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Asst. Professor John Carlsson has won a 2012 DARPA Young Faculty Award for his research in geographic resource allocation.
Professor Saif Benjaafar has received the 2011 MSOM Best Paper Award for his paper “Using Imperfect Demand Information in Production-Inventory Systems with Multiple Demand Classes,” co-authored with Jean-Philippe Gayon and Francis de Veriourt. This annual award is given to one paper, published by the journal M&SOM in the past three years, considered as most deserving for its contribution to the theory and practice of operations management. More information about the award and past winners can be found here:
http://msom.society.informs.org/awards/best-paper-award.html.
Professor Diwakar Gupta has been elected Chair of the MSOM Special Interest Group (SIG) on Healthcare Operations Management. More information about the SIG can be found here: http://msom.society.informs.org/sig/healthcare-operations-management/.
Professor Saif Benjaafar has been elected Chair of the MSOM Special Interest Group (SIG) on Sustainable Operations. More information about the SIG can be found here: http://msom.society.informs.org/sig/sustainable-operations/.
Professor Shuzhong Zhang has been elected Vice-President of the Operations Research Society of China.
Professor Tom Luo (affiliated ISyE faculty member) has been named a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
Professors Henry Liu, Saif Benjaafar, and Shuzong Zhang are recipients of a grant from the Minnesota Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment (IREE) for their project “Rethinking How We Manage Traffic to Reduce Emissions while Maintaining Mobility: A New Paradigm for Traffic Management.” More information about the project and IREE can be found here: http://environment.umn.edu/forms/project_view.php?id=337.
Professor Tom Luo (affiliated ISyE faculty member) was awarded the G. Farkas Prize of the INFORMS Optimization Society. The prize, awarded bi-annually, is given out for the most significant contribution to the field of optimization by a researcher, or a team of researchers.
Kevin Leder will be joining the ISyE program starting August 2011 as an Assistant Professor. He holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Brown. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia and Harvard. His research interests are in stochastic modeling and simulation with applications to cancer modeling. More information about his research and publications can be found on his website at http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/kleder/.
Professor Saif Benjaafar has been named Distinguished McKnight University Professor in recognition of his work in operations research and supply chain management and for his leadership of the Industrial and Systems Engineering Program.
The purpose of the Professorship is to recognize and reward our most outstanding faculty. Recipients are honored with the title Distinguished McKnight University Professor, which they hold for as long as they remain at the University of Minnesota. The grant associated with the Professorship consists of $100,000 to be expended over five years. The recipients were chosen based on the following criteria: the level of distinction and prestige that their scholarly work brings to the University; the merit of their achievements and the potential for greater attainment in the field; the dimension of their national or international reputation, including leadership efforts in interdisciplinary or collaborative initiatives; the extent to which their career has flourished at Minnesota and their work and reputation are identified with Minnesota; the quality of their teaching and advising; and their contributions to the wider community.
Asst. Professor John Gunnar Carlsson has won First Prize in the Interactive Session Competition at the INFORMS 2010 conference in Austin, Texas, for his presentation, "Dividing a territory between several facilities".
Shuzhong Zhang will be joining our program as a full Professor starting January 2011. Shuzhong is currently a professor in the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He held faculty appointments prior to that at Erasmus University and the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Shuzhong is a leading expert in the field of optimization with over 80 journal publications. His research interests are in continuous and non-linear optimization, including convex programming, semi-definite programming, quadratic programming, and interior point methods. He has broad interests in applications in financial engineering; engineering management; operations management; and signal processing. His work has been recognized by several awards and honors including the SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize, the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award, the Chinese University of Hong Kong Vice-Chancellor's Exemplary Teaching Award. He serves on the editorial board of several journals including Operations Research, Math Programming, and SIAM Journal on Optimization.
The ISyE faculty has recently moved into a renovated space. The new space gives the ISyE program a physical presence on campus that will enhance its visibility. The new space will house offices for ISyE faculty, space for support staff, and a gathering area for meetings and events. By bringing the entire ISyE faculty in one single area, the new space will enable greater collaboration among the faculty and will make the faculty more accessible to students. The move to the new space is timely, with the program seeing a tremendous growth in its research footprint, growing interest in its degree programs, and a dramatic growth in popularity of its course offerings. For pictures of the new space click here.
Wen-Ya Wang, an ISyE PhD student, was recently awarded a 2010-11 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF) by the University of Minnesota Graduate School. The DDF is awarded only to the most outstanding final-year PhD students in the Graduate School. Wen-ya's dissertation is titled "Hospital Capacity Allocation with Incomplete Information." Her advisor is Prof. Diwakar Gupta.
Saif Benjaafar and Mark Daskin (University of Michigan) are organizing a symposium sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) on the Low Carbon Footprint Supply Chain. The symposium will be held on October 14-15, 2010 at Arlington, Virginia. The symposium will bring together leading researchers in Supply Chain Management, Energy, the Environment, Economics, and Public Policy, among others. More information about the symposium can be found here.
A paper authored by Diwakar Gupta and Brian Denton is one of the ten most cited papers in IIE Transactions. The paper is titled “Appointment scheduling in health care: Challenges and opportunities.” For a copy of the paper click here.
William Cooper has been elected Vice Chair & Chair Elect of the INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section. He will start his term as Section Chair in Fall 2010. More information about the INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section can be found here.
Saif Benjaafar was a Keynote Speaker at the International Conference on Modeling and Simulation (MOSIM) held in Hammamet, Tunisia in May 2010. His talk was titled “Carbon Footprint and the Management of Supply Chains.” He was also a featured speaker a featured speaker at the INFORMS Annual Practice Conference held in Orlando, Florida, April 18-20, 2010.
A paper co-authored by Saif Benjaafar, Soumaya Ben-Aicha, and Atidel Hadj Alouane was a finalist for the Elmagrhaby Best Student Paper Award presented at the International International Conference on Information Systems, Logistics and Supply Chain (ILS). The paper is titled is “Flexibility Chaining in Demand Allocation Problems.”
John G. Carlsson has joined our Program as an Assistant Professor. John holds a PhD degree from Stanford in Computational Mathematics and a BS Degree from Harvard in Mathematics. His research deals with the development of optimization algorithms for solving resource allocation problems, particularly those involving a geographic component.
Yimin Yu who has recently graduated from our program with a PhD degree has joined the faculty of City University of Hong Kong, a leading university in Hong Kong, as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management Science in the School of Business. Yimin has broad research interests in manufacturing and service operations, inventory theory, revenue management, and economics.
Saif Benjaafar has recently been awarded a $375,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study carbon footprint and the management of supply chains. The grant is in collaboration with Mark Daskin from Northwestern University. More information about the grant can be found at:
http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0856303
http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=085623
A paper co-authored by William Cooper and Diwakar Gupta is a finalist for the 2009 M&SOM Society Best paper award. The paper is titled “Stochastic comparisons in airline revenue management,” and was published in the journal Manufacturing and Service Operations Management in 2006.
The Industrial and Systems Engineering Program at the University of Minnesota invites applications for a tenured or tenure-track faculty position starting in fall 2012. (Details)
May 2
Ilker Birbil, MSIE Program,
Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
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May 4
Jingchen Liu, Columbia University
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