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Tom Cuce, UPS President of Corporate Transportation

SCL Welcomes UPS' Tom Cuce to its Industry Advisory Board

Tom Cuce serves as UPS President of Corporate Transportation where he manages Hub, Feeder and Air Operations, Enterprise-wide Network Planning, Global Carrier Relations and Procurement, USPS...

Assistant Professor Debankur Mukherjee

Debankur Mukherjee Joins ISyE as Assistant Professor

Mukherjee’s research spans the areas of applied probability and stochastic networks.

Anderson-Interface Chair and Professor Shabbir Ahmed

In Memoriam: Shabbir Ahmed

ISyE Anderson-Interface Chair and Professor Shabbir Ahmed passed away on June 19, 2019. He made substantial contributions to the field of optimization.

Elliott Paige, Director for Air Service Development at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

SCL Welcomes Elliott Paige with Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport to its Industry Advisory Board

While at Hartsfield-Jackson, Paige has built solid relationships with aviation executives worldwide, recruited several international passenger and cargo airlines, plus several domestic airlines...

Adam Baker, Vice President - Global Transportation, Amazon

SCL Welcomes Amazon's Adam Baker to its Industry Advisory Board

Adam Baker serves as Amazon's Vice President of North American & EU Transportation and is responsible for network design and tactical execution as well as cost and performance management of...

ISyE fifth-years Jorge Cruz Serrallés and Conner Reinhardt and fourth-year Akash Dalal

ISyE Team Places Third in Inaugural Cisco National Supply Chain Case Competition

“It was an incredibly enriching experience,” Conner Reinhardt said. “We were super proud to bring home that recognition for Georgia Tech.”

The workshop provided several opportunities for students to receive mentoring from guest speakers, network, and have technical discussions.

Georgia Tech Faculty Organizes First Data Science for Social Good Workshop

Students from around the world came to Georgia Tech in April for the first Data Science for Social Good Workshop.

ISyE fourth-year Marie Ozenua

ISyE Undergraduate Marie Ozenua Looks at Supply Chain Through an International Lens

Ozenua, who grew up in Nigeria, is passionate about optimizing systems to improve people's quality of life on the continent of Africa.

ISyE fourth-year Morgan Knowlton

The Problem with Solutions: Reflections on the Ideas to Serve Competition

In this essay, ISyE undergraduate Morgan Knowlton discusses how the I2S competition complements her engineering studies.

ISyE fourth-year Chase Warner

Strictly Ballroom: ISyE Undergraduate Chase Warner Lights Up the Dance Floor

Warner dances competitively with the Ballroom Dance Club at Georgia Tech.

Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics and Professor Jeff Wu

WuFest: A Conference on Engineering Statistics and Related Topics

More than 100 statisticians and engineers, from both academia and industry, gathered at Georgia Tech in honor of Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics and Professor Jeff Wu.

ISyE third-year Samantha Guada and Asteroide Santana (Ph.D. 19)

Seeing the Big Picture: How Leadership Coaching Enabled ISyE Student Samantha Guada to Achieve Her Goals

The Leading Edge program offers Tech students the opportunity to spend a semester working one-on-one with coaches on specific goals they want to achieve and to develop their leadership skills.

ISyE Ph.D. student Arden Baxter

Two ISyE Ph.D. Students Receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Arden Baxter and Christopher Muir have been awarded two of the four total grants given by the NSF in the industrial engineering/operations research category.

Senior Design team "Cisgocean" worked with Cisco's Global Logistics and Central Manufacturing teams to reduce transportation costs of shipping products between contract manufacturers in Asia and direct fulfillment centers in the Americas.

ISyE Spring 2019 Senior Design Features a Triple-winning Team

This semester, one exceptionally strong Senior Design team from ISyE – “Cisgocean” – won three different awards for their Capstone project.

Halle Bryan

Turning Their Tassels: Halle Bryan

After setting a goal to get involved outside of the classroom, ISyE alumna Halle became one of the most recognizable faces at Georgia Tech.

ISyE Academic Advisor Fran Buser (in green jacket) with colleauges at the 2019 Faculty & Staff Honors Luncheon: Ron Johnson, Brandy Blake, Jon Lowe, Carole Bennett, Dawn Strickland, and School Chair Edwin Romeijn

Fran Buser Wins 2019 Outstanding Undergraduate Academic Advising Award

Buser accepted this year's Institute-level award at the Faculty & Staff Honors Luncheon in late April.

