Ph.D. student Tatthapong Srikitrungruang was selected as a finalist in the 2026 INFORMS QSR Best Student Paper Competition. Tatthapong will present this work at the 2026 INFORMS Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Congratulations, Tatthapong!
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Research milestones, student achievements and news from the Data Science Lab.
2026
Dr. Lee served as a panelist at the Doctoral Student Colloquium, sharing advice with doctoral students preparing for academic careers.
Tatthapong received second place in the ISEN Best Presentation Competition organized by the INFORMS Student Chapter at Texas A&M University.
The first paper of Ph.D. student Sina Aghaee was accepted by Technometrics. Congratulations, Sina!
2025
Dr. Lee was recognized as the 2025-26 Montague-Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) Scholar at Texas A&M University. This is a university-wide recognition for excellence and innovation in undergraduate teaching.
Dr. Lee's paper was selected as a finalist in the QSR Best Referred Paper Competition. Dr. Lee presented this work at the 2025 INFORMS Conference.
The first paper of Ph.D. student Tatthapong Srikitrungruang was accepted by Advanced Science (IF > 14). Congratulations, Tatthapong!
A new Ph.D. student, Tanvir Ahmed, joined our group. Welcome, Tanvir!
Ph.D. student Sina Aghaee was selected as a finalist in the IISE QCRE Best Student Paper Competition. Sina presented this work at the 2025 IISE Conference. Congratulations, Sina!
We are excited to begin the "Cannery 4.0" industry project with Crider Foods and look forward to building real-time machine breakdown prediction AI model.
2024
Dr. Lee received the Seed Program for AI, Computing, and Data Science (SPAICD) Award from the Texas A&M Institute of Data Science (TAMIDS). This award was featured in the College of Engineering News and the Dental Tribune International.
Dr. Lee's paper "Landmark-Embedded Gaussian Process with Applications for Functional Data Modeling" received the IISE Transactions Best Paper Award from IISE Transactions. Dr. Lee presented this work at the 2024 IISE Conference.
Dr. Lee began serving as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing.
2023
The paper co-authored by Dr. Lee "Fully Inkjet-Printed, 2D Materials-Based Field-Effect Transistor for Water Sensing" was recognized as one of the top-viewed articles in Advanced Materials Technologies in 2023.
2022
Dr. Lee's paper "Landmark-Embedded Gaussian Process with Applications for Functional Data Modeling," published in IISE Transactions, was featured in ISE Magazine.
