Apr 23: Paper “Predicting Additive Manufacturing Defects with Robust Feature Selection for Imbalanced Data” accepted for publication in IISE Transactions.
Group News
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Apr 23: Houser wins the ISE Shook Mentor Award

Apr 23: Shashaani wins the best IISE’s Modeling & Simulation Division Annual Teaching Award. The award will be granted at the award banquet during the IISE Conference and Expo in New Orleans.

Mar 23: The group showcased ongoing research for high school visitors at the Engineering Open House station in Fitts Wollard Hall of NC State (Centennial Campus)

Feb 23: Shashaani selected as a fellow of the Convergence Research (CORE) Institute. This fellowship will provide a solid foundation and network for the group’s future convergence research projects.
Jan 23: Shashaani featured in an inGear article about the recent NSF award and Digital Twins.
Dec 2022: Shashaani recognized for distinguished service to the 2022 Winter Simulation Conference

Dec 2022: Shashaani receives the outstanding reviewer certificate from the Journal of Simulation.

Dec 2022: Shashaani receives an NSF grant for the project “Calibrating Digital Twins in the Era of Big Data with Stochastic Optimization” starting 01/01/2023
Dec 2022: Ha unconditionally passes PhD preliminary exam and becomes a PhD candidate. Congratulations Yunsoo!

Nov 2022: Paper “Diagnostic Tools for Evaluating and Comparing Simulation-Optimization Algorithms” co-authored by Shashaani accepted in INFORMS Journal on Computing.
Nov 2022: Paper “Diagnostic Tools for Evaluating and Comparing Simulation-Optimization Algorithms” accepted for publication in INFORMS Journal on Computing.
Oct 22: Shashaani featured in the inGear “faculty in spotlight” article
Oct 2022: New paper “Monte Carlo based Machine Learning” accepted for the proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Operations Research.
Oct 2022: Vahdat unconditionally passes PhD preliminary exam to become a PhD candidate. Congratulations Kimia!

Group presentations at 2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Indianapolis:
- Vahdat – Bias quantification of input uncertainty in simulation and machine learning
- Jain – Stratified sampling impacts on robustness of simulation optimization solvers
- Ha – Proven work complexity of adaptive sampling based stochastic trust-region optimization
- Shashaani – Lessons learned for robustness and interpretability of stochastic models
- Amrutha and Taylor – Data processing and analysis for electron-beam additive manufacturing

Sep 2022: Shashaani presents “Monte Carlo and Learning” for the Junior Faculty Interest Group of INFORMS.

A link to the talk.
July 2022: Maria Davila-Colon presents her data analytics research with the group in the REU research symposium poster session.
May 2022: Ha wins the Mentored Teaching Fellowship (MTF) from College of Engineering for the Fall 22 semester to work with Shashaani as his mentor for providing teaching assistance for ISE 441.
April 2022: Accepted for publication in Journal of Optimization and Engineering – “Improved Feature Selection with Simulation Optimization” with Vahdat. Available online: View and download PDF