20C10200-P23-001.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/20C10200-P23-001.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":335057,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/20C10200-P23-001.jpg?itok=7UxUwxtW"}},"630038":{"id":"630038","type":"image","title":"Isabella Sanders","body":null,"created":"1576502834","gmt_created":"2019-12-16 13:27:14","changed":"1576502847","gmt_changed":"2019-12-16 13:27:27","alt":"Isabella Sanders","file":{"fid":"239937","name":"20C10200-P23-005.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/20C10200-P23-005.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/20C10200-P23-005.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":182919,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/20C10200-P23-005.jpg?itok=HBMfHlMc"}},"630037":{"id":"630037","type":"image","title":"Isabella Sanders and Eli Sanders","body":null,"created":"1576502679","gmt_created":"2019-12-16 13:24:39","changed":"1576502869","gmt_changed":"2019-12-16 13:27:49","alt":"Siblings Isabella Sanders and Eli Sanders. 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The School\u0026rsquo;s graduate programs have been ranked No. 1 by \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u003C\/em\u003E for 29 consecutive years.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;In this role, Santanu will provide direction and oversight for all ISyE graduate students and programs, with specific focus on the doctoral programs,\u0026rdquo; said ISyE School Chair Edwin Romeijn. \u0026ldquo;I look forward to working with Santanu on ensuring continued excellence in our graduate programs, as well as exploring and implementing new initiatives for further strengthening these programs.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Alan did a tremendous job as ACGS,\u0026rdquo; said Dey. \u0026ldquo;I intend to carry through and build on his work on behalf of our very talented graduate students.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDey is particularly focused on enhancing the support ISyE Ph.D. students receive. 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It\u0026rsquo;s that personal connection with the graduate students that motivated him to accept this new role.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I have always enjoyed engaging with graduate students \u0026ndash; talking with them about their goals, their career plans, and their research,\u0026rdquo; Dey explained. \u0026ldquo;This new role will be a good way for me to continue connecting with them and helping them to achieve everything they\u0026rsquo;re working so hard for.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;In the end, universities are for the students, and I want to assist them in any way I can.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDey\u0026rsquo;s term as ACGS begins with the 2020 spring semester.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs ACGS, Dey will work to ensure the continued excellence of ISyE\u0026#39;s graduate programs and implement new intiatives to strengthen them.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"As ACGS, Dey will work to ensure the continued excellence of ISyE\u0027s graduate programs and implement new intiatives to strengthen them."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2019-12-18 17:09:53","changed_gmt":"2019-12-30 16:43:03","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-12-18T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-12-18T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"630171":{"id":"630171","type":"image","title":"A. 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The team evaluated how Delta stores and transports in-flight materials that get packed for flights, such as pillows and snacks. They discovered that these items were stored in a range of warehouses and were delivered by partially filled trucks. They found that reducing warehouse operational costs and increasing truck utilization would result in significant yearly savings of 17%.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It was an absolute pleasure working with the \u0026lsquo;Sky\u0026rsquo;s the Limit\u0026rsquo; ISyE team on their Senior Design project,\u0026rdquo; said Chris Vanner, senior planner for IFS Transportation at Delta. \u0026ldquo;The amount of energy, enthusiasm, and professionalism each member of the team demonstrated was truly unsurpassed. Thanks to their hard work and meticulous attention to detail, they identified numerous opportunities to improve operational efficiencies across Delta\u0026rsquo;s IFS supply chain. Their findings, once implemented, will not only increase efficiency of our supply chain but also result in significant cost savings for Delta. I cannot thank them enough for all their hard work throughout the semester, and we\u0026rsquo;re looking forward to implementing their findings as soon as possible.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team members included Christine Cristobal,\u0026nbsp;Afreen Fahad,\u0026nbsp;Mack Hathaway,\u0026nbsp;Kelsey Keith,\u0026nbsp;Carolina Llerena,\u0026nbsp;Madison Messier,\u0026nbsp;Priya Sharma, and Thomas Suh. They were advised by Associate Professor Enlu Zhou.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESenior Design team \u0026ldquo;Authority Life,\u0026rdquo; which worked with the Georgia World Congress Center (GWCC) Authority, not only took home the Capstone prize for best ISyE project but also won the ISyE Best of Senior Design Competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe GWCC hosts around 300 events in Atlanta annually and is transforming their business model to a data-driven assessment of profitability on a per event basis. The Senior Design team developed and implemented three models to achieve this goal: a rooms-to-event assignment optimization model, a cost prediction model, and a profit margin classification. They also designed a web app to integrate the three models. Through this new integrated data-driven approach, GWCC Authority\u0026rsquo;s annual profits are projected to increase by about $1.1 million.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Working with this Senior Design team was a delight. They were able to problem-solve and were tenacious enough to dig and get the information needed for their analysis out of our databases (not always the easiest task),\u0026rdquo; said Mark Koeninger, director of business intelligence and process improvement for GWCC Authority. \u0026ldquo;We had many meetings and sessions both in-person and on the phone, but our team was also able to get together for a team-building event at Mercedes-Benz Stadium as well as a team lunch, and I was able to see firsthand the teamwork and camaraderie that has developed.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;As for the project\u0026rsquo;s impact to my building, it is a gamechanger. I have been tasked with putting a focus on expenses, event level P\u0026amp;L\u0026rsquo;s, and driving profitability. This tool is a great piece of that puzzle, as I get the company culture geared toward managing profitability and expense. With a potential savings of $1.1 million over the next year, I am excited to get the team using this to its full capability.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team members included Daniel Alayo-Matos, Hailun Chang, Brandon Kang, Yunsang Kim, Emily Kornegay, Peyton Skinner, Mayke Vercruyssen, and Yihua Xu. They were advised by A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Professor Alexander Shapiro.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESenior Design team \u0026ldquo;Ocsic,\u0026rdquo; which worked with Cisco Systems, was a finalist for the ISyE Best of Senior Design Competition. The goal of their project is to maximize recovery value from returned products, achieved through three key steps: (1) introducing a new mathematical model to allocate products to channels based on expected profit; (2) consolidating inventory to facilitate its reallocation between channels; and (3) enabling e-commerce retailers as alternative remarketing channels. Implementing these would increase profit by 40% for FY19, reduce scrapped products by 12.7%, and reduce average inventory by 18.4%, and avoid sending 6,350 pounds of material from to a landfill.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team members included Kenneth Bassett, Kyle Brown, Jayanth Chintham, Nicholas Franco, Mustafa Gharaibeh, Eleana Padilla, Seong Hwan Park, and Erik Pulido. They were advised by Director of Student Services Dawn Strickland.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESenior Design team PIVOT was also a finalist for the ISyE Best of Senior Design Competition. PIVOT manufactures carts and kiosks for food and beverage vendors. The demand for PIVOT\u0026#39;s carts and kiosks has been increasing rapidly, but an essential resource \u0026ndash; skilled manufacturing employees \u0026ndash; are in short supply. To satisfy increasing demand, the team designed a production system that utilizes lower-skilled employees in the complex assembly process. The team delivered tools for training employees including assembly instructions and drawings, as well as optimization software that determines the optimal assignment and order of tasks for workers with different skills to minimize project completion time. The improvements, already implemented, doubled the throughput of the system and decreased labor costs by 16.7%.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team members included Walid Abdi, Jacob Carlton, Sunny Chen, Renee Desprez, David Guo, Mara Hayes, Rizwan Khan, and Chloe Kim. They were advised by Associate Professor Anton Kleywegt.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs is typical for ISyE\u0026rsquo;s Senior Design teams, in addition to the projects\u0026rsquo; individual client benefits, the projects collectively have generated impressive value.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The impact and potential value of the Senior Design projects is very compelling,\u0026rdquo; said Dima Nazzal, ISyE director of professional practice and Senior Design coordinator. \u0026ldquo;While we have a rigorous method for identifying the ISyE competition finalists, it\u0026rsquo;s still difficult to choose the top three. This year, we\u0026rsquo;ve had several teams that took their projects into a higher level by implementing their recommendations and directly testing their impact at the client site. Collectively, the 23 ISyE teams generated more than $20 million in annual potential value for their clients. 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The course, taught by Nazzal, was offered for the first time in fall 2018, and it trains students to develop, write, and present proposals to solve problems that require the use of ISyE methodology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe class uses general case studies drawn from past Senior Design projects \u0026mdash; from network optimization for an oil and gas company to guest flow and queues in a sports stadium to efficient patient scheduling for a health care clinic.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe students in the class are divided into small teams, and each team works on the same project for several weeks. Team members request data, conduct research, analyze the system and data in search of opportunities, and present their proposal to the whole class. The variety of teams \u0026mdash; coupled with the non-stylized complex projects \u0026mdash; leads to a variety of proposed solutions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s good for the students to see different opportunities identified for the same problem, because it demonstrates that creativity is part of problem-solving,\u0026rdquo; Nazzal said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEmma Baubly, a fourth-year ISyE student, took ISYE 3803 the first time it was offered and now serves as an undergraduate teaching assistant for the course. \u0026ldquo;The teams are given problems that don\u0026rsquo;t necessarily have a single answer, which can be frustrating for Tech students,\u0026rdquo; Baubly reflected. \u0026ldquo;And as a result, while this may be one of the more challenging courses ISyE students will take, I think it\u0026rsquo;s also a class that will add tremendous value to their Georgia Tech education.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EISyE fourth-year Kevin Kwon took the Cornerstone class in spring 2019. \u0026ldquo;This was my favorite class that I\u0026rsquo;ve taken at Tech,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;We had to repeatedly draft proposals for our \u0026lsquo;client,\u0026rsquo; just like Senior Design teams do. 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While the award nomination process is confidential, Dean Steve McLaughlin shared some of the nominators\u0026rsquo; praise for Cox\u0026rsquo;s work at the college-wide event before announcing her as the recipient.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This year\u0026rsquo;s winner has been described as a person with a can-do spirit; a hard worker; someone who keeps an even temperament even when frustrated; who looks not only for the quick resolution to problems but the right resolution; who is willing to step in no matter what the job,\u0026rdquo; McLaughlin said. \u0026ldquo;Not only were they cited as being efficient and effective, but as one nominator wrote, \u0026lsquo;They have been an important contributor to a revived culture.\u0026rsquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;They were singled out for their love of people and the fact they try to lift the spirits of those around them. 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I then went to the School of Chemical \u0026amp; Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE), serving as the chair\u0026rsquo;s assistant for Cecil J. \u0026ldquo;Pete\u0026rdquo; Silas Chair and Professor Ronald Rousseau. About a year into my ChBE role, Jane Ammons, who was the ISyE school chair at that time, asked me if I was interested in applying for the executive assistant position her office had available, which is how I ultimately ended up at ISyE. And then I moved into the role of ISyE\u0026rsquo;s HR administrative manager, which I\u0026rsquo;ve held for five years.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat made you want to move into your current position?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHR is really all about people. It\u0026rsquo;s about building relationships. So when I was considering this position, I realized that it would be a unique opportunity to work more closely with people on both a personal and a professional level. I\u0026rsquo;m also passionate about the administrative and organizational process side of things.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat does a typical day look like for you?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI usually have a plan for my day. Typically, it revolves around posting jobs, hiring folks, getting people on payroll and into the Georgia Tech system \u0026ndash; just trying to get my to-do list completed. In addition, people drop in numerous times throughout the day to ask questions about policies or procedures or benefits, so there\u0026rsquo;s a lot of back-and-forth with tasks.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat is the biggest challenge you face in this role?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunication. I have to make sure I\u0026rsquo;m giving the right information to the faculty and staff, and help people understand policies and procedures in a non-technical way, particularly if there\u0026rsquo;s a policy change, like the new $100 surcharge for insuring a spouse who is able to get insurance outside Georgia Tech. [\u003Cem\u003Elaughing\u003C\/em\u003E] I always tell people, \u0026ldquo;Don\u0026rsquo;t shoot the messenger!\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYou have said you hope to remain in this position until you retire. What are some goals you\u0026rsquo;d like to accomplish while you\u0026rsquo;re still here?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith Georgia Tech moving over to OneUSG, there\u0026rsquo;s going to be many opportunities to learn and help people transition to the new system. 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You don\u0026rsquo;t need to gather anything, it works well, it\u0026rsquo;s very inexpensive, and there are a lot of different options.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe cooking initiative is one part of the work Thomas has been doing in Rwanda. Since 2016, she has collaborated with industry practitioners, as well as researchers and students from ISyE, to determine the best way to bring sustainable energy to the people of rural Africa.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;There is minimal access to grid electricity in rural Africa,\u0026quot; said Thomas. \u0026quot;We\u0026rsquo;re using operations research techniques to examine future development scenarios that will help governments make better infrastructure decisions and balance supply and demand.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the lack of energy infrastructure, Africa also faces a shortage of Ph.D.s to help solve these complex issues. 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Supporting trained Ph.D.s and students in Africa who will continue to research these issues is key to the region\u0026rsquo;s future success.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Valerie Thomas is working with two Georgia Tech colleagues to create the Rwanda Study Abroad: Sustainable Development Program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Dr. Valerie Thomas is working with two Georgia Tech colleagues to create the Rwanda Study Abroad: Sustainable Development Program."}],"uid":"27233","created_gmt":"2019-12-12 20:14:13","changed_gmt":"2019-12-12 20:51:31","author":"Andy Haleblian","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-12-12T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-12-12T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"629989":{"id":"629989","type":"image","title":"Dr. Valerie Thomas","body":null,"created":"1576181459","gmt_created":"2019-12-12 20:10:59","changed":"1576181459","gmt_changed":"2019-12-12 20:10:59","alt":"","file":{"fid":"239907","name":"valerie-thomas.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/valerie-thomas.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/valerie-thomas.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":12979,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/valerie-thomas.jpg?itok=MlA-721u"}},"629990":{"id":"629990","type":"image","title":"African Village Utilizing Solar Panels","body":null,"created":"1576181603","gmt_created":"2019-12-12 20:13:23","changed":"1576181615","gmt_changed":"2019-12-12 20:13:35","alt":"","file":{"fid":"239908","name":"african-village.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/african-village.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/african-village.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":246278,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/african-village.jpg?itok=1r-J9jof"}}},"media_ids":["629989","629990"],"groups":[{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"},{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"166890","name":"sustainability"},{"id":"166843","name":"Study Abroad"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laurie.haigh@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ELaurie Haigh\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nH. 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Megan plans to graduate again next fall with a master\u0026rsquo;s in health systems, while both Sarah and Scott plan to walk together in the Spring 2021 Commencement ceremony after completing the Online Master of Science in Analytics degree program. This will put the Stevens family at eight total degrees awarded by Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith so many family connections to Tech, Megan always considered it as an option when she was looking at colleges. And though she wasn\u0026rsquo;t always convinced she was going to go to school in Atlanta, when she got here, she immediately felt at home.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I felt like I had a little more of a connection because I grew up with it,\u0026rdquo; she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMegan spent much of her time as an undergraduate getting involved outside of the classroom. She was a FASET Leader one summer and served on the FASET Cabinet the next year. She was also a team leader for GT 1000, Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s first-year seminar course. When she wasn\u0026rsquo;t working with new Yellow Jackets, Megan was participating in Greek life, working as a resident advisor, and studying abroad, both on the Oxford Summer Program and the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\u0026rsquo;s Asia Program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhatever she was doing, she made sure to spend plenty of time with her older sister when they were both at Tech, attending Homecoming concerts, football games, and Midnight Bud when they wanted to de-stress during finals.\u0026nbsp;They even lived together for two years.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;ve always been best friends, so it was really cool,\u0026rdquo; Megan said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs for students who have (or will soon have) family members with them on campus, she has one piece of advice: Try and share your college experiences with them as much as you can. She cherishes the memories that she and her family have together, both at Tech and at home. And she knows that they\u0026rsquo;ll continue to make Georgia Tech memories long after their last degree has been earned.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHer parents and sister all graduated from Tech, and many of them aren\u0026#39;t stopping there.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Her parents and sister all graduated from Tech, and many of them aren\u0027t stopping there."}],"uid":"34946","created_gmt":"2019-12-09 19:48:57","changed_gmt":"2019-12-12 15:50:19","author":"gwyner3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-12-11T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-12-11T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"629851":{"id":"629851","type":"image","title":"Megan Stevens Headshot","body":null,"created":"1575922309","gmt_created":"2019-12-09 20:11:49","changed":"1575922309","gmt_changed":"2019-12-09 20:11:49","alt":"Megan Stevens poses with the \u0022To Hell With Georgia\u0022 pennant on the Ramblin\u0027 Reck.","file":{"fid":"239853","name":"Megan.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Megan.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Megan.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":230689,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Megan.JPG?itok=O6xAR6X6"}},"629947":{"id":"629947","type":"image","title":"Megan Stevens - Commencement Fall 2019","body":null,"created":"1576159924","gmt_created":"2019-12-12 14:12:04","changed":"1576159924","gmt_changed":"2019-12-12 14:12:04","alt":"Megan Stevens - Commencement Fall 2019","file":{"fid":"239892","name":"megan-stevens.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/megan-stevens.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/megan-stevens.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":239694,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/megan-stevens.jpg?itok=4ZPGHM1K"}}},"media_ids":["629851","629947"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/news.gatech.edu\/features\/commencement-stories","title":"More Commencement Stories"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"},{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"627","name":"commencement"},{"id":"183232","name":"fall 2019 commencement"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:stucomm@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGrace Wyner\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"629730":{"#nid":"629730","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Mentra: Developing Workforce Skills for the Autistic Community","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis fall, two Georgia Tech students have been beta-testing their new app, Mentra. Half its users are traditional university undergraduates; the other half comprises individuals from the Autistic Self-Advocacy Atlanta (ASAA) organization.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe app is the brainchild of Conner Reinhardt, a fifth-year student in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), and Jhillika Kumar, a fourth-year computational media major. The pair connected at the 2018 TEDxGeorgiaTech conference, where Reinhardt was in charge of recruiting and organizing the student speakers, and Kumar was one of the presenters.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKumar addressed the importance of accessible technology for empowering the differently abled, and shared how her relationship with her older brother, who is autistic and nonverbal, inspired her. After Kumar spoke, Reinhardt knew he wanted to be part of developing a solution for this often-marginalized community.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe two students joined forces and in early 2019 founded a startup called AxisAbility. \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m the how, and she\u0026rsquo;s the why,\u0026rdquo; Reinhardt said. \u0026ldquo;Industrial engineers are the people who understand how to make things happen. I\u0026rsquo;m bringing the business perspective to this project. I\u0026rsquo;m trying to think of all the different things we might want to show or realize. That\u0026rsquo;s the how. But people like Jhillika \u0026mdash; people with the biggest ideas and who inspire true change in the world \u0026mdash; they\u0026rsquo;re the why.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt took a little while for them to decide exactly how AxisAbility could support individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities (I\/DD). From the advocacy group Autism Speaks, they learned that up to 88% of adults with autism are unemployed. Further, Accenture research shows that if just an additional 1% of differently abled people were hired by U.S. companies, the GDP would improve by $25 billion. Because of this, and because of Kumar\u0026rsquo;s personal experience with her brother, they decided to focus their initial efforts on the autistic community.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis is where Mentra comes in. Designed to help individuals with cognitive disabilities successfully develop job skills through mentorship, the app\u0026rsquo;s algorithm collects data on what job skills the mentee wants help with \u0026mdash; such as resume writing, interviewing, or professional workplace behavior \u0026mdash; and pairs the mentee with prospective mentors, who initially will be traditional college students. The app also provides prompts for the mentor and mentee to guide their conversations. Kumar worked with ASAA to identify which topics would be most helpful. For example, ASAA President and Mentra Outreach Director Eren Niederhoffer told Kumar that he would like to practice \u0026ldquo;communication skills, executive functioning, critical thinking, and networking.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EReinhardt and Kumar plan for Mentra to eventually be a talent pipeline between the I\/DD community and employers. \u0026ldquo;Recruiters will be able to log in to Mentra, search candidates to see their rating and what employment skills they\u0026rsquo;ve worked on, and pull their resumes,\u0026rdquo; explained Reinhardt. \u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;re specifically focusing on individuals with autism right now, but we plan to expand to people with other intellectual disabilities as well.