Associate Chair for Innovation, Leadership, and Entrepreneurship
Fouts Family Chair and Professor
Education
- B.S. Industrial Engineering (2002), Iran University of Science and Technology
- M.Sc. Industrial Engineering (2004), Azad University
- M.A. Statistics (2010), University of Michigan
- Ph.D. Operations Engineering (2012), The University of Michigan
Expertise
- Engineering-Driven Statistical Modeling
- Statistical Learning Methods for Big Data Analytics
- Quality Engineering
- Manufacturing Systems
About
Kamran Paynabar is the Fouts Family Chair in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech.
Dr. Paynabar is the recipient of the INFORMS Data Mining Best Student Paper Award, the Best Application Paper Award from IIE Transactions, and the Wilson Prize for the Best Student Paper in Manufacturing. His papers have been published or accepted for publication in Technometrics, IIE Transactions on Quality and Reliability Engineering, Journal of Quality Technology, ASME Transactions-Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, and MSOM.
He has a passion and enthusiasm for teaching and sharing knowledge with his students, and has been recognized with the Georgia Tech campus level 2014 CETL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award. His teaching philosophy includes a structured method of teaching with clear communication, strong in-class interaction and engagement, and an imperative on a stress-free learning environment in an effort encourage intellectual curiosity. His overarching goal is to teach students how to think.
He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology and Azad University in 2002 and 2004, respectively, and his Ph.D. in Industrial and Operations Engineering from The University of Michigan in 2012. He also holds an M.A. in Statistics from The University of Michigan.