Newsletter                                                                                         January  2020
Presidents Message
Dear IISE Data Analytics & Information Systems (DAIS) Division Members,
It is my pleasure to serve as your president and provide a quick update on last year's DAIS activities, changes in leadership, and exciting plans and upcoming events for 2019-2020.

Last year, under our past president Brian Quanz's leadership, with the new name and theme of our division, we had a strong showing for our division at the 2019 Industrial & Systems Engineering Research Conference (ISERC) held at the Rosen Shingle Creek, in Orlando FL, with 164 presentations organized in about 41 sessions, almost doubled from the previous year. This growth in interest and activity could not have been accomplished without your support and participation, and the hard work of our board members, so thank you! Special thanks to the invited session chairs: Hui Yang (Penn State), Sebastian Pokutta (Georgia Tech) and Ajay Deshpande (IBM), and contributed session chairs: Changqing Cheng (SUNY Binghamton) and Xin Chen (SIU Edwardsville). Also special thanks to Na Zou and Ying Lin for organizing the best student paper competition, Sinan Onal and Chen Kan for organizing the best paper competition, and Andrew Yu and Chen Kan for organizing the Mobile/Web App competition.

The key activities of the DAIS division planned for 2019-2020 are:
  • IIE-DAIS Mobile/Web App Competition
  • Webinar Series
  • Best Paper Award Competition
  • Best Student Paper Award Competition
  • Data Analytics Competition
  • DAIS Tracks and Town Hall Meeting in the 2020 IISE Conference & Expo
There is one exciting new addition. We are going to have the inaugural data analytics competition this year, so please look out the announcement and hope you will be able to participate!

I would like to thank our board members for their committed service in making these activities possible (the full list of current board members is available on the DAIS website ). Please also join me in welcoming our new president-elect, Changqing Cheng from SUNY Binghamton, and new or reelected directors, Saeed Ghanbartehrani from Ohio University, Xiao Liu from the University of Arkansas, Moufid Dardas from Hydro One, and Bing Si from Binghamton University. Thank you for participating in the election. If interested in actively contributing, please also consider applying for the DAIS board - the call for nominations will be out in early 2020 and we encourage applicants from both industry and academia. Additionally, I would like to thank our exiting board members for all their hard work and dedication: Xin Chen, Dongping Du, and Brian Quanz.
Finally, the 2020 IISE Annual Conference & Expo will be held May 30 - June 2, 2020, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana. Please continue to contribute to the DAIS by attending our track sessions, and inviting your fellow colleagues and students to participate our division's activities. If you have any comment and idea to help us improve our division, please contact any of the board (board members are listed on the DAIS website).
I look forward to your participation in the DAIS division and track of the 2020 IISE Annual Conference and Expo and seeing you there in New Orleans in May, and I wish you all a prosperous year!

Sincerely,

Andrew Yu
DAIS Division President, 2019-2020

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Best Student Paper Competition
The DAIS Division of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering (IISE) 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.

Four finalists for the Best Student Paper Award will be selected to make oral presentations at the 2020 IISEAnnual Conference to be held in New Orleans, LA. May 30 - June 2,2020. All finalists will receive an award certificate. The first-place winner will receive a framed certificate. The Best Student Paper Award will be presented at the town hall meeting of the DAIS Track during the 2020 IISE Annual Conference. Deadlines and more information.
Best Track Paper Competition
The purpose of this competition is to honor outstanding papers in research and practice of data analytics and information systems. The submission deadline is: January 20, 2020.
DAIS 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 publicly available datasets.  Read more here.
Student Mobile App Competition

IISE-DAIS Mobile App competition is designed to provide students with opportunities of developing practical mobile apps and taking business initiatives for the mobile apps in the field of industrial and systems engineering. Details here.
Board Elections Around the Corner

Are you a  motivated, enthusiastic volunteer that wants to support the LSC division? Take advantage of this excellent opportunity to serve your LSC Division as a board director.

Board directors are expected to be active participants in monthly board conference calls and to participate in various initiatives, some of which are led by committees working in partnership with the full board. All nominees must be current, regular members of the IISE and the LSC Division. Students are not eligible. 

To submit a nomination, complete the nomination form  and send to Kathy Gamboa.
Submissions are being accepted for t he 2020 IISE CUP 
sponsored by The University of Tennessee Knoxville 
 
A new addition to the IISE Annual Conference & Expo is the  IISE CUP  competition. The  IISE CUP  provides an exciting opportunity for companies/universities to highlight their successful solutions. The general theme across all   IISE CUP  categories is innovation. Faisal Aqlan is the committee chair and if you have any questions contact him @ fua11@psu.edu. Here for more information.

For more details contact Doug Long @ DLong@iise.org