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2024 Awardee(s)
- Russell Barton , Pennsylvania State University
- Amy Cohn , University of Michigan
- Michael Gorman , University of Dayton
- Alok Gupta , University of Minnesota
- Teck Ho
- Philip Kaminsky , Amazon.com/UC Berkeley
- Hani Mahmassani,
Northwestern University
- Alexandra M. Newman, Colorado School of Mines
- Celso Ribeiro , Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)
- M. Grazia Speranza , University of Brescia
- David L. Woodruff,
University of California - Davis
- Shuzhong Zhang , University of Minnesota
Purpose of the Award
Elected Fellows in Alphabetical Order
Past Awardees
2024
Awardee(s)
Alexandra M. Newman,
Colorado School of Mines
Alok Gupta ,
University of Minnesota
Amy Cohn ,
University of Michigan
Celso Ribeiro ,
Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)
David L. Woodruff,
University of California - Davis
Hani Mahmassani,
Northwestern University
M. Grazia Speranza ,
University of Brescia
Michael Gorman ,
University of Dayton
Philip Kaminsky ,
Amazon.com/UC Berkeley
Russell Barton ,
Pennsylvania State University
Shuzhong Zhang ,
University of Minnesota
2023
Awardee(s)
Andrea Lodi,
Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, Cornell Tech and Technion, USA, and CERC, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada
Arnold (Arnie) Greenland,
IBM (Retired); University of Maryland (Retired)
Kwok-Leung Tsui,
Virginia Tech
M. Selim Akturk,
Bilkent University
Maged Dessouky,
University of Southern California
Peiling Wu-Smith,
General Motors
Rhonda Righter,
University of California, Berkeley
Simge Kucukyavuz,
Ohio State University
Ted Ralphs,
Lehigh University
2022
Winner(s)
Andrew J. Schaefer,
Rice University
Anne Robinson,
Cisco
Daniel Kuhn,
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Elsayed A. Elsayed,
Rutgers University
Julie L. Swann,
Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Karen Smilowitz,
Northwestern University
Katya Scheinberg,
Cornell University
Rajan Batta,
University of Buffalo
Richard Church,
University of California at Santa Barbara
William J. Browning,
Applied Mathematics, Inc.
2021
Winner(s)
Alexander L. Stolyar,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Alice E. Smith,
Auburn University
David Gamarnik,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management
Irvin Lustig,
Princeton Consultants
Mark E. Lewis,
Cornell University
Nicholas G. Hall,
The Ohio State University
Ritu Agarwal,
University of Maryland
Robert C. Leachman,
University of California - Berkeley
Ronald G. Askin,
Arizona State University
Russell J. Allgor,
Amazon
Stephen Chick,
INSEAD
2020
Winner(s)
Assaf Zeevi,
Columbia University
David Goldsman,
Georgia Institute of Technology
Glenn Wegryn,
University of Cincinnati
Illya V. Hicks,
Rice University
Janny Leung,
University of Macau
Jionghua (Judy) Jin,
University of Michigan
Manoj Chari,
Otis Elevator
Nelson Maculan,
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Oleg Gusikhin,
Ford Motor Company
Saif Benjaafar,
University of Michigan
Stefanos A. Zenios,
Stanford University
Susan Albin,
Rutgers University
2019
Winner(s)
Alper Atamturk,
University of California - Berkeley
Brian T. Denton,
University of Michigan
Chung Piaw Teo,
National University of Singapore
Costis Maglaras,
Columbia Business School
Hung-Po Chao,
PJM Interconnection
Jong-Shi Pang,
University of Southern California
Karen Aardal,
Delft University of Technology
Louis Anthony Cox, Jr,
University of Colorado & Cox Associates
Roman Slowinski,
Poznan University of Technology
Xiuli Chao,
University of Michigan
Zelda Zabinsky,
University of Washington
2018
Winner(s)
Andrew P. Armacost,
U.S. Air Force Academy
Garud Iyengar,
Columbia University
Jayashankar M. Swaminathan,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jonathan Owen,
General Motors
Kavita Ramanan,
Carnegie Mellon University, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences
Luk Van Wassenhove,
INSEAD
R. John Milne,
IBM Systems and Technology Group
Ramesh Sharda,
Oklahoma State University, Spears School of Business
Robert Freund,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Zuo-Jun (Max) Shen,
University of California, Berkeley
2017
Awardee(s)
Andrzej Ruszczynski,
Rutgers University
Andy Philpott,
University of Auckland
David P. Morton,
Stanford University
James J. Cochran,
The University of Alabama
Jeannette Song,
Duke University
Jeffrey Alden,
General Motors
Jeffrey D. Camm,
Wake Forest University
Mark Squillante,
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
R. Ravi,
Carnegie Mellon University
Shabbir Ahmed,
Georgia Institute of Technology
Shane G. Henderson,
Cornell University
2016
Awardee(s)
Ariela Sofer,
George Mason University
George J. Miller,
Altarum Institute
Georgia Perakis,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jeff Linderoth,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kevin Glazebrook,
Lancaster University
Mauricio G. C. Resende,
Amazon.com, Inc.
