INFORMS Elected Fellows

2025 Winner(s)

Purpose of the Award

Elected Fellows in Alphabetical Order  

Past Awardees

2025
Winner(s)
Laura Albert, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chun-Hung Chen, George Mason University
John W. Chinneck, Carleton University
Gerard Cornuejols, Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business
Pooja Dewan, Rentokil-Terminex
Yu Ding, Texas A&M University
Vivek Farias, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stefan Karisch, Amazon
Erica Klampfl, Ford Motor Company
Panos Kouvelis, Washington University, St Louis
Subramanian Raghavan, University of Maryland, Robert H Smith School of Business
Daniele Vigo, University of Bologna
2024
Awardee(s)
Alok Gupta , University of Minnesota
Amy Cohn , University of Michigan
Celso Ribeiro , Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)
M. Grazia Speranza , University of Brescia
Michael Gorman , University of Dayton
Philip Kaminsky , Amazon.com/UC Berkeley
Russell Barton , Pennsylvania State University
Shuzhong Zhang , University of Minnesota
Teck Ho
Hani Mahmassani, Northwestern University
Alexandra M. Newman, Colorado School of Mines
David L. Woodruff, University of California - Davis
2023
Awardee(s)
M. Selim Akturk, Bilkent University
Ranganath S. Nuggehalli, CAP
Maged Dessouky, University of Southern California
Özlem Ergun, Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Industrial/Systems Engineering
Arnold (Arnie) Greenland, IBM (Retired); University of Maryland (Retired)
Simge Kucukyavuz, Ohio State University
Andrea Lodi, Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, Cornell Tech and Technion, USA, and CERC, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada
Ted Ralphs, Lehigh University
Rhonda Righter, University of California, Berkeley
J.C. Smith
Kwok-Leung Tsui, Virginia Tech
Peiling Wu-Smith, General Motors
2022
Winner(s)
Rajan Batta, University of Buffalo
William J. Browning, Applied Mathematics, Inc.
Richard Church, University of California at Santa Barbara
Elsayed A. Elsayed, Rutgers University
Julie S. Ivy
Daniel Kuhn, Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Anne Robinson, Cisco
Andrew J. Schaefer, Rice University
Katya Scheinberg, Cornell University
Karen Smilowitz, Northwestern University
Julie L. Swann, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Enver Yücesan
2021
Winner(s)
Ritu Agarwal, University of Maryland
Russell J. Allgor, Amazon
Ronald G. Askin, Arizona State University
Stephen Chick, INSEAD
John Fowler
David Gamarnik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management
Nicholas G. Hall, The Ohio State University
Robert C. Leachman, University of California - Berkeley
Mark E. Lewis, Cornell University
Irvin Lustig, Princeton Consultants
Alice E. Smith, Auburn University
Alexander L. Stolyar, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2020
Winner(s)
Susan Albin, Rutgers University
Saif Benjaafar, University of Michigan
Manoj Chari, Otis Elevator
David Goldsman, Georgia Institute of Technology
Oleg Gusikhin, Ford Motor Company
Illya V. Hicks, Rice University
Jionghua (Judy) Jin, University of Michigan
Janny Leung, University of Macau
Nelson Maculan, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Glenn Wegryn, University of Cincinnati
Assaf Zeevi, Columbia University
Stefanos A. Zenios, Stanford University
2019
Winner(s)
Karen Aardal, Delft University of Technology
Alper Atamturk, University of California - Berkeley
Hung-Po Chao, PJM Interconnection
Xiuli Chao, University of Michigan
Antonio Conejo
Brian T. Denton, University of Michigan
Louis Anthony Cox, Jr, University of Colorado & Cox Associates
Costis Maglaras, Columbia Business School
Jong-Shi Pang, University of Southern California
Roman Slowinski, Poznan University of Technology
Chung Piaw Teo, National University of Singapore
Zelda Zabinsky, University of Washington
2018
Winner(s)
Andrew P. Armacost, U.S. Air Force Academy
Vicki Bier
Robert Freund, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Garud Iyengar, Columbia University
