Exceptional Graduate Students Recognized

Photo of Luisa Janer RubioMaster’s student Luisa Janer Rubio was selected as the recipient of a very competitive Graduate Research Award from the Transportation Research Board for her project “Simulation Modeling of Alternative to Ease the Congestion of Passengers and Items at the Composure Area of Security Checkpoints.”

The research stipend is part of the Graduate Research Award Program on Public-Sector Aviation Issues for the academic year 2016-17. Sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation and administered by the Airport Cooperative Research Program of the Transportation Research Board/National Academies.

Rubio’s research will be considered for presentation at the January 2018 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting and for publication in a subsequent volume of the Transportation Research Record, the peer-reviewed journal of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies.

She also presented a conference paper at the Winter Simulation Conference 2016 in Washington D.C. The Alpha Pi Mu Honor Society selected Luisa as the recipient of one of their national level prestigious scholarships. Additionally Luisa received a Graduate Research Award from the Transportation Research Board (TRB).

Photo of Payam Parsa

 

Doctoral student, Payam Parsa received a scholarship award from the Material Handling Education Foundation. He published a paper in the International Journal of Production Economics, the 2017 IISE Annual Conference Proceedings and the 2016 Decision Sciences Institute Annual Conference Proceedings. He was the recipient of the third-place award in the 2016 IISE doctoral colloquium poster competition, and the best poster award winner at the 2016 CELDi Research Symposium at the University of Missouri. Payam was presented with the Electrification and Controls Manufacturers Association Honor Scholarship by the Material Handling Education Foundation Inc.

 

Photo of Alireza Sheikh-zadeh

 

Doctoral student, Alireza Sheikh-zadeh coauthored a paper published in International Journal of Inventory Research, submitted a paper to European Journal of Operational Research, and published a paper in the Proceedings of ISERC 2016, Anaheim, CA. He was selected for 2016 IISE Doctoral Colloquium, Anaheim, CA, and for INFORMS 2016 Annual Meeting Doctoral Colloquium. Alireza was selected for the second round of INFORMS 2016 Annual Meeting Poster Competition, and presented his research at ISERC 2016, Anaheim, CA and at INFORMS 2016 Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN. He also received a National Science Foundation Travel Award. Alireza was also named by the Undergraduate Class of 2016-2017 as the Outstanding Teaching Assistant.