ORLANDO, FL: Second year Ph.D. student, Ms. Chaoyue Zhao, advised by Professor Yongpei Guan, won the best student paper award for the paper entitled “Two-stage Robust Optimization for Power Grid with Uncertain Demand Response” from the Computer and Information Systems Division of the Institute of Industrial Engineers for this year’s Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference held in Orlando in May. Before joining the department, Chaoyue obtained her Bachelor degree in Information and Computational Sciences from Fudan University in Shanghai, China in 2010.