The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) bestows a number of awards to students each year based on recommendations, past performance over the previous year, and/or the student’s current resume. Award recipients are selected in early March of each year.
2021 - 2022 Graduate Awards
-- Awards for Excellence in Research --
The Shabbir Ahmed Research Excellence Award
- Jiaming Liang (Optimization)
- Sebastian Perez-Salazar (Optimization)
The Atlanta Air Cargo Association Research Excellence Award
- Jana Boerger (Supply Chain Engineering)
The Robert Goodell Brown Research Excellence Award
- Liyan Xie (Data Science and Statistics)
The Anderson-Interface Research Excellence Award
- Amin Gholami (Energy and Sustainable Systems)
The Thos and Clair Muller Research Excellence Award
- Zhaowei She (Health Analytics and Health Systems)
The Angela P. and Reed J. Baker Research Excellence Award
- Jialei Chen (Advanced Manufacturing and SIAC)
The Margaret and Stephen Kendrick Research Excellence Award
- Keyu Zhu (Analytics and Machine Learning)
The Ed Iacobucci Research Excellence Award
- Daniela Hurtado-Lange (Applied Probability and Simulation)
-- Additional Graduate Awards --
ISyE Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor of the Year Award
- Shangcong Mou
- Tyler Perini
ISyE Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year Award
- Xinyu Liu
ISyE Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year Award
- Lucienne Loo
Phil and Delores A. Scott Graduate Student Health and Wellness Award
Awarded to students for taking the initiative to help themselves and others to stay healthy both physically and mentally.
- Nidhima Grover
- Miguel Campos Murcia
- Katja Meuche
- Vinaya Krishna
- Ritesh Ojha
- Yassin Watson
2020 - 2021 Graduate Awards
-- Awards for Excellence in Research --
The Shabbir Ahmed Research Excellence Award
- Jiaming Liang (Optimization)
- Sebastian Perez-Salazar (Optimization)
The Atlanta Air Cargo Association Research Excellence Award
- Jana Boerger (Supply Chain Engineering)
The Robert Goodell Brown Research Excellence Award
- Liyan Xie (Data Science and Statistics)
The Anderson-Interface Research Excellence Award
- Amin Gholami (Energy and Sustainable Systems)
The Thos and Clair Muller Research Excellence Award
- Zhaowei She (Health Analytics and Health Systems)
The Angela P. and Reed J. Baker Research Excellence Award
- Jialei Chen (Advanced Manufacturing and SIAC)
The Margaret and Stephen Kendrick Research Excellence Award
- Keyu Zhu (Analytics and Machine Learning)
The Ed Iacobucci Research Excellence Award
- Daniela Hurtado-Lange (Applied Probability and Simulation)
-- Additional Graduate Awards --
Alice and John Jarvis Ph.D. Student Research Award
Winners:
- Yatharth Dubey
- Zhe (Jimmy) Zheng
Honorable mention:
- Jiaming Liang
- Daan Rutten
Georgia Tech Graduate Student Instructor of the Year Award
This award is from the Center for Teaching and Learning and celebrates the contributions to teaching excellence at Georgia Tech made by graduate and undergraduate teaching assistants.
- Arvind Krishna
Phil and Delores A. Scott Graduate Student Health and Wellness Award
Awarded to students for taking the initiative to help themselves and others to stay healthy both physically and mentally.
- Akane Fujimoto Wakabayashi
- Nidhima Grover
- Daniela Hurtado Lange
- Prakirt Jhunjhunwala
- Sajad Khodadadian
- Arvind Krishna
- Ritesh Ojha
- Anjolaoluwa Popoola
- Sushil Varma
ISyE Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award
This award is given to a graduate student who has shown excellence in teaching.
- Arvind Krishna
- Chungjae Lee
ISyE Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Award (On-Campus)
This award is given to a graduate student who has shown excellence as a teaching assistant.
- Winner: Liyan Xie
-- ISyE Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Award (Online) --
This award is given to a graduate student who has shown excellence as an online teaching assistant.
- Sheng Zhang
ISyE Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Award (MTA)
This award is given to a graduate student who has shown excellence as a teaching assistant.
- Saurabh Doodhwala