{"311731":{"#nid":"311731","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Student Spotlight: Plumlee Receives ARCS Scholar Award and Ellis R. Ott Scholarship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMatthew Plumlee\u003C\/strong\u003E, a fifth year Ph.D. student at the Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering, recently received two impressive awards: The Ellis R. Ott Scholarship and the Achievement Rewards for Academic Scientists (ARCS)\u0026nbsp;Scholar Awards.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Ellis R. Ott Scholarship is given based on demonstrated ability, academic achievement, industrial and teaching experience in the realm of applied statistics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe ARCS Scholars Award recognizes outstanding doctoral students who have a record of achievement and who show exceptional promise of making a significant contribution to the worldwide advancement of science and technology. This is the second consecutive year Plumlee has received this award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPlumlee\u2019s research interests focus on analytics for product and process improvement.\u0026nbsp; During his time as a student in ISyE, where he also received an M.S. in Statistics, \u0026nbsp;Plumlee was awarded both the Morris Fellowship as well as the Tennenbaum Fellowship.\u0026nbsp; Portions of his dissertation work are forthcoming in the \u003Cem\u003EJournal of the American Statistical Association\u003C\/em\u003E and \u003Cem\u003ETechnometrics\u003C\/em\u003E.\u0026nbsp; He is also the recipient of the 2012 INFORMS Quality, Reliability and Statistics Best Paper Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPlumlee has been invited to present his work at several conferences including the INFORMS Annual Meeting, the IMS\/ASA Spring Research Conference, the Joint Statistical Meetings, the Design and Analysis of Experiments Conference, the NSF CMMI Engineering Research and Innovation Conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to coming to Georgia Tech in 2010, he received a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Purdue University where he received the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship and the College of Engineering Dean\u0027s Choice Award for best poster.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMatthew Plumlee\u003C\/strong\u003E, a fifth year Ph.D. student at the Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering, recently received two impressive awards: The Ellis R. Ott Scholarship and the Achievement Rewards for Academic Scientists (ARCS)\u0026nbsp;Scholar Award.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Matthew Plumlee, a fifth year Ph.D. student at the Stewart School of Industrial \u0026 Systems Engineering, recently received two impressive awards: The Ellis R. Ott Scholarship and the Achievement Rewards for Academic Scientists (ARCS) fellowship."}],"uid":"27868","created_gmt":"2014-07-30 13:25:17","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:48","author":"Lizzie Millman","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-07-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-07-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"311721":{"id":"311721","type":"image","title":"Matthew Plumlee","body":null,"created":"1449244751","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:59:11","changed":"1475895020","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:20","alt":"Matthew Plumlee","file":{"fid":"199863","name":"img_8949.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_8949_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_8949_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":4260873,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/img_8949_0.jpg?itok=C6_uoeVL"}}},"media_ids":["311721"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4407","name":"Graduate Student"},{"id":"54761","name":"Matthew Plumlee"}],"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:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}