Vidya Muthukumar

Vidya Muthukumar
vmuthukumar8@gatech.edu
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Vidya Muthukumar is an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Muthukumar’s broad interests are in game theory, online and statistical learning. She is particularly interested in designing learning algorithms that provably adapt in strategic environments, fundamental properties of overparameterized models, and the foundations of multi-agent decision-making.

Dr. Muthukumar received the B.Tech (with honors) degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley. She interned at IBM Research in the summer of 2018 as a Science for Social Good fellow. Before joining Georgia Tech, she spent a semester at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing as a research fellow for the program “Theory of Reinforcement Learning.” She is the recipient of an Amazon Research Award, NSF CAREER Award, Adobe Data Science Research Award, Simons-Berkeley Google Research Fellowship, and the UC Berkeley EECS Outstanding Course Development and Teaching Award.

Dr. Muthukumar has served/is serving as an Area Chair for COLT (2021-2024), NeurIPS (2023 and 2024), ALT 2024 and UAI 2024. She also co-organizes several mentorship workshops as part of the Learning Theory Alliance team, and organized the ITALT symposium in 2024.

Assistant Professor
Additional Research
Statistical signal processingGame theorySequential decision-making
Research Focus Areas
Machine Learning
IRI And Role
Data Engineering and Science > Faculty
Data Engineering and Science
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Industrial Systems Engineering
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Roshan Joseph

Roshan Joseph
roshan@gatech.edu
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Roshan Vengazhiyil Joseph is a A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech.

Dr. Joseph's research interests are in the broad areas of applied and computational statistics. A major focus of his research is in developing novel data analytic methods for solving complex engineering problems. He has several years of consulting experience in solving quality-related problems in industries.

Dr. Joseph's honors include Distinguished Dissertation Award from the University of Michigan in 2003, CAREER Award from National Science Foundation in 2005, Jack Youden Prize from ASQ in 2005, Coca-Cola Junior Chair Professorship from ISYE in 2008, Best Paper Award from IIE Transactions in 2009, Franz Edelman Laureate from INFORMS in 2017, Statistics in Physical & Engineering Sciences Award from ASA in 2019, SPAIG Award from the ASA in 2020, and Lloyd S. Nelson Award from ASQ in 2021. He is a Fellow of ASA (elected in 2012) and ASQ (elected in 2020). Currently he is serving as the Editor of Technometrics (2020-2022).

Dr. Joseph received a Ph.D. degree in Statistics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2002 and holds an M.Tech. degree in Quality, Reliability, and Operations Research and a B.Tech. degree in Production Engineering and Management. 

A. Russell Chandler III Chair
Professor
Phone
404.894.0056
Office
Groseclose 342
Additional Research
StatisticsExperimental DesignBayesian ComputationUncertainty QuantificationQuality Engineering
Research Focus Areas
Big Data
IRI And Role
Data Engineering and Science > Faculty
Data Engineering and Science
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Industrial Systems Engineering
Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=-XDlRfAAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
Personal Website

Juba Ziani

Juba Ziani
jziani3@gatech.edu
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Juba Ziani is an Assistant Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Prior to this, Juba was a Warren Center Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, hosted by Sampath Kannan, Michael Kearns, Aaron Roth, and Rakesh Vohra. Juba completed his Phd at Caltech in the Computing and Mathematical Sciences department, where he was advised by Katrina Ligett and Adam Wierman.

Juba studies the optimization, game theoretic, economic, ethical, and societal challenges that arise from transactions and interactions involving data. In particular, his research focuses on the design of markets for data, on data privacy with a focus on "differential privacy", on fairness in machine learning and decision-making, and on strategic considerations in machine learning.

Assistant Professor
Office
Room 343 | Groseclose | 765 Ferst Dr NW | Atlanta, GA
Additional Research
Game Theory Mechanism Design Markets for Data Differential Privacy Ethics in Machine Learning Online Learning
Research Focus Areas
Big Data
Machine Learning
Security and Privacy of AI
IRI And Role
Data Engineering and Science > Faculty
Data Engineering and Science
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Industrial Systems Engineering
Google Scholar
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Diego Cifuentes

Diego Cifuentes
diego.cifuentes@isye.gatech.edu
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Diego Cifuentes is an Assistant Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. His research centers around the development of mathematical optimization methods, and the application of these methods in engineering areas such as machine learning, statistics, robotics, power systems, and computer vision. He also works in the theoretical analysis of optimization methods, leveraging geometric and combinatorial information to improve efficiency and robustness. Prior to joining ISyE, he served as an applied math instructor in MIT and as a postdoctoral researcher in the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences.

He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, and his B.S. in Mathematics and B.S. in Electronics Engineering from Universidad de los Andes.