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThroughout the process of developing Mentra, Reinhardt and Kumar haven\u0026rsquo;t forgotten their original motivation: Kumar\u0026rsquo;s brother. In fact, Kumar\u0026rsquo;s family, which is originally from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, has moved to Atlanta so her brother can more easily access Mentra and other assistive programs that have been enabled by cutting-edge autism research at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;With Mentra, we are trying to create a road map for individuals with autism that will provide them with successes. We want to understand their biggest strengths and biggest weaknesses,\u0026rdquo; Kumar said. \u0026ldquo;Through the app, we\u0026rsquo;ve created a platform to facilitate that process. We\u0026rsquo;re starting with people who are currently employable, but eventually we want to assist people who are nonverbal as well, who could communicate through typing. So they might not be able to speak, but they could do their jobs via computer, which is more possible today through an increasingly digital economy.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;All of this was inspired by my brother,\u0026rdquo; Kumar added.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMentra is a rapidly changing startup.The content in this article reflects the information available as of September 1, 2019. To learn more about Mentra and to sign up to be a mentor, visit \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.mentra.me\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003Ewww.mentra.me\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETo see Kumar\u0026rsquo;s TEDxGeorgiaTech talk, visit\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bit.ly\/2KW20rJ\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E http:\/\/bit.ly\/2KW20rJ\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EKumar provided an update on Mentra as of December 5, 2019:\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Conner and I are really excited, as we are graduating this month and have just accepted job offers with Bank of America in Charlotte, NC. We will be working on making their technologies accessible to differently abled populations. Our work will allow us to learn about what it takes to build accessible technologies in a large corporation and how companies will be able to hire individuals of different abilities at scale. They have given us full disclosure to continue working on on Mentra and are excited to provide as much value as possible to the autistic community.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;To build out the Mentra recruiting platform, we\u0026rsquo;ve been working closely with Georgia Tech alumnus Neil Barnett (MGT 1991), who founded the autism hiring program at Microsoft. Thanks to his introduction and iterative feedback, we\u0026rsquo;ve been able to gather interest from more than 20 companies who have pledged to start autism hiring programs in 2020 -- all of whom will have a need for our service to scale these programs.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Our next step going into next year is to launch an awareness campaign on the abilities of autistic individuals to excel in the workforce. 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Four of the seven DJJ graduates received job offers, and the other three are scheduled for interviews, making the program a great success.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;From the start, there has been very active involvement and engagement from every level within DJJ, from the leadership to the instructors to the students,\u0026rdquo; said Carole Bennett, director of the LEAP program. \u0026ldquo;Everyone has been very committed to completing the program and making sure that everything that needed to happen did, which is what made this cohort so successful.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe certification ceremony took place at Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Savannah campus, and attendees included state officials, DJJ leadership, and retired Lt. Col. 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The program has graduated more than 615 participants since its inception.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo learn more about SCL\u0026rsquo;s LEAP program, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/LEAP\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/LEAP\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESeven teens with the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice received certificates for completing Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Logistics Education And Pathways program on November 13, 2019.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Seven teens with the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice received certificates for completing Georgia Tech\u2019s Logistics Education And Pathways program on November 13, 2019."}],"uid":"34760","created_gmt":"2019-12-02 18:28:45","changed_gmt":"2019-12-04 20:41:25","author":"Laurie Haigh","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-12-02T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-12-02T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"629528":{"id":"629528","type":"image","title":"Seven teens with the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice received certificates for completing Georgia Tech\u2019s Logistics Education And Pathways program.","body":null,"created":"1575308353","gmt_created":"2019-12-02 17:39:13","changed":"1575308353","gmt_changed":"2019-12-02 17:39:13","alt":"","file":{"fid":"239749","name":"DJJ-Square.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/DJJ-Square.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/DJJ-Square.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":264994,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/DJJ-Square.jpg?itok=Bbtzb0oH"}}},"media_ids":["629528"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.wjcl.com\/article\/chatham-county-students-at-department-of-juvenile-justice-graduate-from-leap-program\/29790858","title":"WJCL News Coverage"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.savannahnow.com\/business\/20191113\/chatham-etc-students-graduate-from-georgia-tech-program","title":"Savannah Morning News Coverage"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.wtoc.com\/2019\/11\/13\/local-students-graduate-leap-program\/","title":"WTOC Coverage"}],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"167214","name":"Supply Chain and Logistics Institute"},{"id":"183203","name":"Logistics Education and Pathways"},{"id":"168418","name":"leap"},{"id":"96751","name":"certificate program"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39461","name":"Manufacturing, Trade, and Logistics"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laurie.haigh@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ELaurie Haigh\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nH. 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Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) have increased their educational outreach efforts to both students and teachers at local high schools.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We want to give high school students a taste of what it is like to be an industrial engineer so that they consider it when they are thinking about future career options, but we also want to educate teachers on the many IE tools that can be used to enhance their classroom experiences,\u0026rdquo; said Tuba Ketenci, an academic professional working to expand ISyE\u0026rsquo;s K-12 outreach efforts. \u0026ldquo;In addition to the class visits and summer camps we offer, we are now working directly with high schools to give presentations to both students and teachers to help them get a better understanding of IE.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn October, 35 teachers from the Clayton County Public School\u0026#39;s Career, Technical, and Agricultural Education (CTAE) program gathered for a one-day professional development experience at Georgia Tech. The afternoon session, entitled \u0026ldquo;Computer-based Models for Decision Making,\u0026rdquo; was led by ISyE Assistant Professor He Wang and introduced participants to computer-based optimization models widely used in diverse industries, including finance, accounting, operations, and marketing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe session began with a lecture delivered by Wang covering the basic elements of modeling. Then, attendees participated in hands-on activities that they could replicate in their respective classrooms following the session. The goal was to expose the CTAE teachers to recent developments and research within their respective pathways and inspire them to create innovative lessons to teach their students.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Data analytics skills are highly sought after in today\u0026rsquo;s digital world,\u0026rdquo; explained Wang. \u0026ldquo;The purpose of my lecture was to expose high school teachers to fundamental decision-making tools such as Linear Optimization. I designed the lecture using easily accessible computer tools (Microsoft Excel) and included many real-world examples and hands-on activities. I was glad that most teachers who attended my lecture found the course materials useful for their classes.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, ISyE alumna Jennifer Wilder (BIE 1978) presented to four classes of high school seniors during Career Day at Drew Charter School, a City of Atlanta Public Charter School that serves the East Lake and Kirkwood communities. The presentation covered industrial engineering as a field, what it is like to be both a woman and a minority engineer and included a short IE-inspired project. ISyE Assistant Professor Debankur Mukherjee was also in attendance for the presentation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team is currently developing additional outreach events, including a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/about\/partnerships\/k-12-outreach\u0022\u003EDay Camp with Industrial Engineers\u003C\/a\u003E on April 6, 2020 which will give high school students an opportunity to learn more about the real-world applications of industrial and systems engineering. To learn more about ISyE\u0026rsquo;s K-12 outreach efforts and sign up for events, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/k-12\u0022\u003Ewww.isye.gatech.edu\/k-12\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn order to help future generations learn more about industrial engineering as a potential career choice, ISyE has increased educational outreach efforts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In order to help future generations learn more about industrial engineering as a potential career choice, ISyE has increased educational outreach efforts."}],"uid":"34760","created_gmt":"2019-11-11 17:41:30","changed_gmt":"2019-11-26 14:31:30","author":"Laurie Haigh","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-11-12T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-11-12T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"628946":{"id":"628946","type":"image","title":"CEISMC_Newsletter_2","body":null,"created":"1573672450","gmt_created":"2019-11-13 19:14:10","changed":"1573672450","gmt_changed":"2019-11-13 19:14:10","alt":"Two students working together","file":{"fid":"239531","name":"CEISMC_Newsletter Slide-01.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/CEISMC_Newsletter%20Slide-01_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/CEISMC_Newsletter%20Slide-01_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":5343331,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/CEISMC_Newsletter%20Slide-01_0.png?itok=2Rjwlmpo"}}},"media_ids":["628946"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"183048","name":"K-12 outreach"},{"id":"327","name":"high school"}],"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:laurie.haigh@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ELaurie Haigh\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nH. 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Mello Professorship for a three-year term.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis professorship was endowed by Virginia C. and Joseph C. Mello (BSHS 1980) in order to enhance ISyE\u0026rsquo;s ability to attract and retain eminent teacher-scholars to this position of academic leadership in the field of health care delivery operations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESerban\u0026#39;s education and research trajectory makes her unique in the pursuit of data-driven discovery endeavors. Her research record is quite diverse, from mathematical statistics to modeling to data analysis to qualitative insights on causality and complexity, with recent contributions on drawing principled inferences on health care delivery and health policy, and statistical inference for high-dimensional optimization models.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe has also been involved in broad impact research activities; the most noteworthy of which is leadership of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.healthanalytics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EHealth Analytics initiative\u003C\/a\u003E. This is a collaborative effort anchored in partnership with a varied network of clinicians, health care providers, and public health entities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo date, Serban has published more than 55 journal articles, and a collaborative (with ISyE Professor Emeritus William B. Rouse) book titled \u003Cem\u003EUnderstanding and Managing the Complexity of Healthcare\u003C\/em\u003E published by MIT Press and single-authored \u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;Healthcare System Access: Measurement, Inference, and Intervention\u003C\/em\u003E published by Wiley. She is the editor for physical sciences, engineering, and the environment for the \u003Cem\u003EAnnals of Applied Statistics\u003C\/em\u003E. She has reviewed for multiple funding agencies and she has served in multiple workshops and meetings organized by the National Academies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESerban received the David Byar Young Investigator Award from the American Statistical Society Biometrics Section in 2004 and a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation in 2010. She was given the 2014 INFORMS Best Paper in the Public Sector Award. In 2018, Serban was selected by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for the Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESerban received her B.S. in mathematics and an M.S. in theoretical statistics and stochastic processes from the University of Bucharest. She earned her Ph.D. in statistics at Carnegie Mellon University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe was previously appointed to the ISyE Coca-Cola Associate Professorship in 2014.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Mellos endowed this professorship specifically for faculty working in the field of health care delivery operations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Mellos endowed this professorship specifically for faculty working in the field of health care delivery operations"}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2019-11-22 17:41:27","changed_gmt":"2019-11-22 18:44:54","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-11-22T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-11-22T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"629264":{"id":"629264","type":"image","title":"Virginia C. and Joseph C. 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Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["swundersmith3@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"628945":{"#nid":"628945","#data":{"type":"news","title":"In Memoriam: John Bartholdi III","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/isye.gatech.edu\/users\/john-bartholdi-iii\u0022\u003EJohn Bartholdi\u003C\/a\u003E III, Manhattan Associates\/Dabbiere Chair and professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) and co-executive director of the Georgia Tech Panama Logistics Innovation \u0026amp; Research Center, passed away on October 29, 2019. Bartholdi was a respected ISyE faculty member who made important contributions to the supply chain field, particularly in warehousing and logistics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;John Bartholdi was a valued colleague and friend,\u0026rdquo; said ISyE School Chair Edwin Romeijn. \u0026ldquo;He made substantial contributions to his field, to ISyE, and to the Institute as the co-director of Georgia Tech Panama. Our sincerest condolences go out to John\u0026rsquo;s family, friends, and students. He will be missed.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBartholdi earned his bachelor\u0026rsquo;s degree in mathematics from the University of Florida in 1968 and then completed two tours of duty in southeast Asia as a paratrooper in a Naval Special Warfare unit. Afterward, he returned to the University of Florida to pursue a doctoral degree in operations research, which he completed in 1977. He won the 1978 INFORMS George Nicholson Student Paper Award for \u0026ldquo;Cyclic Scheduling via Integer Programs with Circular Ones.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUpon joining ISyE in 1980, he quickly established himself as a nimble researcher, capable of identifying creative, elegantly simple solutions to challenging warehousing and logistics problems. He was awarded a Presidential Young Investigator Award (1984-89) by the National Science Foundation (NSF). In addition to ISyE, Bartholdi served on the faculties at the University of Michigan, the Shanghai Institute of Mechanical Engineering, and the National University of Singapore.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of Bartholdi\u0026rsquo;s most famous warehousing solutions is the so-called bucket brigade, which offers an innovative method of self-organizing order-picking for warehouse workers and has been implemented in major global distribution centers. He worked with Don Eisenstein (MSOR 1983, Ph.D. 1992; now a professor at the University of Chicago\u0026rsquo;s Booth School of Business) on this research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlan Erera,\u0026nbsp;UPS Professor of Logistics and ISyE\u0026rsquo;s associate chair for research, first met Bartholdi as a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley. Bartholdi eventually helped recruit Erera to join ISyE as a young assistant professor. \u0026ldquo;The fact that John Bartholdi was on the ISyE faculty was certainly an important reason I was interested in coming to the School,\u0026rdquo; said Erera. \u0026ldquo;I knew ISyE had a culture of innovative applied work in the supply chain and logistics field, where John was a significant contributor.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs co-director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gatech.pa\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Panama Logistics Innovation \u0026amp; Research Center\u003C\/a\u003E, Bartholdi applied his expertise toward Panama\u0026rsquo;s logistical challenges, with the goal of making the country the trade hub of the Americas. In 2015, the Ministry of the Presidency designated Georgia Tech Panama as the technical arm of the Logistics Cabinet.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERegents\u0026rsquo; Professor Emeritus Don Ratliff, with whom Bartholdi co-directed Georgia Tech Panama, was also Bartholdi\u0026rsquo;s advisor at the University of Florida. \u0026ldquo;John was the world\u0026rsquo;s leading expert on warehousing science,\u0026rdquo; Ratliff said. \u0026ldquo;I encountered an executive in Peru who had never met John but told me that John was considered the father of warehousing science.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Georgia Tech Panama is the only center in the world focused on an entire country\u0026rsquo;s logistics, and we worked closely together for years on helping Panama analyze and solve its logistical problems. He\u0026rsquo;s the most scholarly \u0026ndash; and most creative \u0026ndash; academic I\u0026rsquo;ve ever met.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBartholdi\u0026rsquo;s research interests were wide-ranging. In conjunction with ISyE Professor Craig Tovey and Michael Trick (Ph.D. 1987; now dean of Carnegie Mellon University Qatar), Bartholdi analyzed voting systems to determine how difficult it actually is to manipulate election results. He devised a low-technology routing system for Meals on Wheels using space-filling curves. He also turned his professional expertise toward a personal interest: good food and wine. He eventually helped establish the Wine Supply Chain Council (now the Wine and Food Supply Chain Council), which comprises \u0026ldquo;a group of supply chain researchers dedicated to improving international supply chains for wine.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2016, Bartholdi and several colleagues won the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.goldengooseaward.org\/awardees\/honey-bee-algorithm\u0022\u003EGolden Goose Award\u003C\/a\u003E from the NSF and the Office of Naval Research for \u0026ldquo;The Honeybee Algorithm.\u0026rdquo; This was for work done with Tovey, ISyE Professor John Vande Vate, then-researcher Sunil Nakrani, and Thomas Seeley, a Cornell biology professor. By applying organizing patterns similar to those used by honeybees in a hive to coordinate nectar foraging, the team examined and solved the problem of the most efficient \u0026ndash; and profitable \u0026ndash; way to allocate computer servers to ever-changing internet traffic.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECloser to home, Bartholdi and Eisenstein developed an algorithm \u0026ndash; \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nextbuzz.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ENextBuzz\u003C\/a\u003E \u0026ndash; that solves the problem of \u0026ldquo;bus bunching\u0026rdquo; in public transit. Instead of operating on fixed schedules, bus drivers within a transportation system are fitted with tablets and GPS devices. Based on the information transmitted by the GPS, the tablet indicates to drivers how long to remain at a particular stop, thus spreading out the buses appropriately. For this work, Bartholdi received the 2012 INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society Best Paper Award with the article, \u0026ldquo;A Self-coordinating Bus Route to Resist Bus Bunching,\u0026rdquo; and NextBuzz received an innovation award from the Georgia Transit Association in 2014. Georgia Tech implemented this algorithm for its own transit system in 2013, and an interdisciplinary group of students continue to work on the problem through Tech\u0026rsquo;s Vertically Integrated Projects program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBartholdi\u0026nbsp;taught supply chain issues \u0026ndash; primarily warehousing \u0026ndash; at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and in the Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;(SCL) professional education program. In 2003 he established the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/packagerace.scl.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGreat Package Race\u003C\/a\u003E to deliver packages from SCL in Atlanta to sites around the world via UPS, FedEx, and DHL. \u0026ldquo;We choose locations to challenge the business processes of the multinational package carriers, then observe the results,\u0026rdquo; Bartholdi noted on the race\u0026rsquo;s website. The race was held intermittently in years following and became well-known even to the carriers themselves.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2008, Bartholdi and co-author Steve Hackman, an ISyE associate professor, published the first edition of their free online textbook, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.warehouse-science.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWarehouse \u0026amp; Distribution Science\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. The book discusses \u0026ldquo;mathematical models to optimize management of time and space in a warehouse\u0026rdquo; and is the most-used warehousing textbook in the world. It has over 600 citations in Google Scholar.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBartholdi also was instrumental \u0026ndash; along with Erera and Harvey Donaldson, an academic professional \u0026ndash; in establishing ISyE\u0026rsquo;s premiere master\u0026rsquo;s program in supply chain engineering (MSSCE) in 2011. \u0026ldquo;We knew that many of our students, after they got their master\u0026rsquo;s in industrial engineering, would go on to become analysts and managers in the supply chain industry,\u0026rdquo; Erera reflected. \u0026ldquo;But they weren\u0026rsquo;t getting the specialized knowledge in the field that they needed, so John, Harvey, and I set out to change that with the MSSCE program. After we got the program set up, John and I led it, and his warehousing and supply chain industry seminar courses have been essential to the program\u0026rsquo;s success.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to his various academic pursuits, in which he was considered a generous collaborator, Bartholdi was personally regarded as exceptionally kind.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;John taught me how to think, how to see, how to ask questions, how to write, and how to teach,\u0026rdquo; said Kevin Gue (Ph.D. 1995; now a professor at the University of Louisville), who was advised by Bartholdi. \u0026ldquo;Most of all, he gave me the courage to explore ideas out of the mainstream. He told me once that he tried to see what direction others in the field were taking, and then he turned around and walked the other way. I\u0026rsquo;ve never forgotten that, and I think it is one way to explain the greatness of his work.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;But John was so much more than a scholar and a colleague. He was the kindest, most unselfish person I have ever worked with. He was a friend, and I am blessed to have shared many good times with him.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;His passing leaves a huge hole in ISyE, a huge hole in the field of industrial engineering, and most of all, a huge hole in the hearts of those who loved him. I am one of them.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETrick said, \u0026ldquo;John was my advisor, my mentor, and my friend. On the professional side, he, Craig Tovey, and I spent a fantastic few years writing papers that would become a foundation for the field of computational social choice. After sitting dormant (citation-wise) for 15 years (from 1990-2005), the impact of those papers exploded. John\u0026rsquo;s entire publication record consists of delights and surprises. He could make warehousing methods fascinating and show how insect decision-making and production systems were related.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;John also introduced me to the Patrick O\u0026#39;Brian Aubrey-Maturin series, a set of books that influenced me more than anything else I have ever read. Because of John (and O\u0026#39;Brian), I have gone sailing, got certified as a scuba diver, and look at nature in far different ways.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am incredibly grateful for the impact he has had on me both professionally and personally. My life is incomparably better for having known and worked with him,\u0026rdquo; Trick added.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBartholdi was devoted to his family and is survived by his wife, Marian. His son, Gabriel, predeceased him.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003ERemembrances\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;As I read of John\u0026rsquo;s sudden departure, I felt truly upset. I still can\u0026rsquo;t believe and accept it. Those of us who knew John can understand who we\u0026rsquo;ve lost. A kind and honorable person before a professor, a curious and inspiring mind before an academician, a reliable and encouraging friend before a colleague.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I was lucky to spend time with him. He hosted me when I was just a shy student, and he definitely opened my mind by showing me the way. He was a model of humanity, reason, and intelligence and had, has, and will have a deep and undying influence in my growth as a researcher and a man too. I\u0026rsquo;ll miss you John so much.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;My thoughts now go to his wife and family.