{"176481":{"#nid":"176481","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Buzzworthy Achievements","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe following Georgia Tech employees have been honored in recent months:\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJim Dai\u003C\/strong\u003E, Edenfield Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), was appointed editor-in-chief of Mathematics of Operations Research, the international journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMandy Volpe\u003C\/strong\u003E, marketing manager for the Department of Housing, was named to Rejuvenate Magazine\u2019s \u201c40 Under 40\u201d industry leader list.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJulie Swann\u003C\/strong\u003E, Harold R. and Mary Anne Nash Associate Professor in ISyE and co-director of the Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics, was named the College of Engineering\u2019s Georgia Power Professor of Excellence for 2012.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMuhannad Bakir\u003C\/strong\u003E, associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and \u003Cstrong\u003EDaniel Goldman\u003C\/strong\u003E, assistant professor in the School of Physics, were named 2012 DARPA Young Faculty Award Winners.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EC.F. Jeff Wu\u003C\/strong\u003E, ISyE professor and Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics, gave the 2012 Deming Lecture, an honor from the American Statistical Association given to an individual who has made significant contributions in the field of statistics.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGwen Fernandes\u003C\/strong\u003E, assistant director of International Students and Scholar Service, received the 2012 Fulbright International Education Administrators Program Award.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESeong-Hee Kim\u003C\/strong\u003E, associate professor in ISyE, was named president of the INFORMS Simulation Society for the July 1, 2012, through June 30, 2014, term.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlex Shapiro\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor in ISyE, was named editor-in-chief of Mathematical Programming, the official journal of the Mathematical Optimization Society.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EShatakshee Dhongde\u003C\/strong\u003E, assistant professor in the School of Economics, was awarded the Nancy and Richard Ruggles Memorial Fund Prize for her paper, \u201cMeasuring Segregation of the Poor in India,\u201d at the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth General Conference.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Carter Jr.\u003C\/strong\u003E, president and chief operation officer of the Georgia Tech Foundation Inc., received a Commonfund Institutionally Related Foundation Award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAwards for this feature are accepted on an ongoing basis. Provide name, title, unit and honor (spelling out acronyms) to \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:editor@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eeditor@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe following Georgia Tech employees have been honored in recent months.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The following Georgia Tech employees have been honored in recent months."}],"uid":"27445","created_gmt":"2012-12-10 15:13:25","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:22","author":"Amelia Pavlik","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-12-10T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-12-10T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1259","name":"Whistle"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"9443","name":"achievements"},{"id":"276","name":"Awards"},{"id":"1506","name":"faculty"},{"id":"167018","name":"staff"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:amelia.pavlik@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EAmelia Pavlik\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}