Paolo Toth,
University of Bologna
Pascal Van Hentenryck,
Brown University
Peter Haas,
IBM Research Division
Sanjay Mehrotra,
Columbia University, IEOR Dept.
Stephen P. Boyd,
Stanford University
Tamás Terlaky,
Lehigh University
2015
Awardee(s)
Benjamin Van Roy,
Stanford University
C. Allen Butler,
Daniel H. Wagner Associates, Inc
Eva K. Lee,
Data and Analytics Innovation Institute
Jack Levis,
UPS
Pinar Keskinocak,
Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Industrial/Systems Engineering
Pitu Mirchandani,
Arizona State University
Rakesh V. Vohra,
University of Pennsylvania
2014
Awardee(s)
Candace Yano,
University of California, Berkeley
J. George Shanthikumar,
Purdue University
Jonathan Eckstein,
Rutgers University
Michel L Balinski,
C.N.R.S. and Ecole Polytechnique
Nikolaos V. Sahinidis,
Carnegie Mellon University, Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Radhika Kulkarni,
SAS
Robert Inman,
General Motors
Robert L. Phillips,
Nomis Solutions, Inc.
Russell Labe,
RPL Analytics Consulting
Steve Nahmias,
Santa Clara University
Terry P. Harrison, CAP,
Penn State University
Tuomas Sandholm,
Carnegie Mellon University
2013
Awardee(s)
Anna Nagurney,
University of Massachusetts - Amherst, Isenberg School of Management
Daniel Bienstock,
Columbia University
David B Shmoys,
Cornell University
Jon Lee,
IBM Research
Martin W.P. Savelsbergh,
Georgia Institute of Technology
Michael W. Carter,
University of Toronto
Morris A. Cohen,
University of Pennsylvania
Patrick Jaillet ,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sheldon H. Jacobson,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sheldon M. Ross,
University of Southern California, Dept. of Industrial & Systems Engineering
T.C. Hu,
University of California, San Diego
Zvi Drezner,
California State University
2012
Awardee(s)
Bezalel Gavish,
Southern Methodist University
Daniel Granot,
University of British Columbia
Guillermo Gallego,
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Karl Kempf,
Intel Corporation
Marius Solomon,
Northeastern University
Michael N. Katehakis,
Rutgers University
Patrick T. Harker,
Dept. of Civil and Urban Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
Rakesh Sarin,
University of California - Los Angeles
Richard P. O'Neill,
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Sridhar Tayur,
Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business
2011
Awardee(s)
Avishai Mandelbaum,
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Christopher Tang,
University of California-Los Angeles
Cynthia Barnhart,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David E. Bell,
Harvard University
Eugene A. Feinberg,
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Harvey Greenberg,
University of Colorado Denver (Emeritus)
Kurt M. Anstreicher,
University of Iowa
Oded Berman,
University of Toronto
Robin O. Roundy,
Brigham Young University
2010
Awardee(s)
Benjamin F. Hobbs,
Johns Hopkins University
Brenda Dietrich,
Cornell University
Glen L. Urban,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jonathan P. Caulkins,
Carnegie Mellon University
Michel Gendreau,
École Polytechnique de Montréal
Ronald L. Rardin,
University of Arkansas
V. “Seenu” Srinivasan,
Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
William J. Cook,
Georgia Institute of Technology, Industrial & Systems Engineering
2009
Awardee(s)
Awi Federgruen,
Columbia University
David Montgomery,
Stanford University
Garrett J. van Ryzin,
Cornell Tech
John Tomlin,
Yahoo! Research, Santa Clara, CA
Kathryn E. Stecke,
University of Texas - Dallas, School of Management
Margaret L. Brandeau,
Stanford University, Management Science and Engineering
Michael Pinedo,
New York University
Nimrod Megiddo,
IBM
Srinivas Bollapragada,
General Electric Global Research Center
2008
Awardee(s)
Alexander Meeraus ,
GAMS Development Corporation
Freida Granot,
University of British Columbia
Jianjun Shi,
Georgia Institute of Technology
Linda Argote,
Carnegie Mellon University
Paul Glasserman,
Columbia University
Ravindra K. Ahuja,
University of Florida, ISE Department
Richard E. Nance,
Orca Computer Incorporated
Richard Staelin,
Duke University
Robert F. Bordley,
Professor of Engineering Practice and director of the Systems Engineering and Design Program within the Integrative Sciences Division in the College of Engineering, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ruth J. Williams,
