Please help us congratulate:
Rajan Batta | Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Diversity, and SUNY Distinguished Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering University at Buffalo | For advanced theoretical research and use-inspired models for addressing location, layout, security, and HAZMAT transport problems; and for sustained outstanding academic education and leadership. |
William J. Browning | CEO & Founder Applied Mathematics, Inc. | For outstanding operations analysis contributions to the United States Navy Submarine Force tactical effectiveness, and for exceptional service to INFORMS and the INFORMS Roundtable. |
Richard Church | Distinguished Professor Emeritus University of California - Santa Barbara | For contributions to facility location theory and modeling, forest reserve planning, and spatial resilience planning. |
Elsayed A. Elsayed | Distinguished Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering Rutgers University | For innovative contributions to theory and applications in reliability engineering, distinguished contributions in education, and the leadership service to industrial engineering and INFORMS professional societies. |
Julie Simmons Ivy | Professor, Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Fitts Faculty Fellow in Health Systems Engineering North Carolina State University | For service and significant contributions in healthcare and hunger relief, which have advanced the stature and recognition of the OR/MS profession making it more inclusive for underrepresented members. |
Daniel Kuhn | Professor of Operations Research EPFL | For pioneering work and thought leadership in distributionally robust and multistage robust optimization, including applications in operations research, management science, and machine learning. |
Anne Robinson | Chief Strategy Officer Kinaxis | For sustained excellence in service to INFORMS and the profession, and for outstanding contributions to practice and management through applications of operations research and advanced analytics to supply chain management, and for championing industry-academic collaboration. |
Andrew Schaefer | Noah Harding Chair and Professor of Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research Rice University | For fundamental contributions to optimizing disease treatment decisions and optimization under uncertainty. |
Katya Scheinberg | Professor, Operations Research and Information Engineering Cornell University | For outstanding research contributions to continuous optimization, particularly derivative-free optimization and the interface of optimization and machine learning, as well as outstanding service and leadership. |
Karen Smilowitz | James N. and Margie M. Krebs Professor in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences Northwestern University | For outstanding research in transportation, logistics, and nonprofit operations, significant contributions to the practice of O.R. for social good, and advancing equity and diversity. |
Julie Swann | A. Doug Allison Distinguished Professor and Department Head North Carolina State University | For significant research and impact on health and humanitarian systems, outstanding educational contributions, excellence in service and academic leadership, and distinguished contributions in advocacy of the profession to the public. |
Enver Yücesan | The Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank Chaired Professor in International Management INSEAD Business School | For outstanding service, education, and research contributions to the international simulation community. |