R. John Milne, IBM Systems and Technology Group
Jonathan Owen, General Motors
Kavita Ramanan, Carnegie Mellon University, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences
Ramesh Sharda, Oklahoma State University, Spears School of Business
Zuo-Jun (Max) Shen, University of California, Berkeley
Martin Shubik
Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Luk Van Wassenhove, INSEAD
2017
Awardee(s)
Shabbir Ahmed, Georgia Institute of Technology
Jeffrey Alden, General Motors
Jeffrey D. Camm, Wake Forest University
James J. Cochran, The University of Alabama
Shane G. Henderson, Cornell University
David P. Morton, Stanford University
Andy Philpott, University of Auckland
R. Ravi, Carnegie Mellon University
H. Edwin Romeijn
Andrzej Ruszczynski, Rutgers University
Susan M. Sanchez
Jeannette Song, Duke University
Mark Squillante, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
2016
Awardee(s)
Stephen P. Boyd, Stanford University
Kevin Glazebrook, Lancaster University
Peter Haas, IBM Research Division
Pascal Van Hentenryck, Brown University
Jeff Linderoth, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sanjay Mehrotra, Columbia University, IEOR Dept.
George J. Miller, Altarum Institute
Georgia Perakis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mauricio G. C. Resende, Amazon.com, Inc.
Ariela Sofer, George Mason University
Tamás Terlaky, Lehigh University
Paolo Toth, University of Bologna
2015
Awardee(s)
C. Allen Butler, Daniel H. Wagner Associates, Inc
Gérard P. Cachon
Pinar Keskinocak, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Industrial/Systems Engineering
Eva K. Lee, Data and Analytics Innovation Institute
Jack Levis, UPS
Pitu Mirchandani, Arizona State University
Benjamin Van Roy, Stanford University
Rakesh V. Vohra, University of Pennsylvania
2014
Awardee(s)
Michel L Balinski, C.N.R.S. and Ecole Polytechnique
Terry P. Harrison, CAP, Penn State University
Jonathan Eckstein, Rutgers University
Robert Inman, General Motors
Radhika Kulkarni, SAS
Russell Labe, RPL Analytics Consulting
Steve Nahmias, Santa Clara University
Robert L. Phillips, Nomis Solutions, Inc.
Nikolaos V. Sahinidis, Carnegie Mellon University, Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Tuomas Sandholm, Carnegie Mellon University
J. George Shanthikumar, Purdue University
Candace Yano, University of California, Berkeley
2013
Awardee(s)
Patrick Jaillet , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Daniel Bienstock, Columbia University
Michael W. Carter, University of Toronto
Morris A. Cohen, University of Pennsylvania
Zvi Drezner, California State University
T.C. Hu, University of California, San Diego
Sheldon H. Jacobson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jon Lee, IBM Research
Anna Nagurney, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, Isenberg School of Management
Sheldon M. Ross, University of Southern California, Dept. of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Martin W.P. Savelsbergh, Georgia Institute of Technology
David B Shmoys, Cornell University
2012
Awardee(s)
Guillermo Gallego, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Bezalel Gavish, Southern Methodist University
Daniel Granot, University of British Columbia
Patrick T. Harker, Dept. of Civil and Urban Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
Michael N. Katehakis, Rutgers University
Karl Kempf, Intel Corporation
Ramayya Krishnan
Richard P. O'Neill, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Rakesh Sarin, University of California - Los Angeles
Yves Smeers
Marius Solomon, Northeastern University
Sridhar Tayur, Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business
2011
Awardee(s)
Kurt M. Anstreicher, University of Iowa
Cynthia Barnhart, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David E. Bell, Harvard University
Oded Berman, University of Toronto
Izak Duenyas, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
University of Michigan
Eugene A. Feinberg, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Harvey Greenberg, University of Colorado Denver (Emeritus)
