Call for Nominations
2024 Distinguished Service Award of the
INFORMS Simulation Society
To recognize individuals who have provided long-standing, exceptional service to the simulation community, the INFORMS Simulation Society annually sponsors a Distinguished Service Award, given to at most one person each year. This award is for sustained service to the simulation community over at least fifteen to twenty years, and acquitted with distinction. The concept of service for this award does not include teaching or research contributions. Areas of volunteer service include, for example: (i) elected offices in simulation societies; (ii) editorial responsibilities such as area editor or editor-in-chief, for simulation; (iii) responsibilities such as program chair, proceedings editor, general chair, or member of the program or organizing committee, for conferences involving simulation; (iv) appointed positions for simulation-related activities, such as newsletter editor or serving on committees; and (v) undertakings and actions that promote simulation.
Nominations for the award to be given in 2024 can be made by anyone and should be sent by November 22, 2024, to the Distinguished Service Award Committee Chair:
Theresa Roeder
San Francisco State University
tmroeder@sfsu.edu
The other committee members are Sanjay Jain (George Washington University) and Christos Alexopoulos (Georgia Institute of Technology).
Letters of nomination should identify the nominee's areas of exceptional service, detailing the activities for which the nominee is believed to deserve this award. The nominator has the responsibility for justifying why the nominee should receive this award. If given, the award will be presented at the Winter Simulation Conference, December 15–18, 2024: http://www.wintersim.org.
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Yuan Zhou
University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington TX
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