INFORMS News: INFORMS Fellows Class of 2010

Fellows Selection Chair Mark Daskin and INFORMS President Susan Albin (front, center) welcome the Class of 2010. © 2010 Gelnn Fawcett

The Fellows Award Selection Committee honored 11 individuals for their outstanding contributions to the OR/MS profession and service to INFORMS during a special awards luncheon held in conjunction with the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas.

The INFORMS Fellows Award recognizes outstanding achievements in five areas: education in the field of operations research/management science; management of operations research/management science, including responsibility for applying the profession’s techniques within an organization of any type; the practice of operations research/management science/analytics; research; and service to INFORMS and the profession of operations research.

The Fellows Class of 2010 includes:

• John A. Buzacott, York University (Emeritus) and National University of Singapore, for research and leadership in manufacturing and operations management.
• Jonathan P. Caulkins, Carnegie Mellon University, for applications of operations research to drug-addition policy.
• William Peter Cherry, Science Applications International Corporation, for his significant impact on the OR/MS profession through his leadership, research contributions and practice in modeling and planning military systems.
• William J. Cook, Georgia Institute of Technology, for theoretical and computational research contributions to integer programming and the traveling-salesman problem.
• Brenda Dietrich, IBM, for technical and management contributions at IBM Research leading to the broad use of optimization methods.
• Jehoshua Eliashberg, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, for the application of operations research methodologies to marketing science and related business problems.
• Michel Gendreau, Université de Montréal, for contributions to transportation science and for professional and editorial leadership within INFORMS and sister societies.
• Benjamin F. Hobbs, Johns Hopkins University, for using O.R. methods to improve public policies in electricity market design, air and water quality management and carbon markets.
• Ronald L. Rardin, University of Arkansas, for contributions to combinatorial optimization, for innovative optimization textbooks and for pioneering new healthcare delivery applications.
• V. “Seenu” Srinivasan, Stanford University, for innovative research in the measurement of consumer preferences, new product development, brand equity measurement, market structure and sales force compensation.
• Glen L. Urban, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for improvements in the process of product development through new models, concepts and methods of data collection.