{"629270":{"#nid":"629270","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Alexander Shapiro Appointed as A. Russell Chandler III Chair","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) announced that Professor Alexander Shapiro has been appointed to an A. Russell Chandler III Chair.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe A. Russell Chandler III Chair endowment enhances ISyE\u0026rsquo;s ability to attract and retain eminent teacher-scholars to a position of academic leadership in industrial and systems engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am honored to be selected for an A. Russell Chandler III Chair. It will help to develop and promote my research initiatives, including supporting graduate students and dissemination results of my research,\u0026rdquo; said Shapiro.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShapiro\u0026#39;s research interests are focused on stochastic programming, risk analysis, simulation-based optimization, non-smooth analysis, and \u0026nbsp;multivariate statistical analysis.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2013 he was awarded the INFORMS Optimization Society\u0026rsquo;s Khachiyan Prize for lifetime achievements in optimization. In \u0026nbsp;2018 he was a recipient of the George B. Dantzig Prize awarded by the Mathematical Optimization Society and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShapiro serves on the editorial board of a number of professional journals. He was an area editor (optimization) of the \u003Cem\u003EOperations Research Journal\u003C\/em\u003E and served as editor-in-chief of the \u003Cem\u003EMathematical Programming, Series A, Journal\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPrior to this appointment, Shapiro held an A. Russell Chandler III professorship.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe A. Russell Chandler III Chair endowment enhances ISyE\u0026rsquo;s ability to attract and retain eminent teacher-scholars to a position of academic leadership in ISyE.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The A. Russell Chandler III Chair endowment enhances ISyE\u2019s ability to attract and retain eminent teacher-scholars to a position of academic leadership in industrial and systems engineering. "}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2019-11-22 19:16:45","changed_gmt":"2019-11-22 21:41:50","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-11-22T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-11-22T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"629269":{"id":"629269","type":"image","title":"A. Russell Chandler III Chair Alexander Shapiro","body":null,"created":"1574449237","gmt_created":"2019-11-22 19:00:37","changed":"1574449237","gmt_changed":"2019-11-22 19:00:37","alt":"A. Russell Chandler III Chair Alexander Shapiro","file":{"fid":"239653","name":"Shapiro Alex_Square.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Shapiro%20Alex_Square_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Shapiro%20Alex_Square_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":739182,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Shapiro%20Alex_Square_0.jpg?itok=NybLepo6"}}},"media_ids":["629269"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"72411","name":"Alex Shapiro"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"18651","name":"featured"},{"id":"170228","name":"A. Russell Chandler III"}],"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:swundersmith3@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EShelley Wunder-Smith\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EH. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["swundersmith3@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}