This has been a great few years for my department of Industrial and Systems Engineering here at Lehigh, with former students Dr Ying Rong and Dr Jim Ostrowski receiving national recognition last year for their work:
- Ying was a finalist in the 2009 MSOM Student paper competition for his paper entitled "Bullwhip and Reverse Bullwhip Effects under the Rationing Game" supervised by my colleague Prof Larry Snyder (MSOM is a society of INFORMS, the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science - MSOM stands for Manufacturing and Service Operations Management),
- Jim received second prize in the George E Nicholson student paper competition (which is the general student paper competition run by INFORMS for papers in operations research and management sciences) for his paper entitled "Orbital branching", which was advised by my then colleague Prof Jeff Linderoth, now at Wisconsin-Madison.
I am happy to report that the department has received another finalist spot, this time through Ban Kawas PhD'10 in the 2010 Informs Financial Services Section paper competition, for her paper entitled "Short sales in Log-robust portfolio management", which I supervised. The winners will be announced at the annual meeting in November. Ban will start a postdoctoral fellowship at IBM Research Lab in Zurich in a few weeks.
It is very exciting to see the work of our graduate students receive such recognition in a wide array of operations-research-related areas, from supply chain management to portfolio management to pure optimization. We hope the trend will continue!
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