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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Happy New Year!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Below is the quarterly update of the review time statistics of the original submissions to
<i>IISE Transactions</i>. An explanation of how the statistics are computed can be found
<a href="https://gtvault-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/yding420_gatech_edu/EX1JMbnlfxdGs9mxMR61P9kBl-jrbGWXIlb3Vy_yyXuZ-g?e=ZLYZry">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Yu Ding, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Editor in Chief,
<i>IISE Transactions</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Anderson-Interface Chair and Professor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Georgia Institute of Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">755 Ferst Drive NW | Atlanta | Georgia 30332-0205<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Office: Groseclose 346 | 404-894-7562 |
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:yu.ding@isye.gatech.edu"><span style="color:#467886">yu.ding@isye.gatech.edu</span></a> |
<a href="https://www.isye.gatech.edu/users/yu-ding"><span style="color:#467886">isye.gatech.edu/users/yu-ding</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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