In November, deans from the Gallogly College of Engineering presented Cheryl Carney with the GCOE Superior Staff Award.
Carney has more than 30 years of service with OU, with most of those years dedicated to the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Carney is retiring from the School of ISE at the end of 2022.
Photo from left: John Klier, Carney, Randa Shehab, and Zahed Siddique.
After a competitive internal application process, the GCoE selected recipients for a chair and two professorships.
OU ISE Professor Kash Barker was awarded the John A. Meyers Professorship. Prof. Barker has been a faculty member in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering since 2008 and is a David L. Boren Professor and an Anadarko Petroleum Corporation Presidential Professor. He has an extensive publication record and is known for his work in operations research and risk analysis. He has served as an editor for several reputable journals and has recently received a Fulbright fellowship for spring 2023 in Finland. All of the PhD students he advised have gone on to positions in academia. He has received a significant amount of funding from multiple federal agencies and he also has an impressive number of collaborations with international universities.
Rachel Bennett, a Ph.D. student in the OU School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, received a student poster award at the inaugural Oklahoma Conference for Statistics, Biostatistics and Data Science.
Bennett's presentation, titled “Early Detection of Preeclampsia using a Scalable Deep Neural Network Algorithm,” focused on detecting signs of preeclampsia (high blood pressure or hypertension) during pregnancy using deep/machine learning.
Bennett conducted the research under Talayeh Razzaghi, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the OU School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Bennett shared her results at the conference and also received a cash award for her contributions.
INFORMS is the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, the primary professional organization for research and practice in operations research fields. More information about the student chapter awards can be found here: https://www.informs.org/Recognizing-Excellence/INFORMS-Prizes/Student-Chapter-Awards
Two new faculty members joined the OU School of ISE in the fall of 2022. They are joining OU ISE’s Aerospace and Defense Systems impact domain, specifically in the area of smart manufacturing processes.
Rui Zhu, Ph.D., joins the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering as an assistant professor. He holds a bachelor’s degree in manufacturing systems and design engineering from Seoul National University of Science and Technology in South Korea, a bachelor’s in manufacturing systems and design engineering from Northumbria University Newcastle in the United Kingdom, a master’s in industrial engineering, a master’s in mechanical engineering and a doctorate in mechanical engineering all from The Pennsylvania State University. Prior to joining OU ISE, Roh was employed as a researcher in the Systems Integration Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Cesar Ruiz, Ph.D., also joins the OU School of ISE School as an assistant professor. He has a bachelor’s degree in business engineering from Escuela Superior de EconomÃa y Negocios in El Salvador. He earned a master’s and a doctorate, both in industrial engineering from the University of Arkansas. Prior to joining OU ISE, Ruiz held a postdoctoral position in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California. His research interests range from data science for engineering applications to engineering-informed machine learning for additive manufacturing.
Learn more about all the new faculty joining the Gallogly College of Engineering here: https://ouccoe100.blogspot.com/2022/09/ou-engineering-welcomes-23-new-faculty.html
An ISE doctoral student, Leili Soltanisehat, was among eight students from the OU Gallogly College of Engineering selected to receive this semester’s Dissertation Excellence Award, a $5,000 award created to encourage doctoral students to graduate with excellence.
Soltanisehat, a visiting assistant professor of analytics at the University of Tulsa, defended her dissertation entitled “Risk-Based Evaluation and Management of Cyber-Physical-Social Systems during the Pandemic Crisis” in July of 2023.
More about the GCoE Dissertation Excellence Award can be found here:
https://ouccoe100.blogspot.com/2023/02/ou-engineering-presents-dissertation.html
Kash Barker, Ph.D., a David L. Boren Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering in the Gallogly College of Engineering, has been selected to receive a Fulbright U.S. Scholar fellowship for the 2022-2023 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
Barker is among approximately 800 U.S. scholars, artists and professionals selected for the honor. As Fulbright scholars, they will receive a grant to conduct research or teach abroad for the next academic year and will have the opportunity to exchange ideas and contribute to finding solutions to challenges facing communities and the world.
Barker was selected for the Fulbright Finland Foundation’s Seeking Solutions for Global Challenges program. He will spend five months at Aalto University in Finland working with Ahti Salo, a leader in decision analysis, to research how to more effectively make relocation decisions for refugees driven from their home countries due to the effects of climate change.
Barker has spent the last 14 years studying the reliability, resilience and impacts of infrastructure networks and the communities that rely on them. He will also spend part of his Fulbright stay offering lectures in the Systems Analysis Laboratory at Aalto University.
Read more about OU’s 2022-2023 Fulbright awardees here: https://www.ou.edu/web/news_events/articles/news_2022/two-ou-professors-named-fulbright-us-scholar-fellows
ISE Assistant Professors Yifu Li and Rui Zhu received the Best Paper Award in the Work Systems and Services track at IISE Annual Conference & Expo 2022 held May 21-24 in Seattle. The paper, “Advanced Modeling of Problem-solving Behavior in Virtual Reality Manufacturing Environment,” was also co-authored by Faisal Aqlan of XX and Hui Yang of Penn State University. The Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers is the primary professional society for the industrial and systems engineering profession.
Pictured below are IISE officials and the awardees. From left to right, Eileen Van Aken, IISE president-elect, Yang, Aqlan, Zhu, Li, Bopaya Bidanda, IISE immediate past president, and Amanda Mewborn, IISE president.
Two undergraduate students in the OU School of ISE were recognized at the 2022 Campus Awards on April 8, 2022. Noah Bridges, ISE senior, was named the school's outstanding senior. ISE junior Aaron Reid received both the OU Campus Life Award and the Regents' Award for Outstanding Juniors.
Learn more about the awards ceremony and the engineers honored here: https://ouccoe100.blogspot.com/2022/05/student-recipients-of-2022-campus.html
Alizadeh will defend his dissertation entitled “Managing Computational Complexity Through Using Partitioning, Approximation, and Coordination” in the summer of 2022.
More about the GCoE Dissertation Excellence Award can be found here:
https://ouccoe100.blogspot.com/2022/03/ten-ou-engineering-students-receive.html
ISE faculty member Janet Allen was included on the Standardized Citation Metrics Author Database, a global list that systematically ranks 100,000 of the most-cited scientists in the world.
Learn more here: https://ouccoe100.blogspot.com/2022/02/noted-database-places-ou-engineering.html
