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Faculty Awards & Honors

Bruce Ankenman

• Walter P. Murphy Professorship
• Outstanding Simulation Publication Award, INFORMS Simulation Society (2013)
• McCormick School of Engineering Advisor of the Year, Northwestern University (2001)

Daniel Apley

• Editor, Technometrics (2017—2020)
• Fellow, American Statistical Association (2019)
• Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Quality Technology (2009-2012)
• Frank Wilcoxon Prize, for best practical application paper appearing in Technometrics (2023)
• Lloyd S. Nelson Award, Journal of Quality Technology paper having greatest immediate impact to practitioners (2018)
• Frank Wilcoxon Prize, for best practical application paper appearing in Technometrics (2008)
• IIE Transactions Best Paper Award (2003)
• Morris E. Fine Professorship in Manufacturing (2003 – 2006)
• NSF CAREER Award (2001-2006)

Gail Berger

• Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Roll
• Instructor of the Year, Northwestern, SESP (2010-2011)
• Doctoral Teaching Award, Northwestern, Kellogg School of Management (2001)

Noshir Contractor

• President-Elect-Select, International Communication Association
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery
• Lifetime Service Award, Academy of Management, Organizational Communication & Information Systems Division
• Distinguished Alumnus Award, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (2018)
• International Communication Association Fellow recognizing contributions to the association and to the study of human communication (2015)
• National Communication Association Distinguished Scholar Award recognizing a lifetime of scholarly achievement in the study of human communication (2014)
• Outstanding Member Award, Organizational Communication Division, International Communication Association (2000)
• Institute Gold Medal for outstanding overall achievement. Bachelor of Technology degree, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India (1983)

Izzy Grosof

• Doctoral Dissertation Award Winner, ACM SIGMETRICS (2023)
• Student Research Competition Winner, ACM SIGMETRICS (2023)
• Siebel Scholar, Class of (2023)
• George E. Nicholson Student Paper, First Place, INFORMS (2022)
• Best Paper Award, ACM SIGMETRICS (2021)
• Kenneth C. Sevcik Outstanding Student Paper Award, ACM SIGMETRICS/IFIP Performance (2019)
• Stephen S. Lavenberg Best Student Paper Award, IFIP Performance (2018)

Seyed Iravani

• Graduate Teaching Award, Department of IEMS, Northwestern University (2016)
• Graduate Teaching Award, Department of IEMS, Northwestern University (2012)
• Graduate Teaching Award, Department of IEMS, Northwestern University (2008)
• ASG Faculty Honor Roll Award, Northwestern University (2007)
• IIE Operations Research Division Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Operations Research (2006)
• Pentair-Nugent Chair Professorship in Manufacturing, Northwestern University (2003-2006)
• Graduate Teaching Award, Department of IEMS, Northwestern University (2002)

Diego Klabjan

• First Prize 2000 Transportation Science Section Dissertation Prize, INFORMS, San Antonio (2000)

Simge Küçükyavuz

• Keynote speaker, 5th IMA and OR Society Conference on Mathematics of Operational Research (2025)
• Keynote speaker, The 18th INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) Conference (2025)
• Keynote speaker, Optimization Workshop: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications (2024)
• INFORMS Fellow (2023)
• Plenary speaker, International Conference on Stochastic Programming (2023)
• Semi-plenary speaker, International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (2022)
• Marguerite Frank Best Paper Prize, Honorable Mention (2022)
• Plenary speaker, Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Algorithms (2021)
• Semi-plenary speaker, International Conference on Stochastic Programming (2019)
• NU-INFORMS Graduate Teaching Award (2019-2020, 2020-2021)
• National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2011-2017)
• INFORMS Volunteer Service Award (2016)
• INFORMS Computing Society Prize (2015)
• INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group Paper Competition, Third place (2009)

Vadim Linetsky

• Plenary Lecturer, 9th World Congress of the Bachelier Finance Society (2016)
  
