2025 First Place
- Albert S. Berahas, University of Michigan
Purpose of the Award
The INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) Forum invites submissions to the INFORMS JFIG Teaching Excellence Award, an annual national award recognizing excellence in teaching in operations research and management science (ORMS). The INFORMS JFIG was created in 2001 to promote the career development of tenure- track faculty in INFORMS. The goal of the teaching excellence award is to acknowledge and celebrate junior faculty that are doing an outstanding job inside the classroom. The JFIG teaching award committee will judge the applications and select 3 finalists.
Past Awardees
2025
First Place
Albert S. Berahas,
University of Michigan
Second Place
Ahmed Aziz Ezzat,
Rutgers University
Third Place
Ana Maria Estrada Gomez,
Purdue University
Honorable Mention
Ian Yihang Zhu,
National University of Singapore