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERiccardo Accorsi\u003C\/strong\u003E, senior assistant professor, University of Bologna (Italy)\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;John was a great scholar and friend. I had great respect for the way he approached his research activities, really digging down to the key principles behind how a system functions. In addition to our more academic interactions, I also look back fondly to the time spent with him during the hiking and sightseeing trips that we were able to tag onto our conferences, as well as the time he and his wife made the effort to travel to Munich to visit me there. Our food and wine supply chain conferences will not be the same without him.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERenzo Akkerman\u003C\/strong\u003E, associate professor, Wageningen University (The Netherlands)\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I met John 16 years\u0026nbsp;ago, and was honored to be his student, and eventually to work with him in our Panama research center. His support and encouragement were a factor in me pursuing a higher degree. John had a unique ability for\u0026nbsp;making complicated problems seem simple, and also for making even the toughest conversations seem light. He was always carrying a smile, showing immense love and respect for his profession, and an even greater love for life. He will be remembered as a brilliant academic, a dedicated professor and, above all, a kind and principled man.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJorge Barnett Lawton\u003C\/strong\u003E, managing director, Georgia Tech Panama\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;How to remember the moments we spent together \u0026ndash; some of them talking about research, but most of them were spent talking about food and the other passion we shared, wine. How to remember the number of emails, from all over the world, that I received because you told your students that I was the culprit of your long beard. How to remember all the great friends you presented to me, who only had words of admiration and respect for you.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;While looking for the definition of \u003Cem\u003Ementor\u003C\/em\u003E, I found \u0026lsquo;someone who teaches or gives help or advice to a less experienced and often younger person.\u0026rsquo; This definition runs short of what John has been for me. He has not only taught me and given me advice or help, he has been an example of what I want to become, -- not only as a researcher, but as what a real professor embodies: a person who kindly gives freely his wisdom, and who guides and touches the life of others. Thank you, John, for all your wisdom, time, help, and words of advice. I will never forget you.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlejandro F. Mac Cawley\u003C\/strong\u003E, associate professor, Pontificia Universidad Cat\u0026oacute;lica de Chile\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I have known John since 1998 when we were involved together in setting up The Logistics Institute - Asia Pacific. Over the years that I have interacted with him, I have found him to be a selfless person and always willing to help others at great length. It was his sincerity that made him special. I will truly miss him.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEk Peng Chew\u003C\/strong\u003E, associate professor, National University of Singapore\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Not to restate the obvious, but wow \u0026ndash; whattaguy! I really appreciated getting to know John over many years of these workshops and their related events (such as the six-day tour of Patagonia after our Chilean workshop).\u0026nbsp; I hope there can be a time at the upcoming Bologna workshop where we can all raise a glass together to remember him.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESusan Cholette\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor, San Francisco State University Lam Family College of Business\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;When I think of Professor Bartholdi, I think of a \u0026lsquo;gentle giant.\u0026rsquo; He had such a huge presence but was always so mild and kind. His loss will be felt by the ISyE family for years to come.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Cox\u003C\/strong\u003E, HR administrative manager, ISyE\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Amongst all of John\u0026rsquo;s great personal qualities and formidable research and practical insight, it is his immense energy and sincere enthusiasm for the success of others that is ever present in my recollections of the time I spent with him in the U.S., Australia, and Chile. His admirable way of engaging was withheld from nobody \u0026ndash; at least nobody who could resist reciprocating the honesty and friendship they received from John at any and every opportunity. Whether you were a warehouse order picker, a winery manager, a bus driver, a graduate student, a logistician, or a professional researcher, John wanted to know about you, and about how you went about your important business.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s also true that John was a great storyteller and a fantastically memorable teacher. In my mind, his voice still narrates much of what I would claim to know about warehousing and distribution, and of course his knowledge (and photograph collection) of the wonderful variety in warehousing and distribution globally was vast.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;A finer and more admirable man that John I truly am yet to meet.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESimon Dunstall\u003C\/strong\u003E, deputy research director, CSIRO Data61 (Melbourne, Australia)\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;John was my thesis advisor, colleague, business partner, and dear friend.\u0026nbsp;We wrote papers together, ate dinners together, travelled together, and laughed together. John had such a zest for life. He enjoyed fine meals \u0026nbsp;-- he tended toward a tasting menu so he could leave the experience in the hands of the chef \u0026ndash; and Low Country BBQ. \u0026nbsp;He hiked in Tibet and fished in Patagonia.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;When we met on trips together, John typically had something for my daughter \u0026ndash; a puzzle, a fine tea set, a book, an artifact from China \u0026ndash; always something interesting. He was the most giving and thoughtful person I have ever been around. So humble. John lacked any evidence of an ego. Disagreements with him when working on some code together, or a paper, were typically him trying to take blame for one of my bugs, or giving me undue credit for an idea. He was willing to be wrong, even though he was typically right. He just wanted to get at the truth, to understand something clearly. He always asked the right questions. Working with him was such a joy.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;John was meticulous in a way that I had never experienced. Every sentence, a purpose; every line of code, clarity. He always strived to make the complex simple. He profoundly changed the way I think and the way I work. I am so grateful and indebted to him. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;John was my friend, my mentor, a second father, and the brother I never had. I miss him so much. His passing has left such a void in my life. \u0026ldquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDon Eisenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor, University of Chicago Booth School of Business\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This is indeed very sad news. John was an outstanding person. The memory of him will always be in our hearts.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERaymundo \u0026ldquo;Kike\u0026rdquo; Forradelas\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor; \u003Cstrong\u003EMart\u0026iacute;n \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMarchetta\u003C\/strong\u003E, associate professor; and \u003Cstrong\u003ERicardo Palma\u003C\/strong\u003E, associate professor, CEAL UNCuyo Mendoza (Argentina)\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;John was a great friend, mentor, and human being. I am very sad at his passing away. I really admired his initiative, his drive, and his humbleness. He was really an outstanding person, and without his seminal action, we would not have this great community of practice that is the Wine and Food Supply Chain Council.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERodolfo Garc\u0026iacute;a-Flores\u003C\/strong\u003E, research scientist, CSIRO Data61 (Australia)\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;To those who knew him well, John was the consummate scholar, mentor, colleague, and friend. Hardly a week has gone by in 25 years since I left Georgia Tech when I did not think to myself, \u0026lsquo;What would John have done in this situation? How would he have responded?\u0026rsquo; Especially with regard to advising my own students, his example has been my working model.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I treasured every moment I spent with him, first as his graduate student and then as a colleague and friend. I learned early in graduate school that he viewed life as a constrained resource allocation problem \u0026mdash; all of his students remember hearing the tap-tap-tap of his keyboard through a locked door, as he ignored our knocks in order to get something done. Rather than alienating us, it made us value our time with him even more.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;John taught me how to think, how to see, how to ask questions, how to write, and how to teach. Most of all, he gave me the courage to explore ideas out of the mainstream. He told me once that he tried to see what direction others in the field were taking, and then he turned around and walked the other way. I\u0026rsquo;ve never forgotten that, and I think it is one way to explain the greatness of his work. The problems he addressed and the insights he gave us were always interesting and important.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;But John was so much more than a scholar and a colleague. He was the kindest, most unselfish person I have ever worked with. He was a friend, and I am blessed to have shared many good times with him.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;John\u0026rsquo;s passing leaves a huge hole in ISyE, a huge hole in the field of industrial engineering, and most of all, a huge hole in the hearts of those who loved him. I am one of them.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKevin Gue\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor, University of Louisville\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Without question, John was uniquely talented, brilliantly creative, and a special person. He was kind and gentle, witty and incisive. I count myself extremely lucky to have received his mentorship and friendship over many years. He will be irreplaceable.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESteven Hackman\u003C\/strong\u003E, associate professor, ISyE\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;In all of the years that I\u0026rsquo;ve known John, I never saw him in a bad mood.\u0026nbsp;Always smiling, very kind and thoughtful (many times he\u0026rsquo;d come bearing edible gifts). It\u0026rsquo;s hard to imagine ISyE without him.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJennifer Harris\u003C\/strong\u003E, program support coordinator, ISyE\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;When I came to ISyE and Georgia Tech 20 years ago, John was a senior member who was co-organizing a School-level initiative in response to a funding opportunity in Singapore. John kindly invited me to a lunch, together with several other colleagues, to discuss the strategy. At the end of the lunch, to our surprise, John picked up the check and paid for the entire group. Even though I ultimately did not participate the corresponding project, I really appreciated the opportunities that John created for a then-junior faculty member. John will be remembered.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EXiaoming Huo\u003C\/strong\u003E, A. Russell Chandler III Professor, ISyE\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;John was my Ph.D. advisor, and he was a great mentor in every way. Long after I received my Ph.D., he was still one of my go-to people when I needed advice. His advice was always thoughtful, conscientious, and encouraging. One of the greatest things about working with John was that he always asked the right questions to move research forward. He wouldn\u0026#39;t tell me how to model things, how to change my model, what results to derive, or what insights to generate, but he always asked questions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;One very important question he asked after we\u0026#39;d been working together for a while was, \u0026lsquo;Are you writing all this in Latex?\u0026rsquo; He probably knew the answer was \u0026lsquo;no,\u0026rsquo; because I don\u0026#39;t enjoy the writing part of research as much as doing the research, and at that point I had been walking around with a binder with an increasing number of pages of derivations. I thought he would get upset, so I quietly said, \u0026lsquo;No.\u0026rsquo; He was very calm and asked another question, \u0026ldquo;What happens if you lose your binder or if there is a fire?\u0026rsquo; The thought of my research burning up in flames was the best motivator, and I started the first draft of my paper right after that meeting.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;John\u0026#39;s passing is a great loss to the OR\/MS community, and I will miss him dearly.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEda Kemahlioglu Ziya\u003C\/strong\u003E, associate professor, NC State University\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Cherry and I are deeply saddened with the news of John\u0026rsquo;s untimely passing. More than being a great teacher, scientist, mentor, and friend, he was a giant of a person. I loved listening to him speak. He brought fun, wisdom, and compassion into the most boring or trivial topic from any domain. His kind and gentle presence will be sorely missed.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECherry and Leorey* Marquez\u003C\/strong\u003E, *senior research scientist, CSIRO Data61 (Melbourne, Australia)\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;John Bartholdi III was my thesis advisor when I pursued my PhD studies at Georgia Tech. When I worked with John during my Ph.D. studies in Atlanta, I realized that he was a super-meticulous person. I found out this when I read his Java and LaTeX codes. For example, his LaTeX source code is as readable as the corresponding LaTeX output. I consider myself a very neat person, but John was at least 10 times neater than me!\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;John paid attention to all the details on his research. Every time when I passed my proofs to him, he went through the proofs and rewrote everything using his own words. He absorbed the ideas and eventually mastered them.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;John was a keen learner. At one point, he noticed that I was able to spin a pen on my thumbs and fingers (just like many other Asian students). Upon his request, I taught him the skill. He practiced hard and was eventually able to do it with his right hand (he was about 60 years old at that time). He gave up doing it with his left hand.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I learned how to write rigorous research articles from John. This is perhaps the most important skill that I picked up from him. I did not realize how crucial the skill is until I became a faculty member myself. It was John who made me appreciate the beauty of integrating logics with writing. I am now passing this skill onto my Ph.D. students, and I will miss John for that.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYun Fong Lim\u003C\/strong\u003E, associate professor, Singapore Management University\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;John had a great impact\u0026nbsp;on a UNICEF project in 2010 in Zimbabwe.\u0026nbsp;In 2010 the Education Transition Fund was launched to revitalize the education system in Zimbabwe and included\u0026nbsp;the procurement and distribution of school supplies to every primary school in the country. As UNICEF Zimbabwe\u0026#39;s logistics officer at the time,\u0026nbsp;I had to manage the set packing of textbooks for every school based on language\/subject choice and enrollment figures per grade for almost 6,000 schools within a three-month window before the rainy season started. There was huge political pressure on the project, and failure simply wasn\u0026#39;t an option.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;In 2010, Zimbabwe was recovering after a devastating cholera epidemic and\u0026nbsp;was still grappling with the economic effects of massive hyperinflation. Electricity and even water were not in regular supply, and while most of the massive fuel shortages were over, it wasn\u0026#39;t uncommon for fuel to run out occasionally.\u0026nbsp;In a panic, I contacted John for advice and his thoughts how this seemingly impossible task could be achieved. John very kindly extended a trip to South Arica to come up to Zimbabwe over a\u0026nbsp;weekend\u0026nbsp;to visit the UNICEF warehouse and talk through the problem with me and then continued to send encouragement via email.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I think he was a little taken aback at the lack of resources we had to work with: just a bare warehouse, two forklifts \u0026ndash; of which only one ran at any given time, and\u0026nbsp;little to no\u0026nbsp;electricity. In true John style, he embraced the challenge with so much enthusiasm and seemed to relish the need for the most basic type of\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;back to basics\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;logistics imaginable.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;He suggested a brilliantly simple and totally manual picking\u0026nbsp;system for the textbooks.\u0026nbsp;The only real resource we had was people power, and his suggested solution made full use of that.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;His picking line was simple, easy to understand, easy to teach, and easy to\u0026nbsp;ensure quality. It worked off pallet movers and clipboards (attached to old intravenous drip stands that were\u0026nbsp;still in stock after the cholera emergency), and lots and lots of wooden pallets!\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The project succeeded so well that\u0026nbsp;it\u0026nbsp;was expanded to secondary school textbooks, early childhood development kits, and later to science kits, sports kits, teacher manuals, etc. While I haven\u0026#39;t encountered another project like it since, I know I\u0026#39;ll never forget how to approach it, thanks to John.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEmma Maspero\u003C\/strong\u003E, global procurement lead, International Development Law Organization (Rome, Italy)\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It is with true sadness that we mourn the sudden departure of our beloved John, a friend and a mentor. He taught us more about research, education, and life than expected from a colleague. All of us have learnt something from John, and we are transferring these lessons to all students and young researchers who have not the chance to meet him.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It was an honor and a privilege to host John at the Alma Mater Studiorum, to have some Ph.D. students in co-tutorship, and together starting the first edition of the Food Supply Chain Conference in 2011.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Thank you, John! Your colleagues and friends from University of Bologna want to express sincere condolences to your wife and family.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERiccardo Manzini\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor; \u003Cstrong\u003ERiccardo Accorsi\u003C\/strong\u003E, senior assistant professor; \u003Cstrong\u003EEmilio Ferrari\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor; \u003Cstrong\u003EArrigo Pareschi\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor; \u003Cstrong\u003ECristina Mora\u003C\/strong\u003E, associate professor; \u003Cstrong\u003EMarco Bortolini\u003C\/strong\u003E, senior assistant professor; \u003Cstrong\u003EAlberto Regattieri\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor; and \u003Cstrong\u003EMauro Gamberi\u003C\/strong\u003E, associate professor; University of Bologna (Italy)\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;John has made giant contributions to the worldwide warehousing and logistics scientific and professional communities with innovative concepts such as order picking bucket brigades and space-filling curves, a widely influential ebook on warehousing and distribution science, and a series of field-grounded research such as with Panama, USPS, and even on campus at Georgia Tech. Kudos and thanks!\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBenoit Montreuil\u003C\/strong\u003E, Coca-Cola Material Handling \u0026amp; Distribution Chair and professor, ISyE\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;John introduced me to supply chains of used clothing after he found out that I grew up in Kenya. At that time, a lot was unknown about this subject. Many engaging sessions later, coupled with a series of trips to Kenya, I ended up presenting at his supply chain seminar classes, where I talked about the last leg of the supply chain of cotton, while Harvey Donaldson talked about the first leg. He was a great friend and will be solely missed.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEric Mungai\u003C\/strong\u003E, Systems\/IT architect manager, ISyE\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;John Bartholdi was one of the most intellectually curious and creative people I\u0026#39;ve known. His research emphasized elegant but simple solutions to complex problems. John loved life, and I was fortunate to enjoy good food, wine, and his wit on several occasions.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorge Nemhauser\u003C\/strong\u003E, A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Institute Professor, ISyE\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Gina and I are very sad. John was such a great person \u0026ndash; kind, caring, humble, and brilliant. The world has lost a great man.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGina and Sergio Maturana Valderrama\u003C\/strong\u003E*, *professor, Pontificia Universidad Cat\u0026oacute;lica de Chile\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I first met John in 2001 when he attended the ICORD conference in Kruger National Park, South Africa. In 2006 he invited me to Georgia Tech to participate in the inaugural workshop of the Wine and Food Supply Chain Council. I\u0026rsquo;m grateful that I got to know him through attending a number of workshops and conferences, collaborating on research projects, and his visits to Stellenbosch.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I greatly admired him as a researcher, but even more so as a person. He was humble, kind, caring, and considerate \u0026ndash; sensitive to the cultures and customs of the countries he visited \u0026ndash; keen to learn and careful not to offend. We soon became friends and exchanged ideas on how to overcome the challenges of taking care of our elderly mothers. I drew strength and inspiration from him when times were tough. I\u0026rsquo;ve been looking forward to his next visit to South Africa but will now have to cherish the beautiful memories instead.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;My sincere condolences to his wife, Marian, and relatives. May they receive some comfort from the impact he had on others\u0026rsquo; lives and knowing how much he will be missed.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEsbeth van Dyk\u003C\/strong\u003E, ex-principal supply chain analyst, CSIR (Stellenbosch, South Africa)\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Very sad news indeed. John was one of my heroes, an incredible researcher, and a very good man. Rest In Peace.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERene Villalobos\u003C\/strong\u003E, associate professor, Arizona State University\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;John was a creative and productive scholar, gifted teacher, and a wonderful colleague with a terrific sense of humor. He had the art of making people grow fond of him. I have many pleasant memories of John and wish he had been with us longer.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChip White\u003C\/strong\u003E, Schneider National Chair in Transportation and Logistics and professor, ISyE\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;John was an example for many of us! He always gave without waiting for a counterpart! We will really miss him. I wish a lot of patience for his family and those who love him.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIskander Zouaghi\u003C\/strong\u003E, deputy director of continuing education and external relations, National Polytechnic School (Algeria)\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EManhattan Associates\/Dabbiere Chair and Professor John Bartholdi III passed away on October 29, 2019. He made important contributions to the supply chain field.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Manhattan Associates\/Dabbiere Chair and Professor John Bartholdi III passed away on October 29, 2019. 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Stewart Chair and Professor\u003Cstrong\u003E Jan Shi\u003C\/strong\u003E and Fouts Family Early Career Professor and Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EKamran Paynabar\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESecond Place\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EShixiang Zhu\u003C\/strong\u003E received second place in the \u0026ldquo;Doing Good with Good OR\u0026rdquo; Student Paper Competition for \u0026ldquo;Atlanta Police Zone Redesign: A Data-driven Optimization Approach,\u0026rdquo; co-authored with his advisor, Harold R. and Mary Anne Nash Early Career Professor and Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EYao Xie\u003C\/strong\u003E, and Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EHe Wang\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFinalists\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003EYufeng Cao\u003C\/strong\u003E was a finalist for the Aviation Applications Section (AAS) Best Student Presentation Competition for the work \u0026ldquo;Network Revenue Management Under a Spiked Multinomial Logit Choice Model,\u0026rdquo; coauthored with his advisors, Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EAnton Kleywegt\u003C\/strong\u003E and Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EHe Wang\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003EZhehui Chen\u003C\/strong\u003E was a finalist for the Data Mining Best Student Paper Competition for the paper, \u0026ldquo;A Hierarchical Expected Improvement Method for Effective Bayesian Optimization,\u0026rdquo; co-authored with Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics and Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EJeff Wu\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003ESimon Mak \u003C\/strong\u003E(Ph.D. 18). His advisors are \u003Cstrong\u003EWu \u003C\/strong\u003Eand Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ETuo Zhao\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003EAmanda Chu\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EPinar Keskinocak\u003C\/strong\u003E, and \u003Cstrong\u003EMonica Villarreal\u003C\/strong\u003E (Ph.D. 14) were finalists for the Daniel H. 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That\u0026#39;s a big driver of change.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETrend #2: Robotics\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith increasing complexity in the supply chain and the added demands of omni-channel distribution, robotics and artificial intelligence are becoming more important.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Companies are looking to AI, robotics and related technologies to help them manage the complex channels, different flows, and different inventory pools,\u0026rdquo; Brown says. \u0026ldquo;So where companies used to want to avoid complexity and try to be very simple and have very defined roles in the supply chain, now companies like Amazon and The Home Depot are embracing complexity.