An ISE Doctoral Student Given Dissertation Award

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

OU ISE Faculty Member Kash Barker Named Fulbright Scholar

 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 Project Receives Seed Funding for DoD Supply Chain Research

The Data Institute for Societal Challenges and the Oklahoma Aerospace and Defense Innovation Institute awarded $20,000 in seed funding to a team of OU ISE professors Kash Barker and Andrés González, who are working with Elena Bessarabova in the OU Department of Communication and Sridhar Radhakrishnan in the OU School of Computer Science. The one-year multi-disciplinary project “Securing Critical Networks from Weaponized Disinformation Attacks” explores how disinformation can be spread to adversely impact critical networks, including supply chain networks. 

OU ISE Professors Win Best Paper Award

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.

Kang Elevated to IEEE Senior Member

Congratulations to Ziho Kang, an ISE associate professor, who has been elevated to the grade of IEEE senior member. The honor is bestowed only to those who have made significant contributions to the profession. IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity.

Kudos to Dr. Kang!

ISE Undergrads Given Campus Awards

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

ISE Doctoral Student Receives Campus Award

We are excited to congratulate ISE Ph.D. student Himadri Sen Gupta, who received the Paul and Rose Sharp Award for Outstanding Students from the David L. Boren College of International Studies. This award recognizes excellence, academic achievement, and commitment to international activities at the University of Oklahoma.