At the fall 2017 meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, graduate student Raed Al Kontar won the “best student paper” award in the Quality, Statistics and Reliability section of IN
FORMS, for his paper “Nonparametric Modeling and Prognosis of Condition Monitoring Signals Using Multivariate Gaussian Convolution Processes.” Raed is advised by Professor Shiyu Zhou.