Apr 26: Shashaani received the Meritorious Reviewer Award from INFORMS Journal on Computing (IJOC).
IJOC publishes a list of all Meritorious Reviewers each year in the journal.
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Apr 26: Shashaani receives the 2026 ISE Outstanding Research Award.
Mar 24: Eun presented a poster for the 2026 CCEE/ISE Alumni Celebration
Mar 26: Our group had two invited presentations at the INFORMS Optimization Society Conference in Atlanta, GA:
- Stratified Adaptive Sampling for Derivative-free Trust Region Optimization: Complexity and Applications; presented by Amici
- Stochastic Trust Region Optimization with Quadratic Regularization; presented by Shashaani
Dec 25: Shashaani’s collaboration with SAS Viya and NC State’s Ag Analytics Platform with co-PI Sharara recognized in a new piece from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. This project aims as using AI to build uncertainty-aware predictions of consequences for different farming management strategies which can help farmers make more robust decisions facing the climate change.
June 25: Ha receives the second place in the 2025 IISE Pritsker’s Doctoral Dissertation Award in Atlanta. Congrats Yunsoo!
May 25: Westlund, Newman, Billings, and Lloyd who were advised by Shashaani win the second place at ISE-NCSU for their senior design project for Waste Management with Simulation Optimization at Hitachi Energy.
Apr 25: Felice presenting her poster on stochastic constraints at the 2025 NC State Grad Symposium
Mar 25: Ha receives the prestigious IISE Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2nd Place for his dissertation “Accelerating Stochastic Derivative Free Optimization“! Congratulations Yunsoo!
Dec 24: Shashaani will be an Associate Editor of the Journal of Simulation in 2025. The Journal of Simulation is the leading journal in the field of simulation, publishing articles from researchers and practitioners on the techniques, tools, methods, and technologies of simulation, as well as on novel simulation applications.
Dec 24: Jain graduates with PhD in Industrial Engineering and continues as a visiting scholar at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Congrats Pranav!
Dec 24: Shashaani selected for the 2024-25 Goodnight Early Career Innovators Award at NC State.
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
Oct 24: Paper “Strata Design for Variance Reduction in Stochastic Simulation” is now available in Technometrics online.
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!
