TSL Community,
We are pleased to announce the 2023 TSL awards. We will recognize awardees at the TSL Business Meeting, held Monday evening during the INFORMS Annual Meeting (specific details to follow in a separate message). In addition, we will also announce the results of the first ever TSL Student Paper competition. Many thanks to all the award committees for their work.
Robert Herman Lifetime Achievement Award: Hani Mahmassani
The 2023 TSL Robert Herman Lifetime Achievement is awarded to Hani Mahmassani, William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transportation and professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northwestern University. Dr. Mahmassani is an outstanding and internationally renowned leader of the transportation science and logistics community.
During his long and prolific career, spanning more than four decades, Dr. Mahmassani has made significant contributions to transportation science in various fields: from dynamic network modeling and optimization, to traffic flow theory, intelligent transportation systems, dynamic vehicle routing, travel behavior, decision theory, and logistics systems design. His remarkable publication record includes more than 350 papers which received 37,000 citations in Google scholar and were presented in keynote speeches at all major international conferences. Dr. Mahmassani is a member of the National Academies of Engineering, arguably the highest professional honor an engineer can receive. Moreover, he is regularly active in media, with interviews in all major broadcasting networks granting high visibility to the transportation science discipline.
Dr. Mahmassani is an exceptional mentor who advised more than 75 doctoral students, many of whom now hold positions at top universities worldwide, showing his high commitment to developing future leaders in transportation. Finally, Dr. Mahmassani has made significant contribution to INFORMS and in particular to TSL, serving as editor-in-chief of Transportation Science and president of TSL.
Stella Dafermos Mid-Career Award: Ola Jabali
Ola Jabali received her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in 2010, for research focused on vehicle routing. She then held post-doc positions at McGill University and HEC/CIRRELT in Montréal under the supervision of Gilbert Laporte. In 2012 she obtained an assistant professorship at HEC of Montéal. In 2016 she got an assistant professorship (Rita Levi Montalcini fellowship for young researchers) at the Politecnico of Milan (Italy), where she became Associate Professor in 2020.
Ola focuses on advancing both theoretical and applied research on public transport and logistics. She has published more than 40 papers in renowned international journals, such as Transportation Science, Transportation Research: Part B, Transportation Research: Part C, European Journal of Operational Research, Omega, Computers & OR. The outcome of her research has not been confined to the academic community. She applied it in several industrial collaborations (FAI Service, Speedy s.r.l. and Petro-Canada). She obtained competitive funds for Italian, Canadian and European projects where she was involved as PI. Her international visibility is outstanding, as testified by the numerous invited seminars she has given all over the world. She is AE of Transportation Science, Transportation Research: Part C, INFOR and ITOR. Ola is also an enthusiastic and passionate teacher, among the most appreciated ones by the students at her university.
TSL Best Paper Award
Winner: Scaling Up Electric-Vehicle Battery Swapping Services in Cities: A Joint Location and Repairable-Inventory Model. Wei Qi, Yuli Zhang, Ningwei Zhang, Management Science.
Honorable Mention: The Value of Autonomous Vehicles for Last-Mile Deliveries in Urban Environments. Sara Reed, Ann Melissa Campbell, Barrett Thomas. Management Science.
This year, one SIG awarded a paper as well:
Intelligent Transportation Systems SIG Paper Award: A New Approach for Vehicle Routing with Stochastic Demand: Combining Route Assignment with Process Flexibility. Kirby Ledvina, Hanzhang Qin, David Simchi-Levi, Yehua Wei. Operations Research.
TSL Dissertation Award
Winner: Luying Sun, Fair and Risk-Averse Resource Allocation in Transportation Systems under Uncertainties. Virginia Tech.
Honorable Mention: Jingwei Zhang, Toward Sustainable Cities: Modeling and Data Analytics for Urban Mobility. UCLA.
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Alejandro Toriello
Professor
Georgia Tech ISyE
Atlanta GA
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