Assistant Professor
Office
Groseclose 326
Additional Research
Mathematical optimization methodsStatisticsComputer vision
Research Focus Areas
Algorithms & Optimizations
Factory Information Systems
Machine Learning
Robotics
System Design & Optimization
IRI And Role
Data Engineering and Science > Faculty
Data Engineering and Science
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Industrial Systems Engineering
Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=WLExEWYAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

Pascal Van Hentenryck

Pascal Van Hentenryck
pascal.vanhentenryck@isye.gatech.edu
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Pascal Van Hentenryck is an A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. Prior to this appointment, he was a professor of Computer Science at Brown University for about 20 years, he led the optimization research group (about 70 people) at National ICT Australia (NICTA) (until its merger with CSIRO), and was the Seth Bonder Collegiate Professor of Engineering at the University of Michigan. Van Hentenryck is also an Honorary Professor at the Australian National University.

Van Hentenryck is a Fellow of AAAI (the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) and INFORMS (the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science). He has been awarded two honorary doctoral degrees from the University of Louvain and the university of Nantes, the IFORS Distinguished Lecturer Award, the Philip J. Bray Award for teaching excellence in the physical sciences at Brown University, the ACP Award for Research Excellence in Constraint Programming, the ICS INFORMS Prize for Research Excellence at the Intersection of Computer Science and Operations Research, and an NSF National Young Investigator Award. He received a Test of Time Award (20 years) from the Association of Logic Programming and numerous best paper awards, including at IJCAI and AAAI. Van Hentenryck has given plenary/semi-plenary talks at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (twice), the International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, the SIAM Optimization Conference, the Annual INFORMS Conference, NIPS, and many other conferences. Van Hentenryck is program co-chair of the AAAI’19 conference, a premier conference in Artificial Intelligence.

Van Hentenryck’s research focuses in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and Operations Research. His current focus is to develop methodologies, algorithms, and systems for addressing challenging problems in mobility, energy systems, resilience, and privacy. In the past, his research focused on optimization and the design and implementation of innovative optimization systems, including the CHIP programming system (a Cosytec product), the foundation of all modern constraint programming systems and the optimization programming language OPL (now an IBM Product). Van Hentenryck has also worked on computational biology, numerical analysis, and programming languages, publishing in premier journals in these areas.

Van Hentenryck runs the Seth Bonder summer Camp in Computational and Data Science for middle- and high-school students every summer. 

A. Russell Chandler III Chair
Professor
Director, AI Hub
Director, AI Institute for Advances in Optimization
Phone
(404) 385-5538
Additional Research
Electric Vehicles
Research Focus Areas
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Energy Utilization and Conservation
IRI And Role
Data Engineering and Science > Affiliated Faculty
Energy > Research Community
Data Engineering and Science
Energy
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Industrial Systems Engineering
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Nick Sahinidis

Nick Sahinidis
nikos@gatech.edu
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Nick Sahinidis is the Butler Family Chair and Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech. His current research activities are at the interface between computer science and operations research, with applications in various engineering and scientific areas, including: global optimization of mixed-integer nonlinear programs: theory, algorithms, and software; informatics problems in chemistry and biology; process and energy systems engineering. Sahinidis has served on the editorial boards of many leading journals and in various positions within AIChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers). He has also served on numerous positions within INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences), including Chair of the INFORMS Optimization Society. He received an NSF CAREER award, the INFORMS Computing Society Prize, the MOS Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize, the Computing in Chemical Engineering Award, the Constantin Carathéodory Prize, and the National Award and Gold Medal from the Hellenic Operational Research Society. Sahinidis is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of AIChE and INFORMS.

Gary C. Butler Family Chair
Professor
Phone
(404) 894-3036
Research Focus Areas
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
IRI And Role
Bioengineering and Bioscience > Faculty
Manufacturing > Affiliated Faculty
Energy > Research Community
Manufacturing
Bioengineering and Bioscience
Energy
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Industrial Systems Engineering

Chen Zhou

Chen Zhou
chen.zhou@isye.gatech.edu
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Chen Zhou is the associate chair for undergraduate studies and associate professor in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech.. Dr. Zhou's research focus includes sustainable supply chain, distribution system design and manufacturing systems. Dr. Chen is a member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, Society of Manufacturing Engineers and American Society of Engineering Education. Dr. Zhou received a B.S. degree from Tianjin University (China) in 1982, an M.S. in mechanical engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 1984, and a Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 1988.

Associate Professor; School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies; School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Phone
404.894.2326
Office
Groseclose 217
Additional Research
Warehousing design and analysis; Manufacturing Systems
Research Focus Areas
Collaborative Robotics
IRI And Role
Robotics > Affiliate
Robotics
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Industrial Systems Engineering

Spyros Reveliotis

Spyros Reveliotis
spyros@isye.gatech.edu
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Spyros Reveliotis is a professor in the Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. Dr. Reveliotis' research interests are primarily in discrete event systems theory and its applications, especially in the control of flexibly automated workflows and the traffic management of multi-agent systems evolving over graphs. He also has an active interest in machine learning theory and its applications. Dr. Reveliotis is an IEEE Fellow, and a member of INFORMS. Dr. Reveliotis completed his Ph.D. studies in industrial engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also holds a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and an M.Sc. degree in Computer Systems Engineering from Northeastern University.