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAutomated vehicles continue to offer a great deal of promise, but Brown stresses that the trucking industry won\u0026rsquo;t change over night. Certain parts of the country, such as Georgia\u0026rsquo;s I-16 corridor between Savannah and Macon, will serve as effective initial targets for automation. Savannah is home to the Port of Savannah, the fastest growing and fourth busiest port in the nation and the largest single-terminal container facility of its kind in North America. Semi-automated systems such as platooning or flocking, which allow a single driver to handle linked vehicles, will likely arrive ahead of fully automated fleets.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETrend #3: Additive Manufacturing \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAdditive Manufacturing or 3D printing is also a major game changer in supply chain and logistics. Previously, products left the factory only to be stored for weeks, months, or even years. Now, an increasing number of products are created on demand.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;In Atlanta, Adidas actually makes shoes in an on-demand center,\u0026rdquo; Brown says. \u0026ldquo;So, instead of guessing what\u0026#39;s going to sell and in what sizes, and distributing them throughout the world; they just make them on demand.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAdditive manufacturing can improve the availability of spare parts for a given product, and Brown believes it could also enable more sustainable products that can be easily renewed or recycled.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;A lot times, an item reaches the end of its life and has to be scrapped because it\u0026#39;s made up of hundreds of thousands of parts that are too hard to take apart to reuse,\u0026rdquo; Brown says. \u0026ldquo;But you can 3D print some of the items and design them so they can be easily disassembled and put into the supply chain again.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETrend #4: The Physical Internet \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EManufacturing 4.0 is transforming the landscape of industry through the widespread adoption of new technologies. Advancing alongside it is a leading-edge global logistics system termed the Physical Internet: a revolution in transportation planning that transforms the way physical objects are moved and stored.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe aim is to create a leaner, more effective supply chain in which companies share infrastructure -- such as trucks and warehouses -- for maximum efficiency. Advancements in AI, the internet of things, and blockchain make this sort of sharing possible.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;If companies can feel comfortable with these technologies and they know where their items are, then they can open up and share,\u0026rdquo; Brown says. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s like how we share cars now with the Uber model. Why not do the same thing with freight?\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat\u0026rsquo;s Next?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELooking ahead to the future, Brown is hopeful for the merging of people mobility and freight mobility. While some forms of transportation, such as air transportation, move both cargo and passengers, most forms of transportation keep them separate.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;MARTA could be moving freight through Atlanta, particularly at night\u0026rdquo; Brown says. \u0026ldquo;Even during the day, there could be a couple of freight cars so that freight\u0026rsquo;s moving under the city instead of through it on trucks.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile major shared people and freight initiatives are further off, a number of start-up companies are already exploring what\u0026rsquo;s possible via a transportation networking system -- including the Atlanta-based Roadie.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Let\u0026#39;s say you need to send a bed or something from your mother to your aunt and you don\u0026#39;t want to bother with a regular van line,\u0026rdquo; Brown says. \u0026ldquo;With Roadie, you find somebody who happens to be traveling between those two points and they agree to stop by and pick it up and move it.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJob Prospects\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhat does this mean for the workforce? Industry data provided by the O*NET Resource Center indicates that supply chain and logistics jobs are on the rise. The opportunities go far beyond truck and forklift drivers, encompassing everything from data analysis and cloud solutions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;There are also exciting roles involved in supply chain planning, risk management, and strategic supply chain gaming involved in supply chain tradeoff analysis,\u0026rdquo; Brown says. \u0026ldquo;They leverage technologies such as immersive reality, geographic information systems, artificial intelligence, and data analytics.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs with jobs in manufacturing, supply chain and logistics workers have to roll with continuous change in the digital world \u0026ndash; but the jobs themselves are not going away.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Many young people aren\u0026#39;t attracted to logistics because they think it\u0026#39;s hard, physical work,\u0026rdquo; Brown says. \u0026ldquo;Obviously there are a lot of jobs like that, but there are a lot of exciting jobs in supply chain and logistics that people should think about: perhaps starting in operations but then moving to managerial or tactical planning roles leveraging the latest technologies.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGTPE offers a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pe.gatech.edu\/subjects#supply-chain--logistics\u0022\u003Erobust list of professional development options\u003C\/a\u003E to prepare supply chain and logistics professionals for success in this field. Check out our \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pe.gatech.edu\/sites\/pe.gatech.edu\/files\/SCL-Infographic.pdf\u0022\u003Eoverview of the learners we served last fiscal year\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Advancements in technology are transforming the SC\u0026L landscape and leading to new workforce needs"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe newest supply chain trends range from AI to omnichannel distribution. Read how these industry trends will impact future supply chains.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The newest supply chain trends range from AI to omnichannel distribution. 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Steve\u0026rsquo;s experience spans many industries including food and beverage, retail, high-tech, chemicals, and bulk materials.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBefore joining Chainalytics, Steve served as a Product Manager for i2 Technologies where he managed its strategic planning product, Supply Chain Strategist.\u0026nbsp;Prior to i2, Steve served as a Logistics \u0026amp; Manufacturing Analyst for Blue Circle North America, a division of one of the world\u0026rsquo;s largest manufacturers of building materials.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESteve holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESteve Ellet is Senior Vice President of the Supply Chain Design practice at Chainalytics where he focuses on applying large-scale optimization and simulation models to strategic and tactical network planning.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Steve Ellet is Senior Vice President of the Supply Chain Design practice at Chainalytics"}],"uid":"27233","created_gmt":"2019-09-21 16:45:30","changed_gmt":"2019-09-21 16:52:46","author":"Andy Haleblian","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-09-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-09-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"626521":{"id":"626521","type":"image","title":"Steve Ellet, Senior Vice President - Supply Chain Design, Chainalytics","body":null,"created":"1569084298","gmt_created":"2019-09-21 16:44:58","changed":"1569084298","gmt_changed":"2019-09-21 16:44:58","alt":"Steve Ellet","file":{"fid":"238543","name":"ellet-sq.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ellet-sq.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ellet-sq.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":877266,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ellet-sq.jpg?itok=4qwcS8Fn"}}},"media_ids":["626521"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/people\/industry-advisory-board","title":"SCL Industry Advisory Board members"}],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"178600","name":"Industry Advisory Board"},{"id":"143871","name":"Physical Internet Center"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39461","name":"Manufacturing, Trade, and Logistics"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["info@scl.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"626156":{"#nid":"626156","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Meet Your Newest Job Recruiter, the Algorithm","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen you apply for a job, chances are your resume has been through numerous automated screening processes powered by hiring algorithms before it lands in a recruiter\u0026rsquo;s hands. These algorithms look at things like work history, job title progression and education to weed out resumes. There are pros and cons to this \u0026ndash; employers are eager to harness the artificial intelligence (AI) and big data captured by the algorithms to speed up the hiring process. But depending on the data used, automated hiring decisions can be very biased.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Algorithms learn based on data sets, but the data is generated by humans who often exhibit implicit bias,\u0026rdquo; explains Swati Gupta, an assistant professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Her work focuses on algorithmic fairness. \u0026ldquo;Our hope is that we can use machine learning with rigorous mathematical analysis to fix the bias in areas like hiring, lending and school admissions.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd job-related algorithms not only affect hiring; they also influence the types of jobs a candidate might see online. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/women-aggressive-men-applying-jobs-hired-frequently-linkedin\/story?id=61531741,\u0022\u003EStudies\u003C\/a\u003E show that men typically apply to jobs even if they aren\u0026rsquo;t qualified, whereas women are more conservative when sending out their resumes. So, when someone is on LinkedIn and a message pops up saying \u0026ldquo;jobs recommended for you,\u0026rdquo; a woman might see fewer job posts than a man. Those jobs also might pay less. Because men traditionally apply to jobs that pay more, the search engine algorithms are going to target them with higher paying job ads.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnother problem area is fairness in lending, where algorithms have learned to charge higher interest rates to people who do not comparison shop. While lending discrimination has historically been caused by face-to-face human bias, pricing disparities are increasingly the result of algorithms that use machine learning to target applicants who might shop around less with higher-priced loans, according to a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu\/minority-homebuyers-face-widespread-statistical-lending-discrimination-study-finds\/\u0022\u003EBerkeley study\u003C\/a\u003E. Black and Latino borrowers pay roughly seven basis points higher interest on loans than White and Asian borrowers due to algorithmic bias.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESo, how can computer scientists and engineers teach an algorithm to be fairer?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFirst, Gupta is working on defining what makes an algorithm biased \u0026ndash; what data is going in that is creating the bias? After she determines the problematic data, adjustments can be made in the algorithm to make it fair. Then she programs the algorithm to understand that some sets of data might be biased. Knowing this, the algorithm can make fairer decisions. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Algorithms must be adjusted to be more \u003Cstrong\u003Esocially conscious\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u0026rdquo; said Gupta. \u0026ldquo;We have to consider the impact these algorithms can have on our lives and ensure that discriminatory practices don\u0026rsquo;t get created.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThese biases are problematic in search engine functionality as well. When Google realized an image search for \u0026ldquo;CEO\u0026rdquo; brought up only male executives, the company decided something needed to change. Since algorithms learn from historical data, and most CEOs in the world are in fact male, the search engine returned images of male CEOs in the results. But Google made the socially conscious decision to adjust the algorithm to show women too. 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Participants were introduced to a theoretical foundation of data science with a selection of application topics. The emphasis was on the foundational concepts of statistics, optimization, and signal processing, and on the applications of these techniques in developing cross-disciplinary research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The participating students were exposed to a set of mathematical tools that can potentially be used to derive the fundamental bounds on the performance of various techniques that have been widely adopted in data science,\u0026rdquo; explained Huo. \u0026ldquo;While there are many online and physical events (such as bootcamps and summer schools) across the nation that teach data science tools, a summer school that emphasizes the mathematical tools and foundation of data science technique is rare. Therefore, this summer school is unique.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe program was sponsored by TRIAD and the National Science Foundation and featured talks from a wide variety of Georgia Tech faculty including Polo Chau, an associate professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering, Mark Davenport, an associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vladimir Koltchinskii, a professor in the School of Mathematics, and Arkadi Nemirovski, John Hunter Chair and professor in ISyE, in addition to Huo and Xie. Huan Yan (Ph.D. 14), a data scientist at Wells Fargo, brought additional industry perspective to the class.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Based on the feedback from the participants, most of them appreciate the fact that this summer school emphasizes the theoretical aspect of the data science,\u0026rdquo; said Huo. \u0026ldquo;They enjoyed the open and interactive atmosphere. Some believe that they are likely to use the ideas that they learned or developed during this summer school in their future work.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe organizers are likely to continue organizing this type of summer school in 2020. They plan to incorporate more contents, which were recommended by this year\u0026rsquo;s participants.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout TRIAD\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETRIAD is a cross-disciplinary institute that was established in 2017 as part of the National Science Foundation\u0026rsquo;s TRIPODS (Transdisciplinary Research in Principles of Data Science) program. TRIAD unites statistics, mathematics, and theoretical computer science to further develop the foundations of data science. TRIAD brings together senior, mid-career, and junior faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, graduate and undergraduate students, all from Tech\u0026rsquo;s colleges of Computing, Engineering, and Sciences, and data science practitioners-at-large using focused working groups, national and international workshops, and organized innovation labs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe four-day program, introducing attendees to a theoretical foundation of data science, was organized by ISyE Professor and TRIAD Director Xiaoming Huo.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The four-day program, introducing attendees to a theoretical foundation of data science, was organized by ISyE Professor and TRIAD Director Xiaoming Huo."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2019-09-12 17:47:04","changed_gmt":"2019-09-12 21:19:28","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-09-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-09-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"626092":{"id":"626092","type":"image","title":"Foundation of Data Science Summer School attendees with ISyE Professor Xiaoming Huo (center)","body":null,"created":"1568310688","gmt_created":"2019-09-12 17:51:28","changed":"1568310741","gmt_changed":"2019-09-12 17:52:21","alt":"Foundation of Data Science Summer School attendees with ISyE Professor Xiaoming Huo (center)","file":{"fid":"238356","name":"TRIAD Workshop_Square.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/TRIAD%20Workshop_Square_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/TRIAD%20Workshop_Square_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1118086,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/TRIAD%20Workshop_Square_0.jpg?itok=N7-G4TcK"}}},"media_ids":["626092"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"175350","name":"TRIAD"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"71771","name":"Yao Xie"},{"id":"3503","name":"xiaoming huo"},{"id":"92811","name":"data science"},{"id":"362","name":"National Science Foundation"},{"id":"83261","name":"Polo Chau"}],"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:laurie.haigh@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ELaurie Haigh\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EH. 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A semester later, a prototyping class through the Scheller College of Business served as the catalyst.\u202fWhen the professor tasked us with developing a product to address an unmet need, I jumped at the opportunity to leverage this assignment in support of LaAmistad.\u202fOur team decided to switch topics a few weeks into the semester, but I was able to continue the original project independently through the Ideas to Serve (I2S) competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe I2S competition is hosted by the Scheller College of Business, but its principles and values align with the heart of industrial engineering. This past year the competition embraced its mantra of \u0026ldquo;Know What You Don\u0026rsquo;t Know\u0026rdquo; by dedicating more than half of the competition to the Problem Discovery track. In this track, students are evaluated on their comprehensive understanding of a social or environmental issue without the pressure of generating a solution.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis approach strongly echoed the prototyping course, in which the professor cautioned (much to the amusement of his students) that if we had a solution before eight weeks he \u0026ldquo;didn\u0026rsquo;t want to hear it.\u0026rdquo; I was surprised by the shift in emphasis from my typically solutions-focused engineering classes, yet I recognized that this methodology was highly reminiscent of my extracurricular industrial engineering training. For instance, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training focuses on root-cause analysis, and \u0026ldquo;Band-Aid solutions\u0026rdquo; were purported as Public Enemy No. 1 in my process improvement internship.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis idea plays on a common criticism of engineers today: We can design whatever we dream, but our dreams do not perform in the market because we fail to sufficiently understand consumers. As a proud engineer, I fell for the folly. The first step in my problem discovery journey was speaking with the families supported by LaAmistad. I attempted to go into the parent meeting with an open mind, but in my head I was already designing solutions to alleviate a space constraint faced by some of the students.\u0026nbsp; Pursuing that idea would have been a huge mistake because I would have missed the overarching issue. Over the nearly two-hour meeting, I repeatedly heard that the parents\u0026rsquo; biggest frustration was truancy. The training of the I2S competition helped me discover this underlying issue so that I can develop an impactful solution.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe problem is not with solutions, but solutions based on underdeveloped problem discovery. Most of the world rushes through the problem discovery phase, which can lead to temporary or even incorrect solutions. I love that the I2S competition is teaching students that comprehensive problem discovery is critical to problem-solving, and my goal is to spread this message to Georgia Tech and LaAmistad students.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMorgan Knowlton is a fourth-year ISyE undergraduate student concentrating in economic and financial systems. For the 2019-20 academic year, Knowlton is interning in the Disney costuming department in an industrial engineering role. She plans to return to Georgia Tech and to volunteering with LaAmistad in fall 2020, where she will develop solutions for the organization\u0026rsquo;s challenges.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdditional Information on Ideas to Serve\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/centers-initiatives\/ile\/i2s\/index.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EIdeas to Serve Competition\u003C\/a\u003E encourages and incentivizes the in-depth discovery of any particular social\/environmental issue a student is passionate about. Students who are interested in understanding complex social problems, and may already be involved in community-based projects are encouraged to apply in the Problem Discovery track. Those who have completed their problem understanding phase, and are ready to explore solutions \u0026ndash; preferably through community partnerships \u0026ndash; will join the Solution Discovery track. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMGT 4803-J\u003C\/strong\u003E (CRN#31167): \u003Cstrong\u003ESocial Impact: In-depth Exploration and Design, \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Eoffered in the Spring\u003C\/strong\u003E (Mo-We 4:30 \u0026ndash; 5:45 pm) is a course developed specifically for I2S participants. It is a series of workshops and class discussions that helps teams prepare for I2S. In this course, students will master problem discovery tools like the Impact Gap Canvas, Asset-based Community Development, Human-centered Design, systems thinking, social impact assessment, customer discovery, and more. \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThere will be an I2S info lunch session on October 24 at 11 AM in COB 101. RSVP \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ilebackend.gatech.edu\/i2sinfo?_ga=2.70986384.1669861345.1568032424-2030256406.1559584437\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EContact Dori Pap (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:dori.pap@ile.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Edori.pap@ile.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) for more information about the course or the Ideas to Serve competition.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EISyE fourth-year Morgan Knowlton reflects on her experience with the Ideas to Serve Competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE fourth-year Morgan Knowlton reflects on her experience with the Ideas to Serve Competition."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2019-09-09 17:43:06","changed_gmt":"2019-09-09 18:02:24","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-09-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-09-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"625865":{"id":"625865","type":"image","title":"ISyE undergraduate Morgan Knowlton presents her project at the 2019 Ideas to Serve competition.","body":null,"created":"1568051998","gmt_created":"2019-09-09 17:59:58","changed":"1568051998","gmt_changed":"2019-09-09 17:59:58","alt":"","file":{"fid":"238275","name":"Knowlton w Buzz_Square 2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Knowlton%20w%20Buzz_Square%202.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Knowlton%20w%20Buzz_Square%202.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":310313,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Knowlton%20w%20Buzz_Square%202.jpg?itok=v22QTNsp"}}},"media_ids":["625865"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"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\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:swundersmith3@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EShelley Wunder-Smith\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EH. 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It is scheduled for completion in 2022.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe port expansion has included massive infrastructure needs and these changes have created several logistic challenges. In July 2018, the Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) turned to two in-state resources to help: the state\u0026#39;s Center of Innovation for Logistics and the Supply Chain and Logistics (SCL) Institute at Georgia Tech. The three bodies\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pe.gatech.edu\/blog\/new-partnership-aims-advance-logistics-industry-georgia\u0022\u003Esigned a Memorandum of Understanding\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to provide research and data analysis to help the GPA navigate its growth strategies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Over the past three years we were getting to know the ports management team, we opened a supply chain and logistic branch on the Georgia Tech-Savannah campus and started interacting with the port more,\u0026quot; said Tim Brown director of the SCL Institute at Georgia Tech. \u0026quot;We had the international emphasis and an international faculty with those interests, and we wanted to start working more here in the state and domestically.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEach of the project\u0026#39;s partners has a distinct role. For Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s SCL, its data research. In January 2019, the SCL\u0026#39;s research teams were ramping up efforts to analyze data to find solutions to various issues, such as helping cargo owners and third-party logistics providers streamline their supply chains. While the port is benefiting from the expertise of Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s team of data analysts, the faculty and students are able to gain real-world experience in solving such problems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iise.org\/iemagazine\/2019-03\/html\/albertson\/albertson.html\u0022\u003ERead the full article on the ISE Magazine website\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to learn more about the project and how Georgia Tech is using their supply chain expertise to analyze data and anticipate problems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Even in the era of high-tech commerce and increased air freight, shipping goods via oceans is still a key cog in the global supply chain."}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEven in the era of high-tech commerce and increased air freight, shipping goods via oceans is still a key cog in the global supply chain.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech is using its world-class supply chain expertise to analyze data and anticipate problems on the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2019-08-14 15:49:13","changed_gmt":"2019-08-14 15:52:02","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-07-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-07-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"624502":{"id":"624502","type":"image","title":"A Port of Savannah employee working with a shipping container","body":null,"created":"1565797902","gmt_created":"2019-08-14 15:51:42","changed":"1565797902","gmt_changed":"2019-08-14 15:51:42","alt":"A Port of Savannah employee working with a shipping container","file":{"fid":"237801","name":"shipping-container-1900x930-Square.