ISyE alum Joseph Mello (BSHS 80)

ISyE Alumni Receive College of Engineering Awards

The program recognizes select alumni who have contributed to the profession, advanced in their careers, and enhanced the lives of others both personally and professionally.

ISyE Professor Nicoleta Serban

Study Finds Gaps in Treatment for Children with ADHD on Medicaid

ISyE Professor Nicoleta Serban has found that against recommended guidelines, a majority of publicly insured preschoolers in seven Southeastern states receive medication instead of behavioral...

Ph.D. student Beste Basciftci, winner of the Alice and John Jarvis Ph.D. Student Research Award, with School Chair Edwin Romeijn and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies Alan Erera

ISyE Presents Awards to Outstanding Graduate, Undergraduate Students

The spring 2019 awards ceremony honored students for academic excellence, research, teaching contributions, leadership, and entrepreneurship.

AISTATS 2019 will be held in Okinawa, Japan where Georgia Tech researchers will present 12 papers.

The Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Statistics: ML@GT Researchers Present 12 Papers at AISTATS

Georgia Tech will present 12 papers at the conference, including one by ISyE Associate Professor Sebastian Pokutta.

LeeAnn Muller, ISyE School Chair Edwin Romeijn, and Walter Muller

ISyE Distinguished Lecture Series Named for LeeAnn and Walter Muller, Presents Stanford’s M. Elisabeth Paté-Cornell

M. Elisabeth Paté-Cornell spoke on applications of engineering risk analysis for the newly named LeeAnn and Walter Muller Distinguished Lecture Series.

(L-R): Rhonda Sides, Catherine Cooper, José Montero Jr., Casey Hodgson, Marty Young, Prentis Wilson, Dan Shinedling Jr.

ISyE Inducts Five New Advisory Board Members and New Chair at Spring 2019 Meeting

Catherine Cooper, Casey Hodgson, José Montero Jr., Prentis Wilson, and Marty Young joined ISyE Advisory Board in the spring 2019 term.

ISyE alum and GT Men's Tennis Coach Kenny Thorne

ISyE Alum and Tech Men’s Tennis Coach Kenny Thorne on His Life in Tennis

Thorne played tennis for the Yellow Jackets as an undergraduate and is now the GT men's tennis coach.

Professor Eva Lee

Eva Lee Inducted into the AIMBE College of Fellows

Professor Lee is the first IE/OR engineer to be nominated and elected for this honor.

ISyE third-year Iris Liu, president of Science. Art. Wonder

Putting the “A” in STEAM: Science. Art. Wonder

ISyE third-year Iris Liu is president of Science. Art. Wonder, a campus organization that pairs artists with researchers to create visual representations of research topics.

Harold R. and Mary Anne Nash Early Career Professor Yao Xie

Yao Xie Promoted to Associate Professor

Yao Xie's promotion is effective August 15, 2019.

Santanu Dey

Santanu Dey Promoted to Professor

Santanu Dey's promotion is effective August 15, 2019.

ISyE's graduate programs are once again ranked No. 1 by USNWR.

ISyE Graduate Program Maintains Top Ranking

This marks the 29th consecutive year that ISyE is ranked No. 1 by USNWR.

Rush hour traffic in Atlanta

MARTA, Mobility and Mass Transit

ISyE's Pascal Van Hentenryck is solving transportation issues through powerful algorithms. 

HHL conference 2019 Save the date square

Rwanda Here We Come! - 11th Conference on Health and Humanitarian Logistics

The aim of the 11th annual Health & Humanitarian Logistics (HHL) Conference is to provide an open forum to discuss the challenges and new solutions in disaster preparedness...

Professor Eva Lee

A Powerful, Pragmatic Pioneer

An ORMS Today article profiles ISyE Professor Eva Lee and her trailblazing work of applying OR methods to medical questions.

Peter Devenyi, Senior Vice President, Global Product and Solution Management

SCL Welcomes Dematic's Peter Devenyi to its Industry Advisory Board

Pete Devenyi serves as Senior Vice President of Global Product and Solution Management at Dematic. He was named to this position in 2018.

