INFORMS Open Forum

Stephen P. Boyd
Samsung Professor in the School of Engineering
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Professor by courtesy, Computer Science
Professor by courtesy, Management Science and Engineering Stanford University 

For exceptional teaching and broad dissemination of convex optimization and outstanding research leading to innovative formulations and algorithms for problems across a wide array of disciplines.

Kevin Glazebrook
Distinguished Professor in Operational Research
Department of Management Science
Lancaster University Management School
United Kingdom

For fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of operations research in the area of applied probability and for pioneering initiatives in doctoral education.

Peter J. Haas
IBM Research Division 

For sustained and fundamental contributions to discrete-event simulation and interactive sampling-based analytics for massive data sets, as well as for significant service to the simulation community.

Jeff Linderoth
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
University of Wisconsin-Madison 

For fundamental contributions to research in computational mathematical programming, specifically for mixed-integer programming, global and stochastic optimization and grid computing, and for leadership in all aspects of computing within Operations Research. 

Sanjay Mehrotra
Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Founding Director of the Center for Engineering and Health in the Institute for Public Health and Medicine
Northwestern University 

For contributions to continuous, discrete, and stochastic optimization methodology and their impact on OR technology implementation and application.

George J. Miller
Institute Fellow
Center for Sustainable Health Spending
Altarum Institute 

For contributions to OR practice and models in military, environmental, emergency preparedness and health care areas with successful implementations and broad high-level impact to humankind and society.

Georgia Perakis
William F. Pounds Professor of Operations Management and Operations Research
MIT Sloan School of Management

For exceptional research, spanning theory to practice with important contributions to variational inequalities, the price of anarchy, dynamic pricing and data analytics, and for her dedicated mentorship of a future generation of OR scholars.

Mauricio G. C. Resende
Modeling & Optimization Group
Amazon.com, Inc. 

For major contributions to the development and application of metaheuristics for optimization problems, including the invention of the widely-used Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure (GRASP).

Ariela Sofer
Professor and Chair
Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research
George Mason University 

For her contributions to nonlinear optimization and especially its application to medical diagnosis and treatment, and to OR education; and for leadership in and service to INFORMS and to the profession. 

Tamás Terlaky
George N. and Soteria Kledaras '87
Endowed Chair Professor
Chair of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Lehigh University 

For fundamental contributions to the theory, algorithms, computational methodology, and applications of optimization; for his exemplary mentorship and distinguished service to the INFORMS community.

Paolo Toth
DEI - Department of Electrical and Information Engineering Guglielmo Marconi
University of Bologna
Italy

For his outstanding methodological contribution to the field of combinatorial optimization and for the application of his knowledge to the solution of railway planning problems. 

Pascal Van Hentenryck
Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering
The University of Michigan

For his scientific contributions to constraint programming, discrete optimization, global optimization, local search and stochastic optimization as well as his many contributions to the practice of operation research and the education of future practitioners.