Posts Tagged ‘award’
Professor Candi Yano wins INFORMS Kimball Medal
Professor Candi Yano was awarded the INFORMS George E. Kimball Medal in recognition of distinguished service to the Institute and to the profession of operations research and the management sciences. The award is a medallion and a certificate. INFORMS, or otherwise known as the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, is a organization…
Read MoreProf. Grigas Receives NSF CRII Award To Improve Machine Learning Methods
IEOR professor Paul Grigas was recently awarded the National Science Foundation’s Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) grant in the amount of $175,000 to investigate large-scale optimization methods and develop algorithms to improve scalability and accuracy with large datasets. Grigas will work with graduate students on the research, and the results will be integrated…
Read MoreProfessor Lee Schruben Receives INFORMS Simulation Society Lifetime Professional Achievement Award
IEOR Professor Lee W. Schruben recently received the Lifetime Professional Achievement Award (LPAA) by the Institute of Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Simulation Society, the highest honor given by the society. The award is given occasionally, at most once annually, to recognize major contributions to the field of simulation that are sustained over a…
Read MoreProf. Righter Wins VALUETOOLS 2017 Best Paper Award
Professor Rhonda Righter, along with her collaborators Ivo Adan (Eindhoven University of Technology) and Gideon Weiss (The University of Haifa), have been award the Best Paper Award at the 11th EAI | VALUETOOLS International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools. The title of the paper was “FCFS Parallel Service Systems and Matching Models.” The…
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