Announcing the results of the 2026 INFORMS Board of Directors election and the new board for 2027.
INFORMS has named 12 distinguished leaders as the 2026 class of INFORMS Fellows, one of the highest honors in the profession.
Most medical devices do not hit the market through rigorous safety testing but by being deemed similar enough to something already approved—the “predicate” device through a mechanism known as the FDA’s 510(k) pathway. But similar is not a synonym for safe. While the assumption may be that substantial equivalence is a reasonable stand-in for a safety review, a share of devices cleared with this method still get recalled, and the FDA spends valuable time reviewing devices the same way, regardless of how risky it is on paper.
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BALTIMORE, MD, March 3, 2025 – INFORMS proudly celebrates the election of four distinguished members to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), one of the highest professional honors in the field. This year’s honorees – Moshe Ben-Akiva (MIT), Alice Smith (Auburn University), Venkat Venkatasubramanian (Columbia University) and Yuehwern Yih (Purdue University) – join an elite group of global innovators recognized for their pioneering research and transformative contributions to engineering and society.
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