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
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