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/shipping-container-1900x930-Square.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/shipping-container-1900x930-Square.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":146370,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/shipping-container-1900x930-Square.jpg?itok=Au5vjIg9"}}},"media_ids":["624502"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/pe.gatech.edu\/blog\/industry-trends\/growing-port-seeks-logistic-expertise","title":"Original Story"}],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Professional Education\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:gtpe-communications@pe.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Egtpe-communications@pe.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["gtpe-communications@pe.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"623900":{"#nid":"623900","#data":{"type":"news","title":" Leading the Way for Women Engineers","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESince 2004, the Georgia Tech College of Engineering (COE) has been the largest producer of female engineers in the U.S. Thirty-five percent of COE\u0026rsquo;s undergraduate engineering students are women, as opposed to just 17% nationally.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs such, it\u0026rsquo;s only fitting that the Institute\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.swe.gtorg.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESociety of Women Engineers\u003C\/a\u003E (SWE) is also one of the largest collegiate sections of the organization in the country, serving more than 800 undergraduate and 200 graduate students.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMahati Vavilala, who graduated this past May, was SWE\u0026rsquo;s president during her final year at Tech as a student enrolled in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE). She will be continuing her involvement with SWE on the executive board for SWE Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETwo ISyE students serve as Tech\u0026#39;s current leaders: Fourth-year Toral Kadakia is the undergraduate president, and Ph.D. student Isabella Sanders is the graduate group leader, a position she has held for the past two years. Sanders is also the graduate programs chair-elect at the SWE society \u0026ndash; or national \u0026ndash; level, which means that she will assist the current graduate program chair and be responsible for developing diverse section tracks for SWE\u0026rsquo;s annual conference. She will assume the position of graduate program chair in 2020.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the following interview, Vavilala, Kadakia, and Sanders share their thoughts on leadership and how participating in SWE has shaped both their Georgia Tech experiences and their perceptions of themselves as female engineers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat is your philosophy of leadership?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETK\u003C\/strong\u003E: I always want to be a team player. I expect honesty and hope that in turn, I gain the respect and trust of my team members. Part of that means being there for my team in any capacity I can be \u0026ndash; whether it\u0026rsquo;s answering their questions, problem solving, or encouraging them to think outside the box and go beyond their comfort zone.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIS\u003C\/strong\u003E: My goal is to motivate and empower others to succeed. The best way to do this is to lead by example, as a leader\u0026rsquo;s effort and attitude are contagious, and a group\u0026rsquo;s morale is often determined by its leader.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhy is leadership important to you?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETK\u003C\/strong\u003E: A leader is someone who can bring about changes and make an impact on people. As president of SWE, I feel it\u0026rsquo;s important to specifically address issues that women face by being in STEM fields. And I hope that through my various leadership roles on campus, I have contributed to getting rid of that stigma.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, I want to impact younger students and give them the same great opportunities and supportive environment that I have experienced with SWE.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMV\u003C\/strong\u003E: A lot of students come to Tech having served as president or vice president of their high school organizations, and that wasn\u0026rsquo;t really my experience. I came to realize that I was interested in those roles but had to forge my own path and figure out how to get involved in my own way.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI learned to be aware of other people and to help them adjust to being at Tech and to help make them feel at ease within various organizations. That\u0026rsquo;s a really powerful leadership trait \u0026ndash; to be able to acknowledge the different perspectives and views present in a room, and that\u0026rsquo;s why being a leader is so important to me.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhy is it important to have an organization dedicated specifically to supporting female engineers?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIS\u003C\/strong\u003E: SWE is important because it provides support where it otherwise may not be found and encourages students to succeed. Particularly for graduate students, where the number of women enrolled is even lower than it is in undergraduate programs, SWE brings students into a larger community that they can lean on.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMV\u003C\/strong\u003E: It\u0026rsquo;s particularly important at Tech to have a SWE presence because engineering is so dominant. The Institute is close to achieving a 50\/50 balance when it comes to female\/male representation, but it\u0026rsquo;s not quite there yet. SWE connects a community of women working toward the common cause of female representation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow has your SWE experience shaped your time at Georgia Tech?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIS\u003C\/strong\u003E: SWE has given me a group of women who are not only great teammates but also are great friends. We\u0026rsquo;ve been able to travel the country attending SWE conferences in different states. And at the society level, SWE has given me the opportunity to present my research, earn a scholarship, and meet women from all over the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMV\u003C\/strong\u003E: As I became more and more involved in SWE \u0026ndash; the more I gave to the organization \u0026ndash; the more SWE gave back to me. I grew professionally and personally. As president, I had the opportunity to engage with members and go outside my comfort zone to talk to people I wouldn\u0026rsquo;t normally talk to, as I tend to be a bit of an introvert. SWE has been a constant source of motivation throughout my time at Tech, and my experience with Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s SWE has inspired me to become involved with Atlanta\u0026rsquo;s SWE section.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHas SWE impacted how you think of yourself as a female engineer?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETK: \u003C\/strong\u003ESWE has definitely made me feel like I belong here at Tech. I see the incredibly strong and successful women who are in SWE, and it inspires me every day to work harder and continue to break boundaries. And Mahati and Isabella, who are incredible people who have done so well in their careers \u0026ndash; I know I\u0026rsquo;m following in their footsteps and will hopefully be just as impactful as them.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIS\u003C\/strong\u003E: SWE has helped me realize that I have a community of women to lean on. I\u0026rsquo;m not alone \u0026ndash; I\u0026rsquo;m part of a strong group of women. While we may not all be in the same fields of study, our experiences are strikingly similar, and we can support each other.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, SWE has also taught me the importance of leadership. When you\u0026rsquo;re one of the few women in leadership, it\u0026rsquo;s important to leave a good example, because your impact can empower others and inspire the next generation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat are you most proud of accomplishing with SWE?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMV\u003C\/strong\u003E: As president, I worked on being approachable and accessible \u0026ndash; and correspondingly, worked on fostering connections between the exec board and our members. The organization has become more tight-knit and supportive as a community. What keeps the members coming back is their ability to stay connected with each other, and I\u0026rsquo;m excited to see this growth continue for years to come.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETK\u003C\/strong\u003E: I am very proud of my contributions to our fundraising and outreach efforts. We continue to encourage young women from local Atlanta schools to consider a STEM professional with our outreach events. I\u0026rsquo;m also proud to have co-hosted an award-winning charity Engineer\u0026rsquo;s Ball that continues to raise thousands of dollars for local charities and organizations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESWE membership is open to all students at Georgia Tech. Each fall, female first-year and transfer students in the College of Engineering are invited to attend Tea with Dean, where they receive a free one-year SWE membership\u003C\/em\u003E \u003Cem\u003Eand an opportunity to meet other women engineers and faculty members. 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It was during his stint as associate chair for graduate studies \u0026ndash; a position he held from 1968 to 1996 \u0026ndash; that ISyE was first ranked as the No. 1 graduate industrial engineering program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe served as an early editor-in-chief of AIIE \u003Cem\u003ETransactions\u003C\/em\u003E, which eventually became IISE \u003Cem\u003ETransactions\u003C\/em\u003E. Hines also co-authored a popular and long-used textbook, \u003Cem\u003EProbability and Statistics in Engineering\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Dave Goldsman, who served as a co-editor with Hines on one of the latest revisions of the textbook, said, \u0026ldquo;Bill Hines was a senior faculty member and, in fact, the graduate chair when I arrived at ISyE in the mid-1980s. He made sure that I was given appropriate courses to teach and even guided a grad student or two my way in order to help me get going in my academic career. After he retired, Bill invited me to come on board with a revision of his popular \u003Cem\u003EProbability and Statistics\u003C\/em\u003E textbook for engineers, and it was certainly nice to work with him on that project.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EISyE Professor Emeritus Gary Parker had a similar remembrance of Hines\u0026rsquo; academic ability and professional generosity. \u0026ldquo;Bill Hines took one of the first PhDs awarded from ISyE, then joined the faculty around 1962,\u0026rdquo; said Parker.\u0026nbsp; \u0026ldquo;In the late 1960s, he was named ISyE graduate chair; in fact, when I interviewed in the summer of 1971, I distinctly remember chatting with Bill, sharing my teaching and research interests.\u0026nbsp; Fortunately I was hired, and true to his word, he let me teach a preferred graduate course very early in my career \u0026ndash; something that was not automatic in those old-school days. 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Tom was promoted to Northwest District Manager in 2014 and accepted the responsibility as Southern California District Manager in 2016.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETom, an active member in the community, spent several years working with the Las Vegas Urban League and also served as a board member for the United Way of Greater Los Angeles - Antelope Valley Region, the Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle, the United Way of Orange County, the Jessie Rees Foundation and the Orange County Business Council.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETom Cuce serves as UPS President of Corporate Transportation where he manages Hub, Feeder and Air Operations, Enterprise-wide Network Planning, Global Carrier Relations and Procurement, USPS relationships and Transportation technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":" Tom replaces recently retired President of Corporate Transportation, Joe Picone"}],"uid":"27233","created_gmt":"2019-06-21 18:44:40","changed_gmt":"2019-07-22 15:09:45","author":"Andy Haleblian","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-07-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-07-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"622692":{"id":"622692","type":"image","title":"Tom Cuce, UPS President of Corporate Transportation","body":null,"created":"1561142660","gmt_created":"2019-06-21 18:44:20","changed":"1561142660","gmt_changed":"2019-06-21 18:44:20","alt":"Tom Cuce, UPS President of Corporate Transportation","file":{"fid":"237155","name":"tcuce.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tcuce.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tcuce.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":14347,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tcuce.jpg?itok=vcLdDTsn"}}},"media_ids":["622692"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/people\/industry-advisory-board","title":"SCL Industry Advisory Board members"}],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"178600","name":"Industry Advisory Board"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39461","name":"Manufacturing, Trade, and Logistics"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["info@scl.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"623069":{"#nid":"623069","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Debankur Mukherjee Joins ISyE as Assistant Professor","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn July 1, 2019, Debankur Mukherjee joined the faculty of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s H. 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He had a brilliant research and teaching career, but more importantly, he was a dear friend and a generous colleague,\u0026rdquo; said ISyE School Chair Edwin Romeijn. \u0026ldquo;He was taken from us far too soon, and he will be missed.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn particular, Ahmed led the way in integrating two challenging methodologies \u0026ndash; stochastic and integer programming \u0026ndash; that are essential for solving problems in energy distribution, supply chain, transportation, and finance. His most-cited paper, \u0026ldquo;A Stochastic Programming Approach for Supply Chain Network Design under Certainty,\u0026rdquo; has over 960 citations on Google Scholar. This was the first paper that designed methodology for solving large-scale stochastic supply chain design problems with a huge number of scenarios by integrating the sample average approximation scheme with an accelerated Benders decomposition algorithm.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFrom the earliest days of his academic career, Ahmed won accolades for his groundbreaking ideas. He received the INFORMS Dantzig Dissertation Award (2000) and a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (2002).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAhmed joined ISyE in 2000, where recognition of his accomplishments continued. He received the IBM Faculty Award in both 2002 and 2005, the 2017 INFORMS Computing Society Prize, and the 2018 Farkas Prize from the INFORMS Optimization Society. In 2014 he was appointed both as an ISyE Stewart Faculty Fellow and a College of Engineering Dean\u0026rsquo;s Professor. He was a Senior Member of IEEE and an INFORMS Fellow.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Shabbir\u0026rsquo;s expertise had both depth and breadth,\u0026rdquo; noted A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Institute Professor George Nemhauser, who worked closely with Ahmed on optimizing inventory and logistics problems. \u0026ldquo;He could work in so many areas, and his impact was large as a result. While some people are experts in theory and others in application, Shabbir put it all together.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to academic rigor, Ahmed was regarded as a gracious collaborator and mentor. Over the course of his career, Ahmed advised a number of award-winning undergraduate Senior Design teams, as well as 26 Ph.D. students, including current student Beste Basciftci.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;As Professor Ahmed\u0026rsquo;s Ph.D. student, I was very fortunate to have the unique opportunity and honor to work with him since beginning my graduate work in 2015,\u0026rdquo; Basciftci said. \u0026ldquo;I remember my excitement the day I was accepted to the ISyE Ph.D. program and Professor Ahmed contacted me for research opportunities in his group. He was a brilliant advisor, mentor, and role model. He was a preeminent leader in operations research, and he will be missed dearly.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;His personal impact on me was profound, first as a professor and then later as a colleague, and he was instrumental in my coming back to ISyE,\u0026rdquo; said Leo and Louise Benatar Early Career Professor and Associate Professor Alejandro Toriello, who completed his Ph.D. at ISyE and co-authored his first graduate paper with Ahmed. \u0026ldquo;Shabbir was incredibly generous with his time, and for such a star, he was so humble and so kind.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAhmed earned a B.Eng. in mechanical engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 1993, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in industrial engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1997 and 2000, respectively.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe was devoted to his family and is survived by his wife, Rasha, and two daughters, Raeeva and Umana.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EISyE has established a graduate fellowship in Ahmed\u0026rsquo;s honor. If you are interested in contributing to this fellowship\u0026rsquo;s endowment, please contact ISyE Director of Development Nancy Sandlin at \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:nancy.sandlin@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Enancy.sandlin@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E or 404.385.7458.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAdditionally, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/distressedchildren.org\/\u0022\u003EDistressed Children \u0026amp; Infants International\u003C\/a\u003E is an organization dear to Ahmed and his family, and a contribution to this organization in Ahmed\u0026rsquo;s honor would be greatly appreciated.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMemories\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Shabbir was typically the earliest faculty member to arrive at ISyE each morning. When I was first hired at Georgia Tech, I thought that if such a successful and well-established scientist showed up that early, I should probably show up even earlier! I gave up the day I arrived on campus at 6 AM and saw that Shabbir was already here. He was not only an excellent scholar but also one of the nicest people I have ever met. He was very kind about sharing his time with everyone, especially junior faculty. He made a big impact on many of us.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETurgay Ayer\u003C\/strong\u003E, George Family Foundation Early Career Professor and associate professor, ISyE\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;On behalf of the Operations Research Center at MIT and myself, I am sending you our deepest condolences for the passing of Shabbir. Shabbir was a superb scientist and person, he had many things to contribute to the world, and he left us way too early. Words cannot express the sadness I feel.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDimitris Bertsimas\u003C\/strong\u003E, Boeing Leaders for Global Operations Professor, MIT Operations Research Center\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I worked with Shabbir for two years, and not only was he a smart and ambitious faculty member but equally a compassionate and gracious person. I\u0026rsquo;ll cherish the time we worked together.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJeff Caimano\u003C\/strong\u003E, financial manager, ISyE\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I will remember Shabbir as a very kind soul. He was always so pleasant and just a joy to work with. His presence will surely be missed.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Cox\u003C\/strong\u003E, HR administrative manager, ISyE\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;As a junior ISyE faculty member, working with Shabbir broadened my thinking about solving problems in discrete optimization. I would be working through a particularly difficult problem, and he would encourage me to stick with it and consider the problem from a different angle. He always made me feel like I could succeed.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESantanu Dey\u003C\/strong\u003E, associate professor, ISyE\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Shabbir and I have collaborated over the past few years on research topics aimed at bridging the gap between two very fundamental areas in industrial engineering: industrial data analytics and decision optimization. Shabbir\u0026rsquo;s contributions in the area of stochastic programming have consistently been groundbreaking. Our goal was to augment conventional stochastic optimization with real-time sensor data obtained from industrial machinery and equipment. Our focus was on optimizing operations and maintenance of power generation networks. Shabbir\u0026rsquo;s expertise was the key that allowed various members of our research group to contribute across a very wide range of decision-making levels, starting with local decisions pertaining to the operation of multiple generators on a power network, all the way up to strategic decisions related to long-term investment portfolios related to energy infrastructure.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShabbir was the key enabler to multiple research threads that allowed students to thrive, whether or not they were directly under his supervision. I consider myself extremely fortunate to have collaborated very closely with such an academic jewel, friend, and colleague.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENagi Gebraeel\u003C\/strong\u003E, Georgia Power Early Career Professor and professor, ISyE\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Shabbir joined ISyE around the same time when I arrived there for my Ph.D. work. He served as a committee member for my Ph.D. qualifying exam, and I got known him then. Later on I worked with George Nemhauser and Shabbir for my dissertation. He was an extremely nice person and an outstanding researcher and educator. He treated me more like a friend. I have learned and benefitted greatly from him, in both research and my academic career. He was a role model for me. I was shocked when I heard of his passing, but his spirit lives within me, forever in my heart.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYongpei Guan\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor, University of Florida\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I started working with Shabbir and George Nemhauser as a doctoral student in the summer of 2008. Shabbir was very sharp and forthright and liked to get to the bottom of every result during our meetings. He was also a heavy editor, carefully examining every citation in my draft and sometimes completely rewriting a paragraph. As a doctoral advisor, he was reserved and private. I always felt somewhat nervous in front of him.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAll this changed after I graduated. Shabbir started to call me a colleague, and more importantly, treated me like one. Over the years, he became more and more of a friend that I could rely on and share my greatest concerns with. Now I have graduated my own Ph.D. students. I realized that I have unconsciously internalized the way Shabbir advised me and applied it to my students.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShabbir and I communicated more frequently over the past year, since I am going through the tenure review process. Every time we talked, we mostly discussed my case, while touching upon his illness. This was so Shabbir \u0026ndash; supporting and caring for others quietly. He taught me a lot: honesty, generosity, excellence, and dedication. I am lucky to be his student and miss him dearly.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EQie He\u003C\/strong\u003E, assistant professor, University of Minnesota\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Shabbir was very valuable to my statistical research. On several occasions, I ran into optimization-related problems, and Shabbir was extremely helpful by providing insightful suggestions. His passing is a big loss to our community.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EXiaoming Huo\u003C\/strong\u003E, A. Russell Chandler III Professor, ISyE\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;I was very fortunate to have known Shabbir as a collaborator and a senior colleague. Working with Shabbir was eye-opening. He was insightful, daring, and very hands-on. I often felt inferior to his persistence in challenging the missions\u0026nbsp;seemingly\u0026nbsp;impossible. Listening to Shabbir reminded me of the values of an educator. He generously offered his time and wisdom to all students and junior colleagues like me. Shabbir will live in my heart as a role model in so many aspects.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERuiwei Jiang\u003C\/strong\u003E, assistant professor, University of Michigan\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Shabbir worked on very hard problems and had achieved unquestioned star status in his field, bringing to ISyE a scholarly level of recognition that fixed its position among the small handful of elite programs.\u0026nbsp; As a former graduate chair, I cannot overstate how important that level of individual accomplishment is in the recruitment of the very best Ph.D. students.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ER. Gary Parker\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor emeritus, ISyE\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Shabbir was an outstanding researcher, teacher, and mentor. When I came to Georgia Tech in fall 2012, even before I arrived on campus, Shabbir went out of his way to help me write my first grant. Throughout my time at Tech, Shabbir was one of my main mentors guiding me in shaping my overall research strategy. His insights were highly non-trivial, and every time we met he added a dimension that I had completely overlooked. He will be dearly missed.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESebastian Pokutta\u003C\/strong\u003E, David M. McKenney Family Early Career Professor and associate professor, ISyE\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I first met Shabbir 24 years ago when he joined the graduate program at the University of Illinois. The department had never admitted anyone from his undergraduate institution before, so they gave me his file and asked for my opinion. I was immediately impressed by what he had accomplished in his early twenties. Not only did he make excellent grades, but he already had teaching experience and was also married.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShabbir was one of my most dedicated, hard-working, and inspirational doctoral students. He showed nothing but excellence during his time at UIUC and taught me a great deal about probabilistic analysis of algorithms and stochastic programming.