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Message from the Division President
Dear fellow QCRE members,
It is my pleasure to report that the QCRE division at IISE has had a productive year in 2020-2021. Despite the challenges, we manage to propose and implement multiple initiatives to improve our service to the members and friends in the community. I would like to earnestly thank the QCRE board and volunteers for their tireless efforts toward our goals and sustained growth. I would also like to acknowledge our sponsors, members, and friends, who have supported us in the past year by participating in various activities and providing us with valuable feedback. Without your support and encouragement, our success would not have been possible.
Some of the highlights of 2020-2021 activities include (1) We have organized the QCRE Tracks at the 2021 IISE Annual Virtual Conference with an excellent list of Sessions and Workshops, (2) We have launched the IISE QCRE Teaching Excellence Award and named it after Professor Douglas Montgomery, in appreciation of his contribution to the community. We will start taking applicants for the award this year, (3) We have started QCRE LinkedIn and Twitter Accounts with steadily increasing members, (4) We have begun a new initiative for Membership Growth and conducted an online survey, (5) We have organized high-quality and well-attended webinars, (6) Our board members have contributed an article to the IISE Body of Knowledge. We will present a comprehensive report on QCRE Division activities and accomplishments in our Town Hall meeting at IISE Annual Conference.
In this issue of the newsletter, you will find exciting news from our division members, and few highlights regarding the QCRE Track Best Paper, and Student Best Paper Competition. In addition, we will continue to host the QCRE Best Poster Competition during the 2021 IISE Annual conference. Last but not the least, please join me to congratulate the newly elected division board officers. I wish the team the best of luck with their endeavors. Please do not hesitate, to reach out and get involved. Your inputs, contributions, and participation in our year-round activities are critical to the division's success. Please feel free to contact me at adel.alaeddini@utsa.edu if you are interested in serving the division.
I look forward to meeting you all soon at the 2021 Virtual IISE Annual Conference & Expo.
Sincerely,
Adel Alaeddini, Ph.D.
IISE QCRE Division President
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2021 Virtual IISE Conference Starts Sunday!
QCRE Track Highlights at 2021 IISE Annual Conference & Expo (Virtual Conference)
It has been a very successful year of the QCRE track and as track chairs we thank everyone for the contributions to make this year's conference a great success. Here we like to share with you some highlighted session information of the QCRE track at the 2021 IISE annual conference and Expo (Eastern Time): - The QCRE Best Student Paper Competition session is scheduled on Sunday (May 23) from 2:00pm to 3:20pm;
- The QCRE/DAIS Student Poster Competition is scheduled on Monday (May 24) from 3:40pm to 5:00pm.
- The QCRE Best Track Paper session is scheduled on Sunday (May 23) from 3:30pm to 4:50pm.
- This year's QCRE Best Track Paper Award goes to Yue Shi and Yisha Xiang from Texas Tech University, and the title of their paper is "Joint Optimization of Resource Allocation and Imperfect Maintenance Planning for a Multi-facility Infrastructure System" The presentation of this paper is scheduled on Sunday (May 23) from 3:50pm to 4:10pm.
- The QCRE Town Hall Meeting is scheduled on May 24 starting at 5:10pm to 6:30 pm. use this link to create an account and join the Town Hall free here.
We look forward to seeing you soon! 2021 IISE - QCRE Track Chairs: Yisha Xiang, Texas Tech University (yisha.xiang@ttu.edu) Linkan Bian, Mississippi State University (bian@ise.msstate.edu) Hui Yang, Penn State University (huy25@psu.edu) Youngjun Choe, University of Washington (ychoe@uw.edu)
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QCRE Best Student Paper Competition 2021
(Sunday, May 23, 2:00pm - 3:20pm ET)
We are pleased to announce the four finalists for the QCRE Best Student Paper Award this year from a pool of 18 excellent submissions that were carefully reviewed by the referees. The finalists will present their work in the QCRE Best Student Paper session (Sunday, May 23, 2:00 pm - 3:20 pm). The winner will be announced during the QCRE town hall meeting (Monday, May 24, 5:10 pm). The finalists are (in alphabetical order):
- Seokhyun Chung, "Weakly-supervised Multi-output Regression via Correlated Gaussian Processes", University of Michigan, Co-authors: Raed Al Kontar (Advisor), Zhenke Wu
- Sahand Hajifar, "Online Domain Adaptation for Continuous Cross-Subject Liver Viability Evaluation Based on Irregular Thermal Data", University at Buffalo, Co-authors: Hongyue Sun (Advisor)
- Dan Li, "An SGL-Based Online Algorithm for Covert Attack Detection and Localization in Smart Grid", Georgia Institute of Technology, Co-authors: Nagi Gebraeel (Advisor), Kamran Paynabar (Advisor), A. P. Sakis Meliopoulos
- Peiyao Liu, "Real-Time Monitoring of Complex Correlated Multi-Channel Profiles in Advanced Manufacturing System", Tsinghua University, Co-authors: Chen Zhang (Advisor), Juan Du
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QCRE Best Track Paper Award Winner and Finalists 2021
(Sunday, May 23, 3:30pm - 4:50pm ET)
We are pleased to announce the four finalists and the winner for the QCRE Best Track Paper Award this year from a pool of 26 excellent submissions. The finalists are:
- Yue Shi and Yisha Xiang, Texas Tech University, "Joint Optimization of Resource Allocation and Imperfect Maintenance Planning for a Multi-facility Infrastructure System".
- Ana M. Estrada, Dan Li and Kamran Paynabar, Georgia Institute of Technology, "An Adaptive Sampling Strategy for Online Monitoring and Diagnosis of High-dimensional Streaming Data".
