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Operations Research
School of Industrial and
Systems Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
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Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0205
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Faculty

Awards

Following is a selection of various honors and awards that have been achieved by current OR faculty members:

  • 7 OR faculty hold endowed Chairs (John Bartholdi, Bill Cook, Ellis Johnson, George Nemhauser, Arkadi Nemirovski, Chip White, and Jeff Wu).
  • 4 OR faculty are members of the National Academy of Engineering (Ellis Johnson, George Nemhauser, H. Don Ratliff, and Jeff Wu).
  • 12 OR faculty have won CAREER Awards* (Shabbir Ahmed, Hayriye Ayhan, John Bartholdi, Shijie Deng, Ozlem Ergun, Pinar Keskinocak, Anton Kleywegt, Eva Lee, Julie Swann, Craig Tovey, Kwok Tsui, Rosah Vengazhiyil).
  • 2 winners of the Lanchester Prize from INFORMS (Ellis Johnson and George Nemhauser**)
  • 2 winners of the John von Neumann Theory Prize from INFORMS (Ellis Johnson and Arkadi Nemirovski)
  • 2 winners of the George Dantzig Prize from the Mathematical Programming Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Ellis Johnson and Arkadi Nemirovski).
  • Winner of the Fulkerson Prize from from the Mathematical Programming Society and the American Mathematical Society (Arkadi Nemirovski***)
  • 2 winners of the Kimball Award from INFORMS (George Nemhauser and John Jarvis)
  • COPSS (Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies) Presidents Award (Wu)
  • Humboldt Senior Scientist Award (Ellis Johnson)
  • P.C. Mahalanobis Memorial Lectures, Indian Statistical Institute (Wu)
  • Erlang Award from INFORMS (Jim Dai).
  • Computing Society Prize from INFORMS (Renato Monteiro).
  • Beale-Orchard-Hayes Prize from the Mathematical Programming Society (Bill Cook).
  • IBM Fellow (Ellis Johnson).
  • Fellow, INFORMS (Ellis Johnson, George Nemhauser, A. Esogbue, Bill Rouse, and H. D. Ratliff).
  • Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (Jim Dai, Richard Serfozo, and Jeff Wu).
  • Fellow, IEEE (Bill Rouse and Chip White).
  • Fellow, American Statistical Society (Jeff Wu).
  • Fellow, American Society for Quality (Jeff Wu).
  • IBM Faculty Award (Jim Dai and Shabbir Ahmed).
  • Whitaker Foundation Biomedical Research Award (Eva Lee).
  • * Formerly, Presidential Young Investigator Awards
    ** George Nemhauser is the only person to have won the Lanchester Prize twice.
    *** Arkadi Nemirovski is the only person to win the Fulkerson, Dantzig, and von Neumann Prizes.