{"490151":{"#nid":"490151","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Faculty Spotlight: Associate Professor George Lan Is ISyE\u0027s Newest Hire","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGuanghui (George) Lan\u0026nbsp;is an associate professor in the H. Milton Stewart School\u0026nbsp;of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Lan\u0027s research interests lie in theory, algorithms, and applications of\u0026nbsp;stochastic\u0026nbsp;optimization and nonlinear programming.\u0026nbsp;Most of his current research concerns the design of efficient algorithms with strong theoretical\u0026nbsp;performance guarantees\u0026nbsp;and superior practical performance for solving challenging optimization problems. Dr. Lan is actively pursuing the application of stochastic and nonlinear optimization models\/algorithms in large-scale data analysis, such as machine learning and\u0026nbsp;image processing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Lan\u0027s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis academic honors include an NSF CAREER Award, first place in the INFORMS JFIG\u0026nbsp;Paper Competition, finalist in the Mathematical Optimization Society Tucker Prize, second place in the INFORMS George Nicholson\u0026nbsp;prize, and first place in the INFORMS Computing Society Student Paper competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe serves as an associate editor for \u003Cem\u003EComputational Optimization and Applications\u003C\/em\u003E (2014-present).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Lan received his Ph.D. from Georgia Tech in 2009 and served as a faculty member\u0026nbsp;in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida from 2009-2015.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe is a member of INFORMS.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGuanghui (George) Lan\u0026nbsp;is an associate professor in the H. Milton Stewart School\u0026nbsp;of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. He is the newest member of the ISyE faculty.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Guanghui (George) Lan is an associate professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial \u0026 Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2016-01-25 16:03:47","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:27","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-01-25T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-01-25T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"490101":{"id":"490101","type":"image","title":"New ISyE Associate Professor George Lan","body":null,"created":"1453752000","gmt_created":"2016-01-25 20:00:00","changed":"1475895245","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:05","alt":"New ISyE Associate Professor George Lan","file":{"fid":"204424","name":"gl-cropped-for-web.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gl-cropped-for-web_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gl-cropped-for-web_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":300431,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/gl-cropped-for-web_0.jpg?itok=KP-L4ccn"}}},"media_ids":["490101"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"169848","name":"George Lan"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"9167","name":"machine learning"},{"id":"1377","name":"optimization"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:shelley.wunder-smith@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EShelley Wunder-Smith\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWriter\/Editor\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404.385.4745\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["shelley.wunder-smith@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}