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.