Several Georgia Tech professors and students from the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial Systems and Engineering (ISyE) recently received awards at the INFORMS convention for their research and papers.  The 2011 INFORMS Annual Meeting was held at the Charlotte Convention Center in Charlotte, North Carolina on November 13, 2011.  INFORMS, the largest professional society in the world for professionals in the field of operations research (OR), management science, and business analytics, serves the scientific and professional needs of Operations Researchers and those in the Management Sciences including educators, scientists, students, managers, and consultants.

Daniel Dadush, an ISyE Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization PhD student at Georgia Tech, was selected as the winner of the 2011 INFORMS Optimization Society Student Paper Prize for his paper “On the Chvatal-Gomory Closure of a Compact Convex Set.”  The paper was co-authored with Santanu Dey, assistant professor in ISyE, and Juan Pablo Vielma, who received his PhD from ISyE in 2009 and was the 2007 recipient of the Optimization Society Student Paper Prize.

Turgay Ayer, ISyE assistant professor, was honored with three awards for his research in breast cancer screening policies.  Ayer was chosen as the first place winner for the Doing Good with Good OR Competition for his project “Redesigning the Breast Cancer Screening Policies.” Submissions for this award were expected to have a significant societal impact and include innovation through theory and creative computational methods.

Sigrun Andradottir, ISyE professor, was presented with the Harold W. Kuhn Award for her paper “Adaptive Random Search for Continuous Simulation Optimization,” co-authored with Andrei Prudius, MS OR 2004, PhD IE 2007, who was the co-recipient of the award.  Andradottir joined the faculty of Georgia Tech in 1995. Her research interests are in simulation, applied probability, and stochastic optimization.

Jessica Heier Stamm, PhD IE 2010, was the recipient of the 2011 INFORMS Transportation and Logistics Society Dissertation Prize for her dissertation, “Design and Analysis of Humanitarian and Public Health Logistics Systems,” which was completed under the direction of Ozlem Ergun and Julie Swann, associate professors in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering.  The award is the oldest and most prestigious honor for doctoral dissertations in the transportation science and logistics area. The twenty-four submissions were judged on fundamental contribution and originality of the ideas or methods; practical importance or applicability in solving important real problems; and clarity and excellence of the exposition.