• Orrington Lunt Chair, Northwestern University

Edward Malthouse

• Robert B. Clarke Outstanding Educator Award (2008) and Marketing EDGE Education Award (2017)
• Best paper awards from Journal of Interactive Marketing (2006, 2015), Journal Service Management (2014, 2015), Journal of Advertising Research (2016), International Journal of Advertising (2017), and Journal of Marketing Management (2017)
• Editor, Journal of Interactive Marketing (2006-2011)
• Walter Award for Research Excellence, Northwestern University (2009)

Sanjay Mehrotra

• Plenary speaker, International Conference on Optimization Learning and Business, Operational Research Society of India (2022)
• Harold W. Kuhn Best Paper Award for a paper in Naval Research Logistics (2022)
• Plenary speaker, INFORMS Chicago Conference (2020)
• Kern Center Grand Rounds, Mayo Clinic (2019)
• Inaugural INFORMS Health Application Society Distinguished Scholar Lecture (2018)
• Keynote speaker, IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (2017)
• Keynote speaker, IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (2017)
• Keynote speaker, INFORMS National Meeting (2015)
• Plenary speaker, Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming Workshop at Carnegie Mellon University (2014)
• Keynote speaker, Euro-INFORMS Conference (2013)
• Keynote speaker, INFORMS Regional Conference, Ohio (2011)
• Fellow, Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences, Class of (2016)
• NSF Research Highlights (2012)
• Best Applied Paper Prize in Operations Engineering and Analysis (2012)
• McCormick Advisor of the Year Award (2007)
• INFORMS Moving Spirit Award (2005)
• George E. Nicholson student paper (2nd Prize), INFORMS (1986)

Janice Mejia

• Best Paper Award, American Society for Engineering Education IL-IN Section Conference (2024)
• Excellence in Advising - Faculty Award, NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising Great Lakes Region 5 (2021)
• Cole-Higgins Award for Excellence in Advising, Northwestern University School of Engineering, (2017)
• Faculty Honor Roll for Excellence in Teaching, Northwestern University Associated Student Government, (2015-2016)
• Faculty Honor Roll for Excellence in Teaching, Northwestern University Associated Student Government, (2013-2014)

David P. Morton

• Plenary Speaker, International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (2024)
• Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Stochastic Programming (2023)
• Best Application Paper, IISE Transactions in Operations Engineering and Analytics (2023)
• Plenary Speaker, European Conference on Stochastic Optimization & Computational Management Science (2022)
• INFORMS ENRE Best Publication in Energy (2018)
• INFORMS Fellow (2017)
• Fulbright Scholar, Charles University, Prague (2002)
• National Science Foundation, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (1997)
• INFORMS George E. Nicholson Student Paper Prize (1994)

Barry L. Nelson

• Saul Gass Expository Writing Award, INFORMS (2024)
• Outstanding Simulation Publication Award, INFORMS Simulation Society (2006, 2013, 2015, 2023)
• Lifetime Professional Achievement Award, INFORMS Simulation Society (2022)
• McCormick School of Engineering Teacher of the Year (1998, 2007, 2022)
• David F. Baker Distinguished Research Award, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (2019)
• IISE Modeling & Simulation Division Award for Excellence in Teaching (2019)
• Selected Best Paper, Operations, IIE Transactions (2007, 2009, 2015)
• Outstanding Industrial Engineer, Purdue University (2014)
• Fellow, Institute of Industrial Engineers (2011)
• Fellow, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (2005)
• ISIE OR Division Award for Excellence in Teaching (2004)
• Distinguished Service Award, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences College on Simulation (2003)
• Northwestern Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award (2003)

Jorge Nocedal

• Lagrange Prize (2021)
• Member, National Academy of Engineering (2020)
• Outstanding Engineering Alumnus Award, Rice University (2019)
• Von Neumann Theory Prize (2017)
• Editor-in-Chief SIAM Journal on Optimization (2010-2014)
• George B. Dantzig Prize (2012)
• Plenary Speaker: International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (2012)
• Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2010)
• Bette and Neison Harris Professor of Teaching Excellence, Northwestern (1998-2001)
• Plenary Speaker: International Congress of Mathematicians (1998)

Marita Labedz Poll

• National Academic Advising Association Outstanding Advisor Award (2020)

