Dr. Qianfan Wang, who graduated Summer 2013 and was advised by Dr. Yongpei Guan, took third place for the 2014 Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Institute of Industrial Engineers for his dissertation entitled “Two-Stage Chance and Expected Value Constrained… Read More
Month: June 2014
Chaoyue Zhao Honored by UF Graduate Student Council for Outstanding Research
Chaoyue Zhao, a fourth year Ph.D. student advised by Dr. Yongpei Guan, won the 2014 Outstanding Research Award from the UF Graduate Student Council for her outstanding research accomplishment on developing innovative stochastic optimization methods to integrate renewable energy into… Read More
New Chair of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Announced
Gainesville, FL: Joseph Geunes, PhD, has been appointed chair of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering of the College of Engineering at the University of Florida. Dr. Geunes has served as Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the… Read More
Scholarships
Graduate Student Awards Institute of Industrial Engineering Scholarships & Fellowships Telemundo – Poder En Ti Scholarship by Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)
Professor Pardalos to be Honored by Colleagues for 60th Birthday
Chalkidiki, Greece: In honor of the 60th birthday of Dr. Panos Pardalos, Paul and Heidi Brown Preeminent Professor, a Conference on Optimization Control and Applications in the Information Age has been organized. It will be held on June 15-20, 2014 in Chalkidiki,… Read More
Dr. Yongpei Guan Chairs ISE Research Conference
Dr. Yongpei Guan, with Dr. Haitao Liao from the University of Arizona, chaired the IIE Society 2014 Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference (ISERC) held on May 31 – June 3 in Montreal, Canada. The conference was well attended, receiving… Read More
Ghadimi and Panagopoulos Receive Graduate Student Awards
Saeed Ghadimi and Orestis Panagopoulos received graduate student awards from the ISE Department at a luncheon held May 27, 2014. Ghadimi, a student of Professor Lan who is in the final year of his PhD program, received the Hearn Graduate Student Research… Read More
Pardalos Gives Plenary Speech at Energy Conference
Dr. Panos Pardalos, Paul and Heidi Brown Preeminent Professor, recently gave an invited speech entitled “Optimization and Economic Modeling of Energy Systems Centering CO2 Issues” at the 53rd meeting of the EURO Working Group for Commodities and Financial Modelling (EWGCFM) and… Read More