Past Early Career Award Winners

2022 MIF Early Career Award Winner

Dr. Jessye Talley, Morgan State University

2022 Honorable Mention

Dr. Destenie Nock, Carnegie Mellon University and Dr. Michelle Alvarado, University of Florida

2022 Early Career Award winner and honorable mention recipients

2020 MIF Early Career Award Winner

Gabriel Zayas-Caban, University of Wisconsin-Madison

He is the Jane R. and Jack G. Mandula Assistant Professor in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department in the College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests include Markov decision processes, queueing, scheduling, applied causal inference, healthcare delivery, emergency medicine, and care transitions. 

2020 Honorable Mention

Zhijie Sasha Dong, Texas State University



2019 MIF Early Career Award Winner 

Jamol Pender, Cornell University

2019 Early Career Award

2018 MIF Early Career Award Winner 

Edurardo Perez, Texas State University

Dr. Perez is an assistant professor of Industrial Engineering at the Ingram College of Engineering, Texas State University . His research interests involve opportunities and challenges in patient service personalization and the design of systems for service customization.


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2017 MIF Early Career Award Winner 

 Krystel K. Castillo, University of Texas at San Antonio



2017 Honorable Mention

 Shadi Sharif Azadeh, Erasmus University Rotterdam



(winners pictured with Julie Ivy)