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Lehigh ISE Fall 2020  ‌ Dear Colleagues, The Lehigh ISE Department is pleased to share its highlights from 2020. Our outstanding faculty and alumni continue to inspire us during these unprecedented times. You are also very welcome to read our Newsletter 2020. Stay healthy! Luis Luis Nunes Vicente http://www.lehigh.edu/lnv Timothy J. Wilmott Endowed Chair Professor and Department Chair Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE), Lehigh University Please click here for our Newsletter 2020 Daniel P. Robinson joined ISE Lehigh faculty in 2019  The Lehigh ISE is proud to announce that Dr. Daniel P. Robinson, hired in July 2019, is now a tenured Associate Professor of our department. Daniel earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of California, San Diego. He has previously served as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Oxford University, a Postdoctoral Researcher and Visiting Professor at Northwestern University, and as an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University. Daniel works at the intersection of Mathematical Optimization and Data Science. His broad research interests include Applied Linear Algebra, Operations Research, and Applied Mathematics. He designs, analyzes, and implements algorithms for solving continuous optimization problems arising from real-life applications. Click for full text Aida Khajavirad joined ISE Lehigh faculty  ISE Lehigh welcomes Dr. Aida Khajavirad as tenure-track Assistant Professor beginning Fall 2020. Aida received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2012. Her career includes a faculty position at the University of Texas at Austin and a research scientist position at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Aida’s main research goal has been to advance the state-of-the-art in the global optimization of Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP) at theoretical, algorithmic, and software levels. Her work on convexification of multilinear sets has been recognized by the 2017 INFORMS Optimization Society Prize for Young Researchers. Click for full text Karmel S. Shehadeh joined ISE Lehigh faculty  ISE Lehigh welcomes Dr. Karmel S. Shehadeh as tenure-track Assistant Professor beginning Fall 2020. Karmel obtained her Ph.D. in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan in August 2019. In 2019/2020, she was a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. Karmel's broad methodological research expertise and interests include scheduling theory and algorithms, integer programming, and stochastic optimization. Her primary application areas and expertise are in healthcare operations and analytics. Click for full text ‌ Tamás Terlaky elected to CAE and appointed EiC of JOTA  Tamás Terlaky, George N. and Soteria Kledaras ’87 Endowed Chair Professor, Lehigh’s ISE, has been elected to The Canadian Academy of Engineering. The election was announced on June 15, 2020. The Induction Ceremony, will be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia in June 2021. CAE fellows are preeminent in their field and serve as exemplary models to their industry and communities.  Furthermore, Tamás has just been nominated Editor in Chief of the Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (JOTA). He will certainly make a great contribution to the research community in revamping this longstanding reputed journal. Click for full text ‌ Lehigh ISE wins 2nd place in the DOE's Grid Optimization Competition  A team including Lehigh’s ISE Associate Professor Frank E. Curtis was awarded second place in the highly competitive Grid Optimization (GO) Competition, run and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, through ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy).         The goal of the GO Competition was to design an algorithm and implement software to solve security constrained optimal power flow problems, intended to optimize grid design and operations, considering possibilities of failures, such as of generators or transmission lines. More than 25 teams competed, and the GO-SNIP team, formed by Frank E. Curtis (PI) and members Daniel Molzahn (Georgia Tech), Andreas Wachter, Ermin Wei, and Ruby Tushen (Northwestern), and Elizabeth Wong (UC San Diego), came in the top 10 (with respective placements of #4, #3, #2, and #2) in each of the four divisions, placing the team in second place overall with an award of $400K. Click for full text $2.1M DARPA grant to be in the vanguard of Quantum Computing Tamás Terlaky Boris Defourny Luis F. Zuluaga Xiu Yang Lehigh University will soon be on the front lines of the quantum computing revolution. With support from a recently awarded $2,128,658 research grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), an international group led by industrial and systems engineering (ISE) faculty members Tamás Terlaky, Luis F. Zuluaga, Boris Defourny, and Xiu Yang will work on optimization algorithms in quantum computing. “We want to explore the power of existing quantum computers, and those that are predicted to exist in the future,” says Terlaky, who is a member of the Quantum Computing and Optimization Lab (QCOL) in Lehigh ISE. The lab was established in 2019 to accelerate the development of quantum computing optimization methodology, and associated faculty launched the university’s first quantum computing course in the Spring 2020 semester. Click for full text ‌ David Burdakin received 2020 ISE Distinguished Alumni Award  The ISE Department is delighted to announce David Burdakin ’77 as the recipient of the 2020 ISE Distinguished Alumni Award. This award is presented to graduates of the department who have distinguished themselves professionally, made significant contributions to society, and through their achievements, have reflected credit on Lehigh University. Recipients are selected by members of the ISE faculty. Dave Burdakin is Executive Vice President and President JBT AeroTech for John Bean Technologies Corporation (NYSE: JBT), a position he has held since early 2014. JBT AeroTech is America’s leading provider of Airport Gate and Ground Support Equipment. Most known for its Jetway© brand passenger boarding bridges, JBT is also a leading global manufacturer of deicer trucks, cargo loaders and pushback tractors as well as providers of technical maintenance services at over 20 major airports. 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