{"603057":{"#nid":"603057","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ISyE\u2019s Joel Sokol Promoted to Professor","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) announced that Joel Sokol has been promoted to professor, effective August 15, 2018.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I offer my congratulations to Joel on this momentous career achievement,\u0026rdquo; said H. Milton and Carolyn J. Stewart School Chair and Professor Edwin Romeijn. \u0026ldquo;Joel has done outstanding work in the areas of sports analytics and applied operations research, and his promotion to professor is indicative of this.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Joel Sokol\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to his ISyE appointment, Sokol is director of Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s interdisciplinary Master of Science in Analytics degree program, including the new Online Master of Science in Analytics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESokol has worked with teams or leagues in all three of the major American sports. Sokol\u0026#39;s LRMC method for predictive modeling of the NCAA basketball tournament is an industry leader, and his non-sports research has won the EURO Management Science Strategic Innovation Prize and been a finalist for the Cozzarelli Prize. He served two terms as INFORMS vice president of education and is a past chair and founding officer of the INFORMS section on sports operations research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe has also won recognition for his teaching and curriculum development from IISE and the National Academy of Engineering. Additionally, he is the recipient of Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s highest awards for teaching, including: the Class of 1940 W. Howard Ector Outstanding Teacher Award (2014); the Class of 1934 Outstanding Use of Innovative Educational Technology Award (2010); the Class of 1940 W. Roane Beard Outstanding Teacher Award (2008); the CETL\/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (2006); and the ANAK Award (2005).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESokol\u0026#39;s Ph.D. (1999) in operations research is from MIT; his bachelor\u0026#39;s degrees (1994) in mathematics, computer science, and applied sciences in engineering are from Rutgers University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EISyE announced that Joel Sokol has been promoted to professor, effective August 15, 2018.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE announced that Joel Sokol has been promoted to professor, effective August 15, 2018."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2018-02-28 17:29:02","changed_gmt":"2018-03-21 23:16:15","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-02-28T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-02-28T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"604112":{"id":"604112","type":"image","title":"Joel Sokol","body":null,"created":"1521674132","gmt_created":"2018-03-21 23:15:32","changed":"1521674132","gmt_changed":"2018-03-21 23:15:32","alt":"Joel Sokol","file":{"fid":"230266","name":"Joel-Sokol.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Joel-Sokol.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Joel-Sokol.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":42574,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Joel-Sokol.jpg?itok=b390l-jN"}}},"media_ids":["604112"],"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":"1200","name":"joel sokol"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"220","name":"professor"}],"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\u003EStewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404.385.4745\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["shelley.wunder-smith@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}