[IISE Faculty List] Call for Participation: 2025 IISE QCRE Data Challenge Competition

Thu Feb 20 21:48:20 EST 2025

Hi,
I would like to share the following updated message to the iefac list. Thank you so much.

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Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Quality Control & Reliability Engineering (QCRE) community, we would like to invite you to participate in the 2025 QCRE Data Challenge Competition at the IISE Annual Conference.
In this data challenge, a research problem of Vertebral Fracture Detection is posed to participants. The organizing committee will hold a Q&A session through an online Teams meeting from 11AM to 12PM CST on February 21st, 2025. The Q&A session will be recorded and posted on https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.iise.org%2FDetails.aspx%3Fid%3D52424&data=05%7C02%7Ciefac.list%40mailman.clemson.edu%7Cf395ab8ece7c47c9b9d308dd52223586%7C0c9bf8f6ccad4b87818d49026938aa97%7C0%7C0%7C638757029090855302%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=OQWdUX0ZwEK5oEySIvl%2BzOLQk%2B4MSj69TDrSq976MmA%3D&reserved=0

Meeting link: link.iise.org/QCREData2025<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/ap/t-59584e83/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fteams.microsoft.com%2Fl%2Fmeetup-join%2F19%253ameeting_ZWExOWRjZWItM2FkNS00NjZlLTk1MWEtMjdiZWYwYjdhZTdh%2540thread.v2%2F0%3Fcontext%3D%257b%2522Tid%2522%253a%25221bf21f59-ba3f-4757-8a65-44b4acb89f42%2522%252c%2522Oid%2522%253a%2522b85794af-4f32-408b-86d2-ce2d13c8e09a%2522%257d&data=05%7C02%7Ciefac.list%40mailman.clemson.edu%7Cf395ab8ece7c47c9b9d308dd52223586%7C0c9bf8f6ccad4b87818d49026938aa97%7C0%7C0%7C638757029090873767%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=af7Z%2BnuhSS0ZW%2BYaVccJg%2B39plI8ApqPg5fHeGJ9qpc%3D&reserved=0>, 11AM to 12PM CST on February 21st, 2025.

Eligibility

  *   Individuals or teams of a maximum of four members.
  *   At least one of the team members must be an active member of the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE) and Quality Control & Reliability Engineering (QCRE) division.
  *   Each team can only participate once.
  *   Each team should submit a Notice of Intent Form to enter the competition (check details in the Notice of Intent section).
  *   Completing Steps 1-3 in the Submission section is required for any team to be eligible as a finalist. (Please visit the official website for more details https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.iise.org%2FDetails.aspx%3Fid%3D52424&data=05%7C02%7Ciefac.list%40mailman.clemson.edu%7Cf395ab8ece7c47c9b9d308dd52223586%7C0c9bf8f6ccad4b87818d49026938aa97%7C0%7C0%7C638757029090916953%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=wjzuFENT0ncpYTojeQ8%2FuwxT6xpysX7onO3DPHRn2h4%3D&reserved=0)
  *   Participating teams are required to publicly release their solutions, including source code and trained model weights, on open-source platforms under the MIT license.
  *   Finalist teams acknowledge that the competition organizers will publish their technical papers, solutions, source code, and trained model weights on the official competition GitHub page.
  *   Participants must not share the challenge data publicly. Instead, they should refer to the original data request link provided by the competition organizers for access and distribution guidelines.

Notice of Intent
Each team must submit a Notice of Intent Form by March 7th, 2025, through https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.office.com%2Fr%2Fics3Lx9y6V&data=05%7C02%7Ciefac.list%40mailman.clemson.edu%7Cf395ab8ece7c47c9b9d308dd52223586%7C0c9bf8f6ccad4b87818d49026938aa97%7C0%7C0%7C638757029090933184%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=m3MDCm3g1wBidxJ2jQ9%2FGhgM5%2FekhoGd0KdNf4tMyCE%3D&reserved=0 to express their interest in entering the competition. The data will start to be released to each team on a First Come First Serve. The form requires the following information: Team members, Institution, Main point of contact (name and email address), and Copyright release agreement.

Award
A maximum of the top four teams will be selected as finalists and will receive both a certificate and a monetary award based on their ranking. All the eligible finalists will also be recognized in the QCRE town hall meeting. If a team is unable to meet any item in the Eligibility section, the team may be excluded from the finalist selection. In this case, fewer than four teams may be awarded.

  *   The 1st prize comprises a certificate and a cash prize of $1,000.
  *   The 2nd prize comprises a certificate and a cash prize of $500.
  *   The 3rd prize comprises a certificate and a cash prize of $200.
  *   The 4th prize comprises a certificate and a cash prize of $100.

Important dates/deadlines

  *   Notice of Intent: March 7th, 2025
  *   Data will be released upon receiving the Notice of Intent and no later than March 14th.
  *   Deadline for submission of the results: April 14th, 2025
  *   Notification to the finalist teams: April 21st, 2025
  *   IISE Annual Conference & Expo, May 31 - June 3, 2025
Please visit the official website for more details https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.iise.org%2FDetails.aspx%3Fid%3D52424&data=05%7C02%7Ciefac.list%40mailman.clemson.edu%7Cf395ab8ece7c47c9b9d308dd52223586%7C0c9bf8f6ccad4b87818d49026938aa97%7C0%7C0%7C638757029090945444%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=7bL9c1DOCKzAeZ7BmzwtCiqcoRalRA9t4UOEx6DRus8%3D&reserved=0

Competition Chairs
Syed Hasib Akhter Faruqui, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Engineering Technology
Sam Houston State University
shf006 at shsu.edu<mailto:shf006 at shsu.edu>

Qing Li, Ph.D. in Statistics
Assistant Professor
Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Iowa State University
qlijane at iastate.edu<mailto:qlijane at iastate.edu>

Haifeng Wang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Mississippi State University
wang at ise.msstate.edu<mailto:wang at ise.msstate.edu>

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Haifeng Wang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor | Co-Graduate Coordinator
Industrial and Systems Engineering, Mississippi State University
Address: 479-2 Hardy Road, Mississippi State, MS 39762
Office: 260P McCain Hall | Phone: (662) 325-3923

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