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PROMINENT FACULTY AWARDS
This page represents some of the more prominent awards our faculty have received in our discipline. However, this is not an exhaustive list. Many other awards and accolades have been won by our faculty and students. These can be found by visiting our faculty web pages.
National Academy of Engineering Members (NAE)
William J. Cook 2011
Ellis Johnson 1988
George L. Nemhauser 1986
H. Donald Ratliff 1996
William B. Rouse 1991
Jeff Wu 2004
Fellows of Societies
Fellow, American Physical Society
Fellow, American Society for Quality
Fellow, American Statistical Association
Paul Kvam 2006, Jye-Chyi (JC) Lu 2007, Kwok-Leung Tsui 2003, Brani Vidakovic 2008, Jeff Wu 1985
Fellow, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
John J. Bartholdi, III 2005, William J. Cook 2010, Jiangang (Jim) Dai 2007, John J. Jarvis 2002, Ellis Johnson 2002, George L. Nemhauser 2002, H. Donald Ratliff 2002, William B. Rouse 2002, Jianjun Shi 2008, Michael E. Thomas 2002, Chelsea (Chip) C. White III 2006, Jeff Wu 2009
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
William B. Rouse 1985, Chelsea (Chip) C. White III 1988
Fellow, Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)
Jane Chumley Ammons 2003, Jerry Banks 2002, John J. Jarvis 1997, Jack R. Lohmann 1996, Leon F. McGinnis 1996, H. Donald Ratliff 1996, Jianjun Shi 2007, Michael E. Thomas 1988, Ben Wang 1999
Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Jiangang (Jim) Dai 2003, Vladimir Koltchinskii 2004, Richard Serfozo 2003, Jeff Wu 1984
Fellow, International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)
Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
William J. Cook 2009, Ellis Johnson 2009, George L. Nemhauser 2009
NSF
Career Award, National Science Foundation
Shabbir Ahmed 2002, Hayriye Ayhan 2000, Shijie Deng 2002, Santanu Dey 2012, Ozlem Ergun 2003, Nagi Gebraeel 2006, Pinar Keskinocak 2001, Seong-Hee Kim 2007, Anton Kleywegt 1998, Yajun Mei 2010, Nicoleta Serban 2010, Jianjun Shi 1996, Julie Swann 2004, Roshan Joseph Vengazhiyil 2005, Ming Yuan 2009
Presidential Young Investigator, National Science Foundation
John J. Bartholdi, III 1984-1989, Jiangang (Jim) Dai 1994, Eva Lee 1996, Craig A. Tovey 1985, Kwok-Leung Tsui 1992
Presidential Young Investigator, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Director's Award for Excellence, National Science Foundation
Distinguished Honors & Awards (DHA)
COPSS (Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies) Presidents Award
Dantzig Prize, Mathematical Programming Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Ellis Johnson 1985, Arkadi Nemirovski 1991
David F. Baker Distinguished Research Award, Institute of Industrial Engineers
Leon F. McGinnis 1998, H. Donald Ratliff 1991, Ben Wang 2009
Earl C. Anthony Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley
Einstein Chair Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Erlang Prize, Applied Probability Society of INFORMS
Jiangang (Jim) Dai 1998, Bert Zwart 2008
Frank Wilcoxon Prize, American Statistical Association and American Society for Quality Control
Fulkerson Prize, Mathematical Programming Society and the American Mathematical Society
Arkadi Nemirovski 1982, Robin Thomas 1994, 2009
George E. Kimball Medal, INFORMS
John J. Jarvis 1998, George L. Nemhauser 1988, Michael E. Thomas 1995
Honorary Doctorate, Department of Mathematics, University of Waterloo
Arkadi Nemirovski 2009, Jeff Wu 2008
Shabbir Ahmed 2002, 2005, Jiangang (Jim) Dai 2003, Santanu Dey 2009, William B. Rouse 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, Bert Zwart 2008
IIE Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Operations Research
Jerome Sacks Award for Outstanding Cross-Disciplinary Research, National Institute of Statistical Sciences
John Von Neumann Theory Prize, INFORMS
Ellis Johnson 2000, Arkadi Nemirovski 2003
Joseph G. Wohl Outstanding Career Award, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
William B. Rouse 2001, Chelsea (Chip) C. White III 2005
William J. Cook 2007, Ellis Johnson 1983, George L. Nemhauser 1990, George L. Nemhauser 1977
Member (Academician), Academia Sinica
Norbert Wiener Award, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
William B. Rouse 1986, Chelsea (Chip) C. White III October 1999
Senior Scientist Award, Humboldt Foundation
Sloan Fellowship, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Third Millennium Medal, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
William B. Rouse 2000, Chelsea (Chip) C. White III January 2000
Tse-Wei Liu Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley
Prestigious Talks
Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, Fisher Lecture
International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) Plenary talk
International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) Semi-plenary talk
William J. Cook 1998, Alex Shapiro 2010, Robin Thomas 2006
International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP) Plenary talk
William J. Cook 1994, 2003, Arkadi Nemirovski 1991, Alex Shapiro 2006
International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP) Semi-plenary talk
Renato D.C. Monteiro 2003, George L. Nemhauser 1994, Arkadi Nemirovski 2006, Robin Thomas 2003
P.C. Mahalanobis Memorial Lecture, Indian Institute of Statistics
Phillip McCord Morse Lectureship
