694001 news 1794410197 1794414295 <![CDATA[ISyE Makes Strong Showing at 2026 INFORMS Annual Meeting]]> Faculty, students, and alumni from Georgia Tech’s H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) earned numerous honors and shared their research alongside more than 6,000 attendees at the 2026 INFORMS Annual Meeting in San Francisco.

Held 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.

Among this year’s honors, Oktay Günlük was named to the 2026 INFORMS Fellows Class. Nikolaos “Nick” Sahinidis received the INFORMS Optimization Society Khachiyan Prize, recognizing lifetime achievement in optimization, while Guanghui (George) Lan received the society’s Farkas Prize for outstanding contributions to optimization. Ashwin Pananjady, with Liwei Jiang of Purdue University, won first place in the INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group Paper Competition.

Georgia Tech’s interdisciplinary Master of Science in Analytics program also received the 2026 INFORMS UPS George D. Smith Prize, with Joel Sokol presenting a reprise of the prize-winning work at the meeting.

ISyE 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.
 
The Georgia Tech INFORMS Student Chapter was also honored with a Magna Cum Laude Award in the 2025-2026 INFORMS Student Chapter Annual Awards.
 

Beyond the awards, the meeting offered an opportunity for the ISyE community to reconnect. The school’s booth served as a gathering place throughout the conference, and faculty, students, alumni, friends, and collaborators came together at ISyE’s annual evening reception.

]]> 2026-11-11T00:00:00-05:00 Faculty, students and alumni from the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering earned numerous honors and showcased research at the 2026 INFORMS Annual Meeting in San Francisco, Calif.

]]> 681740 image <![CDATA[Oktay Günlük was named to the 2026 INFORMS Fellows Class, one of the organization’s highest honors.]]> 266192 image/jpeg 681742 image <![CDATA[Nikolaos “Nick” Sahinidis received the 2026 INFORMS Optimization Society Khachiyan Prize, recognizing lifetime achievement in optimization.]]> 266194 image/jpeg 681744 image <![CDATA[Joel Sokol (left) presents during the 2026 INFORMS Annual Meeting following the Master of Science in Analytics program’s receipt of the UPS George D. Smith Prize.]]> 266196 image/jpeg 681743 image <![CDATA[Jianjun Shi with members of his academic family at the 2026 INFORMS Annual Meeting. His academic family spans multiple generations of students and includes more than 420 Ph.D. graduates.]]> 266195 image/jpeg 681741 image <![CDATA[The ISyE community gathers at the school’s reception during the 2026 INFORMS Annual Meeting in San Francisco.]]> 266193 image/jpeg 1250 1237 1242 1243 1250 1237 1242 1243