Bio

Shabbir Ahmed is a Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. His research interests are in optimization, specifically stochastic and integer programming. Dr. Ahmed served as the Chair of the Community of Stochastic Programming (COSP) (2007-2010), and as a Vice-chair (Stochastic Programming) of the INFORMS Optimization Society (2006-2008). He is an Associate Editor for Mathematical Programming A, Mathematical Programming C, Operations Research, and Operations Research Letters, an Area Editor for Surveys in Operations Research and Management Science and a Department Editor for IIE Transactions (Operations Engineering and Analysis). Dr. Ahmed's honors include the National Science Foundation CAREER award, two IBM Faculty Awards, the Coca-Cola Junior Professorship from ISyE, and the INFORMS Dantzig Dissertation award.