Such an exciting week!
Congratulations Dr. Baris Tezcan on your PhD Defense!!

PhD Candidate Priscila de Azevedo Drummond will be presenting at #RISE2024 today! Stop by Matthews Arena this afternoon to chat about her research with ORSJ_Lab Director Kayse Lee Maass, PhD related to the impact of coordination among labor trafficking stakeholders.

I am so incredibly proud & thankful to have had the opportunity to advise Dr. Baris Tezcan during his PhD journey Northeastern COE. In addition to his technical work, he has done so much to promote ethical community-based research partnerships. 🙌 Congratulations, Dr. Tezcan!

Please note the need-based financial support deadline is soon---April 12. facctconference.org/2024/scholarsh…

Those with caregiving needs or who want to serve as student volunteers should also apply here by April 12.

Let me know if you want to virtually attend the presentation. I’ll be talking about our new scenario clustering algorithm for network interdiction with decision-dependent uncertainty and how I have worked with human trafficking survivors to build Markov models!

We are looking forward to Baris Tezcan's PhD Dissertation Defense this Wednesday! He has contributed so much to the #ORMS field these past few years to advance optimization, network theory, transdisciplinary community-based approaches, and ethical human trafficking research!

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One of our first important announcements is the Call for Participation for the ACM EAAMO Conference 2024, which will be taking place in Mexico!

The Paper Submission Deadline is April 15, 2024 (AoE) - don't miss your chance to attend!

CfP 📎 : conference.eaamo.org/cfp/

I am so so happy to see Tom become an IISE Fellow!!! He is such a wonderful mentor, advocate, collaborator, and human. I wish there were more people like Tom in this world! 🎉🥳

MIE Assistant Professor Kayse Lee Maass and Alumna Yaren Bilge Kaya, PhD'23, were featured in the Feb 2024 issue of ISE Magazine for their research on improving access to housing and support services for runaway and homeless youth.
coe.northeastern.edu/news/maass-and…
#nucoe

ICYMI: my public talk on #bracketology and the math behind March Madness was recorded and is available for viewing

#ISYE #ORMS #badgerengineers #marchmadness #finalfour #analytics

For the third INFORMS JFIG Early-Career Researchers Webinar of 2024, we will have two amazing junior faculty Kayse Lee Maass, PhD (@Northeastern) and Nikhil Garg (@cornell_tech). Registration link below! 👇

Date: Monday, March 25th
Time: 1-2pm EST

Applications now open to the 3rd annual *FutureBAProf*, the one and only workshop that demystifies academic careers in business analytics. Check out:  tippie.uiowa.edu/FutureBAProf. All participants will attend for free. Please share.

Looking for a simple way to incorporate #SocialJustice in #education ? Try homework assignments! Our paper titled 'Investigating How Social Justice Framing for Assessments Impacts Technical Learning' pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.12…

So glad to see our cross-disciplinary research in print!

We’ll be there!

There’s still time to apply for our all-expenses-paid WiscProf: Future Faculty in Engineering Workshop! Apply by this Friday (March 1) to join us in lovely Madison in May and explore an academic career.

wiscprof.engr.wisc.edu

#AcademicTwitter #PhDLife #PhDChat

🚨Nominations for the INFORMS Advocacy Governance Committee Public Engagement Award are due on May 1 🚨

📢Calling all #ORMS people! 📢

Are you raising awareness of ORMS among the broader public, press, policy makers, or NGOs?

Check out the new INFORMS Advocacy Governance Committee Public Engagement Award and nominate someone today! 🏆

informs.org/Recognizing-Ex…

Excited Daniel Lopes da Silva will be talking about his research on disrupting human trafficking networks INFORMS University of Oklahoma Student Chapter next week!

To PIs. Your legacy won’t be your pubs or awards, people will forget those. Even many Nobel prize winners are forgotten eventually. Your legacy will be the people you trained. Mentor, support and treat them with respect, so they can continue to be good leaders to future trainees.