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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

Valerie Thomas 2010

Fellow, American Physical Society

Valerie Thomas 1999

Fellow, American Society for Quality

Jeff Wu 2002

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

William B. Rouse 1994

Fellow, INFORMS

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)

William B. Rouse 2006

Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

Ellis Johnson 2009, George L. Nemhauser 2009

Fellow, Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)

Ben Wang 2001

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

Jack R. Lohmann 1984-1989

Director's Award for Excellence, National Science Foundation

Jack R. Lohmann 1991

Distinguished Honors & Awards (DHA)

COPSS (Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies) Presidents Award

Jeff Wu 1987

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

Jeff Wu 1974-1976

Einstein Chair Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Jeff Wu 2011

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

Jeff Wu 1990, Paul Kvam 1997

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

IBM Faculty Award

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

Joel Sokol 2010

Jacob Wolfowitz Prize

Craig A. Tovey 1989

Jerome Sacks Award for Outstanding Cross-Disciplinary Research, National Institute of Statistical Sciences

Jeff Wu 2005

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

Khachiyan Prize, INFORMS

George L. Nemhauser 2010

Lanchester Prize, INFORMS

George L. Nemhauser 1977, Ellis Johnson 1983, George L. Nemhauser 1990

Member (Academician), Academia Sinica

Jeff Wu 2000

Morse Lectureship, INFORMS

George L. Nemhauser 1991

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

Ellis Johnson 1980

Sloan Fellowship, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Jeff Wu 1983

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

Jeff Wu 1973-1974

WORMS Award for the Advancement of Women in OR/MS, INFORMS

Jane Chumley Ammons 2005

Prestigious Talks

American Statistical Associations' Deming Lecture Award

Jeff Wu 2012

Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, Fisher Lecture

Jeff Wu 2011

INFORMS APS Markov Lecture

Jiangang (Jim) Dai 2012

International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) Plenary talk

Arkadi Nemirovski 2006

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

Jeff Wu 1999

Phillip McCord Morse Lectureship

George L. Nemhauser 1992

SIAM Meeting on Discrete Mathematics Plenary talk

Robin Thomas 1998, 2010

Schantz Lecture

Leon F. McGinnis 2011

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