Message from the Division President
Dear QCRE members and friends,
I hope you’re enjoying the Spring and looking forward to an exciting Summer! We are looking forward to seeing you at IISE 2022 in Seattle, WA. I would like to personally invite you to the following exciting activities at the annual conference.
QCRE Best Track Paper Competition
(11:00 am – 12:20 pm, May 22)
QCRE Best Student Paper Competition
(3:30 pm – 4:50 pm, May 22)
QCRE & ProcessMiner Industrial Data Challenge Competition
(11:00 am – 12:20 pm, May 23)
The Internet of Federated Things (IoFT) Panel
(2:00 pm – 3:20 pm, May 23)
Poster & Interaction Session
(2:00 pm – 3:20 pm, May 23)
QCRE Town Hall Meeting
(4:30 pm – 5:50 pm, May 23)
On behalf of the QCRE division board, it’s my privilege to serve our QCRE community. Please don’t hesitate to reach out with your ideas and questions.
Sincerely,
Linkan Bian, Ph.D.
IISE QCRE Division President (2021-2022)
Thomas B. & Terri L. Nusz Associate Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Mississippi State University
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QCRE Best Student Paper Competition 2022
We are pleased to announce the four finalists for the QCRE Best Student Paper Award this year from a pool of excellent submissions that were carefully reviewed by the referees. The finalists will present their work in the QCRE Best Student Paper Session. The winner will be announced during the QCRE Town Hall.
The finalists are (in alphabetical order):
Jihoon Chung, “Reinforcement Learning-based Defect Mitigation for Quality Assurance of Additive Manufacturing”, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Co-authors: Bo Shen, Andrew Chung Chee Law, Zhenyu “James” Kong (Advisor)
Jiuyun Hu, “Tensor Completion for High-dimensional Data with Graph-structured and Weakly-dependent Sample Dimension”, Arizona State University
Co-authors: Hao Yan (Advisor), Ziyue Li, Cheng Zhang
Chengyu Tao, “Anomaly Detection for Fabricated Artifact by Using Unstructured 3D Point Cloud Data”, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Co-authors: Juan Du (Advisor), Tzyy-Shuh Chang
Meng Zhao, “Robust Coupled Tensor Decomposition and Feature Extraction for Multimodal Medical Data”, University of Florida
Co-authors: Mostafa Reisi Gahrooeia (Advisor), Nathan Gaw
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QCRE Best Track Paper Competition 2022
This year the committee of QCRE Best Track Paper Competition received 17 outstanding, competitive submissions. Four finalists are selected by referees. The finalists will present their work in the QCRE Best Track Paper Session and the winner will be announced during the QCRE Town Hall.
Weizhi Li and Cesar Ruiz, “Functional Characterization and Correction of Biofouling in Multi-Receptor Biosensors”, University of Southern California
Xin Zan and Xiaochen Xian, “Adaptive Sampling for Mass Testing of Epidemic Monitoring”, University of Florida
Tangfan Xiahou, Yu Liu, Zhiguo Zeng, and Muchen Wu, “An Interval Particle Filtering Approach to Prognosis with Imprecise Observations”, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Vidita Gawade and Weihong (Grace) Guo, “Using Heat Emissivity as a Measure for Quantifying and Predicting Overheating in Powder Bed Fusion Process”
Rutgers University
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QCRE & ProcessMiner Industrial Data Challenge Competition
This year's QCRE Data Challenge Competition is again sponsored by ProcessMiner Inc. (https://processminer.com/). The topic of this year is “Activation Function in Deep Learning”. Now we are happy to announce the finalists. They will present their work in the QCRE & ProcessMiner Industrial Data Challenge Competition Session. The winner will be announced during the QCRE Town Hall.
Team 1: Milena Grieger, Elion Shala, Markus Schüller, et al. “DENLU and leaky stanh: new activations in Machine Learning with healthcare applications in binary classification”
Team 2: Abdur Rahman and Yibin Wang, “Exponential Error Linear Unit (EELU): Optimization-boosted activation function series for image classification”
Team 3: Raghav Gnanasambandam, Bo Shen, Jihoon Chunga, Xubo Yue, and Zhenyu (James) Kong, “Self-scalable Tanh (Stan): Faster convergence and better generalization in physics-informed neural networks”
Team 4: Shouyi Wang, Jie Han, Linh Ho Manh, and Abhijit Anand Deshpande, “PASS: A novel elastic periodic activation for deep neural networks”
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The IISE Annual Conference & Expo 2021 will return to in-person for the first time since 2019. It will be held on May 21 – 24, 2022 in Seattle, Washington. The QCRE Division of the Institute of the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE) will be sponsoring the QCRE Track at the 2022 IISE Annual Conference and Expo. |
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Call for Entries to the Division's Quarterly Newsletter
The division is publishing its quarterly newsletters and hereby soliciting news entries. This is a great opportunity to showcase interesting yet impactful researches, professional practices and educational efforts within the division. The solicited story will go into the following blocks in the newsletter: Research on the News, Practical Applications, and Education and Outreach. It would be great if you could:
- Prepare your story write-up within 300 words (write it in plain language for diverse audiences).
- Provide a nice picture together with the story.
- Provide a link (if possible) to a detail version of the story (hyperlink to your project public webpage, etc.).
Please email your information and materials to Dr. Chen Kan at chen.kan@uta.edu Your entry will appear in the next available division newsletter.
PDF version of our newsletters are available for our members on the IISE Connect (QCRE division Library folder), as well as our Facebook Page, LinkedIn Profile, and Twitter.
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Have you considered a corporate membership? If not, why? Companies large and small enjoy the benefits. Include your entire team and receive all the benefits of individual membership, plus lowest rates to attend the Conferences and much more.
Contact Doug Long IISE Global Director for Strategic Alliances for more details.
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