University of California - San Diego
Steven M. Shugan,
University of Florida
2007
Awardee(s)
Craig W. Kirkwood,
Dept. of Supply Chain Management, Arizona State University
David M. Ryan,
Dept. of Engineering Science, University of Auckland
Dimitris J. Bertsimas ,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management and Operations Research Center
Don N. Kleinmuntz,
Strata Decision Technology, LLC
E. Andrew Boyd,
University of Houston and Houston Public Media
Evan Porteus,
Stanford University
Frederic H. Murphy,
School of Business and Management, Temple University
Hanan Luss,
Telcordia Technologies
James E. Smith,
Duke University
Jim Dai,
Cornell University
John Forrest,
IBM
John Hooker,
Carnegie Mellon University
John N. Tsitsiklis,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lawrence D. Bodin,
Robert H. Smith School of Business
University of Maryland
University of Maryland
Leon Schwartz,
Informed Decisions Group
Martin I. Reiman,
Columbia University
Michael Fu,
University of Maryland, College Park
Peter Glynn,
Stanford University
Shaler Stidham, Jr.,
University of North Carolina
Thomas Spencer,
AT&T
Timothy J. Lowe,
Trippie College of Business
University of Iowa
University of Iowa
W. David Kelton,
University of Cincinnati
William C. Jordan,
Research & Development Center
General Motors
General Motors
William R. Pulleyblank,
United States Military Academy
2006
Awardee(s)
Chelsea C. White III,
Georgia Institute of Technology
Daniel P. Heyman,
AT&T Labs
David Simchi-Levi,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Eric Wolman,
George Mason University
Grace Lin,
Asia University
Heiner Müller-Merbach,
Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
James B. Orlin,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
James S. Dyer,
University of Texas - Austin
John R. Hauser,
MIT
Jonathan F. Bard,
University of Texas, Austin
Lawrence Seiford,
University of Michigan
Linus Schrage,
Booth School of Business
University of Chicago
University of Chicago
Martin L. Puterman,
University of British Columbia, Faculty of Communications & Business Administration
Michael A. Trick,
Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business
Mordecai Avriel,
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Paul H. Zipkin,
Duke University, Fuqua School of Business
Peter C. Bell,
University of Western Ontario, Richard Ivey School of Business
Richard Cottle,
Stanford University, Management Science & Engineering
Robert D. Doverspike,
AT&T Labs Research
Robert J. Vanderbei,
Princeton University
Robert L. Winkler,
Duke University
Stanley Zionts,
State University of New York at Buffalo
Stephen J. Balut,
Institute for Defense Analyses
William A. Massey,
Princeton University
Yinyu Ye,
Stanford University, Department of Management Science & Engineering
2005
Awardee(s)
Andrés P. Weintraub,
Universidad de Chile
Barry L. Nelson,
Northwestern University
David D. W. Yao,
Dept. of Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
David Shanno,
Rutgers University
Edward H. Kaplan,
Yale University
Gilbert Laporte,
École des Hautes Études Commerciales Montréal
Hau Lee,
Stanford University
J. Michael Harrison,
Stanford University, Graduate School of Business
James R. Wilson,
North Carolina State University
Jeffery L. Kennington,
Southern Methodist University
John J. Bartholdi,
Georgia Institute of Technology
John M. Mulvey,
Princeton University
Lawrence M. Wein,
Stanford University, Graduate School of Business
Leon S. Lasdon ,
University of Texas
Leroy B. Schwarz,
Purdue University
Paul A. Jensen,
University of Texas
Peter Kolesar,
Columbia University, Graduate School of Business
Robert G. Sargent,
Syracuse University
Stephen C. Graves,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Suvrajeet Sen,
University of Southern California
Éva Tardos,
Cornell University
2004
Awardee(s)
Amedeo R. Odoni,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Augustine O. Esogbue,
Georgia Institute of Technology
Bruce L. Golden,
University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business
Bruce Schmeiser,
Purdue University
Christine A. Shoemaker,
Cornell University
Detlof von Winterfeldt,
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Donald W. Hearn,
University of Florida
Frederick S. Hillier,
Professor Emeritus of Operations Research, Stanford University
Gerald L. Thompson,
Carnegie Mellon University
James E. Matheson,
SmartOrg Inc.
