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ISE Alumni in the News
| UF ISE PhD student Roger L. Zhan has been awarded Honorable Mention in the UPS-SOLA Dissertation Award competition at the INFORMS conference, Seattle, 2007, for his paper "Models and Algorithms for Reliable Facility Location Problems and System Reliability Optimization". | | ISE graduate and President of the Land and Armaments group of BAE Systems, Linda Hudson, was named the 43rd most powerful woman in business by Fortune Magazine. | | Sergiy Butenko, Ph.D. graduate of 2003, won a Young Investigator Program
(YIP) Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. He is on the faculty of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University. | ISE graduate and President of the Land and Armaments group of BAE Systems, Linda Hudson, discusses leadership in a recent interview with the New York Times. | | ISE graduate (PhD 2003) Gang (Derek) Chen and his Barclays Capital team has been named to the "2009 All-America Fixed Income Research Team" as the 2nd best analyst in the MBS/Prepayments category by Institutional Investor. Chen has been with Barclays Capital as a strategist in Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) in New York City since March 2006. | | ISE Alumnus Ralph Aleman delivered a keynote address on healthcare and industrial engineering at the IIE Annual Conference in June of 2009 at Miami, Florida. Aleman is CEO of Hialeah Hospital, a 378-bed acute-care facility in Hialeah, Florida. | Ph.D. program alumnus Reha Uzsoy has been named the inaugural Clifton A. Anderson Distinguished Professor in the Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at North Carolina State University. | | UF ISE PhD student Bala Vaidyanathan has won the Annual Graduate Student Paper Contest by Transportation Research Forum (TRF) for
his paper, "Multi-Commodity Network Flow Based Approaches for the Railroad Crew Scheduling Problem." He will be presenting this paper at the next TRF Meeting in Boston, March 15-17, 2007. | | UF ISE Alumna Erin Wallace, Senior VP of Operations with Walt Disney World, was honored with the 2006 IIE "Medallion Award" bestowed on those have made a notable impact on the industrial engineering profession through exceptional leadership, creative works, innovative educational, materials, and significant contribution on productivity through industrial engineering methods. | | UF ISE Alumnus and former faculty member Dr. Louis A. Martin-Vega has been named dean of the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University, effective Aug. 7. | ISE Alumnus Roger B. Broderick, a developer from Pinellas Park, Florida has provided a $100,000 endowment for the department | | Undergraduates Mike Duncan and Arianne Orillac took first and second place, respectively, in the 2005 IIE Region 3 Technical Paper Competition. | |
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