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter joining Georgia Tech, Shabbir demonstrated remarkable success in many areas of combinatorial optimization, covering every aspect of the field imaginable. Over the last two decades, Shabbir saw thousands of citations to his work and received award after award. He was a star in his field.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI last saw Shabbir in Atlanta in December 2018. Despite his illness, he was very upbeat. As we walked through the Georgia Tech campus, Shabbir marveled at the sky and the colors of the trees. During dinner with friends in the evening, he enjoyed what he always loved \u0026mdash; discussions on all sorts of topics, technical and others.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe optimization community is mourning a great loss, but for family members, friends, and coworkers, the pain of Shabbir Ahmed\u0026#39;s loss will be felt forever. Everyone who met Shabbir could easily see his brilliance and genius. But beyond his professional success, Shabbir was also a man of rare kindness and determination and a true friend to those fortunate to know him.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENick Sahinidis\u003C\/strong\u003E, John E. Swearingen Professor, Carnegie Mellon\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I met Shabbir at a conference in Vancouver when we were both Ph.D. students. When he joined ISyE in the fall of 2000, I was just finishing my Ph.D. in ISyE, and we briefly overlapped at Georgia Tech. We later collaborated on two papers and saw each other several times a year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShabbir was a once-in-a-generation optimization researcher. His research will be remembered most for his pioneering work in stochastic integer programming, but he also made seminal contributions in related areas of optimization, and did first-rate applied research, particularly in power distribution. The field will be exploring the doors he opened for decades to come. He was an amazing advisor, and his Ph.D. students are among the leaders of the field. He was the ideal faculty member and colleague.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs outstanding as Shabbir was as a researcher, he was a far better person. He was kind, generous, thoughtful, encouraging, and humble. I feel very fortunate to have had him as a friend. He will be deeply missed by everyone who had the fortune of knowing him.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAndrew Schaefer\u003C\/strong\u003E, Noah Harding Chair and professor, Rice University\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;My acquaintance with Shabbir dates back to 2008. I remember the first time I met him at an INFORMS annual meeting for discussing a research problem that we later collaborated on (with my advisor, J. Cole Smith), and he was so friendly, approachable, and patient to someone like me who was just a second-year Ph.D. student.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShabbir has always been my mentor and role model over the years, and I came to know more about his generosity, caring for junior colleagues, and love for mathematics through our collaborations. He has influenced not only me but also my Ph.D. student, who also remembers Shabbir\u0026#39;s kindness and high standards. He is one of those folks who will let you wake up smiling and feel fortunate to work in academia to be around him. Shabbir will be deeply missed by all of us whose lives have been touched by him in a variety of ways.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESiqian Shen\u003C\/strong\u003E, associate professor, University of Michigan\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I was lucky to have had Shabbir as a professor in an optimization class and also as my advisor. He was smart and professional, and you could tell that he really cared about his students, but more importantly, he was a kind person. He was someone very special in my life, and I will never forget him.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMatias Siebert Sandoval\u003C\/strong\u003E, Ph.D. student, ISyE\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;There\u0026rsquo;s a very select group of OR scholars considered to be elite researchers in our field, and Shabbir was one of those few. Come to think of it, that somehow was never the first thing that I would tell others about Shabbir if they hadn\u0026rsquo;t yet met him. It wasn\u0026rsquo;t even his most outstanding quality. He impacted those around him in more important ways than his research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMy friend had a gift of being genuine, and a knack for muting the world around him in order to focus on the people that meant so much to him. Shabbir was so thoughtful in all of my collaborations with him, not just because of his thorough nature and high standards, but because I knew that he wanted me to be happy with the outcome. He showed this time and again, whether we were serving on a professional committee, working on research, or taking on the myriad other responsibilities that arise with our job. His humble and calm demeanor was really something I learned to emulate over time \u0026ndash; the best I could, anyhow.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIf Shabbir had treated me with special attention, that would just make him a (very) good friend. Which he was. But I know that he treated all people this way, regardless of position, rank, or station in life. And that\u0026rsquo;s I wanted my friends to know about Shabbir. He was exceptional in the true sense of that word: An unfailingly sincere, warm, and genuine person, who just happened to be no less exceptionally brilliant as an optimizer.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECole Smith\u003C\/strong\u003E, associate provost for academic initiatives, Clemson University\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It was heartbreaking to hear the news that Professor Shabbir Ahmed passed away at such a prime age. It seems like it was yesterday that we had a research discussion and strove to prove a theorem together on a whiteboard. Professor Ahmed was truly a supportive mentor and collaborator and a lifelong friend. As one of his recently graduated Ph.D. students, I would say that Professor Ahmed always provided me the best advice without any reservation. He was also trying to help me quickly manage the role of an assistant professor.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a collaborator, he was always ready to discuss new ideas whenever I knocked at his door, even if at many times, my new thoughts were very premature and did not end up with any research outcomes. His professional mind and deep thoughst, through which I have learned a lot, kept pushing our research to perfection.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a friend, he was a good listener, was very considerate and always offered his kind suggestions as much as he could, even when he was very sick. R.I.P., Professor Ahmed! We will carry on your legacy, and your spirit of research and brilliant works will keep on shining.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWeijun Xie\u003C\/strong\u003E, assistant professor, Virginia Tech\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Professor Ahmed was a great teacher and well-known professor, and I am very sad for his passing away. Professor Ahmed was friendly and inspiring. He was very smart, and I admire his achievements in scientific research.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYulian Zeng\u003C\/strong\u003E, technology analyst, Morgan Stanley\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Shabbir was the best colleague one can dream of. He was always unassuming with a smile but delivered amazing results. 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Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), fourth-year Akash Dalal and fifth-years Jorge Cruz Serrall\u0026eacute;s and Conner Reinhardt, placed third in the first-ever National Supply Chain Case Competition, hosted in San Jose, California by Cisco.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe company developed the competition as a way \u0026ldquo;to attract and recruit diverse talent,\u0026rdquo; according to Supply Chain Inclusion \u0026amp; Diversity Global Lead Modupe R. Congleton. Cisco invited teams of students from higher education institutions that have particularly strong supply chain programs \u0026ndash; Georgia Tech, Cal Poly, Michigan State, Arizona State, and two HBCUs, Howard University and N.C. A\u0026amp;T, which placed first and second, respectively \u0026ndash; to participate. Twenty-six teams applied, and one team was selected from each school to compete at Cisco\u0026rsquo;s worldwide headquarters.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter the teams went through two preliminary rounds that required written answers, Cisco gave the students a problem to solve: use AI to improve supply chain customer service.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESerrall\u0026eacute;s explained their case this way: \u0026ldquo;You call a customer support line, and instead of being connected immediately to a person, you get an operator saying \u0026lsquo;Press one if you need help with this thing.\u0026rsquo; So you press one, and then you have to wait 30 seconds, while you listen to all the options for the next selection. After several minutes, you\u0026rsquo;re eventually connected to someone, and it ends up being the wrong person.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s super annoying,\u0026rdquo; Dalal said. \u0026ldquo;And it\u0026rsquo;s bad for companies, because their customers get upset, and the companies can\u0026rsquo;t plan for the right number of employees assigned to help customers with each issue. As part of our research, we called the Cisco customer service line, and the person we spoke with said that 20-30 percent of the calls he gets each day involve him rerouting the calls to the correct employee.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFortunately, each member of the ISyE team had some background experience that helped them solve this problem. Reinhardt works part-time for Amazon as a transportation specialist and answers a lot of customer service calls. 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This kind of collaboration and connection is essential for the future of computing,\u0026rdquo; said Cummings.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAimed at advanced undergraduates or recent graduates who are considering graduate school in data science or a related field, the workshop was designed so that attendees could form meaningful connections with one another. This included breakout sessions that were grouped by academic cohorts to allow for mentoring and technical discussions. Two-minute lightning talks were also dispersed throughout the workshop as icebreakers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe workshop hosted a lineup of keynote speakers that included Rediet Abebe, co-founder of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/blackinai.github.io\/\u0022\u003EBlack in AI\u003C\/a\u003E, Sean Barnes, an assistant professor from the University of Maryland, and ISyE alumna Kaitlin Rizk (BSIE 18), a consulting analyst at Accenture. Other keynotes were presented by Kira Goldner, Sanmi (Oluwasanmi) Koyejo, Destenie Nock, Jennifer Lewis Priestley, and Alba C. Rojas-Cordova.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;People think of data scientists as nerds who look at numbers all day, which can be true, but the reason that data scientists are sought after in every industry is because of their ability to look at all types of data and use it to solve real problems. I want to encourage everyone in this room to work hard, if not harder, on their soft skills because that is how you can make all of the numbers impact people in a positive way,\u0026rdquo; said Lewis Priestley, a Georgia Tech alumna and current professor at Kennesaw State University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EData science has proven to have significant societal impacts on a variety of industries, including health care, transportation, data privacy, and renewable energy.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEjeh Okorafor,\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003Ea graduate student in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and one of 80 plus attendees, found out about the workshop from a friend.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I wanted to come to this workshop because I\u0026rsquo;ve started to realize how much data science is a part of every field and it\u0026rsquo;s the direction that technology is going. 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Which was your favorite, and why?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMy favorite was a project with Partners for Care, a nonprofit based in Kenya. A nomadic tribe there was having problems with these tiny insects that bore into their feet. My team developed a shoe that the tribe can make with sustainable materials that are easy to find, so the shoes will be inexpensive for them. We got to see videos of the people testing the shoes and see their reactions, which was great.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI particularly liked this project because it was close to home. My dad grew up in the northern region of Nigeria, which has a nomadic culture as well.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhy are you so passionate about supply chain?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESupply chain is how people get stuff, from start to end. 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This same team went on to win the Outstanding Capstone Award from among 15 schools at the annual meeting of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers in Orlando, Florida.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETwenty-three other ISyE teams also completed Capstone projects with real-world impact. In addition to Cisgocean, three finalists teams \u0026ndash; working with the Emory Clinic\u0026rsquo;s Heart \u0026amp; Vascular Center, MARTA, and UPS \u0026ndash; were selected for the ISyE Best of Senior Design. \u0026ldquo;The finalist projects were selected because they stood out in terms of scope\/challenge, methodology, and potential impact,\u0026rdquo; explained Director of Professional Practice and Senior Design coordinator Dima Nazzal.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor their project, Cisgocean worked with Cisco\u0026rsquo;s Global Logistics and Central Manufacturing teams to reduce transportation costs of shipping products between contract manufacturers in Asia and direct fulfillment centers in the Americas. Their proposed design revolved around increasing ocean utilization while maintaining service level constraints. This was achieved by automating Cisco\u0026rsquo;s current shipping mode assignment process, building a shipment scheduling tool to provide an optimal mode split (ocean vs. air) for its product portfolio and designing an interactive graphical user interface for project managers and supply chain planners to use to plan intercontinental shipments.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe value of this project to Cisco is estimated at $10 million per year across the highest volume lane and a reduction in global carbon footprint by 16 percent. Cisco has recognized the value and has not only conveyed the mode shift opportunity to over 10 product families but has also decided to set mode split targets for fiscal year 2020 based on the results.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Using sophisticated optimization theory, including a bin-packing heuristic for palletization of goods and a multi-objective integer programming formulation, Team Cisgocean has given Cisco a user-friendly shipment planning and scheduling tool that can be immediately implemented on its current network and is easily adaptable to any future changes in the network and\/or product portfolio,\u0026rdquo; said Cisgocean\u0026rsquo;s faculty advisor, ISyE Director of Student Services Dawn Strickland. \u0026ldquo;Though the team is comprised of extremely talented individuals, together they made a team that is far greater than the sum of its parts. They made each other smarter; they pushed each other to work harder; and they were extremely respectful of each other.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The shipment mode optimization project is a leap toward using advanced analytics to automate Cisco\u0026rsquo;s supply chain,\u0026rdquo; said Hamin Oh (BSIE 18), Cisco supply chain project manager. \u0026ldquo;We have already started utilizing the model to suggest optimal mode shift targets to regional teams. This will play a key role in exceeding our annual mode shift goal, reducing our cost and CO2. This was possible thanks to a group of professional industrial engineers who thought outside the box to deliver a practical yet highly sophisticated solution.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETeam members included Karan Agrawal, Shelby Carswell, Weichao Chen, Trishla Chokshi, Shaiv Gandhi, Guergana Ilieva, Kayla Raabe, and Pavlos Sepetas.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESenior Design team \u0026ldquo;Cardiac Kids\u0026rdquo; partnered with the Emory Clinic\u0026rsquo;s Heart \u0026amp; Vascular Center. The team examined provider scheduling, patient scheduling, and exam room assignment as areas of potential improvement to reduce patient wait time and increase clinic throughput. Using their solutions, Emory can expect to achieve a 10 percent wait time reduction per patient. Based on these anticipated time savings, that the team estimates Emory can see nearly 2,000 additional patients per year, which equates to an additional contribution margin (revenue less variable costs) of $10.3 million per year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETeam members included Luke Allegood, Sarah Carpenter, Connor Childers, Emily Kaukol, Morgan McCombs, Noah Rittenberg, and Gregory Wilkes. Their faculty advisor was Professor Dave Goldsman.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Senior Design team that worked with MARTA aimed to provide greater visibility into how patrons utilize the transit system. First, they designed a trip-chaining algorithm to extract the origin-destination pairs of patrons. Then, they performed a data envelopment analysis to identify relative bus route efficiency, revealing how routes connect riders. Finally, the team designed a machine-learning algorithm to predict ridership with census data and current resource allocation. Combining these capabilities, their Origin-Destination-Transfer (ODX) tool provides MARTA with the power to plan for the More MARTA initiative.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETeam members included Karima Alkhalid, Andre Beroukhim, Josh Morgan, Conor Stewart, Adam Valletutti, Nick Williams, and Gideon Yuwono. Their faculty advisor was A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Professor Pascal Van Hentenryck.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe third ISyE Best of Senior Design finalist team created a comprehensive scheduling tool to help the UPS scheduling unit to configure weekly driver schedules for commercial customer pick-up and delivery. The scheduling tool utilizes advanced optimization techniques to transform UPS\u0026rsquo;s existing scheduling practice to a streamlined and automated system. The tool enhances drivers\u0026rsquo; satisfaction and improves their lifestyle by ensuring consistent start times, designated meal breaks, and limits on work hours, while substantially reducing the business\u0026rsquo; annual operating cost by approximately $550,000 for a single hub.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETeam members included Nicholas Hoover, Shreya Jain, Andrew Klassen, Radhika Modi, Josh Rubin, Karnavv Shah, Daksh Varyani, and Linxi Xiao. Their faculty advisor was David M. 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Because they came from families who spoke very little English, they were not getting the typical homework assistance that a student that age requires from his or her parents. Maness\u0026rsquo;s simple after-school tutoring has grown into an award-winning program that offers after-school assistance for students in first through 12th grades at eight locations across Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn August 2018, I began volunteering at LaAmistad on a weekly basis\u003Cem\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E Over the following months I found myself developing a close bond with the LaAmistad students. As a member of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/centers-initiatives\/technology-management-program\/index.html\u0022\u003EDenning Technology \u0026amp; Management program\u003C\/a\u003E, I enrolled in a prototyping class (MGT 3744) during the spring semester\u003Cem\u003E. \u003C\/em\u003EWhen the professor tasked us with developing a product to address an unmet need, I jumped at the opportunity to leverage this assignment in support of the LaAmistad program. Our team decided to switch topics a few weeks into the semester, but I was able to continue the original project independently through the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/centers-initiatives\/ile\/i2s\/index.html\u0022\u003EIdeas to Serve Competition\u003C\/a\u003E (I2S). The competition initially served as an avenue to salvage my vision for the abandoned class project, but as I engaged more deeply with the competition I continued participating as a proponent for the goals of the competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe I2S Competition is hosted by the Scheller College of Business, but the principles and values of the competition align with the heart of industrial engineering. This year the\u0026nbsp; competition embraced its mantra of \u0026ldquo;Know What You Don\u0026rsquo;t Know\u0026rdquo; by dedicating more than half of the competition to the Problem Discovery track. In this track students are evaluated on their comprehensive understanding of a social or environmental issue without the pressure of generating a solution.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis approach strongly echoed the structure of MGT 3744 in which the first 70 percent of the course was dedicated to in-depth problem discovery. Our professor cautioned \u0026ndash; much to the amusement of his students \u0026ndash; that if we had a solution before eight weeks, he \u0026ldquo;didn\u0026rsquo;t want to hear it.\u0026rdquo; I was surprised by the shift in emphasis from my typically solutions-focused engineering classes, yet I recognized that this methodology was highly reminiscent of my extracurricular industrial engineering training. For example, much of the Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training focuses on root cause analysis, and \u0026ldquo;band-aid solutions\u0026rdquo; are purported as Public Enemy No. 1 in my process improvement internship.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis idea plays on a common criticism of engineers today: We can design whatever we dream, but our dreams do not perform in the market because we failed to sufficiently understand consumers. As a proud engineer, I certainly fell for the folly. 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LaAmistad spends $25-35,000 on these students annually, and this money is being wasted if the students do not come to class. The training of the I2S competition helped me discover this underlying, impactful issue.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe problem is not with solutions, but solutions based on underdeveloped problem discovery are problematic. Most of the world rushes through the problem discovery phase, which leads to temporary or even incorrect solutions. 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Throughout his career he has made fundamental contributions to the methodological and theoretical developments of a wide variety of statistical and application areas which include design and analysis of experiments (optimal, sequential, and factorial), computer experiments, robust parameter design, statistical computing, re-sampling methods, complex surveys, nonlinear least squares, and uncertainty quantification.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe conference brought together top scholars in these areas \u0026mdash; some of whom were advised by Wu during their Ph.D. studies \u0026mdash; from Asia, Europe, and the Americas to present their new research findings. WuFest also served as an opportunity for both speakers and attendees to collaborate and discuss their ideas and visions of emerging problems in their fields. Session topics included engineering statistics, statistical applications, design of experiments, fundamentals of experimentation and inference, optimal design, and uncertainty quantification.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It was a great honor,\u0026rdquo; Wu said. \u0026ldquo;To see so many former students and colleagues that I respect at the conference was very special.\u0026rdquo; Wu is also thankful for the support of ISyE, Georgia Tech, and the WuFest planning committee.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of the many highlights of the conference for Wu was a talk given at the banquet dinner by Xiao-Li Meng, the Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics at Harvard University and the founding editor-in-chief of the \u003Cem\u003EHarvard Data Science Review\u003C\/em\u003E. In his talk entitled \u0026ldquo;Is Jeff Wu a Data Scientist?\u0026rdquo;, Meng deconstructed Wu\u0026rsquo;s famous 1997 lecture \u0026ldquo;Statistics = Data Science\u0026rdquo; in which Wu advocated that statistics be renamed data science. Wu\u0026rsquo;s family \u0026mdash; including both of his children, their spouses, and his granddaughter \u0026mdash; was also in attendance for the tribute.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Jeff is a true leader in the field of engineering statistics,\u0026rdquo; said Roshan Joseph, one of Wu\u0026rsquo;s ISyE colleagues and chair of the WuFest planning committee. \u0026ldquo;He has done impactful work in both theoretical and applied problems, and his impact has multiplied through the work of his students, who have published more than 1,800 papers to date (without Wu being a co-author) in statistics and engineering.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWu\u0026rsquo;s professional achievements are unmatched. He is a member of both the National Academy of Engineering (2004) and Academia Sinica (2000). His is also a fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, the American Society for Quality, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the American Statistical Association. Wu has also won numerous awards, including the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) Presidents Award in 1987, the Deming Lecture Award by American Statistical Association in 2012, the Fisher Lecture Award by COPSS in 2011, the Shewhart Medal by the American Society of Quality in 2008, the Pan Wenyuan Technology Award (Taiwan) in 2008, the Box Medal by the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics in 2018, and the inaugural Akaike Memorial Lecture Award in 2017 (Japan).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWu\u0026rsquo;s work is widely cited in professional journals and magazines. He has served as editor or associate editor for several major statistical journals and has published more than 175 research articles in peer review journals. He has supervised 49 Ph.D. students, out of which 21 are fellows of professional societies, and he has almost 200 \u0026ldquo;grand graduate students\u0026rdquo; that have been supervised by his former students.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMore than 100 statisticians and engineers, from both academia and industry, gathered at Georgia Tech in honor of Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics and Professor Jeff Wu.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"More than 100 statisticians and engineers, from both academia and industry, gathered at Georgia Tech in honor of Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics and Professor Jeff Wu."