Awards
Research Related Awards:
Dr. Hamed K. Eldin Outstanding Early Career IE in Academia Award, IISE, (2023)
Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, SME, (2022)
Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Grant Award, National Academy of Engineering (NAE) (2022)
Robert J. Lyman Award, PCI, (2022)
IISE Manufacturing and Design Outstanding Young Investigator Award, (2022)
Selected to the US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, by National Academy of Engineering, (2021)
DOD MEEP Faculty Fellow, (2020-2022)
SPES (Statistics in Physical Engineering Sciences) Award, ASA (2022)
FTC Early Career Grant Award, American Society for Quality (2019)
Elwood S. Buffa Doctoral Dissertation Award Finalist, Decision Sciences Institute (2019)
IISE Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (2019)
Mary G. and Joseph Natrella Scholar, American Statistical Association (ASA) (2018)
Alice and John Jarvis, Ph.D. Student Research Award, Honorable Mention, Georgia Tech (2018)
IISE Outstanding Graduate Award, Georgia Tech (2017)
Best Paper or Poster Awards:
◦ Journal/Community based Best Paper Awards (5)
1) IISE Transactions Best Paper Award (Design and Manufacturing Focus Issue) (2023)
2) IISE Transactions Best Paper Award (Data Science, Quality and Reliability Focus Issue) (2023)
3) Featured Article in ISE Magazine, IISE (2022)
4) IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Best Paper Award, IEEE (2018)
5) NSK Sino-Japan Friendship Outstanding Mechanical Engineering Paper Prize (2015)
◦ Conference/Community based Best Paper Award (14)
1) ASA SPES + Q&P Best Student Paper Competition Winner, American Statistical Association (2022)
2) ASME Outstanding Paper Award, Runner-Up, for the ASME IMECE (Advanced Manufacturing) (2019)
3) IISE Data Analytics and Information System (DAIS) Best Track Paper Award Winner (2022)
4) IISE Data Analytics and Information System (DAIS) Best Student Paper Award Finalist (2022)
5) IISE Data Analytics & Information Systems Best Student Paper Award Winner (2020)
6) INFORMS Data Mining & Decision Analytics (DMDA) Best Theoretical Paper Award Finalist (2022)
7) INFORMS Data Mining & Decision Analytics (DMDA) Best Theoretical Paper Award Winner (2021)
8) INFORMS Quality, Statistics and Reliability (QSR) Best Student Paper Award Finalist (2020, 2021)
9) INFORMS Quality, Statistics and Reliability (QSR) Best Refereed Paper Award Finalist (2017, 2018, 2021)
10) INFORMS Conference on QSR Best Paper Award Finalist (2023)
11) INFORMS Data Mining Best Paper Award Finalist (2017)
◦ Best Poster Award (3)
1) ASA QPRC Best Poster Award in the Quality and Productivity Research Conference, ASA (2021)
2) ASME MSEC Best Poster Award, NAMRC/MSEC, ASME and SME (2021)
3) INFORMS Best Poster Presentation Award (2017)
Teaching Related Awards or Travel Awards:
Large Class Teaching Grant Award, Virginia Tech (2019,2020)
NETI Certificate, National Effective Teaching Institute, American Society for Engineering Education (2020)
Early Career Travel Award, American Statistical Association (2019)
Thank a Teacher, Center for Excellent in Teaching and Learning, Virginia Tech (2019,2020)
NSF Travel Award to MLSE 2018 (2018)
NSF Travel Award to Innovation Lab (2018)
SGA-College of Engineering Travel Fund, Georgia Tech (2015,2016,2018)
Students' Awards:
Yinan Wang: ASME CIE Best Dissertation Award
Yinan Wang: INFORMS QSR Best Student Paper Award Finalist (Winner TBD), INFORMS, 10/2021
Yinan Wang: ASME MSEC/NAMRC Best Poster Award, 07/2021
Yinan Wang: Gilbreth Memorial Fellowship, IISE, 05/2021
Yinan Wang: FTC Student Travel Grant Scholarship, ASQ, 06/2019
Yinan Wang: Applied Machine Learning Summer Research Fellowship, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 05/2019
Cheol-Hei Lee: INFORMS QSR Best Paper Award Finalist (Winner TBD), INFORMS, 09/2021
Cheol-Hei Lee: QPRC Best Poster Award, 07/2021
Cheol-Hei Lee: IISE Data Analytics and Information Systems (DAIS) Best Student Paper Award, 11/2020
Cheol-Hei Lee: FTC Student Travel Grant Scholarship, American Society for Quality (ASQ), 06/2019