Dear Friends of the IISE Data Analytics & Information Systems (DAIS) Division,
I wish you all a successful conclusion to your fall term. The DAIS division has continued to provide quality services to our community through various established programs and new initiatives.
We would like to express our gratitude to the past president of DAIS, Sinan Onal (Southern Illinois University), Amy Straub from IISE, our TVP Joseph Wilck (William & Mary), and the past board members, Hyunsoo Yoon (Yonsei University), Cheng-Bang Chen (University of Miami), Ziteng Wang (Northern Illinois University), Yanqing Kuang (student member, University of South Florida), Adam Meyers (student member, Pennsylvania State University) and Lujia Wang (student member, Georgia Tech).
We would also like to congratulate Na Zou (TAMU) for being elected as the President-Elect (2022-2023), and thank our current board members for organizing and leading many wonderful activities and programs. The current board members are: Nathan Gaw (Air Force Institute of Technology), Xiaowei Yue (Virginia Tech), Haifeng Wang (Mississippi State), Ashif Iquebal (Arizona State), Adam Meyers (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Chenang Liu (Oklahoma State), Yu Jin (Binghamton University), Fei Gao (Cruise) and Zimo Wang (Binghamton University). If you are interested in joining the Board of Directors, the Call for Nominations will be released in early 2023. We are constantly recruiting industrial and academic professionals. Positions for student board of directors will also be available.
The 2023 IISE Annual Conference & Expo will take place from May 20-23, New Orleans. If you are attending the conference, you are cordially invited to join the DAIS Town Hall meeting to learn about the DAIS’ current status, many of its exciting activities, and future plans. We look forward to seeing you there and greatly appreciate your feedback on our current and future initiatives.
The key activities of the DAIS division for 2022-2023 include:
- Best Track Paper Competition
- Best Student Paper Competition
- Data Analytics Competition
- DAIS Mobile/Web App Competition
- Webinar Series
- Inaugural Data Analytics Education Award
- Professional Achievement Award
- Student board member nomination
- DAIS Tracks and Town Hall Meeting in IISE Conference & Expo
We look forward to seeing you at the 2023 IISE Annual Conference and Expo on the DAIS track and wish you everyone a productive and peaceful year!
Sincerely,
Xiao Liu (University of Arkansas)
IISE DAIS Division President, 2022-2023
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Introducing DAIS's New Student Board Members |
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Michael Biehler
Georgia Tech
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Kyle Hunt
University of Buffalo
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Call for Nominations for DAIS Board of Directors and
President-Elect
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The Data Analytics and Information Systems (DAIS) Division Nominating Committee is making a call for nominations for President-Elect and 4 dynamic directors whose terms will begin June 1, 2023. All nominees must be current, regular members of the DAIS Division. Students are not eligible.
Participating in a leadership role for the division is a challenging, yet at the same time, very rewarding experience. Each year, we attempt to maintain a broad distribution of board members with a balance between academia, industry and government representation.
The position is a two-year commitment with fantastic opportunities to network and give back to the profession. Generally the time commitment is three to five hours per month - about half of the time is during traditional business hours. Interested candidates or nominators should complete the nomination form by January 30, 2023. for consideration by the nominating committee.
Contact Sinan Onal at sonal@siue.edu, nominating committee chair, if you have questions about the positions and responsibilities. Please consider giving back to your profession through a Divisi leadership position.
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2023 IISE Annual Conference: Call for Papers &
Important Deadlines!
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The IISE Annual Conference & Expo 2023 will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Orleans, LA, on May 20 – 23, 2023. The IISE DAIS Division is sponsoring the DAIS Track at the 2023 IISE Annual Conference & Expo. This submission deadline for abstract or presentation summary is Dec 2, 2022. While not required, we strongly encourage all presenters to submit a paper for publication so discoveries can be permanently documented. This year, two types of papers will be considered: research papers and case study papers.
- Research papers (with a limit of six pages) contain methods and results that are significant and have archival value to the industrial and systems engineering community. They will undergo a double-blind peer review process and accepted papers will be copyrighted and indexed in the Conference Proceedings via ProQuest.
- Case study papers (of two to six pages) describe the application of a method or technology that addresses an important industry-motivated issue. They will be reviewed to ensure that the content focuses on the value and lessons learned for the industrial and systems engineering community. The case study papers should avoid significant marketing material. Accepted manuscripts will be published with access via the IISE website.
Important deadlines:
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Notification of decision on abstract/presentation summary: December 30, 2022
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Paper submission deadline: February 20, 2023 (Optional but strongly encouraged)
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Speaker registration deadline: February 20, 2023 (Applies to all speakers)
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Notification of decision on paper: March 17, 2023
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Paper final revision submission deadline: March 24, 2023
We look forward to seeing you in New Orleans!
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Call for Papers: 2023 DAIS Best Track Paper Competition! |
The IISE DAIS Division announces the DAIS Best Track Paper Competition. The purpose of this competition is to honor outstanding papers in research and practice of data analytics and information systems. To participate in this competition, the authors must have an accepted oral abstract to be able to submit full papers for the competition. The paper submission deadline is Feb 10, 2023.
