{"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. It is an exciting time, and I look forward to working with the faculty to pursue them.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EVan Hentenryck\u2019s tenure as ACIE began in early October.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs ACIE, Van Hentenryck will, among other responsibilities, lead the development of \u201cblue sky\u201d initiatives and build strategic partnerships.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"As ACIE, Van Hentenryck will, among other responsibilities, lead the development of \u201cblue sky\u201d initiatives and build strategic partnerships."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2019-10-24 17:49:53","changed_gmt":"2024-01-31 19:04:38","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-10-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-10-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"628049":{"id":"628049","type":"image","title":"A. 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