Faculty
Awards/Honors/Prizes
Following is a selection of various honors and awards that have been achieved by current OR faculty members:
- 10 Endowed Chairs or Professorships (John Bartholdi, Bill Cook, Jim Dai, Ellis Johnson, George Nemhauser, Arkadi Nemirovski, Martin Savelsbergh, Jan Shi, Chip White, and Jeff Wu).
- 4 Members of the National Academy of Engineering (Ellis Johnson, George Nemhauser, H. Don Ratliff, and Jeff Wu).
- 16 CAREER Awards* (Shabbir Ahmed, Hayriye Ayhan, John Bartholdi, Jim Dai, Shijie Deng, Ozlem Ergun, Nagi Gebraeel, Pinar Keskinocak, Seong-Hee Kim, Anton Kleywegt, Eva Lee, Julie Swann, Craig Tovey, Kwok Tsui, Roshan Vengazhiyil and Ming Yuan).
- 4 Lanchester Prizes from INFORMS (Bill Cook, Ellis Johnson and George Nemhauser**)
- 2 John von Neumann Theory Prizes from INFORMS (Ellis Johnson and Arkadi Nemirovski)
- 2 George Dantzig Prizes from the Mathematical Programming Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Ellis Johnson and Arkadi Nemirovski).
- 3 Fulkerson Prizes from from the Mathematical Programming Society and the American Mathematical Society (Arkadi Nemirovski*** and Robin Thomas****)
- 2 Kimball Awards from INFORMS (George Nemhauser and John Jarvis)
- COPSS (Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies) Presidents Award (Wu)
- Phillip McCord Morse Lectureship Award from INFORMS (George Nemhauser)
- Humboldt Senior Scientist Award (Ellis Johnson)
- 2 honorary doctorates, Department of Mathematics, University of Waterloo (Arkadi Nemirovski and Jeff Wu)
- 2 Erlang Awards from INFORMS (Jim Dai and Bert Zwart).
- Computing Society Prize from INFORMS (Renato Monteiro).
- Beale-Orchard-Hayes Prize from the Mathematical Programming Society (Bill Cook).
- IBM Fellow (Ellis Johnson).
- Fellow, SIAM (Bill Cook, Ellis Johnson and George Nemhauser)
- Fellow, INFORMS (John Bartholdi, Jim Dai, John Jarvis, Ellis Johnson, George Nemhauser, A. Esogbue, Bill Rouse, H. D. Ratliff, Mike Thomas, Jan Shi and Jeff Wu).
- Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (Jim Dai, Vladimir Koltchinskii, Richard Serfozo, and Jeff Wu).
- Fellow, IEEE (Bill Rouse and Chip White).
- Fellow, American Statistical Society (Jeff Wu).
- Fellow, American Society for Quality (Jeff Wu).
- IBM Faculty Award (Jim Dai, Shabbir Ahmed and Bert Zwart).
- Whitaker Foundation Biomedical Research Award (Eva Lee).
- Edelman Award from INFORMS (Eva Lee).
* Formerly, Presidential Young Investigator Awards
** George Nemhauser is one of only two people to have won the Lanchester Prize twice.
*** Arkadi Nemirovski is one of only two people to have won the Fulkerson, Dantzig, and von Neumann Prizes.
****Robin Thomas won the Fulkerson Prize twice.
Prestigious Talks
- Plenary address at the International Congress of Mathematicians (Arkadi Nemerovski (2006))
- Sectional address, International Congress of Mathematicians (Bill Cook (1998), Alex Shapiro (2010), Robin Thomas (2006))
- P.C. Mahalanobis Memorial Lecture, Indian Institute of Statistics (Jeff Wu (1999))
- I.E. Block Community Lecture for 2003, SIAM (Bill Cook)
- OMEGA RHO Distinguished Lecture, INFORMS (George Nemhauser (1987))
- Four plenary and four semi-plenary addresses at Mathematical Programming Symposia (Bill Cook (1994, 2003), Renato Monteiro (2003), George Nemhauser (1994), Arkadi Nemerovski (1991, 2006), Alex Shapiro (2006), Robin Thomas (2003))