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: 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.
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: Robust prediction error estimation for machine learning with Monte Carlo by Vahdat and Shashaani is now on arxiv.
July 2022: Maria Davila-Colon presents her data analytics research with the group in the REU research symposium poster session.
July 2022: Shashaani gives an intro to simulation session to ISE high school visitors.
July 2022: Shashaani wins the AAUW 2022 Research Publication Grants in Engineering, Medicine and Science. Founded in 1881, AAUW is one of the world’s largest sources of funding for graduate women, due to the generosity and legacy of generations of AAUW members. These prestigious awards are highly competitive and selective. The grant will financially support the research group in achieving its academic and professional goals.
June 2022: Shashaani elected as treasurer of INFORMS Simulation (I-Sim) Society for two years to work with Jie Xu (president), Enlu Zhou (VP / president elect), Henry Lam (secretary), and Bahar Biller and David Eckman (council).
June 2022: Two of the three teams selected from ISE562-Sp22 to attend the Simio competition were among the winners:
Team “Just Claudia” with members Claudia Donahue and Alexej Lozevski was selected the 1st place!
Team “95% confident” with members Daniel Malerich and Kelby Mace received an honorable mention!