Professor; School of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Phone
404.894.6608
Office
Groseclose, 325
Additional Research
Discrete Event Systems; Scheduling Theory; Markov Decision Processes; Machine Learning
Research Focus Areas
Collaborative Robotics
IRI And Role
Robotics > Core Faculty
Manufacturing
Robotics
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Industrial Systems Engineering
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Turgay Ayer

Turgay Ayer
tayer3@mail.gatech.edu
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Turgay Ayer is the Virginia C. and Joseph C. Mello Chair and a professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. Ayer also serves as the research director for healthcare analytics and business intelligence in the Center for Health & Humanitarian Systems at Georgia Tech and holds a courtesy appointment at Emory Medical School.

His research focuses on healthcare analytics and socially responsible business analytics with a particular emphasis on practice-focused research. His research papers have been published in top tier management, engineering, and medical journals, and covered by popular media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, U.S. News, and NPR.

Ayer has received over $2.5 million grant funding and several awards for his work, including an NSF CAREER Award (2015), first place in MSOM Responsible Research in Operations Management (2019), first place in the MSOM Best Practice-Based Research Competition (2017), INFORMS Franz Edelman Laureate Award (2017), and Society for Medical Decision Making Lee Lusted Award (2009).

Ayer serves an associate editor for Operations Research, Management Science, and MSOM, and is a past president of the INFORMS Health Application Society. He received a B.S. in industrial engineering from Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in industrial and systems engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Virginia C. and Joseph C. Mello Chair
Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering
Research Director of Business Intelligence and Healthcare Analytics, Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems
Phone
404-385-6038
Additional Research
Socially Responsible Operations; Practice-focused Research; Healthcare Analytics
Research Focus Areas
Lifelong Health and Well-Being
Public Health
Smart Cities and Inclusive Innovation
Systems Biology
IRI And Role
Bioengineering and Bioscience > Faculty
People and Technology > Affiliated Faculty
People and Technology
Bioengineering and Bioscience
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Industrial Systems Engineering
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Personal Research Website Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems

Jianjun Shi

Jianjun Shi
jshi33@isye.gatech.edu
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Dr. Jianjun Shi is the Carolyn J. Stewart Chair and Professor in H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, with joint appointment in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Georgia Tech in 2008, he was the G. Lawton and Louise G. Johnson Professor of Engineering at the University of Michigan. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Beijing Institute of Technology in 1984 and 1987, and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1992. Dr. Shi is a pioneer in the development and application of data fusion for quality improvements. His methodologies integrate system informatics, advanced statistics, and control theory for the design and operational improvements of manufacturing and service systems by fusing engineering systems models with data science methods. He has produced 40 Ph.D. graduates, 27 of which have joined IE department as faculty members. Among them, 7 have received NSF CAREER Awards and one has received the NSF PECASE award. He has published one book and more than 180 papers. He has served as PI and co-PI for projects totaling more than 25 million dollars, which were funded by National Science Foundation, NIST Advanced Technology Program, Department of Energy, General Motors, Daimler-Chrysler, Ford, Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, Honeywell, Pfizer, Samsung, and various other industrial companies and funding agencies. The technologies developed in Dr. Shi’s research group have been widely implemented in various production systems with significant economic impacts. 

Dr. Shi is the founding chair of the Quality, Statistics and Reliability (QSR) Subdivision at the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS). He has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IISE Transactions (2017-2020), the flagship journal of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers. He also served as the Focus Issue Editor of IISE Transactions on Quality and Reliability Engineering (2007-2017), editor of Journal of System Science and Complexity, and advisory editor of Journal of Quality Technology and Quantitative Management (QTQM). He is a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME), a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering (IISE), a Fellow of Institute of Operations Research and the Management Science (INFORMS), a Fellow of Society of Manufacturing Engineering (SME), an Academician of the International Academy for Quality, and a member of National Academy of Engineering (NAE) of the USA. 

Dr. Shi received various awards for his research and teaching, including the George Box Medal (2022), ASQ Walter Shewhart Medal (2021), The S. M. Wu Research Implementation Award (2021), ASQ Brumbaugh Award (2019), The Horace Pops Medal Award (2018), IISE David F. Baker Distinguished Research Award (2016), the IIE Albert G. Holzman Distinguished Educator Award (2011), Forging Achievement Award from Forging Industry Educational and Research Foundation (2007), Monroe-Brown Foundation Research Excellence Award (2007), the 1938E Award (1998) at The University of Michigan, and NSF CAREER Award (1996).

Carolyn J. Stewart Chair and Professor
Phone
404.385.3488
Office
ISyE Main Building, Room 109
Additional Research
System informatics and control
Research Focus Areas
Advanced Manufacturing
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Factory Information Systems
System Informatics and Control
IRI And Role
Manufacturing > Affiliated Faculty
Data Engineering and Science > Research Community
Data Engineering and Science > TRIAD Associate
Manufacturing
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Industrial Systems Engineering
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