Congratulations Alexander: KDD Scholarship! Congratulations to Alexander Rodriguez for his recent KDD scholarship award. The award is for the 22nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in San Francisco, CA. Alexander, who joined the Analytics Lab in the first of June 2016, won the scholarship through Broadening Participation in Data Mining (BPDM). The BPDM workshop will be co-located… Read More »
Adventure Race! ..a 1500 foot sherpa line, paddling in crystal clear waters, 14+ miles of sweet, sweet single track, mine maze, skeet, water slides and a 3000 foot Zipline are just a few of the things you will find at the Too Cool – Spread Your Wings adventure weekend. It’s summertime and Dr. Nicholson is heading… Read More »
Welcome! Bienvenidos! 欢迎! خوش آمدی Very happy to welcome some new students to the Analytics Lab! Some of these will be working with Dr. Nicholson for their Master’s thesis, others are working on special studies projects or practicums — regardless, those of use in the lab are glad you are around and looking forward to the Summer and… Read More »
Summer 2016 is here! The last of the ISE/DSA 5113 finals has been taken, all pencils are down, and students are heading out for new adventures. Cyril Beyney has just accepted an offer to become the lead data scientist for Nerd Kingdom and is moving to Dallas, TX! Weili Zhang is headed up to Pittsburg for a… Read More »
COE Resilience Research A team from the analytics lab presented and competed at the NIST-funded Center of Excellence (COE) for Community Resilience biannual research meeting. Dr. Nicholson facilitated a session on Decision Algorithms and Weili Zhang participated in the poster competition with two submissions: “A multiobjective optimization model for mitigating community economic loss and population… Read More »
Congratulations to Olivia Perret upon her successful defense of her Masters thesis research, “A novel post-hoc matching procedure using statistical learning methods”. She is now the 5th student in the Analytics Lab to obtain a Masters of Science in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Oklahoma. On February 2, 2016, Olivia presented and defended her work in front… Read More »
The Analytics Lab at OU has joined forces with Naiyu Wang and Amy Cerato (Civil Engineering and Environmental Science) to create a new joint research lab, the Community Resilience CORE Research Lab. The new lab space will house up to 8 PhD students and Post-Docs (6 spots already filled!) The lab space is on the 4th… Read More »