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2019-05-20 12:45:07","changed_gmt":"2019-05-20 12:46:53","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-05-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-05-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"621780":{"id":"621780","type":"image","title":"Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics and Professor Jeff Wu","body":null,"created":"1558356066","gmt_created":"2019-05-20 12:41:06","changed":"1558356066","gmt_changed":"2019-05-20 12:41:06","alt":"Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics and Professor Jeff Wu","file":{"fid":"236847","name":"Einstein Lecture - Beijing_Square.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Einstein%20Lecture%20-%20Beijing_Square.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Einstein%20Lecture%20-%20Beijing_Square.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":400363,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Einstein%20Lecture%20-%20Beijing_Square.jpg?itok=_o3mIb0Y"}},"621781":{"id":"621781","type":"image","title":"Attendees and participants of WuFest","body":null,"created":"1558356119","gmt_created":"2019-05-20 12:41:59","changed":"1558356119","gmt_changed":"2019-05-20 12:41:59","alt":"Attendees and participants of WuFest","file":{"fid":"236848","name":"WuFest.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/WuFest.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/WuFest.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":549884,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/WuFest.JPG?itok=AMml9dtZ"}}},"media_ids":["621780","621781"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"15144","name":"C.F. 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Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) met through the  \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/leadership.gatech.edu\/content\/one-one-leadership-coaching-gt-students\u0022\u003ELeading Edge (One-on-One Leadership Coaching)\u003C\/a\u003E. This unique opportunity offers Tech students the opportunity to spend a semester working one-on-one with coaches on specific goals they want to achieve and to develop their leadership skills.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESantana, who graduated this May, initially started out with LEAD as a coachee, and the experience was so helpful that he interviewed to become a coach in fall 2018. He spent the next two semesters coaching several undergraduates.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The number one thing I tried to communicate to my coachees is the importance of seeing the big picture, which is something I learned with my own coach,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s good when you have someone who can ask the right questions and help you realize that there are more possibilities and resources that can be used to solve problems. And once you learn how to ask those questions, you can learn how to look for the big picture by yourself. So I tried to get my coachees to a point where they can do this by themselves.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGuada participated in LEAD last fall as one of Santana\u0026rsquo;s coachees. She had just started a new role as the internal vice president for the GT chapter of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gt-shpe.com\/\u0022\u003ESociety of Hispanic Professional Engineers\u003C\/a\u003E (SHPE), and she was looking for some help to succeed in the position.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s one of the biggest chapters in the U.S., with about 300 members,\u0026rdquo; she explained. \u0026ldquo;And I\u0026rsquo;m in charge of new member recruitment and retention.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGuada specifically wanted help with her communication skills, since she was managing a team of seven people within SHPE. Together, she and Santana practiced her team management and presentation skills. In addition, as Guada was in the process of applying for summer internships, Santana helped her think through which one would best help her achieve her post-graduation goals.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe LEAD program emphasizes to its coaches that coachees are creative and competent, able to find the solutions to their problems within themselves. The coach is there to guide and nudge the coachee\u0026rsquo;s thinking.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;My favorite part is the \u0026lsquo;a-ha!\u0026rsquo; moment \u0026ndash; when the coachee has that moment of realization,\u0026rdquo; Santana said. \u0026ldquo;In a session last semester with another one of my coachees, I asked a question, and she stopped for a few seconds, and I could see from the look on her face that there was recognition \u0026ndash; that she learned something about herself. I was able to help her see the same situation from a different perspective.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGuada had such a positive experience that she is planning to participate in the LEAD program during her final year at Tech. \u0026ldquo;I have Senior Design, I have graduation, and I have to figure out what I\u0026rsquo;m going to do next,\u0026rdquo; she said, laughing. \u0026ldquo;So I\u0026rsquo;m going to need the support!\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBoth undergraduates and graduate students can take part in LEAD as coachees. For more information and to apply for the fall 2019 semester, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/leadership.gatech.edu\/content\/one-one-leadership-coaching-gt-students\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/leadership.gatech.edu\/content\/one-one-leadership-coaching-gt-students\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Leading Edge program offers Tech students the opportunity to spend a semester working one-on-one with coaches on specific goals they want to achieve and to develop their leadership skills.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The GT LEAD program offers Tech students the opportunity to spend a semester working one-on-one with coaches on specific goals they want to achieve and to develop their leadership skills."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2019-05-16 19:00:23","changed_gmt":"2019-05-17 12:20:55","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-05-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-05-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"621739":{"id":"621739","type":"image","title":"ISyE third-year Samantha Guada and Asteroide Santana (Ph.D. 19)","body":null,"created":"1558033113","gmt_created":"2019-05-16 18:58:33","changed":"1558033113","gmt_changed":"2019-05-16 18:58:33","alt":"ISyE third-year Samantha Guada and Asteroide Santana (Ph.D. 19)","file":{"fid":"236833","name":"LEAD_Square.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/LEAD_Square.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/LEAD_Square.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":670709,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/LEAD_Square.jpg?itok=eTF8skGc"}}},"media_ids":["621739"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"21771","name":"LEAD"},{"id":"181329","name":"Aster Santana"},{"id":"288","name":"Leadership"},{"id":"4434","name":"peer coaching"}],"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:swundersmith3@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EShelley Wunder-Smith\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EH. 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ML@GT is thrilled to be a part of this growing conference and we are looking forward to connecting with other researchers from around the world,\u0026rdquo; said ISyE\u0026#39;s David M. McKenney Family Early Career Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ESebastian Pokutta, \u003C\/strong\u003Eassociate director of ML@GT and a paper author.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EML@GT faculty members \u003Cstrong\u003ELe Song\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EByron Boots\u003C\/strong\u003E, and ISyE Associate Professor\u003Cstrong\u003E Negar Kiyavash\u003C\/strong\u003E are 2019 area chairs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s 12 papers:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1802.03692.pdf\u0022\u003ENearly Optimal Adaptive Procedure for Piecewise-Stationary Bandit: a Change-Point Detection Approach\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1710.04740.pdf\u0022\u003ERobust Submodular Maximization: Offline and Online Algorithms\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1810.02429.pdf\u0022\u003ERestarting Frank-Wolfe\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1810.10667\u0022\u003ETruncated Back-propagation for Bilevel Optimization\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1806.04642.pdf\u0022\u003EAccelerating Imitation Learning with Predictive Models\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1810.00737.pdf\u0022\u003ERisk-Averse Stochastic Convex Bandit\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1807.02290.pdf\u0022\u003EDifferentially Private Online Submodular Minimization\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1710.04740\u0022\u003EStructured Robust Submodular Maximization: Offline and Online Algorithms\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1811.02228.pdf\u0022\u003EKernel Exponential Family Estimation via Doubly Dual Embedding\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1802.07372\u0022\u003EStochastic Variance-Reduced Cubic Regularization for Nonconvex Optimization\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1903.01422.pdf\u0022\u003EDatabase Alignment with Gaussian Features\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1806.05151.pdf\u0022\u003EOn Landscape of Lagrangian Function for Stochastic Search for Constrained Nonconvex Optimization\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech will present 12 papers at the conference, including one by ISyE Associate Professor Sebastian Pokutta.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech will present 12 papers at the conference, including one by ISyE Associate Professor Sebastian Pokutta. 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According to the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/ncbddd\/adhd\/features\/national-prevalence-adhd-and-treatment.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECenters for Disease Control and Prevention\u003C\/a\u003E, doctors have diagnosed more than six million children with ADHD; about two million of these children were preschoolers. Children with ADHD are more likely to experience injury, emergency room visits, and drop out of high school than their peers without the disorder.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAlthough there\u0026rsquo;s no cure for ADHD, doctors and caregivers can manage the disorder and improve some symptoms over time. In 2007, the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/aap.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAmerican Academy of Pediatrics\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(AAP), viewed as an expert voice on child health, recommended behavioral therapy as the first choice of care for the youngest ADHD patients\u0026mdash;preschoolers ages two to five. AAP shared its recommendations more widely to doctors beginning in 2011.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nA study from Georgia Tech and CDC shows that despite guidelines from AAP, most preschoolers on Medicaid in seven Southeastern states receive medication to treat ADHD instead of the recommended behavioral therapy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/isye.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EH. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(ISyE) Professor\u0026nbsp;Nicoleta Serban\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eexamined Medicaid claims data from 2005 through 2012 for 53,000 preschoolers in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina. She found that overall, doctors treat about 65% of these children with medication, while just 16% receive the recommended care.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSerban called the results surprising. \u0026ldquo;Children on Medicaid with ADHD don\u0026rsquo;t get the appropriate care, period,\u0026rdquo; she said. \u0026ldquo;Medication is prevalent, and at ages two to five, to only be exposed to ADHD medication, that\u0026rsquo;s worrying.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAdditional results show gaps in care for black preschoolers, those living in higher rates of poverty and in rural areas. Serban said children in these populations are less likely to have access to qualified behavioral therapists who accept Medicaid, and overburdened caregivers are unable to transport their children to multiple therapy sessions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;Behavioral therapy requires weekly or bi-weekly visits; it requires a lot of investment from parents. They don\u0026rsquo;t have the time to take off of work, and they don\u0026rsquo;t have the resources. 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In founding the awards ceremony, the College acknowledged that \u0026ldquo;the measure of student success within the College is not measured only by the educations of students, but in those students\u0026rsquo; achievements and contributions after departing campus.\u0026rdquo; Those who have been recognized are stellar examples of the success and leadership the College hopes to inspire.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;The College of Engineering has a long and proud history of producing outstanding graduates. Those being honored, as well as those who have been honored at past ceremonies, are a great source of pride,\u0026rdquo; said Steve McLaughlin, dean of the College. \u0026ldquo;Our inductees stand as testament that in the College of Engineering we inspire dreams, improve minds, ignite curiosity, and define the promise of tomorrow.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe three inductees from the H. 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From 2000 to 2009 he served as COO of DaVita and grew the company financially from $1.7B to $7.0B. Prior to DaVita, Mello served in senior management roles at various large health care services organizations, including COO at both MedPartners and Caremark. He was also a partner in the health care consulting group at KPMG.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMello currently serves on the board of directors for privately held health care businesses. Additionally, he served on the boards of multiple public companies in health care and financial services. 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Based in Los Angeles, California, Prospect owns and operates hospitals, clinics, physician practices, outpatient centers, behavioral services, and medical groups with a total of 12,000 physicians operating in California, Texas, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Prior to founding Prospect, Sam was a partner at Kline Hawkes \u0026amp; Co., a health care services and technology venture capital firm; president and founder of SFS, a health care systems and revenue cycle management company; and a senior consultant with Andersen Consulting.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELee has served on the boards of the Harvard Business School Healthcare Initiative, the Georgia Tech ISyE Advisory Board, Vicente Capital Partners, California Science Center, and the I Have A Dream Foundation. 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Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\u0026rsquo;s (ISyE) graduate program has been ranked No. 1 \u003Cem\u003Eby U.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u003C\/em\u003E in the magazine\u0026rsquo;s 2019 edition of \u003Cem\u003EBest Graduate Schools\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We are honored to be recognized once again as the top graduate program in the industrial\/manufacturing\/systems engineering specialty in the country,\u0026rdquo; said ISyE School Chair Edwin Romeijn. \u0026ldquo;This reflects the hard work and dedication \u0026ndash; in both research and education \u0026ndash; of our faculty, students, alumni, and staff.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOverall, Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s College of Engineering is ranked seventh in the country and third among public colleges. For the eighth consecutive year, all 11 of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s graduate engineering programs are ranked in the top 10 in their fields by the \u003Cem\u003EUSNWR\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;graduate rankings.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The faculty, staff and graduate students should be proud of the reputation and accomplishments of our eight engineering schools and the College as a whole,\u0026rdquo; said Steve McLaughlin, dean of the College of Engineering. \u0026quot;With all Georgia Tech graduate engineering programs placed in the top 10 nationally, it is through their hard work that we continue to be recognized as one of the premier engineering colleges in the nation. We are gratified that our peers recognize the efforts we make toward providing an exemplary graduate school environment and exceptional levels of research productivity.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESee the other COE program rankings here:\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/graduate-programs-among-best-us\u0022\u003E https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/graduate-programs-among-best-us\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis marks the 29th consecutive year that ISyE is ranked No. 1 by USNWR.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"This marks the 29th consecutive year that ISyE is ranked No. 1 by USNWR."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2019-03-12 14:43:03","changed_gmt":"2019-03-18 20:24:09","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-03-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-03-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"619136":{"id":"619136","type":"image","title":"ISyE\u0027s graduate programs are once again ranked No. 1 by USNWR.","body":null,"created":"1552401566","gmt_created":"2019-03-12 14:39:26","changed":"1552401566","gmt_changed":"2019-03-12 14:39:26","alt":"ISyE\u0027s graduate programs are once again ranked No. 1 by USNWR.","file":{"fid":"235691","name":"US News and World Report-02 (002).png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/US%20News%20and%20World%20Report-02%20%28002%29.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/US%20News%20and%20World%20Report-02%20%28002%29.png","mime":"image\/png","size":1411233,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/US%20News%20and%20World%20Report-02%20%28002%29.png?itok=559x7fJ6"}}},"media_ids":["619136"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"}],"categories":[],"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\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:swundersmith3@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EShelley Wunder-Smith\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EH. 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Xie is the Harold R. and Mary Anne Nash Early Career Professor.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Congratulations to Yao on this significant professional achievement,\u0026rdquo; said ISyE School Chair Edwin Romeijn. \u0026ldquo;Her promotion to associate professor with tenure is a reflection of her hard work in sequential statistical methods, statistical signal processing, big data analysis, compressed sensing, and optimization.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Yao Xie\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYao Xie\u0026rsquo;s research interests have applications to wireless communications, sensor networks, medical and astronomical imaging.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EXie previously served as a research scientist in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University after receiving her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University (2011).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe also has an M.S. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Florida (2006) and a B.S. in electrical engineering and computer science from China\u0026rsquo;s University of Science and Technology (2004).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2017, Xie received an NSF CAREER Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EYao Xie\u0026#39;s promotion is effective August 15, 2019.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Yao Xie\u0027s promotion is effective August 15, 2019."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2019-03-18 13:25:18","changed_gmt":"2019-03-18 20:23:09","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-03-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-03-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"619349":{"id":"619349","type":"image","title":"Harold R. and Mary Anne Nash Early Career Professor Yao Xie","body":null,"created":"1552915343","gmt_created":"2019-03-18 13:22:23","changed":"1552915343","gmt_changed":"2019-03-18 13:22:23","alt":"Harold R. and Mary Anne Nash Early Career Professor Yao Xie","file":{"fid":"235779","name":"Yao Xie_Square.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Yao%20Xie_Square.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Yao%20Xie_Square.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":73714,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Yao%20Xie_Square.jpg?itok=HOWowwnn"}}},"media_ids":["619349"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"}],"categories":[],"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\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:swundersmith3@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EShelley Wunder-Smith\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EH. 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Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) announced that Santanu Dey has been promoted to professor.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Santanu is to be congratulated in his promotion to professor,\u0026rdquo; said ISyE School Chair Edwin Romeijn. \u0026ldquo;His valuable contributions in the areas of non-convex optimization, especially in the areas of electrical power systems, the petroleum industry, and logistics, are making an impact on both ISyE and his field.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Santanu Dey\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDey\u0026#39;s research interests are in the theory and applications of non-convex optimization, with particular focus on mixed integer linear and nonlinear programming.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBefore coming to Georgia Tech, he worked as a research fellow at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) of the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDey holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. in industrial engineering from Purdue University (2007 and 2003, respectively), and a B.E. in mechanical engineering from Mumbai University (2000).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESantanu Dey\u0026#39;s promotion is effective August 15, 2019.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Santanu Dey\u0027s promotion is effective August 15, 2019."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2019-03-18 13:33:35","changed_gmt":"2019-03-18 20:22:15","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-03-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-03-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"619351":{"id":"619351","type":"image","title":"Santanu Dey","body":null,"created":"1552915725","gmt_created":"2019-03-18 13:28:45","changed":"1552915725","gmt_changed":"2019-03-18 13:28:45","alt":"Santanu Dey","file":{"fid":"235780","name":"Santanu Dey_Square.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Santanu%20Dey_Square.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Santanu%20Dey_Square.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":46096,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Santanu%20Dey_Square.jpg?itok=MFJ8moKu"}}},"media_ids":["619351"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"}],"categories":[],"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\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:swundersmith3@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EShelley Wunder-Smith\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EH. 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That is, until she learned about operations research (O.R.). \u0026ldquo;All of the problems I love to do include math, and the desire to solve them lends itself to O.R. applications,\u0026rdquo; she says.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlong the way, Lee\u0026rsquo;s trajectory took a turn toward medicine, which she says has been easily the most challenging part of her career. \u0026ldquo;It is difficult \u0026ndash; emotionally and physically \u0026ndash; having to deal with life-and-death situations,\u0026rdquo; Lee says.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHow did this begin? Two months after becoming the first female faculty member in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University, Lee attended a clinical seminar for medical research, where she was the only mathematician in the room. She had some thoughts and ideas she wanted to share during the seminar but was too afraid to speak up \u0026ndash; so she didn\u0026rsquo;t.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I think this was a test, and I might have failed in some sense,\u0026rdquo; Lee says. However, she emailed the medical director a week later to discuss her ideas, which turned into her first medical-focused O.R. project. This pioneering work won the 2007 INFORMS Edelman Award for using O.R. at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to develop sophisticated optimization modeling and computational techniques for real-time (intraoperative) treatment of prostate cancer.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EYou can read the rest of this profile in ORMS Today:\u003C\/em\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bit.ly\/2DUSFfa\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/bit.ly\/2DUSFfa\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bit.ly\/2DUSFfa\u0022\u003E.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAn ORMS Today article profiles ISyE Professor Eva Lee and her trailblazing work of applying OR methods to medical questions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"An ORMS Today article profiles ISyE Professor Eva Lee and her trailblazing work of applying OR methods to medical questions."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2019-02-20 18:23:57","changed_gmt":"2019-02-26 20:34:25","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-02-20T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-02-20T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"618190":{"id":"618190","type":"image","title":"Professor Eva Lee","body":null,"created":"1550686720","gmt_created":"2019-02-20 18:18:40","changed":"1556123114","gmt_changed":"2019-04-24 16:25:14","alt":"Professor Eva Lee","file":{"fid":"235309","name":"Eva Lee_Microscope_Square.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Eva%20Lee_Microscope_Square.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Eva%20Lee_Microscope_Square.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":359630,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Eva%20Lee_Microscope_Square.jpg?itok=iMxE7ORU"}}},"media_ids":["618190"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1043","name":"eva lee"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"564","name":"operations research"},{"id":"8224","name":"OR"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"616417":{"#nid":"616417","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Develop an Understanding of Big Data and Analytics from the Comfort of Your Own Home","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn today\u0026rsquo;s competitive business environment, companies are seeking individuals with strong analytical backgrounds to examine large amounts of data and use it to make effective business decisions. According to a 2016 McKinsey Global Institute report, by 2024 the U.S. workforce will face a shortage of nearly 250,000 workers with these necessary analytical skills.