Selected Awards and Recognition

  • 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