Carolyn J. Stewart Chair and Professor Jan Shi

Jan Shi Receives the 2019 Brumbaugh Award for Best ASQ Published Paper

The Brumbaugh Award is given to the paper making the largest single contribution to the development of industrial application of quality control.

Juan Galarza, Vice President of Coca-Cola North America Supply Chain

SCL Welcomes Coca-Cola's Juan Galarza to its Industry Advisory Board

Galarza is Vice President of Coca-Cola North America Supply Chain. He has been with the company for 27 years and has worked primarily in Planning, Manufacturing, Warehousing, Transportation and...

Sebastian Pokutta is ISyE David M. McKenney Family Early Career Professor and the Associate Director of the Center for Machine Learning at Georgia Tech.

Machine Learning: International Research Collaboration Leads to New Opportunities

ML@GT has two new MOUs with RIKEN-AIP in Japan and Fraunhofer ILS in Germany to formalize a working relationship on machine learning.

This map shows the many maritime and air routes to and from Panama.

Why Panama?

From a logistics and distribution perspective, the answer seems to be “why not?”.

ISyE Professor and Director of the Master of Science in Analytics program Joel Sokol, Chris Anderson, and Kevin Chan

Develop an Understanding of Big Data and Analytics from the Comfort of Your Own Home

The OMSA program is offers three tracks -- analytical tools, business analytics, or computational data analytics -- and costs less than $10,000.

ISyE Professor of the Practice Ron Johnson retired from the Army in 2008 as a two-star general.

Professor of the Practice Ron Johnson Brings Leadership Skills to ISyE

Johnson has been an exemplary leader throughout his various careers, including here at Georgia Tech.

ISyE second-year Aaron Brown

Toy Story: ISyE Student Aaron Brown Keeps the Love of Vintage Collectibles Alive

As a child, Brown started Tin Toy Arcade, which sells retro and vintage toys.

ISyE alumna Segolene Muderhwa (BSIE 17, MSA 18) is from the Democratic Republic of Congo and founded a nonprofit supporting girls' education there.

Malaba: Educating Congo’s Future

In this essay, Ségolène Muderhwa reflects on why she came to Georgia Tech and ISyE, and on the nonprofit she co-founded to help improve girls' education in the DRC.

In the state of Georgia, 23 percent of children on Medicaid do not have access to dental care within the state access standards.

Accurately Evaluating Pediatric Dental Access for Medicaid-insured Children

Professor Nicoleta Serban developed a mathematical model for matching need/demand and supply for particular health care services under a series of realistic constraints.

Frederick R. Dickerson Chair and Professor Srinivas Peeta

India's Top Engineering College Honors Srinivas Peeta as Distinguished Alumnus

Just 159 alumni from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras have been recognized in the award’s nearly 25-year existence.

ISyE alumna Natasha Jain, co-founder of Bent Chair

ISyE Alumna Natasha Jain Elevates Home Décor for a Global Market

In this interview, Jain discusses her passion for home decor and how Bent Chair is growing as a company.

Abhita Moorthy visited Torres del Paine National Park in the Chilean Patagonia region.

Global Internship Program Creates a World of Possibilities

ISyE undergraduate Abhita Moorthy took advantage of the program to complete a four-month internship in Santiago, Chile.

Fouts Family Early Career Professor Kamran Paynabar visited Paris when he taught at GT-Lorraine.

Teaching at GTL: Associate Professor Kamran Paynabar's Summer Abroad

Georgia Tech's study abroad programs offer the Institute's faculty the opportunity to teach overseas.

ISyE third-year Andrew Yowell visits an elephant reservation during a weekend trip to Chiang Mai, Thailand.

ISyE Summer Program in Asia a Popular Study Abroad Option

The undergraduates take a full course load and spend 12 weeks in Singapore, Ho Chi Minh City, and Beijing.

High school students who worked on the iSyE project during the Summer Engineering Institute

High School Students Work on ISyE Projects During Summer Engineering Institute

This past summer, for the first time, the SEI featured an ISyE project, and four high school teams received a crash course in IE.

ISyE Ph.D. student Jovan Julien

ISyE Ph.D. Student Jovan Julien Wins the Lee B. Lusted Prize

The Lee B. Lusted Student Prize recognizes and supports outstanding young researchers in medical decision-making and health policy research areas.