Volunteer Service Award

2024 - Winner(s)

2024 Winner(s)

Purpose of the Award

Committee Chair

Jennifer Mason Lobo
University of Virginia

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The Volunteer Service Award was first awarded in 2016. Its purpose is to recognize exceptional volunteer service to INFORMS.

The award winners will be publicized on the INFORMS website, a dedicated Volunteer Service Award page, OR/MS Today, Enews, Social Media and other media vehicles. 

Application Process

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2025 deadline is June 30, 2025


Past Awardees

2024
Winner(s)
Arnold (Arnie) Greenland, IBM (Retired); University of Maryland (Retired)
Irvin Lustig, Princeton Consultants
Johan Bos-Beijer, Navy/Government, GSA
Mehran Hojati, University of Saskatchewan (retired)
Oscar Dowson, Independent Scholar
Paul Rubin, Michigan State University
Pelin Pekgun, University of South Carolina
Shannon Browning, Haskell
Thor Osborn, Sandia National Laboratories
2023
Winner(s)
Beverly Wright, Burtch Works
Jun Zhuang , University of Buffalo
2022
Winner(s)
Abdullah Konak, Pennsylvania State University
Anahita Khojandi, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Daniel Reich, Naval Postgraduate School
Jay Simon, American University
Tarun Mohan Lal, Atrium Health
Yael Grushka-Cockayne, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia
2021
Winner(s)
Canan G. Corlu, Boston University
Jorge Samayoa, Galileo University
Kara M. Morgan, Ohio State University
Norm Reitter, CANA Advisors
2020
Winner(s)
Col William K. Klimack, United States Military Academy
Dayana Cope, Engineering USA
Jack Levis, UPS
Julie L. Swann, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Sheldon H. Jacobson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Warren Hearnes, Cardlytics
2019
Winner(s)
Scott Nestler, University of Notre Dame
Stefan Karisch, The Boeing Company
2018
Winner(s)
Aly Megahed, IBM Research
Cameron MacKenzie, Iowa State University
Grace Lin, Asia University
Jun Zhuang , University of Buffalo
Mark Eisner, Cornell University
Matthew Saltzman, Clemson University
Paul Maglio, University of California - Merced
Pratik Parikh, Wright State University
2017
Awardee(s)
Allen Holder, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Bjorn Berg, University of Minnesota
Chanaka Edirisinghe, University of Tennessee
Christopher Tang, University of California-Los Angeles
David Hunt, Oliver Wyman
Dorothee Honhon, University of Texas at Dallas
Erick Moreno Centeno, Texas A&M University
Guzin Bayraksan, University of Arizona
Irvin Lustig, Princeton Consultants
Michael Gorman, University of Dayton
Murat Kurt, University of Pittsburgh
Paul Messinger, University of Alberta
Pooja Dewan, BNSF Railway
Robin Qiu, Pennsylvania State University
Sadan Kulturel-Konak, Penn State Berks
Saif Benjaafar, University of Michigan
Sarah Nurre, University of Arkansas
Shengfan Zhang, University of Arkansas
Shreya Gupta, The University of Texas at Austin
Suvrajeet Sen, University of Southern California
2016
Awardee(s)
Anna Nagurney, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, Isenberg School of Management
Aurélie Thiele, Southern Methodist University
Carri W. Chan, Columbia University
Daniel Reich, Naval Postgraduate School
Dionne Aleman, University of Toronto
Don N. Kleinmuntz, Strata Decision Technology, LLC
Peter C. Bell, University of Western Ontario, Richard Ivey School of Business
Simge Kucukyavuz, Ohio State University
Terry P. Harrison, CAP, Penn State University
Theodore T. Allen, The Ohio State University
Wedad Elmaghraby, University of Maryland, RH Smith School of Business