Chang-Han Rhee

• NSF CAREER Award (2022-2027)
• INFORMS Simulation Society Outstanding Simulation Publication Award (2016)
• INFORMS George E. Nicholson Student Paper Prize, Finalist (2013)
• Winter Simulation Conference Best Student Paper Award (2012)

Karen Smilowitz

• INFORMS Fellow, Class of 2024
• Editor-in-chief, Transportation Science (2021-present)
• Daniel I. Linzer Award for Faculty Excellence in Diversity and Equity, Northwestern University (2020)
• Crain's Chicago Business “Notable Women in STEM" (2020)
• James and Margie Krebs Professorship (2018-present)
• First place, INFORMS Innovative Applications of Analytics Award (2018)
• Honorable Mention, Best Application Paper, IISE Transactions Focus Issue on Scheduling and Logistics (2018)
• Award for the Advancement of Women in OR/MS (2016)
• CIC Academic Leadership Program Fellow (2015-2016)
• William A. Patterson Junior Chair in Transportation (2006-2012)
• National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2004-2009)
• Alfred P. Sloan Industry Studies Fellowship (2005-2007)
• National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Participant (2004)

Ajit Tamhane

• Fellow, American Statistical Association (1991)
• Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2010)
• Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science (2013)
• Elected member (Fellow) of the International Statistical Institute (2015)
• Distinguished Alumnus Award, I.I.T. Bombay (2017)
• Keynote Speaker, XIIth International Conference on Multiple Comparisons (2022)

Andreas Waechter

• Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• Charles Broyden Prize for best paper in Optimization Methods and Software (2016)
• Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software (2011)
• INFORMS Computing Society Award (2009)
• SIAM Student Paper Prize (2002)

Dashun Wang

• The Young Scientist Award for Socio- and Econophysics of the German Physical Society (DPG) (2023)
• The Erdős–Rényi Prize (2021)
• Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2021 (2021)
• The Complex Systems Society Junior Scientific Award (2020)
• Poets & Quants Best 40 Under 40 Professors (2019)

Zhaoran Wang

• NSF CAREER Award

Ermin Wei

• Grid Optimization Competition 2^nd place, Team GO-SNIP, Department of Energy ARPA-E (2019)

Mark Werwath

• Board of advisors for Argonne National Lab: Chain reactions innovations (2019-2024)
• Keynote speaker for IEEE Region 4 Nexus (2023)
• Keynote speaker-Midwest academy of Management annual conference (2023)
• Keynote speaker-IEEE Young professionals conference (2023)
• Panel moderator-Virtual panel session for IEEE region 4 (2023)
• Invited speaker: 23rd Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference and 9th International Conference on Green & Sustainable Chemistry (2019)
• Keynote speaker, IEEE SUSTECH (2018)
• Conference chair-IEEE TEMSCON 18 conference on technology and engineering management
• Vice President of Publications, IEEE Technology and Engineering Management (2016-2018)
• Assistant Editor, IEEE Engineering Management Review (2014)
• Keynote Speaker, Global Manufacturing and China Conference (2013)
• Keynote Speaker, PDMA Chicago Region (2013)
• IEEE Engineering Management Society Board of Governors (2005-2008)

William White

• Kellogg Impact Faculty Award
• Northwestern University Alumni Association Medal (2010)
• Alumni Association Teaching Excellence Award
• Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Roll
• McCormick School of Engineering Teacher of the Year

Jill Hardin Wilson

• Big Ten Academic Alliance Academic Leadership Program Fellow (2023-2024)
• Cole-Higgins Advising Award, Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University (2022)
• INFORMS Prize for the Teaching of OR/MS Practice (2021)
• Cole-Higgins Teaching Award, Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University (2021)
• IISE Conference Best Track Paper in Engineering Education, joint with Eloise Chudik, David Morton, and Eojin Han (2021)
• Charles Deering McCormick Distinguished Professor of Instruction, Northwestern University (2018-2021)
• Outstanding Advising Administrator, NACADA Region 5 (2019)
• Recognition for Teaching and Advising Excellence, Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University (2014)
• ASG Faculty and Administrator Honor Roll, Northwestern University (2012, 2013, 2014, 2022)
• Distinguished Teaching Award, VCU College of Humanities and Sciences (2011)