OUR HISTORY
While much has changed since 1953, one thing has not: We value thinking that is both creative and innovative—and that has a real and lasting impact worldwide.
Recent ORC Awards and Honors: 2022-2023
Past Awards and Honors listings
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National Academy of Engineering: nine current ORC faculty are members.
Federal Aviation Administration: Championship Award for Excellence in Aviation Education: awarded to a MIT faculty member.
Amedeo Odoni (emeritus)
The Mathematical Programming Society A. W. Tucker Prize: awarded for an outstanding paper authored by a student.
1991–Michel Goemans
IBM Herman Goldstine Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mathematical Sciences: given for research in mathematical and computer sciences
2022–Ryan Cory-Wright
2010–Dan Iancu
2009–Juan Pablo Vielma
2006–Alexandre Belloni
2005–Retsev Levi
Glover-Klingman Prize: awarded to an individual or a group for the best paper published in Networks.
2010–Patrick Jaillet and Michael Wagner
2009–Harold N. Gabow, Michel X. Goemans, Éva Tardos, and David P. Williamson
2006–Andreas S. Schulz and Nicolás E. Stier-Moses
2005–Thomas L. Magnanti and S. Raghavan
SIAM Activity Group on Optimization Prize (SIAG/OPT): awarded to the author(s) of the most outstanding paper, as determined by the selection committee, on a topic in optimization published in English in a peer-reviewed journal.
2019–Hamza Fawzi, Pablo A. Parrilo, and James Saunderson
1999–Michel X. Goemans and David P. Williamson
1996–Dimitris J. Bertsimas and Michel X. Goemans
The Frederick W. Lanchester Prize: awarded for the best contribution to operations research and the management sciences published in English.
2005–Kalyan T. Talluri and Garrett J. van Ryzin: The Theory and Practice of Revenue Management
1994–Edward H. Kaplan: Modelling and Reducing the Spread of Aids
1993–Ravindra K. Ahuja, Thomas L. Magnanti and James B. Orlin: Network Flows: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications
1976–Ralph L. Keeney and Howard Raiffa and Leonard Kleinrock: Decisions with Multiple Objectives: Preference and Value Trade Offs
1972–Richard C. Larson: Urban Police Patrol Analysis
1968–Philip M. Morse: Library Effectiveness: A Systems Approach
1965–Michel Balinski: Integer Programming: Methods, Uses, Computation
1962–Robert M. Oliver and Arych H. Samuel: Reducing Letter Delays in Post Offices
INFORMS President’s Award: recognizes, and thereby encourages, important contributions to the welfare of society by members of our profession at the local, national, or global level.
2020–Cynthia Barnhart: For “her multi-faceted and multi-disciplinary high impact activities in research, practice, education, leadership, and service.”
2019–Dimitris Bertsimas: For “his sustained mulit-dementional high-impact scholarship that has lead to important applications, entrepreneaurial activity, for eductating generations of OR scholars, for the educational materials that have benefited generations of students of OR and analytics, and for opening up new fields of enquiry that have benefited society.”
2010–Jonathan P. Caulkins: For “his pioneering work in developing policies to fight the national epidemic of drug abuse, prevent crime, reduce violence, address the sad dilemma of juvenile delinquency, and balance the need for both law enforcement and prevention in treating serious social ills“
2008–Margaret Brandeau: For “her pioneering research on public health policy models, including those for HIV and drug abuse prevention and treatment, and for translating her results into improved U.S. and international health policies“
2003–Richard C. Larson: For “his contributions to solving a wide-range of important urban problems“
2002–Edward Kaplan: For “his work on using the methods of OR/MS to address some of the most pressing issues in public health and medicine of our time“
1999–Leonard Kleinrock: For “his wide-ranging and fundamental contributions to the birth and development of the Internet, and thereby to the global welfare of society“
1998–Jan M. Chaiken: For “his effective and important contributions to the public interest“
1996–Arnold I. Barnett: For “deep commitment to addressing societal problems and matters involving “threats to life and limb”“
The Franz Edelman Award: recognizes and rewards outstanding examples of management science and operations research practice in the world.