Jan Karel Lenstra,
Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica
John A. Muckstadt,
Cornell University
John P. Lehoczky,
Carnegie Mellon University
John R. Hall,
National Fire Protection Association
Kalyan Singhal,
University of Baltimore
Ken Baker,
Dartmouth College
L. Robin Keller,
University of California - Irvine, Paul Merage School of Business
Leslie D. Servi,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Linda Green,
Columbia Business School
Mark S. Daskin,
Northwestern University, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management Science
Mary R. DeMelim,
Director, MRD Associates
Michael J. Todd,
Cornell University
Robert Fourer,
Northwestern University
Salah E. Elmaghraby,
North Carolina State University
Shmuel S. Oren,
University of California, Berkeley
Stephen M. Robinson,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
U. Narayan Bhat,
Southern Methodist University
Wallace J. Hopp,
Dept. of Industrial and Operations Engineering
University of Michigan
University of Michigan
Ward Edwards,
University of Southern California
Warren Powell,
Princeton University
2003
Awardee(s)
Arnold I. Barnett,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management
Benjamin Lev,
Drexel University
Donald P. Gaver,
Naval Postgraduate School
Erhan Çinlar,
Princeton University, Operations Research & Financial Engineering Dept.
George Fishman,
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Katta G. Murty,
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Dept. of I/O Engineering
Marlin U. Thomas,
Purdue University
Robert L. Smith,
University of Michigan
Suresh Sethi,
University of Texas at Dallas
Uriel G. Rothblum,
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
2002
Awardee(s)
Alan J. Hoffman,
IBM
Alan S. Manne,
Stanford University
Alfred Blumstein,
Carnegie Mellon University, Heinz College
Arthur F. Veinott, Jr.,
Stanford University
Arthur M. Geoffrion,
UCLA, Anderson School of Management
Bill Maxwell,
Cornell University
David A. Schrady,
Naval Postgraduate School, Dept. of Operations Research
David Blackwell ,
University of California - Berkeley
Donald L. Iglehart,
Stanford University
Egon Balas,
Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business
Elisabeth Paté-Cornell ,
Stanford University
Ellis L. Johnson,
School of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Frank M. Bass,
University of Texas
Fred W. Glover,
OptTek Systems, Inc.
Gary L. Lilien,
Distinguished Research Professor of Management Science, Penn State
Distinguished Professor of Marketing, University of Technology, Sydney
Distinguished Professor of Marketing, University of Technology, Sydney
George B. Dantzig,
Stanford University
George L. Nemhauser,
Georgia Institute of Technology, Dept. of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Hanif D. Sherali,
Virginia Tech
Harold W. Kuhn,
Princeton University
Harry M. Markowitz ,
Baruch College
Harvey M. Wagner,
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Kenan-Flagler Business School
Herbert E. Scarf,
Yale University
Ignacio Grossman,
Carnegie Mellon University
Jack Edmonds,
University of Waterloo, Dept. of Combinatorics & Optimization
Jack R. Borsting,
University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business
James C. Bean,
University of Oregon
John D.C. Little,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John F. Magee,
Arthur D. Little Incorporated
John F. Nash,
Princeton University, Mathematics Dept.
John R. Birge,
University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business
Karla L. Hoffman,
George Mason University, System Engineering & Operations Research Dept.
Kenneth J. Arrow ,
Stanford University, Dept. of Economics
Lawrence D. Stone,
Metron Incorporated
Leonard Kleinrock,
University of California, Computer Science Dept.
Lloyd S. Shapley ,
University of California - Los Angeles, Dept. of Economics
Manfred W. Padberg,
New York University, Stern School of Business
Mark Lembersky,
Weyerhaeuser Company
Marshall L. Fisher,
University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School Operations & Information Management Dept.
Martin K. Starr,
Rollins College
Philip M. Wolfe,
Arizona State University
R. Tyrrell Rockafellar,
University of Washington, Dept. of Mathematics
Ralph E. Gomory ,
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Ralph L. Keeney,
USC
Richard C. Larson,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Richard E. Barlow,
University of California-Berkeley
Richard M. Karp,
University of California - Berkeley, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Robert E. Bixby,
Gurobi Optimization, Inc.
Robert E. D. (Gene) Woolsey,
Colorado School of Mines
Robert M. Oliver,
University of California - Berkeley
Ronald A. Howard,
Stanford University, Dept. of Management Science & Engineering
Samuel Karlin ,
Stanford University
Dept of Mathematics
Dept of Mathematics
Saul I. Gass,
University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business
Seth Bonder,
The Bonder Group
Stephen M. Pollock,
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Dept. of Industrial and Operations Engineering
Thomas L. Magnanti,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ward Whitt,
Columbia University, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research Dept.
Warren Hausman,
Management Science & Engineering Department, Stanford University
William W. Cooper,
University of Texas - Austin, MSIS Department