Nov 24: Project on Uncertainty Quantification for Irrigation and Lagoon Management with collaborators from College of Agriculture and College of Science is selected for integration in NC Ag Analytics Platform Initiative in Partnership with NCSU, NC A&T, and SAS
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Jul 24: Shashaani and collaborators, Rachunok and Kern are the winners of U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Electricity (OE) Phase 1 Track 1 of the Digitizing Utilities Prize. The project is about providing estimates of likely future severe weather outages with sufficient lead time to make timely staffing and crew dispatching decisions, partnering with North Carolina’s Electric Cooperatives (NCEC), which has identified winter ice storms and summer thunderstorms, tropical storms, and lower-intensity hurricanes as among their most difficult-to-staff challenges.
Jul 24: Paper “Data Farming the Parameters of Simulation-Optimization Solvers” accepted for publication in the Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation.
Jul 24: Research project “Collaborative Research: Elements: A Computational and Data-Capable Environment for Stochastic Simulation Optimization” funded by the National Science Foundation OAC-CSSI (Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation). Shashaani and collaborators Eckman and Henderson will start immediately for this exciting three-year project to expand the SimOpt library.
May 24: Shashaani is awarded a grant for a three-year project on “Fast and Scalable Stochastic Derivative-free Optimization” from Office of Naval Research. Shashaani will lead this effort seeking to excel stochastic optimization in theory and practice for black-box noisy problems of large scales.
Apr 24: last day of an awesome class with these guys learning (almost) everything about simulation optimization
Apr 24: Shashaani and Houser celebrating last session of Simulation Modeling class! Students are now to work on their final project–simulating a made-to-order Mexican food restaurant. Can simulations helps us identify what is the bottleneck in Chipotle queue? Good luck students and looking forward to your simulation!!
PS: Thank you TAs Ethan Houser and Nicole Felice for all your help!
Mar 24: Shashaani to present a tutorial on Simulation Optimization in 2024 Winter Simulation Conference at Orlando!
Mar 2024: Paper “Building Trees for Probabilistic Prediction via Scoring Rules” is tentatively accepted at Technometrics
Jan 24: New paper “Two-stage Estimation and Variance Modeling for Variational Quantum Algorithms” submitted.
Dec 23: Shashaani selected for the Baden-Württemberg/North Carolina – Faculty Mobility Program.
Nov 23: Shashaani and colleagues from Biological & Agricultural Engineering and Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences win a 1-year grant from NC Department of Justice to minimize impacts of climate variability on NC swine farms through the use of simulations and decision-making under uncertainty
Aug 23: Vahdat successfully defended her PhD dissertation and will be a data analyst in Liberty Mutual after graduate school. Congratulations Kimia!
Jul 23: Shashaani featured in an ISE News article here.
May 23: sneak peak of the ISE graduation celebration.
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.
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.
Nov 2022: Shashaani invited as presenter of the scholarship for women fundraiser entitled Global Frames of Reference: Advocating Ethical Voice, Economic Empowerment and Diversity. More details to follow in the coming weeks.
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.