Each eligible paper will be reviewed and ranked by 2-3 external referees. Based on the review scores, four finalists for the Best Track Paper will be selected by the organizing committee to make oral presentations at the 2023 IISE Annual Conference May 20 - 23, 2023. The organizing committee will select the winner(s) based on the review evaluation and oral presentation. The Best Track Paper Winner will be presented at the town hall meeting of the DAIS Track during the 2023 IISE Annual Conference. More details about the eligibility requirements, application process, and evaluation process, are posted on IISE connect DAIS communities and also available here.
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Call for Papers: 2023 DAIS Best Student Paper Competition! |
The IISE DAIS Division announces the DAIS Track Best Student Paper Award whose objective is to recognize excellence among its student members. The award program brings prestige to the DAIS Division as well as to the recipients honored. The submission deadline is February 3, 2023.
Four finalists for the Best Student Paper Award will be selected to make oral presentations at the 2023 IISE Annual Conference May 20-23, 2023. All finalists will receive an award certificate. The Best Student Paper Award will be presented at the town hall meeting of the DAIS Track during the 2023 IISE Annual Conference. More details about the eligibility requirements, application process, and evaluation process, are available at https://www.iise.org/Details.aspx?id=17500.
If you have any questions, please send an email (with subject “DAIS Best Student Paper Competition”) to the coordinators Dr. Yu Jin at yjin@binghamton.edu and Dr. Ashif Iquebal at aiquebal@asu.edu. All submitted papers will be reviewed and ranked by external referees and finalists will be announced by March 24, 2023. The winner of the competition will be decided based on the review evaluations and oral presentations.
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Call for Participants: 2023 DAIS Mobile/Web App Competition! |
The IISE DAIS Division announces the IISE-DAIS Mobile/Web App Competition to recognize creativity and excellence among its members and motivate them to commercialize their research/learning outcomes to accelerate the economic and societal benefits.
Mobile/web apps that are based on any concept, principle, technique, or application related to the field of industrial and systems engineering will be accepted. Each team will be evaluated by the following criteria: (1) Originality; (2) Technical details of the mobile/web app; (3) The business plan to justify the need for their mobile/web apps in the marketplace; and (4) The demonstration of the prototype.
To be eligible for this competition, teams must submit a proposal (no more than 2 pages) describing their mobile/web app via email with the subject "DAIS Mobile/Web App Competition" to the chair of the competition steering committee by Dec. 22, 2022. The proposal must include 1) a list of team members and their affiliations, 2) a list of features of the mobile/web app, and 3) the target market segment(s) of the mobile/web app.
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Call for Participants: 2023 DAIS Data Analytics Competition! |
The Data Analytics Competition is an annual student competition held by the Data Analytics and Information Systems (DAIS) division. The main objective of the competition is to provide the students with the opportunity to learn and improve their data analysis and visualization skills through working with real-world-sized data sets. The detailed information and competition timeline will be announced soon. If you have questions, please contact the competition organizers Dr. Ashif Iquebal at aiquebal@asu.edu, Dr. Haifeng Wang at wang@ise.msstate.edu, Mr. Michael Biehler at michael.biehler@gatech.edu, Dr. Xiao Liu at xl027@uark.edu,
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Call for Nominations: DAIS Professional Achievement Award! |
The IISE DAIS Division is now accepting the nomination for the DAIS Professional Achievement Award. The purpose of this award is to recognize an exceptional individual working in a field other than academia who has made significant contributions to the field of data analytics and information systems over a period of at least 15 years of professional experience after the highest degree, with the cumulative impact of those contributions on data analytics and information systems being the deciding factor.
Individuals may make contributions to any or all of the following categories: (1) Efforts and contribution to data analytics and information systems education; (2) Dissemination of knowledge; (3) Contributions to advance research; (4) Commitment to mentoring; (5) Improvement of the field's position or visibility; and (6) Contributions to practice.
The nominations deadline is Feb. 28, 2023, and the winner will be notified: March 31, 2023. Please email your nomination/application to Dr. Xiao Liu at XL027@uark.edu. More details about the nomination process and evaluation process are available in the IISE’s webpage
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Call for Nominations: DAIS Teaching Award! |
The division now invites nominations for the “Data Analytics Teaching Award. The award will be presented at the IISE Annual Conference & Expo, May 20 – 23, 2023, New Orleans, LA. The candidate must be nominated by the candidate’s department chair or program director. To be eligible for this award, the candidate should meet:
- The candidate should have offered one DAIS-related course at either undergraduate or graduate level within industrial engineering or other closely related programs.
- The candidate should be a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty and a member of DAIS of IISE.
- Course materials for which they are being recognized should have been developed and taught by the candidate at least twice over the past 5 years (from 2018 Fall to 2022 Fall)
The nomination package must be submitted in a single PDF format. The deadline for nominations is February 28, 2023. Please email the application to Dr. Na Zou at nzou1@tamu.edu. The winner will be notified by March 31, 2023. The detailed announcement is also available in the IISE’s webpage (https://www.iise.org/details.aspx?id=951).
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Contact Doug Long IISE Global Director for Strategic Alliances for more details.
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