2021–(Finalist) Dimitris Bertsimas and Gina Mourtzinou
2019–(Finalist) Dimitris Bertsimas, Arthur Delarue, and Sebastien Martin
2013–(Finalist) Itai Ashlagi, David Gamarnik, and Ross Anderson
2009–(Finalist) Zara: Miguel Diaz, Jose Manuel Corredoira, Javier Garcia, Marcos Montes, José Antonio Ramos, Juan Correa, Jérémie Gallien, Felipe Caro
2003–(Second Place) Keith A. Ware, Alysia M. Wilson, Andrew P. Armacost and Cynthia Barnhart
1997–(Honorable Mention) Hewlett Packard: Mitchell Burman
1992–(1st Prize) New Haven Health Department, AIDS Division: Edward H. Kaplan and Elaine O’Keefe
1992–(Honorable Mention) City of New York: Michael F. Cahn, Michael P. Jacobson, Robert N. Kaye, Katherine N. Lapp, Richard C. Larson, Judge Milton H. Mollen, and Martin C. Shell
1991–(1st Prize) American Airlines Decision Technologies: Ross M. Darrow, John F. Leimkuhler, John R. Samuel, and Barry C. Smith
1985–(1st Prize) Weyerhaeuser Company: Uli H. Chi, and Mark R. Lembersky
1983–(1st Prize) Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.: Walter J. Bell, Louis M. Dalberto, Marshall L. Fisher, Arnold J. Greenfield, R. Jaikumar, Pradeep Kedia, Robert G. Mack, and Paul J. Putzman
1980–(Honorable Mention) Xerox Corporation: Shmuel S. Oren, Michael H. Rothkopf, Richard D. Smallwood
1977–(Honorable Mention) United Airlines: William K. Fudge, Leonard M. Lodish
1972–(Honorable Mention) Mexico City: Ralph L. Keeney
The INFORMS Fellow: recognizes members who have made significant contributions to the advancement of operations research and the management sciences, such contributions including service to the professional field and to INFORMS.
2019-Louis Anthony Cox Jr.
2019-Chung-Piaw Teo
2018-Robert Freund
2016-Georgia Perakis
2015–Pitu Mirchandani
2013–Patrick Jaillet
2011–Cynthia Barnhart
2011–David E. Bell
2010–Glen Urban
2007–Dimitris Bertsimas and John N. Tsitsiklis
2006–John R. Hauser, James B. Orlin and David Simchi-Levi
2005–Stephen C. Graves and Edward H. Kaplan
2004–Bruce L. Golden
2004–Amedeo R. Odoni
2003–Arnold I. Barnett and Edward A. Silver
2002–Thomas M. Cook, Martin Ernst, Marshall Fisher, H. Newton Garber, Ralph Keeney, Leonard Kleinrock, Richard Larson, John D. C. Little, Thomas L. Magnanti, Robert M. Oliver, Stephen M. Pollock, Michael Rothkopf and James Tien
The INFORMS Erlang Award: given for outstanding contribution to the field of applied probability by an applied probabilist
2010–Devavrat Shah
2004–David Garmarnik
1996–Dimitris Bertsimas
The George E. Kimball Medal: awarded for recognition of distinguished service to the Institute and to the profession of operations research and the management sciences.
2019–Edward H. Kaplan
2018–Bruce L. Golden
2002–Craig W. Kirkwood and Richard C. Larson
2001–H. Newton Garber and Stephen M. Pollock
1997–Michael H. Rothkopf
1994–Thomas L. Magnanti
1987–John D. C. Little
1977–Martin Ernst
1974–Philip M. Morse
The Philip McCord Morse Lectureship Award: awarded in honor of Philip McCord Morse in recognition of his pioneer contribution to the field of operations research and the management sciences.
2012-2014–Dimitris Bertsimas
2010-2012–Edward Kaplan
2006-2008–Marshall Fisher
1997-1999–Richard C. Larson, MIT
1993-1995–Ralph Keeney
1988-1990–John D. C. Little, MIT
The George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award: awarded for the best dissertation in any area of operations research and the management sciences that is innovative and relevant to practice.
2020–(Honorable Mention) Jean Pauphilet: Algorithmic Advancements in Discrete Optimization: Applications to Machine Learning and Healthcare Operations
2019–(1st Prize) Sebastien Martin,: The Price of Interpretability: Optimal Explanations of Linear Models
2013–(1st Prize) Jason Acimovic: Lowering Outbound Shipping Costs in an Online Retail Environment by Making Better Fulfillment and Replenishment Decisions
2012–(3rd Prize) Nikolaos K. Trichakis: Fairness in Operations: From Theory to Practice
2011–(2nd Prize) Andy Sun: Advances in Electric Power Systems: Robustness, Adaptability, and Fairness
2007–(1st Prize) Timothy Chan: The Management of Uncertainties in Radiation Treatments of Lung Tumors
2001–(1st Prize) Andrew Armacost: Composite Variable Formulation For Express Shipment Service Network Design
1999–(Honorable Mention) William Hall: Efficient Capacity Allocation in a Collaborative Air Transportation System
1997–(Second Prize) Sarah Stock Patterson: Development and Application of Mathematical Programming Techniques for Scheduling Large Scale Air Transportation Systems
1997–(Honorable Mention) Stefanos Zenios
1996–(1st Prize) S. Raghavan: Formulations and Algorithms for Network Design Problems with Connectivity Requirements
INFORMS Expository Writing Award: honors an operations researcher/management scientist whose publications demonstrate a consistently high standard of expository writing.
