INFORMS Fellows: Class of 2009

 

Aharon Ben-Tal

Aharon Ben-Tal
Faculty of Industrial Engineering & Management, Technion|Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, ISRAEL

For contributions to nonlinear programming, conic optimization and in particular to the area of robust optimization.

Srinivas Bollapragada

Srinivas Bollapragada
General Electric Global Research Center,
Schenectady, NY

For leading an INFORMS-Prize winning operations research program throughout the General Electric Company, advancing methods applied in practice – especially methods that influenced the television industry, and for extensive INFORMS service.

Margaret L. Brandeau

Margaret L. Brandeau
Stanford University, Department of Management Science & Engineering, Stanford, CA

For expanding the recognition and understanding of OR/MS in healthcare and for developing methods to inform public policy and to improve the effective control and treatment of disease and the distribution of critical resources.

Awi Federgruen

Awi Federgruen
Columbia University, Graduate School of Business, New York, NY

For contributions to inventory theory, distribution planning, and related deterministic and stochastic systems.

Nimrod Megiddo
IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA

For contributions to the theory and application of mathematical programming, including parametric searches, interior point methods, low dimension LP, probabilistic analysis of the simplex method and computational game theory.

David B. Montgomery

David B. Montgomery
Stanford University, Graduate School of Business, Stanford, CA

For research contributions to marketing science, marketing strategy, and global marketing and management.

Michael Pinedo

Michael Pinedo
New York University, Stern School of Business, New York, NY

For research contributions to scheduling and queueing theory and their application to manufacturing and services problems.

Kathryn E. Stecke

Kathryn E. Stecke
University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX

For contributions to research on flexible manufacturing and supply chains, and for service contributions to OR/MS.

John Tomlin

John Tomlin
Yahoo! Research, Santa Clara, CA

For contributions to linear, integer, and non-linear optimization, as well as auction design and placement.

Garrett L. van Ryzin

Garrett L. van Ryzin
Columbia University, Graduate School of Business, New York, NY

For contributions to research in revenue management, service to the INFORMS Revenue Management section, and editorial leadership.

C. F. Jeff Wu

C. F. Jeff Wu
Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Atlanta, GA

For developing statistical methodologies and novel applications to engineering, and for leadership making statistical methods and thinking popular in engineering.