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Presidents Message
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
Greetings! We hope your academic year is going well. It is my great pleasure to have this opportunity to serve the community and update you on the IISE Data Analytics and Information Systems (DAIS) Division. To those who are new to IISE or DAIS, the division changed its name from Computer and Information Systems (CIS) to DAIS in 2018 under the leadership of then-president Dr. Hui Yang (Penn State) to embrace the big data revolution in business, engineering, healthcare and across the IISE divisions.
Whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has posed tremendous challenges and difficulties to the whole community, DAIS has proven resilient and continued to deliver excellent services with well-established programs and groundbreaking new initiatives. To that, I would like to sincerely thank the DAIS board of directors and our volunteers for their dedicated services, which have been instrumental to our excellence and sustained growth. We also owe our gratitude to the sponsors for their generous support: Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, Binghamton University and Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Despite all the difficulties, we have held the second virtual IISE Annual Conference & Expo successfully, with the dedication of our track chairs (see their pictures below). DAIS organized 12 contributed sessions, 4 invited sessions, 3 competitions, and 3 special joint sessions with QCRE. The 66 presentations covered a broad range of topics including Deep Learning, Information Discovery, Smart Manufacturing, Healthcare, Artificial Intelligence, etc.
In particular, Bing Si (Binghamton University) and Xiaochen Xian (University of Florida) organized this year's best track paper competition with the support from volunteering reviewers and judges; Cheng Bang Chen (University of Miami) and Hyunsoo Yoon (Binghamton University) chaired the best student paper competition; Cheng Bang Chen and Saeed Ghanbartehrani (Ohio University) coordinated the Mobile / Web App competition. We also held DAIS's inaugural Analytics Teaching Award this year, which is coordinated by our current president-elect Sinan Onal and Immediate Past President Andrew Yu.
In March 2021, we had the officer nomination and election. Xiao Liu, Assistant Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Arkansas, will be our next president-elect. We also have four new board directors: Chenang Liu, Assistant Professor in the School of Industrial Engineering and Management at Oklahoma State University; Nathan Gaw, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Operational Sciences at Air Force Institute of Technology in Fall 2021; Haifeng Wang, Assistant Professor in the Industrial and Systems Engineering department at Mississippi State University; Fei Gao, a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at LinkedIn Trust AI team.
The current board directors and their terms are listed as below:
We thank Andrew Yu (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) for his strong leadership in 2019-2021 and our TVP Joseph Wilck (William & Mary) for the support of DAIS in the past years. We are always looking for leaders in both industry and academia to participate on the board. If you are interested in joining the Board of Directors, the Call for Nominations will be out in early 2022, and we encourage you to apply. We also recruited our student board members in 2020, and they have been actively involved in the organization of DAIS activities and management of our social media.
Please follow DAIS (DaisIise) on Twitter.
Also included in this newsletter are the highlights of DAIS activities, including the webinars, and the winners of competitions in IISE Annual Meeting and Expo 2021 (Best Track / Student Paper Competition, the Inaugural Data Analytics Competition and Mobile App Competition).
Last but not the least, I would like to thank our exiting board members, Andrew Yu, Bing Si, Moufid Dardas and Saeed Ghanbartehrani for their tremendous efforts and dedicated service to DAIS division. Please join me in thanking all directors for their efforts during this unprecedented year, and congratulations for the newly elected board members. I wish the team the best of luck with their endeavors, and I am highly confident that we will have yet another wonderful year in 2021 - 2022.
Please don't hesitate to reach out and get involved with DAIS. We look forward to your participation in the DAIS track of 2022 IISE Annual Conference and Expo. See you all in Seattle, May 2022!
Sincerely,
Changqing Cheng
IISE DAIS Division President, 2021-2022
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Key Planned Activities for 2021
The key activities of the DAIS division planned for 2020-2021 are:
- Webinar Series
- DAIS Mobile/Web App Competition
- Best Track Paper Competition
- Best Student Paper Competition
- Inaugural Data Analytics Education Award
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DAIS Webinar Series
The DAIS Webinar series brings together members from academia, industry and government who share a common interest in topics related to research and practice of data analytics and information systems, promoting its applications in the emerging areas. We would like to express our gratitude to Dr. Na Zou and Dr. Daniel W. Apley for sharing their valuable research experiences in the DAIS webinar series.
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Congratulations to the Winners of 2021 IISE DAIS Web/Mobile App Competition!
The DAIS Division holds 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. The competition was held on May 23 9:00 AM. Three teams were selected into the finalists this year. Then, the final winner was decided by the judges based on the originality, technical details, business plan, and the demonstration of the prototype. Our congratulations go to Lubna Z. Tarawneh, Prathamesh P. Kulkarni, Sara E. Sawaqed, and Dr. Soongeol Kwon from Binghamton University. Their app, titled "TeleMed Pal: Telehealth Application for Tracking Medication Intake and Providing Online Refills and Delivery Services" was selected as the winner of the 2021 DAIS Web/Mobile App Competition.
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2021 IISE DAIS Best Track Paper Award
The DAIS track received many high-quality papers participating the best track paper competition this year, where total 21 papers were received. Each paper was then reviewed by 2 reviewers (double-blind), and 4 papers were selected as the finalists based on the review scores. Finally, 1 winner was selected by the judge panel. Our congratulations go to Dan Li from Georgia Institute of Technology. His paper, titled "An Online Approach to Cyberattack Detection and Localization in Smart Grid" was selected to receive the 2021 DAIS track best paper award.
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2021 DAIS the Best Student Paper Award
The best student paper competition was held on Sunday May 23th 2021 at 3:30 PM. This year, 18 papers participated this competition. Each of these 18 papers was reviewed by 3 reviewers (double-blind), and 5 papers were selected as the finalists. Three judges reviewed and selected the best student paper from these 5 finalists. Our congratulations go to Hui Wu and her advisor Dr. Yan-Fu Li. Their paper, titled "Clustering Spatially Correlated Functional Data with Multiple Scalar Covariates" was selected to the 2021 DAIS Best Student Paper Award.
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Congratulations to 2021 Inaugural Data Analytics Education
Award Recipient
DAIS division would like to shine a special spotlight on Data Analytics Education excellence with the announcement of our 2021 Inaugural Data Analytics Education Award recipient.
Dr. Sagar Kamarthi
Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Director of Data Analytics Engineering Program
College of Engineering
Northeastern University
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