2010–Edward Kaplan
2009–Dimitri P. Bertsekas
2005–Lawrence M. Wein
2002–Ralph Keeney and Howard Raiffa
2001–Arnold Barnett
2000–John D.C. Little
INFORM-ED Case and Teaching Materials Competition: to encourage the creation, dissemination, and classroom use of new cases in operations research and the management sciences.
2009–(1st Prize) Susan Martonosi, Harvey Mudd College
2005–(1st Prize) Stephen C. Graves, MIT and John C.W., Parsons
WORMS Award for the Advancement of Women in OR/MS: recognizes a person who has contributed significantly to the advancement and recognition of women in the field of Operations Research and the Management Sciences (OR/MS).
2005–Cynthia Barnhart
INFORMS Koopman Prize: awarded for the outstanding publication in military operations research.
2020–David Simchi-Levi, Nikos Trichakis and Peter Yun Zhang
2018–Rajan Batta, Yan Xia and Rakesh Nagi
2008–James Orlin
2005–Edward H. Kaplan
2002–Edward H. Kaplan, David L. Craft and Lawrence M. Wein
INFORMS Pierskalla Best Paper Award: recognizes research excellence in the field of health care management science.
2020–Dimitris Bertsimas, Leonard Boussioux, Ryan Cory-Wright, Arthur Delarue, Vassilis Digalakis, Alexandre Jacquillat, Driss Lahlou Kitane, Galit Lukin, Michael Linghzi Li, Luca Mingardi, Agni Orfanoudaki, Theodore Papalexopoulos, Ivan Paskov, Omar Skali Lami, Hamza Tazi Bouardi, Kimberly Villalobos Carballo, Holly Wiberg, Cynthia Zeng, Omid Nohadani and Bartolomeo Stellano
2019–Arielle Anderer, Hamsa Bastani, and John Silberholz
2019–(Finalist) Rongqing Han, Vishal Gupta, Song-Hee Kim, and Hyung Paek
2013–Dimitris Bertsimas, Allison O’Hair, Steve Relyea, and John Silberholz
2007–Chris Lee and Stefanos Zenios
2006–Hamed Mamani and David Simchi-Levi
INFORMS MSOM Distinguished Service Award: recognizes individuals whose distinguished service to MSOM has helped to advance significantly the goals and objectives of the Section.
2012–Stephen Graves
2006–Garrett J. van Ryzin
2005–Gabriel Bitran
INFORMS Prize for the Teaching of the OR/MS Practice: recognizes a teacher who has succeeded in helping his or her students to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to be effective practitioners of operations research or the management sciences.
2020–Susan Martonosi
2003–Bruce L. Golden
1998–Ronald A. Howard
Robert Herman Lifetime Achievement Award: awarded to an individual who throughout his or her professional career has made fundamental and sustained contributions to transportation science and logistics, and has influenced the field through her or his writ
2019–Bruce L. Golden
2001–Amedeo R. Odoni
The George Nicholson Student Paper Competition: awarded for outstanding papers in the field of operations research and the management sciences written by a student.
