About the Georgia Tech Chapter

About the Georgia Tech Chapter

Welcome to the INFORMS Student Chapter at Georgia Tech!

The INFORMS Student Chapter at Georgia Tech is affiliated with the INFORMS (The Institute for Operations Research and Management Science), the largest institute in the world for the professionals in the field of Operations Research (OR), Management Sciences, and advanced analytics.

The INFORMS Student Chapter at Georgia Tech aims to

  1. provide a community at GT for graduate and undergraduate students interested in OR, MS, Analytics, and Data Science;
  2. promote an integrated culture and communications among theoretical research and applications on OR, MS, Analytics, and Data Science;
  3. provide mentoring and career development opportunities for students;
  4. establish effective knowledge sharing platform for inspiring emerging topics in OR/MS related fields.

The INFORMS Student Chapter at Georgia Tech is in coordination with INFORMS, Georgia Tech, and H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. We have members and serve students across a variety of undergraduate and graduate programs at GT, including engineering, operations research, business, mathematics, and statistics.

The executive board members for academic year 2016 - 2017 were:

Faculty advisor: Dr. Kamran Paynabar

President: Amanda Chu

Vice President: Xiaowei Yue

Treasurer: John Connelly

Secretary: Robert Bishop