Industrial and Systems Engineering

Associate Professor Esra Büyüktahtakın Toy received the Best Publication Award in Natural Resources from the INFORMS section on Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment (ENRE). This award is given annually to the best-refereed journal article in the areas of interest of ENRE. The award-winning publication is titled, "A multi-stage stochastic programming approach to the optimal surveillance and control of emerald ash borer in cities."

PhD candidate Maede Maftouni won the Best Case Study Paper Award from the Quality, Statistics and Reliability (QSR) section of INFORMS! Her paper titled, “A Mask-Guided Attention Deep Learning Model for COVID-19 Diagnosis Based on an Integrated CT Scan Images Database”, was coauthored by her advisor, Zhenyu (James) Kong, Niloofar Yazdi, Fahimeh Hadavand, and ISE alumni Bo Shen and Andrew Law. 

Ph.D. candidate Raghav Gnanasambandam won 1st place in the Data Mining and Data Analytics (DMDA) Workshop Poster Competition at the 2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting! His poster titled, “Self-scalable Tanh (Stan) Activation for Physics-Informed Neural Networks", was coauthored by his advisor, Zhenyu (James) Kong, and ISE alumni Bo Shen and Jihoon Chung.