U-M IOE faculty and students awarded at IISE Annual Conference and Expo
IOE faculty and students awarded for industrial and systems engineering research and scholarship.
Last week, students and faculty from the University of Michigan (U-M) Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) were recognized at the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Annual Conference and Expo. The conference, which took place from May 31 to June 3 in Atlanta, Georgia, highlights industrial and systems engineering research and industry applications.
Professor Siqian Shen named IISE Fellow
Professor Siqian Shen was named an IISE Fellow, a prestigious honor awarded to fewer than 20 people each year. Fellows are exceptional leaders who have made impactful contributions to industrial and systems engineering. Shen’s research is in integer and stochastic programming and robust and network optimization.
“IISE has always held a special place in my heart, as I earned my undergraduate, master’s and Ph.D. degrees all in industrial engineering,” Shen said. “Being recognized as an IISE Fellow, among many whom I have admired since my early days in the field, is a meaningful honor that affirms my lifelong commitment to advancing the discipline.”
Awards won by U-M IOE students and alumni
Ph.D. student Xiaoyang Song won the Quality Control and Reliability Engineering (QCRE) Best Student Paper Award with his paper titled “SEE-OoD: Supervised Exploration For Enhanced Out-of-Distribution Detection.”
His work introduces a novel generative adversarial framework for advancing Out-of-Distribution detection. Song collaborated with U-M Transportation Institute Assistant Research Scientist Wenbo Sun, American University of Beirut Assistant Professor Maher Nouehied, U-M IOE Associate Professor Raed Al Kontar and Song’s advisor, U-M IOE Professor Judy Jin.
“This recognition motivates me to further explore and push the boundaries of statistical and AI-driven methods to address real-world challenges,” he said.
Alumna Xinyu Fei won third place in the Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award for her thesis titled “Optimization Methods for Mixed-Integer Control Problems in Complex Systems.”
Recent undergraduate alums Kian Sandoval, Zitong Sun, Faith Jones, Matthew Blasius and Ian Zhu took home third place in the senior design competition with their poster “Optimizing Cost Efficiency in Nagase Warehouses and Logistics.”
“It was rewarding to see our hard work be recognized,” Sandoval said. “I feel fortunate to have had the continuous belief and support of Lecturer Prakash Sathe and our project sponsors.”
