Dr. Panos Pardalos was awarded the EUROPT Fellow for his outstanding work and achievements in the area of continuous optimization. He was awarded this honor at the 13th EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization (July 8-10, 2015 in Edinburgh). http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/hall/EUROPT15
Guan promoted to Full Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Dr. Yongpei Guan joined the Department in 2009. His research interests include stochastic and discrete optimization, supply chain management, and renewable energy integration and power system operations. His research efforts lead to numerous awards including NSF CAREER Award 2008, ONR YIP Award 2010, and the ones as a… Read More
Kirli promoted to Master Lecturer of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Dr. Serdar Kirli joined the Department in 2001. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Florida in 1999. His teaching and research interests include decision support systems, software engineering and information technology as well as real-time control and… Read More
Professor Joseph Geunes is now a fellow of IIE
Joseph Geunes has won the Fellow Award, for his professional leadership and outstanding contributions to Industrial Engineering, from the Institute of Industrial Engineers the world’s largest professional society for industrial engineers. The Atlanta-based institute has about 15,000 members and has bestowed the honor on about… Read More
Governor Visits Gainesville for Optym Grand Opening
Governor Rick Scott traveled to Gainesville on Thursday to announce the grand opening of software company Optym’s new corporate headquarters. The company has offices in four countries and currently provides 80 jobs in Gainesville. It plans to add 100 more… Read More
Panos Pardalos – Ordinary Data, Extraordinary Outcomes
It’s in our power grids and brain scans. It’s in our government records and Facebook timelines. Name just about any aspect of life, and Panos Pardalos can tell you about its data sets. His goal is to help us understand them — and… Read More
Boginski on Infrastructure Research Team Awarded $1.1 Million NSF Grant
Gainesville, FL: Industrial & Systems Engineering professor Dr. Vladimir Boginski is part of an interdisciplinary research team recently awarded a $1.1 million grant by the National Science Foundation. Boginski aims to tackle vulnerable and interdependent issues in interdependent systems with three… Read More
Qianfan Wang Awarded Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award at IIE Annual Conference
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
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
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