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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)
George L. Nemhauser 1986
Ellis Johnson 1988
William B. Rouse 1991
H. Donald Ratliff 1996
Jeff Wu 2004
Fellows of Societies
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow, American Physical Society
Fellow, American Society for Quality
Fellow, American Statistical Association
Jeff Wu 1985, Paul Kvam 2006, Jye-Chyi (JC) Lu 2007, Brani Vidakovic 2008, Roshan Joseph Vengazhiyil 2012
Fellow, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
George L. Nemhauser 2002, Ellis Johnson 2002, H. Donald Ratliff 2002, William B. Rouse 2002, John J. Jarvis 2002, John J. Bartholdi, III 2005, Chelsea (Chip) C. White III 2006, Jiangang (Jim) Dai 2007, Jianjun Shi 2008, 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)
Leon F. McGinnis 1996, Jack R. Lohmann 1996, H. Donald Ratliff 1996, John J. Jarvis 1997, Ben Wang 1999, Jerry Banks 2002, Jane Chumley Ammons 2003, Jianjun Shi 2007, David M. Goldsman 2012
Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Jeff Wu 1984, Jiangang (Jim) Dai 2003, Richard Serfozo 2003, Vladimir Koltchinskii 2004
Fellow, International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)
Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Ellis Johnson 2009, George L. Nemhauser 2009
NSF
Career Award, National Science Foundation
Jianjun Shi 1996, Anton Kleywegt 1998, Hayriye Ayhan 2000, Pinar Keskinocak 2001, Shabbir Ahmed 2002, Shijie Deng 2002, Ozlem Ergun 2003, Julie Swann 2004, Roshan Joseph Vengazhiyil 2005, Nagi Gebraeel 2006, 2007, Yajun Mei 2010, Nicoleta Serban 2010, Santanu Dey 2012, Antonius Dieker 2012
Presidential Young Investigator, National Science Foundation
John J. Bartholdi, III 1984-1989, Craig A. Tovey 1985, Jiangang (Jim) Dai 1994, Eva Lee 1996
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
H. Donald Ratliff 1991, Leon F. McGinnis 1998, 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, Antonius Dieker 2012
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
George L. Nemhauser 1988, John J. Jarvis 1998
Honorary Doctorate, Department of Mathematics, University of Waterloo
Jeff Wu 2008, Arkadi Nemirovski 2009
Shabbir Ahmed 2002, 2005, Jiangang (Jim) Dai 2003, William B. Rouse 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, Bert Zwart 2008, Santanu Dey 2009
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, George L. Nemhauser 2012
Joseph G. Wohl Outstanding Career Award, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
William B. Rouse 2001, Chelsea (Chip) C. White III 2005
George L. Nemhauser 1977, Ellis Johnson 1983, George L. Nemhauser 1990
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
American Statistical Associations' Deming Lecture Award
Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, Fisher Lecture
International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) Plenary talk
International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) Semi-plenary talk
Robin Thomas 2006, Alex Shapiro 2010
International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP) Plenary talk
Arkadi Nemirovski 1991, Alex Shapiro 2006
International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP) Semi-plenary talk
George L. Nemhauser 1994, Renato D.C. Monteiro 2003, Robin Thomas 2003, Arkadi Nemirovski 2006
P.C. Mahalanobis Memorial Lecture, Indian Institute of Statistics
Phillip McCord Morse Lectureship