Avishai Mandelbaum, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Robin O. Roundy, Brigham Young University
Christopher Tang, University of California-Los Angeles
2010
Awardee(s)
Peter Cherry
John Buzacott
Jonathan P. Caulkins, Carnegie Mellon University
William J. Cook, Georgia Institute of Technology, Industrial & Systems Engineering
Brenda Dietrich, Cornell University
Jehoshua Eliashberg, Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
Michel Gendreau, École Polytechnique de Montréal
Benjamin F. Hobbs, Johns Hopkins University
Ronald L. Rardin, University of Arkansas
V. “Seenu” Srinivasan, Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
Glen L. Urban, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2009
Awardee(s)
Aharon Ben-Tal
Srinivas Bollapragada, General Electric Global Research Center
Margaret L. Brandeau, Stanford University, Management Science and Engineering
Awi Federgruen, Columbia University
Nimrod Megiddo, IBM
David Montgomery, Stanford University
Michael Pinedo, New York University
Garrett J. van Ryzin, Cornell Tech
Kathryn E. Stecke, University of Texas - Dallas, School of Management
John Tomlin, Yahoo! Research, Santa Clara, CA
C. F. Jeff Wu
2008
Awardee(s)
Alexander Meeraus , GAMS Development Corporation
Gregory S. Parnell
Ravindra K. Ahuja, University of Florida, ISE Department
Linda Argote, Carnegie Mellon University
Robert F. Bordley, Professor of Engineering Practice and director of the Systems Engineering and Design Program within the Integrative Sciences Division in the College of Engineering, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Paul Glasserman, Columbia University
Freida Granot, University of British Columbia
Richard E. Nance, Orca Computer Incorporated
Jianjun Shi, Georgia Institute of Technology
Steven M. Shugan, University of Florida
Richard Staelin, Duke University
Ruth J. Williams, University of California - San Diego
2007
Awardee(s)
Dimitris J. Bertsimas , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management and Operations Research Center
Lawrence D. Bodin, Robert H. Smith School of Business
University of Maryland
E. Andrew Boyd, University of Houston and Houston Public Media
Jim Dai, Cornell University
John Forrest, IBM
Michael Fu, University of Maryland, College Park
Peter Glynn, Stanford University
John Hooker, Carnegie Mellon University
William C. Jordan, Research & Development Center
General Motors
Shaler Stidham, Jr., University of North Carolina
W. David Kelton, University of Cincinnati
Craig W. Kirkwood, Dept. of Supply Chain Management, Arizona State University
Don N. Kleinmuntz, Strata Decision Technology, LLC
Timothy J. Lowe, Trippie College of Business
University of Iowa
Hanan Luss, Telcordia Technologies
Frederic H. Murphy, School of Business and Management, Temple University
Evan Porteus, Stanford University
William R. Pulleyblank, United States Military Academy
Martin I. Reiman, Columbia University
David M. Ryan, Dept. of Engineering Science, University of Auckland
Leon Schwartz, Informed Decisions Group
James E. Smith, Duke University
Thomas Spencer, AT&T
John N. Tsitsiklis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2006
Awardee(s)
Mordecai Avriel, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Stephen J. Balut, Institute for Defense Analyses
Jonathan F. Bard, University of Texas, Austin
Peter C. Bell, University of Western Ontario, Richard Ivey School of Business
Richard Cottle, Stanford University, Management Science & Engineering
Harlan Crowder
Robert D. Doverspike, AT&T Labs Research
James S. Dyer, University of Texas - Austin
Michael C. Ferris
Michael Florian
John R. Hauser, MIT
Daniel P. Heyman, AT&T Labs
Chelsea C. White III, Georgia Institute of Technology
Pierre L'Ecuyer
Grace Lin, Asia University
William A. Massey, Princeton University
Heiner Müller-Merbach, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
James B. Orlin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Panos M. Pardalos
Martin L. Puterman, University of British Columbia, Faculty of Communications & Business Administration
