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Professor, Industrial Engineering Rutgers University | For research advancing the field of quality engineering, contributions to innovative education, and for extraordinary service to INFORMS and the broader operations research/industrial engineering communities. |
| Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Director of the Initiative on the Sharing Economy University of Minnesota | For fundamental contributions to the science and engineering of operations with applications in supply chains, manufacturing, service systems, and the sharing economy, and for exceptional academic leadership and service. |
| Director of Data Science
Otis Elevator Company | For outstanding leadership in operations research and analytics software development at SAS Institute, for excellence in the practice of operations research and analytics, and for service contributions to INFORMS. |
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Director of Master’s Programs and Professor Georgia Institute of Technology | For fundamental contributions to simulation-analysis procedures and statistical ranking-and-selection procedures; and for service through leadership of professional societies, conferences, and educational outreach activities. |
| IoT and Analytics Innovation Technical Leader Ford Motor Company. | For sustained high-impact contributions to supply chain risk management, production scheduling, vehicle sequencing, and assembly line layout and for pioneering work in connected vehicle analytics at Ford Motor Company. |
| Professor in the Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Rice University | For outstanding leadership in diversity issues and for fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of discrete optimization. |
| Professor, Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering Director of Manufacturing Program of Integrative Systems and Design Division
University of Michigan. | For fundamental contributions in the research of data analytics methodology in quality engineering, broad impact in the manufacturing industry, and distinguished service to INFORMS and the industrial engineering profession. |
| Professor, Choi Kai Yau College
University of Macau | For extensive contributions to educational planning and leadership, multidimensional service to INFORMS, and theoretical and applied research contributions to integer programming, transportation, and logistics. |
| Professor of Optimization Department of Systems Engineering and Computer Science
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro | For outstanding leadership in the development of operations research in Brazil and Latin America, including forming generations of operations research academics and founding the Latin-American Association of Operations Research Societies. |
| Executive Director University of Cincinnati Center for Business Analytics | For outstanding leadership and management of operations research at Procter & Gamble, and for outstanding OR/MS and analytics practice in supply chain management. |
Assaf Zeevi | Professor Graduate School of Business
Columbia University | For outstanding research in applied probability and the integration of statistical learning theory with dynamic decision making, with applications in revenue management and predictive analytics. |
Stefanos Zenios | Professor of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology
Stanford University | For excellence in research in healthcare policy and kidney exchange research, and for excellence in operations management education. |
