{"648275":{"#nid":"648275","#data":{"type":"news","title":"George Lan Appointed to A. Russell Chandler III Professorship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAssociate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/george-lan\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorge Lan\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E has been appointed to an A. Russell Chandler III Professorship in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), effective June 15, 2021. The A. Russell Chandler III Professorship was created to enhance the Stewart School\u0026rsquo;s ability to attract and retain eminent teacher-scholars to this position of academic leadership.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELan\u0026rsquo;s research and teaching interests lie in theory, algorithms, and applications of\u0026nbsp;stochastic\u0026nbsp;optimization and nonlinear programming.\u0026nbsp;Most of his current research concerns the design of efficient algorithms with strong theoretical\u0026nbsp;performance guarantees\u0026nbsp;and superior practical performance for solving challenging optimization problems. He is actively pursuing the application of stochastic and nonlinear optimization models in large-scale data analysis, including machine learning, image processing and simulation input\/output analysis. His\u0026nbsp;research has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF),\u0026nbsp;the Office of Naval Research (ONR), Army Research Office, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am deeply honored to receive the A. Russel Chandler Professorship, which will provide my students and me necessary financial support for various research and learning activities,\u0026rdquo; noted Lan. \u0026ldquo;Ultimately, it will help us push forward the frontier of a few relevant research directions. I am very grateful, on behalf of my research group, for the generous support of the A. Russell Chandler III faculty endowment fund.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELan\u0026rsquo;s academic honors include an NSF CAREER Award; first place in the INFORMS JFIG Paper Competition; finalist for the Mathematical Optimization Society Tucker Prize; second place for the INFORMS George Nicholson Prize; and first place in the INFORMS Computing Society Student Paper competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELan received his Ph.D. from ISyE in 2009 and joined the School\u0026rsquo;s faculty in 2016. He is the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ml.gatech.edu\/leadership\/george-lan\u0022\u003Eassociate director of machine learning and data science\u003C\/a\u003E for the Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELan will use the professorship\u0026#39;s funds to pursue applications for stochastic and nonlinear optimization models in large-scale data analysis.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Lan will use the professorship\u0027s funds to pursue applications for stochastic and nonlinear optimization models in large-scale data analysis."}],"uid":"35757","created_gmt":"2021-06-22 15:53:42","changed_gmt":"2021-06-22 19:44:37","author":"goberst3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-06-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-06-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"645934":{"id":"645934","type":"image","title":"George Lan","body":null,"created":"1617198672","gmt_created":"2021-03-31 13:51:12","changed":"1617198672","gmt_changed":"2021-03-31 13:51:12","alt":"George Lan","file":{"fid":"245230","name":"GL 1.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/GL%201.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/GL%201.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":395209,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/GL%201.JPG?itok=yR977dNd"}}},"media_ids":["645934"],"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":[{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"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. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}