{"68713":{"#nid":"68713","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Serban Selected to Participate in NAE\u0027s 2011 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENicoleta Serban, assistant professor of the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and\nSystems Engineering, and Nick Feamster, associate professor in the\nCollege of Computing, represent two\nof eighty-five of the nation\u2019s brightest young engineers who have been selected\nto take part in the National Academy of Engineering\u2019s (NAE) 17\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E\nannual U. S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium.\u0026nbsp; Participants are engineers ages 30 to 45 who\nare performing exceptional engineering research and technical work in industry,\nacademia, and government.\u0026nbsp; They were chosen\nfrom approximately 315 applicants and have been nominated by fellow engineers\nor organizations.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe young\nengineering innovators of today are solving the grand challenges that face us\nin the coming century,\u201d said NAE President Charles M. Vest.\u0026nbsp; \u201cWe are proud that our Frontiers of\nEngineering program brings this diverse group of people together and gives them\nan opportunity to share and showcase their work.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe symposium\nwill be held September 19-21 at Google headquarters in Mountain View,\nCalifornia, and will examine additive manufacturing, engineering sustainable\nbuildings, neuroprosthetics, and semantic processing.\u0026nbsp; Alfred Z. Spector, vice president of research\nand special initiatives at Google, will be a featured speaker.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Serban\nreceived her B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Theoretical Statistics and\nStochastic Processes from the University of Bucharest.\u0026nbsp; She went on to earn her Ph.D. in Statistics\nat Carnegie Mellon University.\u0026nbsp; Dr. Serban\u0027s most recent research focuses on\nmodel-based data mining for functional data and spatio-temporal data with\napplications to industrial economics with a focus on service distribution.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENicoleta Serban, assistant professor of the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and\nSystems Engineering, and Nick Feamster, associate professor in the\nCollege of Computing, represent two\nof eighty-five of the nation\u2019s brightest young engineers who have been selected\nto take part in the National Academy of Engineering\u2019s (NAE) 17\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E\nannual U. S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2011-07-06 14:35:22","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:09:40","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-07-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-07-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"54665":{"id":"54665","type":"image","title":"Nicoleta Serban","body":null,"created":"1449175459","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:44:19","changed":"1475894478","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:18","alt":"Nicoleta Serban","file":{"fid":"172607","name":"Serban_Nicoleta_-_Bust.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Serban_Nicoleta_-_Bust_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Serban_Nicoleta_-_Bust_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2967607,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Serban_Nicoleta_-_Bust_1.jpg?itok=qPnMPRRL"}}},"media_ids":["54665"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"13600","name":"Frontiers of Engineering"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"1972","name":"NAE"},{"id":"10637","name":"nick feamster"},{"id":"3502","name":"nicoleta serban"},{"id":"169275","name":"stewart school of industrial and systems engineering"}],"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:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara\nChristopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}