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!
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
April 2022: Vahdat wins the Outstanding Doctoral Scholar of the Year at 2022 C.A. Anderson Awards!
March 2022: A new paper titled “Wake Effect Parameter Calibration with Large-Scale Field Operational Data using Stochastic Optimization” submitted.
February 2022: Ha’s new submitted paper: “Latency considerations for stochastic optimizers in variational quantum algorithms” with M. Menickelly and M. Otten.
He joins Argonne National Lab in June 2022 for a second internship to work on Quantum Computing and Monte Carlo.
February 2022: Shashaani was a judge for the first 3MT thesis competition among OR and ISE students. The winner: Zach Traylor
January 2022: Proposal titled “Impact of Future Climate Events on NC Animal Agriculture Systems” was selected for funding under the Research and Innovation Seed Funding (RISF) Program at NC State.
December 2021: Vahdat wins the Winter Simulation Conference 2021 Diversity Award.
May 2021: Vahdat to join the Liberty Mutual Insurance and Ha to join the Argonne National Lab for Summer 2021 internship.
February 2021: Shashaani awarded the NC State Faculty Research and Development Fund for a project on Quantum Computing and Monte Carlo methodology.
ref: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2019/03/quantum-risk-analysis/
Dec 2020: Paper titled “Personalized Predictions for Unplanned Urinary Tract Infection Hospitalizations with Hierarchical Clustering” by Mao, Vahdat, Shashaani, and Swann was a finalist in 2020 INFORMS CONFERENCE ON SERVICE SCIENCE Best Student Paper Competition.