- Jian Gao, Yu Liu, and Yiming Chen, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China "Joint Inspection and Maintenance Optimization for Partially Observable Multi-state Systems: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework".
- Salman Jahani, Shiyu Zhou, Dharmaraj Veeramani, and Jeff Schmidt, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Multi-output Gaussian Process Modulated Poisson Processes for Event Prediction".
The winner of this year's QCRE Best Track Paper Award is: "Joint Optimization of Resource Allocation and Imperfect Maintenance Planning for a Multi-facility Infrastructure System" coauthored by Yue Shi and Yisha Xiang from Texas Tech University. The winner and finalists will present their work in the QCRE Best Track Paper session (Sunday, May 23, 3:30pm to 4:50pm).The winner and finalists will present their work in the QCRE Best Track Paper session (Sunday, May 23, 3:30pm to 4:50pm).
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QCRE Best Student Poster Competition
(Monday, May 24, 3:40pm - 5:00pm ET)
The best student poster competition will be held virtually. Interested students should send their posters to the session chairs by May 20 and should give a 4-minutes presentation of their work during the live session. A winner will be selected by a panel of judges and awarded a certificate. Link to register: QCRE Best Student Poster Competition Registration.
Participation in the best student poster competition session is free of charge if registered for the conference. For inquiries and registration, please contact the chairs of Best Student Poster Competition Dr. Mostafa Reisi at mreisigahrooei@ufl.edu and Dr. Mingyang Li at mingyangli@usf.edu.
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Division Election Results
Based on the recent election results, QCRE division welcomes the following five officers:
President-elect: Dr. RaminMoghaddass, University of Miami.
Board director: Dr. Ahmed Aziz Ezzat, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Board director: Dr. Xiaolei Fang, North Carolina State University
Board director: Dr. Yisha Xiang, Texas Tech University
Board director: Dr. Na Zou, Texas A&M University
We would also like to thank the leaving board members, Trevor Craney (immediate past president), Dr. Chenang Liu (board director), Dr. Hongyue Sun (board director), and Dr. Wilkistar Otieno (board director) for their past service to the division.
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QCRE Member Spotlight - Dr. Chitta Ranjan
In each issue of the QCRE newsletter, we feature one outstanding QCRE member who has
demonstrated excellence in the QCRE related fields, and the member can be from academia, industry or a student.
In this issue of QCRE newsletter, we feature our outstanding industry member, Dr. Chitta Ranjan, who is the Director of Science at ProcessMiner, Inc, with over 10 years experience in the field. He is author of the textbook, "Understanding Deep Learning: Application in Rare Event Prediction." He earned his Ph.D. in Statistics from the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. Prior to this, he completed his bachelor's in Industrial Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, India. He specializes in developing real-time AI systems. He is recipient of best paper awards for his research. He also serves on multiple boards of directors in the analytics and engineering space, and previously worked at JDA, Pandora Media, and eBay. Dr. Ranjan is an active contributor to the AI community and an influencer. His publicly available content on YouTube, Towards Data Science, journal publications, and other open source contributions have over half a million readers. Globally, he has over 10k followers.
Here is Dr. Chitta Ranjan's Story with QCRE.
What is your current position and role?
I am the Director of Science at ProcessMiner Inc. I work on developing real-time predictive systems for autonomous optimization of continuous manufacturing processes.
What are your experiences with QCRE division at IISE?
I was involved in IISE events for many years now and joined the board of directors of the QCRE division in 2018. The experience over these past 3 years has been incredible. I get to work with an exceptionally dedicated team of top University professors and students. Together, we plan for conference sessions and events such as best paper competition, research poster competitions, and data challenges. Each of these events are designed to advance research, bring forward innovation, and help students and researchers progress in their careers. What I admired the most during this time is the sincere commitment of everybody to put in effort outside of their otherwise busy work schedules to plan and host various events. The division has consistently hosted beneficial events every year, which is all a result of the team's sincerity.
How have these experiences helped you in preparing yourself for your career?
My experiences with QCRE division at IISE has helped develop in some very measurable ways as well as inculcated some soft skills. One of the soft skills is the commitment and teamwork I developed to work on research activities to benefit the community. In some measurable ways, I closely work with some of the best professors. I learn from them and their work. The relationships built here resulted in my direct engagement with some advanced joint research projects. These engagements have been helping me stay up-to-date with the current research developments and innovate.
What are the achievements you are proudest of?
Recently, I published a textbook titled, "Understanding Deep Learning: Application in Rare Event Prediction." Deep Learning is an abstruse subject. Especially its theories. It is difficult to use them effectively or develop new concepts without a clear understanding. I am proud of my book because it provides a clearer and granular understanding of deep learning constructs. It is also taken by several US universities and abroad for graduate courses.
Any suggestions to future fellow students?
The team camaraderie we have is the best thing any such division would aspire. Let's nurture it and do even greater things!
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Call for Entries to the Division's Quarterly Newsletter
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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:
(1) Prepare your story write-up within 300 words (write it in plain language for diverse audiences);
(2) Provide a nice picture together with the story;
(3) Provide a link (if possible) to a detail version of the story (hyperlink to your project public webpage, etc.).
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PDF version of our newsletters are available for our members on the IISE Connect (QCRE division Library folder), as well as our Facebook Page athttps://www.facebook.com/iise.qcre/, our LinkedIn Profile (IISE Quality Control and Reliability Engineering (QCRE)) at https://www.linkedin.com/in/iise-quality-control-and-reliability-engineering-qcre-628a631b5/, and our Twitter at https://twitter.com/qcreiise.
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Contact Doug Long, IISE Global Director for Strategic Alliances for more details.
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