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Two teams of ISE doctoral students were awarded second and third places respectively in the inaugural Data Analytics Competition held by the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Data Analytics and Information Systems Division.

The competing teams were tasked with applying data analytics and machine learning methods to vehicle crash data in order to improve road safety. 

ISE PhD students Changxi Wang, Shenghan Guo, Tingan Lin, and Danlei Zhang were members of the team that took second place, while the team of Shang Jiang and Zhufan Xu took third place among the ten teams competing in the national competition.