恭喜林蔚君 榮獲 INFORMS 2020 George E. Kimball Medal!
Congratulations to Prof. Grace Lin for getting the prestigious INFORMS 2020 George E. Kimball Medal!
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「運籌與管理科學學會頒發了2020年喬治·E·金博爾獎章給Grace Lin,以表彰並衷心感謝其對INFORMS以及運籌學,管理科學和分析專業的傑出貢獻。」
「For exemplary and distinguished service to INFORMS and the profession of operations research, management science, and analytics, the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences expresses its sincere appreciation to Grace Lin by awarding her the 2020 George E. Kimball Medal.」
Award Citation:
"Grace Lin is vice president, director of the Big Data Research Center, and chair professor in the Department of Business Administration at Asia University in Taichung, Taiwan since 2016. She recently founded the United Financial Intelligence Corp. (UFI) to support digital transformation and care quality improvement of aging care organizations. From 2011 to 2016, Dr. Lin was the founder and VP of the Data Analytics Technology and Applications (DATA) Institute and VP for the Advanced Research Institute (ARI) at the Institute for Information Industry (III). At III, she initiated key industry-government R&D programs including Smart Living and Smart Commerce Strategy Plan, Big Data Analytics, Smart Healthcare, Smart Tourism, FinTech, and Smart Agriculture. Previously, Dr. Lin worked for IBM US for more than 16 years as the Global Sense-and-Respond Value-Net Leader and CTO & director for Innovation and Emerging Solutions at IBM Global Business Services, and as a research staff member, manager, and senior manager at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. She was an elected member of the IBM Academy of Technology, an IBM Distinguished Engineer, and Relationship Manager for IBM's Integrated Supply Chain.
Her background and experience have positioned Dr. Lin at the intersection of technology, innovation, business consulting, and management as well as the intersection of academia and industry. Referred to by Forrester as one of the six supply chain gurus, Dr. Lin has published more than 80 technical papers, book chapters, and articles, and co-authored 10 U.S. patents and nine Taiwan patents. In 2006, she was named an INFORMS Fellow.
Dr. Lin's service to INFORMS and the profession has been substantial. She has been twice elected INFORMS VP Practice and VP International Activities, she has chaired the INFORMS Fellow Selection Committee and several INFORMS and IEEE conferences. Additionally, she has been active in the Edelman Award Competition, having served multiple years as judge and as a member of the selection committee. Active in WORMS, she has been a strong supporter of women in O.R. Passionate about bridging the gap between academia and industry, she has served on a number of university advisory boards. She has also served on National Science Foundation panels in the U.S., Canada, and Ireland, and editorial boards including Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM), Operations Research, INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics, and Service Science. She is a frequent keynote speaker at global conferences and industry events.
Dr Lin's awards include the INFORMS Franz Edelman Award, IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, IBM Corporate Logistics Award, IBM Research Division Award, IIE Doctoral Dissertation Award, the Purdue Outstanding Industrial Engineer Award, and the Distinguished Alumni Award from the School of Science, National Tsing Hua University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan.
For exemplary and distinguished service to INFORMS and the profession of operations research, management science, and analytics, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences expresses its sincere appreciation to Grace Lin by awarding her the 2020 George E. Kimball Medal."
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【臺大校友胡正明以及何汪瑗榮獲美國國家技術與創新獎章】
美國白宮於104年12月22日公布「國家技術與創新獎章」(National Medal of Technology and Innovation),共有8名獲獎人,其中包含臺大57級化工系校友何汪瑗及臺大68級電機系校友,現任中研院工程組胡正明院士。這是美國政府對科技創新領域貢獻卓著的專家所頒授的最高榮譽獎章,歐巴馬總統今年1月22日於白宮頒獎典禮中親自頒授獎項。
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胡正明校友目前擔任加州柏克萊大學教授,曾經擔任臺灣積體電路公司首任技術長(2001-2004)。胡院士為半導體領域中的先驅領導者,終身潛心於研發體積更小、耗電更少、性能更強、更可靠的電腦晶片。胡院士所開發出來的電腦模擬微電路模式BSIM系列於1996已成為國際標準,至今仍然繼續研究更新,免費提供全球使用,以此系列所設計的半導體晶片產值超過數千億美元,此次獲得此榮耀,實至名歸。
參考網站:
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http://www.voanews.com/…/obama-honor-leadeing-…/3154996.html