Members of INFORMS,
It was our pleasure to attend the Annual Meeting last month, and see in person the wonderful work being done across our society and meet the people who are doing it.
We want to recognize all INFORMS award winners and thank them for their invaluable contributions to the field, the profession, and INFORMS itself. Please join us in congratulating:
Alba Rojas-Cordova, Virginia Tech
Bonder Scholarship in Health Services
For applied OR in the field of healthcare
Major Isaac Faber, Stanford University
Bonder Scholarship in Military Applications
For applied OR in military issues
Joy Chang, University of Michigan
Undergraduate OR Prize Winner
“Carsharing Fleet Location Design with Mixed Vehicle Types for CO2 Emission Reduction”
Christine Barnett and Selin Merdan, University of Michigan
Doing Good with Good OR Competition Winners
“Data Analytics for Optimal Detection of Metastatic Prostate Cancer”
Raghu Raghavan, University of Maryland
Prize for the Teaching of OR/MS Practice Winner
For excellence in teaching students to be effective practitioners of OR/MS
Paul Glasserman, Columbia University
Saul Gass Expository Writing Prize Winner
For an exemplary standard of exposition in written and published works
Eoin O’Mahoney, Cornell University
George B. Danntzig Dissertation Award Winner
“Smarter Tools for (Citi) Bike Sharing”
Peter Belobaba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, E. Andrew Boyd, University of Houston and Houston Public Media, Tom Cook, formerly American Airlines and Sabre, Guillermo Gallego, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Robert Phillips, Uber, Barry C. Smith, Barry C. Smith, LLC, Kalyan Talluri, Imperial College Business School, Garrett van Ryzin, Columbia University and Uber
Impact Prize Winners
For contributions of broad impact to the field of Revenue Management
Hamsa Bastani, Stanford University
George E. Nicholson Student Paper Competition Winner
“Online Decision-Making with High-Dimensional Covariates”
Martin I. Reiman, Columbia University and Ruth J. Williams, University of California, San Diego
John von Neumann Theory Prize Winners
For fundamental, sustained contributions to theory in OR/MS
Jeffrey D. Camm, Wake Forest University and Robin Lougee, IBM Research
George E. Kimball Medal Winners
For distinguished service to the Institute and to the profession of OR/MS
Gerald G. Brown, Naval Postgraduate School
INFORMS President’s Award Winner
For contributions to the welfare of society by members of our profession
Stephen P. Boyd, Stanford University, Kevin Glazebrook, Lancaster University, Peter J. Haas, IBM Research Division, Jeff Linderoth, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Sanjay Mehrotra, Northwestern University, George J. Miller, Altarum Institute, Georgia Perakis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mauricio G.C. Resende, Amazon.com, Inc., Ariela Sofer, George Mason University, Tamas Terlaky, Lehigh University, Paolo Toth, University of Bologna, and Pascal van Hentenryck, University of Michigan
Fellows Class of 2016
For outstanding lifetime achievement in OR/MS
We are proud to have you as INFORMS members.
Sincerely,
Ed Kaplan, INFORMS Member-in-Chief & Susan Martonosi, VP Membership & Professional Recognition
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Edward Kaplan
Beach Professor Operations Research, Pub Health, Engineering
Yale University
New Haven CT
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