Linus Schrage, Booth School of Business
University of Chicago
Lawrence Seiford, University of Michigan
David Simchi-Levi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael A. Trick, Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business
Robert J. Vanderbei, Princeton University
Robert L. Winkler, Duke University
Eric Wolman, George Mason University
Yinyu Ye, Stanford University, Department of Management Science & Engineering
Stanley Zionts, State University of New York at Buffalo
Paul H. Zipkin, Duke University, Fuqua School of Business
2005
Awardee(s)
Leon S. Lasdon , University of Texas
John J. Bartholdi, Georgia Institute of Technology
Gerald G. Brown
Stephen C. Graves, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
J. Michael Harrison, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business
Dorit S. Hochbaum
Paul A. Jensen, University of Texas
Edward H. Kaplan, Yale University
Jeffery L. Kennington, Southern Methodist University
Peter Kolesar, Columbia University, Graduate School of Business
Gilbert Laporte, École des Hautes Études Commerciales Montréal
Hau Lee, Stanford University
Michael Magazine
John M. Mulvey, Princeton University
Barry L. Nelson, Northwestern University
Robert G. Sargent, Syracuse University
Dr. Vicki L. Sauter
Leroy B. Schwarz, Purdue University
Suvrajeet Sen, University of Southern California
David Shanno, Rutgers University
Éva Tardos, Cornell University
Lawrence M. Wein, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business
Andrés P. Weintraub, Universidad de Chile
James R. Wilson, North Carolina State University
David D. W. Yao, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
2004
Awardee(s)
Ken Baker, Dartmouth College
Michael O. Ball
U. Narayan Bhat, Southern Methodist University
Mark S. Daskin, Northwestern University, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management Science
Mary R. DeMelim, Director, MRD Associates
Ward Edwards, University of Southern California
Salah E. Elmaghraby, North Carolina State University
Augustine O. Esogbue, Georgia Institute of Technology
Robert Fourer, Northwestern University
Bruce L. Golden, University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business
Linda Green, Columbia Business School
John R. Hall, National Fire Protection Association
Donald W. Hearn, University of Florida
Frederick S. Hillier, Professor Emeritus of Operations Research, Stanford University
Wallace J. Hopp, Dept. of Industrial and Operations Engineering
University of Michigan
L. Robin Keller, University of California - Irvine, Paul Merage School of Business
John P. Lehoczky, Carnegie Mellon University
Jan Karel Lenstra, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica
James E. Matheson, SmartOrg Inc.
John A. Muckstadt, Cornell University
Amedeo R. Odoni, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Shmuel S. Oren, University of California, Berkeley
Warren Powell, Princeton University
Stephen M. Robinson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bruce Schmeiser, Purdue University
Leslie D. Servi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Christine A. Shoemaker, Cornell University
Kalyan Singhal, University of Baltimore
Matthew J. Sobel
Gerald L. Thompson, Carnegie Mellon University
Michael J. Todd, Cornell University
Detlof von Winterfeldt, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
2003
Awardee(s)
Arnold I. Barnett, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management
David E. Boyce
George Fishman, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Donald P. Gaver, Naval Postgraduate School
Benjamin Lev, Drexel University
Katta G. Murty, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Dept. of I/O Engineering
Uriel G. Rothblum, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Lee W. Schruben
Suresh Sethi, University of Texas at Dallas
Edward A. Silver
Robert L. Smith, University of Michigan
Marlin U. Thomas, Purdue University
Erhan Çinlar, Princeton University, Operations Research & Financial Engineering Dept.
