Faculty, alums, students receive multiple awards from INFORMS
Congratulations to the MS&E faculty, alums, and students honored with awards from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)!
Professor Peter Glynn was awarded the David Blackwell Prize. The award recognizes a lifetime career of theoretical and/or applications-driven scholarship within the field of applied probability that has had a significant impact on operations research and the management sciences.
Professor Margaret Brandeau was awarded the Saul Gass Award for Expository Writing. This award recognizes an author whose publications in operations research and management science have set an exemplary standard of exposition. Professor Brandeau also gave the plenary talk "Operations Research and Social Policy: Models That Can Make A Difference," at the INFORMS annual conference.
Professor Ben Van Roy was awarded the Philip McCord Morse Lectureship Award. The lectureship is awarded in honor of Philip McCord Morse, in recognition of his pioneering contributions to the field of operations research and the management sciences. Professor Van Roy joins Professors Glynn and Brandeau as former MS&E recipients of the award.
Alum Shengbo Wang (PhD '25), now a faculty member at the University of Southern California, won this year's Applied Probability Society Best Student Paper Prize. Wang was co-advised by Professor Glynn and Professor Jose Blanchet.
PhD student Wajeeha Ahmad was a runner up for the Organization Science Best Dissertation Proposal award. She is co-advised by MS&E Professor Chuck Eesley & Economics Professor Eric Brynjolfsson.
