[IISE Faculty List] IISE Data Analytics and Information Systems (DAIS) Professional Achievement Award

[Na Zou]

*Data Analytics and Information Systems (DAIS) Professional Achievement
Award*

The purpose of this award is to recognize an exceptional individual working
in a field (either academia or industry) who has made significant
contributions to the field of data analytics and information systems over a
period of at least 10 years of professional experience after the highest
degree, with the cumulative impact of those contributions on data analytics
and information systems being the deciding factor.

Individuals may make contributions to any or all of the following
categories:

   - Efforts and contribution to data analytics and information systems
   education
   - Dissemination of knowledge,
   - Contributions to advance research,
   - Commitment to mentoring, and
   - Improvement of the field's position or visibility,
   - Contributions to practice.

*Application Process*

   - The candidate must be an IISE and a DAIS member.
   - The candidate must be nominated by the supervisor or director of the
   candidate.
   - Nominations may be made anonymously or by anybody including
   self-nominations.
   - The onus of demonstrating merit is on the nominator.

*The nomination package must include the following elements*

   - Cover letter
   - Curriculum Vitae of the nominee
   - A detailed description of the nominee's main achievements to the
   profession, supported by the necessary documents
   - At least two, but no more than four, letters of recommendation
   attesting to the nominee's relevance and extent of professional
   accomplishments. Each letter of recommendation must be written by a single
   individual.

*Evaluation Process*

The nominee will be evaluated on the following criteria (weighting in
parenthesis) on a five-point scale (1 being the minimum and 5 being the
maximum):

   - Contributions to advance research and practice (30 percent)
   - Dissemination of knowledge, improvement of the field's standing, or
   increased visibility (30 percent)
   - Mentorship commitment (20 percent)
   - Efforts and contribution to data analytics education (20 percent)

*Conflict of Interest Policy*

Societies and divisions must follow standard conflict of interest
guidelines. Those guidelines include, but are not limited to:



   - Officers and Board members of the S/D should be ineligible for awards
   during the period of their service, without approval by the Senior VP for
   Technical Operations (SVP).  Exceptions may only be made by the SVP when
   awards are time sensitive (i.e., a Student Best Paper Award for a Student
   Board Member, when the student is graduating), and the impacted board
   member(s) or officer(s) must recuse themselves from the award process.  For
   awards that are not time-sensitive, the nominee should wait until their
   Officer or Board service is complete to be nominated.
   - The awards committee (or judging committee) should not include members
   who have either a personal or professional relationship with the nominees.
   For example, a faculty member should not be judging a paper competition
   where a student from the same university is a nominee for best student
   paper award.
   - The awards committee (or judging committee) should actively change its
   membership on a rotating basis from year to year to ensure fairness,
   equity, and diversity.  That is, some members of the judging committee
   should roll off the committee and new members should roll on.

Note, it is a best practice to document the procedures and policies of the
award committee(s) for transparency.

*Recognition*

   - Recognition at the Annual Conference:

·       at DAIS Town Hall Meeting

·       in Honors and Awards program

   - Certificate provided by IISE (either mailed or given at the town hall
   meeting).
   - Recognition in ISE magazine
   - Recognition on DAIS webpage
   <https://www.iise.org/Details.aspx?id=52433> and in the newsletter

*Deadlines*

All supporting documents in the nomination package must be submitted in a
single PDF format. Please email applications to the committee chair, Na Zou
<nzou1 at tamu.edu>, president of the IISE- DAIS.

   - Nominations deadline: *Feb. 12, 2024*
   - Winner will be notified: *Mar. 8, 2024*


Na Zou
Assistant Professor
Corrie & Jim Furber '64 Faculty Fellow
Department of Engineering Technology & Industrial Distribution
Texas A&M University

President, Data Analytics and Information Systems
Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers
https://nzou1.github.io/
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