What Happened at the INFORMS Conference

ISE travels to Philadelphia to share some OR love

Each November the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) holds its annual conference to showcase leading research and practical applications of analytics. This year ISE faculty and students joined over 5,000 of their colleagues in the City of Brotherly Love to present their solutions to some of the most challenging analytics issues in the industry.

Minority Issues Forum Poster Competition

Seven ISE students competed against fellow scholars from around the country in a national poster contest. This was part of the Minority Issues Forum. ISE’s hopes were high as four of its seven students – Shakiba Enayati, Shadi Hassani Goodarzi, Nisha Nataraj and Zinan Yi – made it to the finals. The celebration began when they announced that Shadi Hassani Goodarzi had received third place.