[Iefac.list] INFORMS Annual Meeting 2015 - Quality, Statistics and Reliability Sponsored Session Highlights

[Hui Yang]

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

INFORMS 2015 Annual Conference is approaching.  In 2015, QSR cluster is sponsoring a total of 47 sessions, including 31 research sessions, 1 QSR refereed session (best paper competition), 2 QSR student sessions (best student paper competition and student interaction/poster competition), 6 journal sponsored session (2 IEEE TASE, 1 IEEE Intelligent systems, 1 JQT, 1 IIE transaction, 1 Quality engineering), 7 panel sessions (IOT, publishing, big data, funding opportunities and 3 DDDAS sessions). These sessions cover a broad spectrum of topics, such as data fusion, healthcare, energy, SPC and monitoring, data analytics, reliability, maintainability, quality, game theory, Bayesian methods, sensor informatics, and system modeling. 

Among many exciting activities and attractive presentations in QSR cluster, we would like to highlight below several special sessions for your consideration. We welcome you to attend these sessions and hope you find these sessions of interest and of value.

(1) Business Meeting - INFORMS Quality, Statistics & Reliability Section
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, Philadelphia Convention Center - 106B, 100 Level 6:15-7:15pm

(2) Sunday Nov 01, 08:00 - 09:30 : IEEE T-ASE Invited Session: Manufacturing Systems Automation
Chair: 	Jingshan Li,Professor, 1513 University Ave, Madison WI 53706, United States of America, jli252 at wisc.edu

(3) Sunday Nov 01, 11:00 - 12:30 : QSR Refereed Research Session
Chair: 	Tirthankar Dasgupta,Associate Professor, Harvard University, Department of Statistics, 1 Oxford Street, 7th Floor, Cambridge MA 02138, United States of America, dasgupta at stat.harvard.edu
	Haitao Liao,Associate Professor, The University of Arizona, The University of Arizona, Tucson AZ 85716, United States of America, hliao at email.arizona.edu
	Hui Yang,Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University, 310 Leonhard Building, Industrial and Manufacturing Eng., State College PA 16801, United States of America, huy25 at psu.edu

(4) Sunday Nov 01, 11:00 - 12:30 : QSR Student Introduction and Interaction and Best Student Poster Competition
Chair: 	Kaibo Wang,Associate Professor, Tsinghua University, Department of Industrial Engineering, Beijing, China, kbwang at tsinghua.edu.cn
	Hui Yang,Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University, 310 Leonhard Building, Industrial and Manufacturing Eng., State College PA 16801, United States of America, huy25 at psu.edu

(5) Sunday Nov 01, 13:30 - 15:00 : IEEE Intelligent Systems Invited Panel Discussion on Healthcare Intelligence
Chair: 	Hui Yang,Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University, 310 Leonhard Building, Industrial and Manufacturing Eng., State College PA 16801, United States of America, huy25 at psu.edu

(6) Sunday Nov 01, 13:30 - 15:00 : Panel Discussion: IoT-enabled Data Analytics: Opportunities, Challenges and Applications
Chair: 	Kaibo Liu,Assitant Professor, UW-Madison, 1513 University Avenue, Madison 53706, United States of America, kliu8 at wisc.edu

(7) Sunday Nov 01, 13:30 - 15:00 : Quality Engineering invited session
Chair: 	Trevor Craney,Shell, Houston TX, United States of America, Trevor.A.Craney at shell.com

(8) Sunday Nov 01, 16:30 - 18:00 : IIE Transactions invited session
Chair: 	Jianjun Shi,Georgia Institute of Technology, 765 Ferst Dr, Atlanta, United States of America, jianjun.shi at isye.gatech.edu

(9) Sunday Nov 01, 16:30 - 18:00 : Panel Discussion: Funding Opportunities
Chair: 	Abhishek Shrivastava,Assistant Professor, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, Dept of Industrial & Manufacturing Eng, Tallahassee FL 32310, United States of America, ashrivastava at fsu.edu

(10) Monday Nov 02, 08:00 - 09:30 : 2015 QSR Best Student Paper Competition
Chair: 	Eunshin Byon,Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, 1205 Beal Avenue, Ann Arbor MI 48109, United States of America, ebyon at umich.edu

(11) Monday Nov 02, 08:00 - 09:30 : IEEE T-ASE Invited Session: Healthcare and Service Systems Automation
Chair: 	Jingshan Li,Professor, 1513 University Ave, Madison WI 53706, United States of America, jli252 at wisc.edu

(12) Monday Nov 02, 11:00 - 12:30 : Journal of Quality Technology (JQT) Invited Session
Chair: 	Fugee Tsung,Prof., HKUST, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong - PRC, season at ust.hk

(13) Monday Nov 02, 13:30 - 15:00 : Panel Discussion on "Publishing in Quality and Reliability: The Editor's Perspective"
Chair: 	Hui Yang,Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University, 310 Leonhard Building, Industrial and Manufacturing Eng., State College PA 16801, United States of America, huy25 at psu.edu

(14) Monday Nov 02, 16:30 - 18:00 : Panel Discussion on Big Data Science - Opportunities and Challenges
Chair: 	Hui Yang,Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University, 310 Leonhard Building, Industrial and Manufacturing Eng., State College PA 16801, United States of America, huy25 at psu.edu

(15) Tuesday Nov 03, 08:00 - 09:30 : DDDAS for Industrial and System Engineering Applications I
Chair: 	Shiyu Zhou,Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Industrial and Systems Eng, 1513 University Avenue, Madison WI 53706, United States of America, shiyuzhou at wisc.edu
	Yu Ding,Professor, Texas A&M University, ETB 4016, MS 3131, College Station, United States of America, yuding at iemail.tamu.edu

(16) Tuesday Nov 03, 11:00 - 12:30 : DDDAS for Industrial and System Engineering Applications II
Chair: 	Shiyu Zhou,Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Industrial and Systems Eng, 1513 University Avenue, Madison WI 53706, United States of America, shiyuzhou at wisc.edu
	Yu Ding,Professor, Texas A&M University, ETB 4016, MS 3131, College Station, United States of America, yuding at iemail.tamu.edu

(17) Tuesday Nov 03, 13:30 - 15:00 : DDDAS for Industrial and System Engineering Applications III
Chair: 	Shiyu Zhou,Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Industrial and Systems Eng, 1513 University Avenue, Madison WI 53706, United States of America, shiyuzhou at wisc.edu
	Yu Ding,Professor, Texas A&M University, ETB 4016, MS 3131, College Station, United States of America, yuding at iemail.tamu.edu

(18) Tuesday Nov 03, 13:30 - 15:00 : Technometrics Invited session on Innovative Methods for System Informatics
Chair: 	Peihua Qiu,Professor, University of Florida, 2004 Mowry Road, Gainesville FL 32610, United States of America, pqiu at phhp.ufl.edu

In addition to these events, the information for all QSR sponsored sessions can be found at:
https://informs.emeetingsonline.com/emeetings/formbuilder/clustersessionlist.asp?clnno=3340&mmnno=272

We look forward to seeing you in Philadelphia for a successful conference!

Best regards,

Hui
INFORMS 2015 QSR Cluster Chair
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Hui Yang

Associate Professor
Harold and Inge Marcus Department of 
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University
310 Leonard Building, University Park, PA 16802
Tel: (814) 865-7397, Fax: (814) 863-4745
Email: huy25 at psu.edu