INFORMS Open Forum

Class of 2020 INFORMS Fellows

  • 1.  Class of 2020 INFORMS Fellows

    Posted 09-25-2020 15:14
    Dear INFORMS Colleagues,

    On behalf of this year's Selection Committee, I wish to congratulation and introduce this year's Fellows inductees.

    Susan Albin
    Professor, Industrial Engineering

    Rutgers University
    For research advancing the field of quality engineering, contributions to innovative education, and for extraordinary service to INFORMS and the broader operations research/industrial engineering communities.
    Saif Benjaafar

    Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Director of the Initiative on the Sharing Economy


    University of Minnesota

    For fundamental contributions to the science and engineering of operations with applications in supply chains, manufacturing, service systems, and the sharing economy, and for exceptional academic leadership and service.

    Manoj Chari

    Director of Data Science

     

    Otis Elevator Company

    For outstanding leadership in operations research and analytics software development at SAS Institute, for excellence in the practice of operations research and analytics, and for service contributions to INFORMS.

    David Goldsman

    Director of Master's Programs and Professor
    H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering


    Georgia Institute of Technology

    For fundamental contributions to simulation-analysis procedures and statistical ranking-and-selection procedures; and for service through leadership of professional societies, conferences, and educational outreach activities.

    Oleg Gusikhin

    IoT and Analytics Innovation Technical Leader

    Ford Motor Company.

    For sustained high-impact contributions to supply chain risk management, production  scheduling, vehicle sequencing, and assembly line layout and for pioneering work in connected vehicle analytics at Ford Motor Company.

    Illya Hicks

    Professor in the Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics

     

    Rice University

    For outstanding leadership in diversity issues and for fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of discrete optimization.

    Jionghua (Judy) Jin 

    Professor, Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering

    Director of Manufacturing Program of Integrative Systems and Design Division

     

    University of Michigan.

    For fundamental contributions in the research of data analytics methodology in quality engineering, broad impact in the manufacturing industry, and distinguished service to INFORMS and the industrial engineering profession.

    Janny Leung

    Professor, Choi Kai Yau College

     

    University of Macau

    For extensive contributions to educational planning and leadership, multidimensional service to INFORMS, and theoretical and applied research contributions to integer programming, transportation, and logistics.

    Nelson Maculan

    Professor of Optimization Department of Systems Engineering and Computer Science

    Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

    For outstanding leadership in the development of operations research in Brazil and Latin America, including forming generations of operations research academics and founding the Latin-American Association of Operations Research Societies.

    Glenn Wegryn, CAP

    Executive Director

    University of Cincinnati Center for Business Analytics

    For outstanding leadership and management of operations research at Procter & Gamble, and for outstanding OR/MS and analytics practice in supply chain management.

    Assaf Zeevi

    Professor

    Graduate School of Business

     

    Columbia University

    For outstanding research in applied probability and the integration of statistical learning theory with dynamic decision making, with applications in revenue management and predictive analytics.

    Stefanos Zenios 

    Professor of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology

    Stanford University

    For excellence in research in healthcare policy and kidney exchange research, and for excellence in operations management education.



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    Shane Henderson
    Professor
    School of ORIE, Cornell University
    Ithaca NY
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