2020–(First Place) Ryan Cory-Wright and Jean Pauphilet: Mixed-Projection Conic Optimization: A New Paradigm for Modeling Rank Constraints
2018–(Finalist) Lennart Baardman: Learning Optimal Advertising Portfolios with Periodic Budgets
2016–(Finalist) Ali Aouad: Greedy-Like Algorithms for Dynamic Assortment Optimization under Multinomial Logit Preferences
2016–(Finalist) Rajan Udwani: Robust Monotone Submodular Function Maximization
2015–(Finalist) Wang-Chi Cheung: Sampling-Based Approximation Schemes for Capacitated Stochastic Inventory Control Models
2013–(Finalist) Vishal Gupta and Nathan Kallus: Robust Optimization in Data Rich Environments
2012–(Finalist) Chaithanya Bandi and Nataly Youssef: Robust Queueing Theory
2012–(Finalist) Yuan Zhong: Optimal Queue-size Scaling in Switched Networks
2011–(Second Place) Yehua Wei: Understanding the Performance of the Long Chain and Sparse Designs in Process Flexibility
2011–(Honorable Mention) Juliane Dunkel: The Gomory-Chvátal Closure of a Non-Rational Polytope is a Rational Polytope
2010–(Finalist) David Goldberg: On the Rate of Convergence to Stationarity of the M/M/N Queue in the Halfin-Whitt Regime
2009–(First Place) Cong Shi: Approximation Algorithms for the Stochastic Lot-sizing Problem
2009–(Finalist) Ye Lu: A Price-Dependent Demand Substitution Rule and Its Applications
2009–(Finalist) Theophane Weber: Random Decision Networks: Correlation Decay and Decentralized Optimization
2008–(Finalist) Dmitriy Katz-Rogozhnikov: On Deciding Stability of Multiclass Queueing Networks under Buffer Priority Scheduling Policies
2008–(Finalist) Tri-Dung Nguyen: Robust Covariance Estimation and Outlier Detection Using Semidefinite Programming: The Robust Ranking Problems with an Application in Portfolio Optimization
2007–(First Place) Nelson Uhan: Encouraging Cooperation in Sharing Supermodular Costs
2007–(Honorable Mention) Timothy Chan: The Management of Uncertainties in Radiation Treatments of Lung Tumors
2006–(Second Place) Alexandre Belloni: On the Computational Complexity of MCMC-based Estimators in Large Samples
2006–(Honorable Mention) Stephen Shum: Coordinating Efforts of Multiple Retailers in a Decentralized Supply Chain
2004–(Second Place) Melvyn Sim: Robust Conic Optimization
2003–(Second Place) Sanne de Boer: Airline Revenue Management Under Imperfect Market Segmentation
2003–(Honorable Mention) Victor Martinez de Albeniz: A Portfolio Approach to Procurement Contracts
2002–(Second Place) Melvyn Sim: Robust Discrete Optimization
2002–(Honorable Mention) Xin Chen: Coordinating Inventory Control and Pricing Strategies with Random Demand and Fixed Ordering Cost
2001–(1st Prize) Alp Muharremoglu: Echelon Base Stock Policies in Uncapacitated Serial Inventory Systems
2000–(Second Place) Marina Epelman: Measures of Conditioning and Pre-Conditioners for Conic Linear Systems
2000–(Honorable Mention) Jay Sethuraman: From Fluid Relaxations to Practical Algorithms for Job Shop Scheduling
1997–(First Place) Stefanos Zenios: Dynamic Allocation of Kidneys to Patients on the Transplant Waiting List
1996–(Second Place) Georgia Mourtzinou: Transient Distributional Little’s Law and Their Applications
1991–(Second Place) Kalyan T. Talluri: Network Design on the Plane with Connectivity Requirements
1990–(Second Place) Michel Goemans: Survivable Networks and the Parsimonious Property
1989–(First Place) Dimitris J. Bertsimas: A Priori Optimization
1985–(Second Place) Paul Tseng: The Relaxation Method for a Special Class of Linear Programming Problems
The INFORMS Transportation Science Best Paper Award: given for an outstanding paper in the field of transportation science and logistics.
2013–Guglielmo Lulli, Dimitris Bertsimas, and Amedeo R. Odoni: ” An Integer Optimization Approach to Large-Scale Air Traffic Flow Management “
2010–(Honorable Mention) James Orlin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Balac Vaidyanathan and Ravi K. Ahuja: ” The Locomotive Routing Problem “
2008–Rolf H. Mohring, Technische Universitat Berlin, Andreas S. Schulz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Nicolas E. Stier Moses, Columbia University: “System-Optimal Routing of Traffic Flows with User Constraints in Networks with Congestion”
2007–(Honorable Mention) Georgia Perakis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Guillaume Roels, University of California at Los Angeles: “An Analytical Model for Traffic Delays and the Dynamic User Equilibrium Problem”
2003–Andrew Armacost, U.S. Air Force Academy, Cynthia Barnhart, MIT and K.A. Ware, UPS: “Airlines Composite Variable Formulations for Express Shipment Service Network Design”
2002–Jose Rafael Correa, MIT and Roberto Cominetti, Universidad de Chile: “Common-Lines and Passenger Assignment in Congested Transit Networks”
The INFORMS Aviation Applications Dissertation Prize: is awarded to the best dissertation in any area related to aviation OR (air traffic management OR and airline OR).
