Volunteer Service Award

2025 - Winner(s)

2025 Winner(s)

Purpose of the Award

Committee Chair

Jennifer Mason Lobo
University of Virginia

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The Volunteer Service Award was first awarded in 2016. Its purpose is to recognize exceptional volunteer service to INFORMS.

The award winners will be publicized on the INFORMS website, a dedicated Volunteer Service Award page, OR/MS Today, Enews, Social Media and other media vehicles. 

Application Process

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2026 deadline is June 30, 2026


Past Awardees

2025
Winner(s)
Suzan Iloglue, Amazon Robotics
Adam Mersereau, Kenan-Flagler School at University of North Carolina
Segev Wasserkrug, IBM Research, Haifa, Israel
Team Name: Team of: Neil Desnoyers, Ken Murphy, Fenglian Pan, Yifeng Wang, Zihan Zhang
2024
Winner(s)
Johan Bos-Beijer, Navy/Government, GSA
Shannon Browning, Haskell
Oscar Dowson, Independent Scholar
Arnold (Arnie) Greenland, IBM (Retired); University of Maryland (Retired)
Mehran Hojati, University of Saskatchewan (retired)
Irvin Lustig, Princeton Consultants
Thor Osborn, Sandia National Laboratories
Pelin Pekgun, University of South Carolina
Paul Rubin, Michigan State University
2023
Winner(s)
Jun Zhuang , University of Buffalo
Beverly Wright, Burtch Works
2022
Winner(s)
Yael Grushka-Cockayne, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia
Anahita Khojandi, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Abdullah Konak, Pennsylvania State University
Tarun Mohan Lal, Atrium Health
Daniel Reich, Naval Postgraduate School
Jay Simon, American University
2021
Winner(s)
Canan G. Corlu, Boston University
Kara M. Morgan, Ohio State University
Norm Reitter, CANA Advisors
Jorge Samayoa, Galileo University
2020
Winner(s)
Dayana Cope, Engineering USA
Warren Hearnes, Cardlytics
Sheldon H. Jacobson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Col William K. Klimack, United States Military Academy
Jack Levis, UPS
Julie L. Swann, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Industrial & Systems Engineering
2019
Winner(s)
Stefan Karisch, Amazon
Scott Nestler, University of Notre Dame
2018
Winner(s)
Jun Zhuang , University of Buffalo
Mark Eisner, Cornell University
Grace Lin, Asia University
Cameron MacKenzie, Iowa State University
Paul Maglio, University of California - Merced
Aly Megahed, IBM Research
Pratik Parikh, Wright State University
Matthew Saltzman, Clemson University
2017
Awardee(s)
Guzin Bayraksan, University of Arizona
Saif Benjaafar, University of Michigan
Bjorn Berg, University of Minnesota
Erick Moreno Centeno, Texas A&M University
Pooja Dewan, Rentokil-Terminex
Chanaka Edirisinghe, University of Tennessee
Michael Gorman, University of Dayton
Shreya Gupta, The University of Texas at Austin
Allen Holder, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Dorothee Honhon, University of Texas at Dallas
David Hunt, Oliver Wyman
Sadan Kulturel-Konak, Penn State Berks
Murat Kurt, University of Pittsburgh
Irvin Lustig, Princeton Consultants
Paul Messinger, University of Alberta
Sarah Nurre, University of Arkansas
Robin Qiu, Pennsylvania State University
Suvrajeet Sen, University of Southern California
Christopher Tang, University of California-Los Angeles
Shengfan Zhang, University of Arkansas
2016
Awardee(s)
Dionne Aleman, University of Toronto
Theodore T. Allen, The Ohio State University
Peter C. Bell, University of Western Ontario, Richard Ivey School of Business
Terry P. Harrison, CAP, Penn State University
Carri W. Chan, Columbia University
Wedad Elmaghraby, University of Maryland, RH Smith School of Business
Don N. Kleinmuntz, Strata Decision Technology, LLC
Simge Kucukyavuz, Ohio State University
Anna Nagurney, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, Isenberg School of Management
Daniel Reich, Naval Postgraduate School
Aurélie Thiele, Southern Methodist University