2002
Awardee(s)
David Blackwell , University of California - Berkeley
Elisabeth Paté-Cornell , Stanford University
Harry M. Markowitz , Baruch College
Kenneth J. Arrow , Stanford University, Dept. of Economics
Lloyd S. Shapley , University of California - Los Angeles, Dept. of Economics
Peter Whittle
Ralph E. Gomory , Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Robert A. Abrams
Samuel Karlin , Stanford University
Dept of Mathematics
William P. Pierskalla
Russell L. Ackoff
Egon Balas, Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business
Richard E. Barlow, University of California-Berkeley
Frank M. Bass, University of Texas
James C. Bean, University of Oregon
John R. Birge, University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business
Robert E. Bixby, Gurobi Optimization, Inc.
Alfred Blumstein, Carnegie Mellon University, Heinz College
Seth Bonder, The Bonder Group
Jack R. Borsting, University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business
Hugh E. Bradley
Arthur A. Brown
Thomas E. Caywood
C. West Churchman
Thomas M. Cook
William W. Cooper, University of Texas - Austin, MSIS Department
W. Edward Cushen
George B. Dantzig, Stanford University
Robert Dorfman
Richard J. Duffin
Jack Edmonds, University of Waterloo, Dept. of Combinatorics & Optimization
Joseph H. Engel
Martin L. Ernst
Peter C. Fishburn
Marshall L. Fisher, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School Operations & Information Management Dept.
Charles D. Flagle
Merrill M. Flood
David Gale
H. Newton Garber
Saul I. Gass, University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business
Arthur M. Geoffrion, UCLA, Anderson School of Management
Fred W. Glover, OptTek Systems, Inc.
Paul Gray
Donald Gross
Ignacio Grossman, Carnegie Mellon University
Warren Hausman, Management Science & Engineering Department, Stanford University
David B. Hertz
Sidney W. Hess
Charles J. Hitch
Alan J. Hoffman, IBM
Karla L. Hoffman, George Mason University, System Engineering & Operations Research Dept.
William J. Horvath
Ronald A. Howard, Stanford University, Dept. of Management Science & Engineering
Donald L. Iglehart, Stanford University
John J. Jarvis
Ellis L. Johnson, School of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Arthur F. Veinott, Jr., Stanford University
Charles J. McCallum, Jr.
Richard M. Karp, University of California - Berkeley, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Ralph L. Keeney, USC
Leonard Kleinrock, University of California, Computer Science Dept.
Harold W. Kuhn, Princeton University
Richard C. Larson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mark Lembersky, Weyerhaeuser Company
Carlton E. Lemke
Judith S. Liebman
Gary L. Lilien, Distinguished Research Professor of Management Science, Penn State
Distinguished Professor of Marketing, University of Technology, Sydney
John D.C. Little, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John F. Magee, Arthur D. Little Incorporated
Thomas L. Magnanti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alan S. Manne, Stanford University
Bill Maxwell, Cornell University
John F. Nash, Princeton University, Mathematics Dept.
George L. Nemhauser, Georgia Institute of Technology, Dept. of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Peter V. Norden
Robert M. Oliver, University of California - Berkeley
Manfred W. Padberg, New York University, Stern School of Business
Thornton Leigh Page
Felix Pollaczek
Stephen M. Pollock, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Dept. of Industrial and Operations Engineering
Frank Proschan
Randall S. Robinson
R. Tyrrell Rockafellar, University of Washington, Dept. of Mathematics
Michael H. Rothkopf
Melvin E. Salveson
Herbert E. Scarf, Yale University
David A. Schrady, Naval Postgraduate School, Dept. of Operations Research
Hanif D. Sherali, Virginia Tech
Martin K. Starr, Rollins College
Lawrence D. Stone, Metron Incorporated
Lajos Takacs
Michael E. Thomas
Robert M. Thrall
Harvey M. Wagner, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Kenan-Flagler Business School
Ward Whitt, Columbia University, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research Dept.
Philip M. Wolfe, Arizona State University
Robert E. D. (Gene) Woolsey, Colorado School of Mines