{"694001":{"#nid":"694001","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ISyE Makes Strong Showing at 2026 INFORMS Annual Meeting","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFaculty, students, and alumni from Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EH. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE)\u003C\/a\u003E earned numerous honors and shared their research alongside more than 6,000 attendees at the 2026 INFORMS Annual Meeting in San Francisco.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHeld Nov. 1-4, the annual meeting brought together members of the operations research and analytics community from academia and industry. ISyE faculty, students, postdocs, and alumni participated throughout the conference, presenting research, contributing to panels and sessions, and serving in leadership roles across the profession.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAmong this year\u2019s honors, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/oktay-gunluk\u0022\u003EOktay G\u00fcnl\u00fck\u003C\/a\u003E was named to the 2026 INFORMS Fellows Class. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/nikolaos-sahinidis\u0022\u003ENikolaos \u201cNick\u201d Sahinidis\u003C\/a\u003E received the INFORMS Optimization Society Khachiyan Prize, recognizing lifetime achievement in optimization, while \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/guanghui-lan\u0022\u003EGuanghui (George) Lan\u003C\/a\u003E received the society\u2019s Farkas Prize for outstanding contributions to optimization. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/ashwin-pananjady\u0022\u003EAshwin Pananjady\u003C\/a\u003E, with Liwei Jiang of Purdue University, won first place in the INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group Paper Competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s interdisciplinary \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.analytics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EMaster of Science in Analytics program\u003C\/a\u003E also received the 2026 INFORMS UPS George D. Smith Prize, with \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/joel-sokol\u0022\u003EJoel Sokol\u003C\/a\u003E presenting a reprise of the prize-winning work at the meeting.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EISyE students and recent alumni also earned recognition across a wide range of INFORMS societies and competitions, including honors in optimization, computing, simulation, health applications, data mining, location analysis, and quality, statistics and reliability. Their recognition included student paper awards, scholarships, finalist honors, honorable mentions, and competition placements.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/informs-isye\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech INFORMS Student Chapter\u003C\/a\u003E was also honored with a Magna Cum Laude Award in the 2025-2026 INFORMS Student Chapter Annual Awards.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBeyond the awards, the meeting offered an opportunity for the ISyE community to reconnect. The school\u2019s booth served as a gathering place throughout the conference, and faculty, students, alumni, friends, and collaborators came together at ISyE\u2019s annual evening reception.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFaculty, students and alumni from the H. 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