{"693313":{"#nid":"693313","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ISyE Researchers Receive Frank Wilcoxon Prize","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECongratulations to Xiao Liu, David M. McKenney Family Associate Professor and ISyE alumni Guanzhou Wei (Ph.D. \u002725) and Feng Qiu (Ph.D. \u002713), recipients of the 2025 Frank Wilcoxon Prize, one of the most prestigious awards for applied statistics research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe award recognizes their paper,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003E\u201cConvolutional Non-Homogeneous Poisson Process and its Application to Wildfire Ignition Risk Quantification for Power Delivery Networks,\u201d\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;published in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ETechnometrics\u003C\/em\u003E. Their research advances methods for assessing wildfire ignition risk in power delivery networks, demonstrating the real-world impact of statistical innovation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPresented annually by the American Statistical Association and the American Society for Quality, the Frank Wilcoxon Prize honors the best practical application paper published in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ETechnometrics\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe award was presented at the 2026 Fall Technical Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EISyE faculty member Xiao Liu and alumni Guanzhou Wei and Feng Qiu earned the 2025 Frank Wilcoxon Prize for pioneering research that improves wildfire risk assessment for power delivery networks.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE faculty member Xiao Liu and alumni Guanzhou Wei and Feng Qiu earned the 2025 Frank Wilcoxon Prize for pioneering research that improves wildfire risk assessment for power delivery networks."}],"uid":"36760","created_gmt":"2026-10-20 13:58:07","changed_gmt":"2026-10-20 14:21:21","author":"jsmith830","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-10-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-10-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"681475":{"id":"681475","type":"image","title":"Recipients of the 2025 Frank Wilcoxon Prize gather following the award presentation at the 2026 Fall Technical Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina.","body":"\u003Cdiv\u003ERecipients of the 2025 Frank Wilcoxon Prize gather following the award presentation at the 2026 Fall Technical Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina.\u003C\/div\u003E","created":"1792504698","gmt_created":"2026-10-20 13:58:18","changed":"1792504698","gmt_changed":"2026-10-20 13:58:18","alt":"Recipients of the 2025 Frank Wilcoxon Prize gather following the award presentation at the 2026 Fall Technical Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina.","file":{"fid":"265884","name":"Wilcoxon-Prize.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/10\/20\/Wilcoxon-Prize.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/10\/20\/Wilcoxon-Prize.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":6532678,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/10\/20\/Wilcoxon-Prize.jpg?itok=DcagfLbD"}}},"media_ids":["681475"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/00401706.2024.2365729","title":"Read the paper here"}],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"}],"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":""}}}