- McKnight Presidential Endowed Professorship, University of Minnesota
- McKnight Distinguished University Professor Award, University of Minnesota
- The George Taylor/IT Alumni Society Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Minnesota
- Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS)
- Fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE)
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Award
- MSOM Best Paper Award (awarded by the MSOM Society for the best paper published in MSOM in the previous three years)
- Harold W. Kuhn Award (awarded annually to an exceptional paper published in NRL during the previous three years)
- INFORMS Distinguished Service Award
- Keynote speaker at various national and international conferences
- Best paper awards from IMSOM, INFORMS, POMS, and IISE, among others
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