2018–(First Place) Chiwei Yan: “Airline Scheduling and Air Traffic Control: Incorporating Uncertainty and Passenger and Airline Preferences”
2011–(First Place) Douglas Fearing: “The Case for Coordination: Equity, Efficiency, and Passenger Impacts in Air Traffic Flow Management”
2009–(Honorable Mention) Pavithra Harsha: “Mitigating Airport Congestion: Market Mechanisms and Airline Response Models”
2003–(Honorable Mention) Amy Mainville Cohn: “Composite-Variable Modeling for Large-Scale Problems in Transportation and Logistics”
2003–(Honorable Mention) Sanne de Boer: “Advances in Airline Revenue Management and Pricing”
The INFORMS Aviation Student Paper Prize: is awarded to the author of the best paper submitted by a full-time student in the area of aviation applications.
1998–Sarah Stock Patterson: The Air Traffic Flow Management Problem with Enroute Capacities
INFORMS Transportation Science & Logistics Society Dissertation Prize: awarded for best dissertations in the transportation science and logistics area.
2019–(1st Place) Sebastien Martin: “The Price of Interpretability: Optimal Explanations of Linear Models”
2018–(Honorable Mention) Chiwei Yan: “Airline scheduling and air traffic control: incorporating uncertainty and passenger and airline preferences”
2015–(1st Place) Alexandre Jacquillat: “Integrated Allocation and Utilization of Airport Capacity to Mitigate Air Traffic Congestion”
2009–(Honorable Mention) Pavithra Harsha: “Mitigating Airport Congestion: Market Mechanisms and Airline Response Models”
2001–(Honorable Mention) Andrew Armacost: Composite Variable Formulations for Express Shipment Service Network Design
1999–(Honorable Mention) William Hall
1997–(1st Place) Sarah Stock-Patterson: Dynamic Flow Management Problems in Air Transportation
1996–(Honorable Mention) Kerry Malone
1988–(1st Prize) Dimitris Bertsimas: Probabilistic Combinatorial Optimization Problems
1985–(1st Prize) Patrick Jaillet: Probabilistic Traveling Salesman Problem
1978–(1st Prize) Harilaos Psaraftis: Dynamic Programming Algorithms for Sequencing and Routing Problems in Transportation
1976–(Honorable Mention) Bruce Golden
INFORMS MSOM Student Paper Competition: awards are given annually for papers judged to be the best in the field of Operations Management.
2019—(1st Prize) Milashini Nambiar, David Simchi-Levi and He Wang: Dynamic Learning and Pricing with Model Misspecification
2014—(Finalist) Yaron Shaposhnik: Scheduling with Testing
2010—(1st Prize) Srikanth Jagabathula: A New Approach to Modeling Choice
2007–(Honorable Mention) Pamela Pen-Erh Pei: Towards a Unified Theory of Procurement Contract Design: Production Flexibility, Spot Market Trading and the Structure of Options Contracts
2005–(Second Place) Guillaume Roels: The Price of Information: Inventory Management with Limited Information About Demand
2005–(Second Place) Ping Josephine Xu: The Benefits of Re-Evaluating the Real-Time Fulfillment Decisions
2003–(Honorable Mention) Victor Martinez de Albeniz: A Portfolio Approach to Procurement Contracts
2002–(Second Place) Xin Chen: Coordinating Inventory Control Pricing Strategies with Random Demand and Fixed Ordering Cost
2000–(1st Prize) Jeremie Gallien: Design and Analysis of a Smart Market for Industrial Procurement
1999–(1st Prize) L. Beril Toktay: Analysis of a Production Inventory System with Stationary Deman and Forecast Updates
1998–(Second Place) Jeremie Gallien
1996–(1st Prize) Stefanos A. Zenios
INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) Prize
2017-(1st Prize) Juan Pablo Vielma, Shabbir Ahmed, and George Nemhauser
2016-(1st Prize) Iain Dunning, Joey Huchette, and Miles Lubin
2012-(1st Prize) Pablo Parrilo, John Tsitsiklis, A. A. Ahmadi, and A. Olshevsky
2007-(1st Prize) James Orlin, Janos Csirik, David S. Johnson, Claire Kenyon, Peter Shor, and Richard Weber
2005-(1st Prize) Zhiwei Fu, Bruce L. Golden, Shreevardhan Lele, S. Raghavan, Edward A. Wasil
1997-(1st Prize) Dimitri Bertsekas and John Tsitsiklis