OREM Senior Design Team a Finalist in National Data Analytics Competition
The senior design team of Ahmed Alefari, Emma Hanson, John Clay Richard, James Stine, and Jessica Wang were finalists in the CSBS 2021 Data Analytics Competition. This year's topic from the Conference of State Bank Supervisors was to develop and test a model for forecasting bank failures. The SMU team was awarded a $2,500 prize.
OREM PhD student Niloofar Fadavi receives prestigious CSE scholarship awarded by the Center for Research Computing and the Moody School of Graduate and Advanced Studies
Niloofar's dissertation is on the development of solution methods for large-scale stochastic convex programming problems with recourse. Her research includes the design of data-driven algorithms, their theoretical analysis, and computational implementation.
OREM Assistant Professor Dr. Miju Ahn receives competitive NSF grant for predictive modeling using big data
This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.