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Companies need people who can take data, big or small, and use it to make educated decisions,\u0026rdquo; explained Joel Sokol, professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) and director of Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s interdisciplinary Master of Science in Analytics (MSA) degree. \u0026ldquo;Most organizations now have the ability to collect large amounts of data, but they need employees who can analyze it and make recommendations. We are definitely seeing an increase in the demand for analytics-minded individuals in the job market.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn response to this need, Georgia Tech launched an online version of its top-10 ranked MSA degree program in the fall of 2017. The interdisciplinary program leverages the strengths of Georgia Tech faculty in ISyE, the Scheller College of Business, and the College of Computing. The Online Master of Science in Analytics program (OMS Analytics) provides students the same quality and rigor of the on-campus program with the flexibility to complete classes on their schedule. Many students are expected to finish their studies in two years, but they have up to six years to complete the degree.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Technology in the world of business is rapidly evolving, with machine learning and artificial intelligence,\u0026rdquo; said current OMS Analytics student Chris Anderson (BSIE 08). \u0026ldquo;Those concepts are big selling points and intrigue executives, so I think that the need is there for someone to be able to decipher and understand how to use those technologies to develop a business advantage.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnderson knew he wanted to go back to school for his graduate degree, but quitting his job to attend a full-time program was not an option. \u0026ldquo;When I learned that the M.S. in Analytics was going to be offered online, it was music to my ears,\u0026rdquo; he said. 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Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering announced that Carolyn J. Stewart Chair and Professor Jianjun \u0026ldquo;Jan\u0026rdquo; Shi has been honored with the American Society for Quality\u0026rsquo;s (ASQ) 2019 Brumbaugh Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to the ASQ, the Brumbaugh Award, which has been presented since 1949, is given to \u0026ldquo;the paper making the largest single contribution to the development of industrial application of quality control.\u0026rdquo; The chosen paper is selected from publications in the seven journals published by ASQ in the given year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShi\u0026rsquo;s award-winning paper, \u0026ldquo;Multiple Profiles Sensor-based Monitoring and Anomaly Detection,\u0026rdquo; is co-authored with Chen Zhang, Hao Yan, and Seungho Lee. Zhang, a visiting student in ISyE in 2016, is now an assistant professor at Tsinghua University. 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Her skill set was a perfect fit, and, less than two months later, Moorthy was boarding a flight to Chile for a four-month internship in a new country. \u0026ldquo;I was really nervous!\u0026rdquo; Moorthy said. \u0026ldquo;I didn\u0026rsquo;t know what to expect.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDespite a few bumps in the road, which included a major housing switch just a few days after arriving in Santiago, Moorthy quickly adapted to the Chilean lifestyle and her work at inod\u0026uacute;.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We had a client that was looking to identify opportunities in the natural gas market in Chile,\u0026rdquo; explained Holaschutz. \u0026ldquo;The analysis that Abhita did in terms of how gas is being used \u0026mdash; and some of the historical trends associated with the use of gas in the electricity and industrial sectors \u0026mdash; was very useful to provide our client insights.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMoorthy used her data manipulation skills in Python to gather data from the Chilean power market and then created data visualizations and graphics to provide insights to clients.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe professional highlight of her time at inod\u0026uacute; was seeing the graphs and value chain maps she prepared included in the presentation Holaschutz and his team delivered to the client.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It was really exciting to see the work that I had done in the past four months come together,\u0026rdquo; Moorthy said. \u0026ldquo;I think that the information was very useful for the client as they made their decisions about the Chilean energy market.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECreating solutions that truly made an impact on the company and its clients made her experience at inod\u0026uacute; even more valuable. \u0026ldquo;The projects that I worked on and the tools I developed are things they can continue to use even though my internship is over,\u0026rdquo; Moorthy said. \u0026ldquo;It was so much more than just an \u0026lsquo;intern project.\u0026rsquo;\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen she wasn\u0026rsquo;t in the office, Moorthy used her free time to travel \u0026mdash; from the Andes Mountains to the Atacama Desert. Toward the end of her time in South America, she and her sister traveled south to Torres del Paine National Park in Chilean Patagonia. \u0026ldquo;We were 760 miles from Antarctica,\u0026rdquo; she explained. \u0026ldquo;We were in the southernmost part of the world. More south than South Africa, more south than Australia and New Zealand. It was so amazing just to think about that.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to her global internship, Moorthy participated in the Language for Business and Technology (LBAT) program in summer 2017 and spent 10 weeks immersed in the language and culture of Peru and Spain. She will also be spending a semester at Georgia Tech-Lorraine in spring 2019. Taking advantage of the many international opportunities available to ISyE students has helped Moorthy figure out her future goals. \u0026ldquo;Before I went to Santiago, I didn\u0026rsquo;t really know what I wanted to do after Georgia Tech,\u0026rdquo; she said. \u0026ldquo;But I\u0026rsquo;ve realized that I want to either work abroad or for a company with a global focus.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe interns aren\u0026rsquo;t the only ones benefiting from the Global Internship Program \u0026mdash; the skills, knowledge, and fresh perspectives that they bring add significant value to the organizations as well. \u0026ldquo;Companies today are competing in a very global and dynamic marketplace,\u0026rdquo; Holaschutz said. \u0026ldquo;One way for a company like ours to really differentiate ourselves is through the people that we hire and the environment that we create. 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Led by Francisco Javier Castillo Zunino, a second-year ISyE Ph.D. student in operations research, four of the 12 SEI teams were charged with creating a hypothetical company to solve a problem in a health or humanitarian system, both at home and abroad.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We want to be sure to showcase the different types of engineering in SEI,\u0026rdquo; said Jackie Cox, program and operations manager for CEED. \u0026ldquo;This project was a great opportunity for us to feature ISyE.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter submitting a project proposal, the teams learned how to structure their companies, which included giving each team member a job and title within the organization. They also learned the basics of web design and logo creation, and some groups even developed an app.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOn the technical side, Castillo Zunino gave his teams a crash course in industrial engineering. 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To be selected as a distinguished alumnus from among such a cohort is at once humbling and satisfying,\u0026rdquo; said Peeta, the Frederick R. Dickerson Chair in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. \u0026ldquo;In many ways, the formative platform for my future career was based on my educational experience at IIT Madras.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe university typically admits less than one percent of the more than one million applicants each year, Peeta said, and \u0026ldquo;I was fortunate to be in the midst of brilliant peers in a highly competitive academic environment at IIT Madras.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPeeta spent more than two decades at Purdue University before joining the Georgia Tech faculty in August, where he is also a professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. 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Due to its central location, robust distribution platform, and world-class logistics facilities, Panama appears to be a natural partner for any international company. In many cases, a redistribution hub in Panama allows these organizations to increase distribution speed, enhance customer service, and decrease inventory costs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHowever, before making the investment in Panama, companies must evaluate if it is the right business decision. To aid in this process, the Why Panama? project was born. A partnership between the Georgia Tech Panama Logistics Innovation \u0026amp; Research Center (GT Panama) and Proinvex, Panama\u0026rsquo;s Agency for Investment Attraction and Export Promotion, the Why Panama? project provides the necessary information and analysis to help companies decide if a redistribution hub in Panama makes financial sense.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;The partnership between Proinvex and GT Panama provides a unique capability for multi- national companies to quantitatively analyze Panama\u0026#39;s potential as a hub for their particular distribution needs,\u0026rdquo; explained Don Ratliff, Regents\u0026#39; Professor Emeritus at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) and co-executive director of GT Panama. \u0026ldquo;It also allows the companies a single point of contact \u0026mdash; connecting them with the various stakeholders, both private and government \u0026mdash; to facilitate their analysis and help them to be successful if they decide to locate in Panama.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Why Panama? tool was developed by professors at ISyE and researchers at GT Panama, many of whom are also Georgia Tech alumni. According to John Bartholdi, co-executive director of GT Panama and ISyE Manhattan Associates\/Dabbiere Chair and professor, the tool compares the cost of in-transit inventory when distributing directly from the origin or through an intermediate site, such as Panama. This initial result gives executives an idea of whether or not Panama should be included in the short list of potential locations for a redistribution center. After running the tool, companies can also reach out to the government of Panama to further discuss partnership, and GT Panama can serve as a neutral third party to provide additional analysis to help with the decision.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELaunched in 2010 and fully funded by the country of Panama, GT Panama provides logistics tools and strategic research to \u0026ldquo;aid in developing the logistics and trade capabilities that will enable Panama to become the trade hub of the Americas.\u0026rdquo; It serves as the technical arm of the Panamanian government\u0026rsquo;s Logistics Cabinet and is led by Ratliff and Bartholdi.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhat makes GT Panama unique is that the research conducted is to help an entire country, rather than a single company, which leads to greater impact.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;By working for a country, we can be involved in a broader spectrum of relevant issues,\u0026rdquo; said Bartholdi. \u0026ldquo;For example, consider the problem of improving last-mile delivery. 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Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) Professor Nicoleta Serban. With a team of undergraduate and graduate students from ISyE, and using extensive data on the Medicaid population \u0026mdash; data unavailable to the ADA \u0026mdash; she found problems with the ADA\u0026rsquo;s results: \u0026ldquo;The estimates provided by HPI substantially overestimate access for children with public insurance. The overestimation comes from both data limitations and the shortcomings of the methodology employed.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe ADA is considered by policymakers to be \u003Cem\u003Ethe \u003C\/em\u003Esource of data in support for dental health care-related policies and laws. If the organization decides there is no access problem, policymakers may be inclined not to pursue national and state policies to improve access for children on Medicaid.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESerban and her students developed a mathematical model for matching need\/demand and supply for particular health care services under a series of realistic constraints. These constraints were specified by data about dentists who accept children with Medicaid, as well as how many of these patients the dentists have seen over the course of a year. Other factors include whether the children\u0026rsquo;s parents have a car, and the preference of parents to not have to travel too far to take their kids to a dentist.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESerban\u0026rsquo;s methodology uncovered an even more dismal state of affairs for children in the state of Georgia than portrayed by the ADA: 23 percent of children on Medicaid do not have access to dental care within the state access standards (30 miles for urban areas and 45 miles for rural areas). This is in significant contrast to the six percent estimate by the ADA. Additionally, Serban\u0026rsquo;s model found that in Georgia, 23.8 percent of children had a distance of five miles \u0026mdash; or, equivalently, 15 minutes of travel time. In the city of Atlanta, the average travel time was considerably longer than 15 minutes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;There are potentially major policy and practice implications to substantially overestimating spatial access to dental care,\u0026rdquo; noted Serban. \u0026ldquo;State policymakers may erroneously conclude that advancing policy to improve access to dental care for publicly insured children is not needed in their jurisdiction.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHer research is ripe for substantive impact because many states are considering enacting bills that would grant more flexibility for providing and supporting basic dental care services by dental hygienists and therapists \u0026mdash; providers who tend to work in rural areas and administer care to children on Medicaid. Moreover, local health departments also may use this research to receive funding to support programs addressing access barriers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESerban\u0026rsquo;s research is building momentum among public health decision-makers, many of whom have reached out to her ISyE health analytics group to search for evidence to accurately portray the barriers parents face in finding a dentist who accepts Medicaid insurance. This is a multiyear endeavor, but Serban hopes that not too far in the future \u0026mdash; and as a result of correctly interpreting the available data \u0026mdash; all U.S. children will have access to basic dental care in their schools.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Nicoleta Serban developed a mathematical model for matching need\/demand and supply for particular health care services under a series of realistic constraints.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Professor Nicoleta Serban developed a mathematical model for matching need\/demand and supply for particular health care services under a series of realistic constraints. 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Such enterprise development could subsequently lead to a decrease in some of the most important issues hindering Congo\u0026rsquo;s progress: high unemployment rates and a high rate of brain drain.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFrom a young age, I knew that my country faced many challenges. Likewise, I also knew that we had the potential to address them. As I grew older, and the end of my high school education drew near, I made it my mission to stop complaining about DRC\u0026rsquo;s problems and instead to become proactive in fixing them.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn order to achieve my goals, I knew I would need to learn how to solve problems on a large scale effectively and efficiently. This realization led me to pursue a degree in industrial engineering. If I wanted to be the best, I would need to learn from the best. Ultimately, I was accepted into Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s No. 1-ranked industrial engineering program. Matriculating to a highly competitive Institute with a strong emphasis on technology, the learning curve I faced was steep. Nevertheless, I pushed myself harder than ever before to make the most out of my time at a school I had painstakingly worked to attend. My experience at Tech \u0026mdash; from group projects to extracurricular activities \u0026mdash; always led me to ask myself, \u0026ldquo;S\u0026eacute;gol\u0026egrave;ne, comment peux-tu optimiser ca?\u0026rdquo; (\u0026ldquo;S\u0026eacute;gol\u0026egrave;ne, how can you optimize this?\u0026rdquo;)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen I remember the knowledge gap I had to bridge on my own, I think of the millions of kids back home who are not fortunate enough to receive the education I did. Education is not free in Congo, and there is considerable variance in education quality from school to school.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EConsequently, four years ago, I co-founded a non-profit organization called Soeur, l\u0026egrave;ve- toi (Sister, rise up). We aim to ameliorate the conditions of underprivileged girls in Congo through increased education, as well as to provide social support to orphans and abandoned children. One of the organization\u0026rsquo;s core priorities is the Malaba \u0026mdash; or \u0026ldquo;future\u0026rdquo; in the Congolese Tshiluba language \u0026mdash; scholarship project, which I currently direct.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe scholarship is based on meritocracy. Candidates have to pass a math, French, and general knowledge test, as well as give a small presentation about themselves and their goals. We select the recipient based on these criteria, along with her past academic history. The scholarship covers all school-related fees, ranging from tuition and uniforms to daily lunches and transportation costs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMany of the orphans we support have been through emotional and sometimes physical hardships, which can cause low self-esteem. Through Malaba, we want not only to finance the girls\u0026rsquo; basic education but also to work with them so their confidence recovers as they succeed academically and relationally.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith Malaba, we want to focus on the quality of education that these girls will receive, as it is the only way to make a real impact for their future. Currently, the main roadblock is the lack of sustainable financial resources to fund the program. We can only sustain and expand the Malaba scholarship project by receiving as much support and advice as possible. As a famous African proverb says, \u0026ldquo;If you want to go quickly, go alone. 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Don Lesch, the senior military instructor at Lane Tech, a Chicago-area all-boys high school where Johnson was enrolled in Junior ROTC, for setting an example.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;He essentially dared me to go to West Point,\u0026rdquo; Johnson remembered. \u0026ldquo;When I told him West Point wasn\u0026rsquo;t for guys like me \u0026mdash; I grew up on the west side of Chicago and thought I was tough \u0026mdash; he said, \u0026lsquo;If you don\u0026rsquo;t think you can make it, maybe you shouldn\u0026rsquo;t go.\u0026rsquo;\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThat was enough motivation for Johnson, who ultimately earned a bachelor\u0026rsquo;s degree in mathematics and mechanical engineering in 1976 from the military academy. After serving a few years in the Army, West Point selected him to attend graduate school, with the understanding that he would return to the academy and teach calculus, becoming the course director and assistant professor.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJohnson arrived at Georgia Tech planning to get a master\u0026rsquo;s degree in civil engineering, but the Institute informed him that he didn\u0026rsquo;t have the requisite undergraduate classes to do that. So, with the encouragement of the late Griffin Callahan, an ISyE professor who was also a West Point graduate, Johnson enrolled in ISyE\u0026rsquo;s master of operations research program. And he\u0026rsquo;s used the skills he learned at ISyE ever since.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2004, Johnson was given oversight of the U.S.\u0026rsquo;s $18.4 billion reconstruction project in Iraq after Operation Iraqi Freedom \u0026mdash; an assignment tailor-made for an industrial engineer. \u0026ldquo;It was stochastic project management like we do in ISyE,\u0026rdquo; Johnson said. \u0026ldquo;The Army Corps of Engineers was supporting the Iraqi people but at the same time was trying to meet the operational desires of commanders like General David Petraeus, who were on the ground. General Petraeus was talking to local leaders, who were telling him what they needed, and it didn\u0026rsquo;t always match U.S. priorities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;While I was there, we got considerable work done on water projects, some electricity and oil, and began putting infrastructure for education in place. We also had some significant supply chain management challenges. For example, we were moving enormous electricity generators on vehicles through areas that weren\u0026rsquo;t necessarily friendly. If the convoy was attacked, you couldn\u0026rsquo;t move fast because the equipment was so big. So throughout the night, we would track the movement of the generators in the ops center and consider factors like the best route to take based on the threat situation.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter 32 years, Johnson retired from the Army in March 2008 as a two-star general. He had been awarded numerous commendations, including the Combat Action Badge and the Distinguished Service Medal with two Oak-Leaf Clusters, meaning he had received the medal a total of three times, for service and contribution to the nation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;That had nothing to do with my personal ability,\u0026rdquo; Johnson said. \u0026ldquo;It had everything to do with the people I had the pleasure of commanding.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;In the military, you lead the country\u0026rsquo;s greatest asset: American sons and daughters. These people sacrifice and commit, and you want them to be well-trained and feel good about what they\u0026rsquo;ve accomplished, and then you want them to get back home safely.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA few months after his retirement, the National Basket- ball Association (NBA) came knocking on Johnson\u0026rsquo;s door. The league was reeling from a scandal in which a veteran employee had gambled on the basketball games he refereed. Then-Commissioner David Stern knew something needed to change. A couple of years previously, he had heard Johnson speak to the NBA\u0026rsquo;s rookie players on leadership and being a role model, and when Stern decided to create a new role overseeing referee operations, he remembered Johnson.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJohnson was about to take a position with Lockheed Martin when his son, Ian, informed him that Stern had phoned. Johnson thought it was a practical joke, right up until he called Stern back, who told him, \u0026ldquo;Don\u0026rsquo;t take that job.\u0026rdquo; After several conversations, Stern tapped Johnson to be the NBA\u0026rsquo;s senior vice president of referee operations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt was yet another opportunity for Johnson \u0026mdash; essentially hired to put new processes in place \u0026mdash; to use his ISyE skills.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor each NBA game \u0026mdash; a total of 14 games a night, six days per week \u0026mdash; he needed to schedule three-man referee crews. \u0026ldquo;Forty-two refs are either at a game, going to a game, or leaving a game, and then there are 18 who are getting ready to go or come home from a game,\u0026rdquo; Johnson explained. \u0026ldquo;And then some might be on vacation or unavailable due to injury. So now you\u0026rsquo;re optimizing under constraints.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAll told, Johnson spent five years with the NBA, and many of the systems he developed are still in place.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJohnson demonstrated his leadership qualities once again when he decided to give back financially to Georgia Tech and endowed two scholarships. He initially made an expendable gift to fund a one-time scholarship for an African American student during the 2009-10 academic year. \u0026ldquo;During the fall homecoming, I had the privilege of meeting the recipient of the scholarship I funded,\u0026rdquo; said Johnson. \u0026ldquo;His achievements and his goals for the future inspired me to endow the scholarship in perpetuity. Those of us who benefit from a Georgia Tech degree have an obligation to provide opportunity for the next generation of black students.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2013, Tech invited Johnson back as a professor of the practice. (A professor of the practice is a non-tenured faculty position held by a highly qualified individual who has made a major impact on disciplines important to the Institute.)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a professor of the practice, Johnson is able to perfectly blend his industrial engineering training with his expertise in leadership. He teaches undergraduate ISyE classes, develops leadership and group-work skills within Senior Design teams, and offers motiva- tion and encouragement to students who are strug- gling academically.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I teach students how to be people of character, how to persevere, about integrity,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;I believe profes- sors are leaders of their classroom, and as leaders, they should display the qualities that they expect. I come to class, and I\u0026rsquo;m prepared, I\u0026rsquo;m energetic, I\u0026rsquo;m passionate about what I\u0026rsquo;m doing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Whenever I have a student who falls short, I\u0026rsquo;m not going to just let them fail. I send them an email and tell them to come talk to me. 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Trips for some of the students included camping on the Great Wall of China, feeding and bathing elephants on a reservation in the northern mountains of Thailand, and climbing 1.8 km to a peak on Mt. Huashan in Huayin City, China.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EParticipants also learned how to navigate foreign countries without speaking the local language. \u0026ldquo;The language barrier was very difficult to overcome in Asia, particularly in China,\u0026rdquo; said ISyE third-year Andrew Yowell. \u0026ldquo;Even though Google Translate is always a handy resource, it is never flawless. I have certainly become better at communicating with only hand symbols!\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Every weekend we were getting on a plane, bus, or train and heading to a new location,\u0026rdquo; said Farhan Digonto, a fourth-year ISyE student. \u0026ldquo;We went to places like Cambodia and South Korea and fit as many activities into our free time as possible. 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