Student Accomplishments

ISE Graduate Students have received many accolades and obtained jobs in academia as well as industry.  Here are some examples from the last few years:

Best Dissertation Award

  • Hamed Rahimian (Ph.D. ’18), 2019 Pritsker Best Dissertation Award, 2nd Place, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering (IISE),  for the dissertation entitled “Risk-Averse and Distributionally Robust Optimization: Methodology and Applications,” (Adviser: Guzin Bayraksan)

Best Paper Awards

  • Xuan Wu (Ph.D. ’18), 2020 Best Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, for the paper jointly with Antonio Conejo entitled  “Security-constrained ACOPF: Incorporating worst contingencies and discrete controllers,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 35, no.3, pp. 1936-1945, May 2020  (Adviser: Antonio Conejo)
  • Sandeep Srinivasan (Ph.D. student), 2020 Editor’s Choice Award, Journal of Minerals, Metals and Materials, for the paper Srinivasan, S., Swick, B. & Groeber, M.A. “Laser Powder Bed Fusion Parameter Selection via Machine-Learning-Augmented Process Modeling”, JOM 72, 4393–4403, 2020. (Adviser: Michael Groeber)

Fellowships and Competition Awards

  • Morgan Reynolds (Ph.D. student).  Winner, Young Talents Program, 2021. Given by Resilience Engineering Association  (Adviser: Mike Rayo)
  • Jesse Marquisee (M.S. ’20), Christine Jefferies (Ph.D. student), Greg Metzger,  Finalists, Student mHealth Design Competition, Human Factors in Healthcare Symposium, 2020. Given by Human Factors and Ergonomics Society  (Adviser: Mike Rayo)
  • Lin Zhang (Ph.D. ‘19)., Presidential Graduate Fellowship, 2019.  (Adviser: Allen Yi)

Placement in Academia

  • Sayak Roychowdhury (Ph.D. ’17), Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur  Started: 2018 (Adviser: Ted Allen)
  • Hamed Rahimian (Ph.D. ’18),  Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering

Clemson University  Started: 2020 (Adviser: Guzin Bayraksan)

  • Ardiyanto Ardiyanto (Ph.D. ’20), Instructor Faculty, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia  (Adviser: Carolyn Sommerlich)
  • Olivia Hernandez (Ph.D. ’20), Postdoctoral researcher, Drexel University  (Adviser: Ted Allen)

Placement in Industry

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