The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®) today announced 12 new recipients of the annual INFORMS Fellows Award.
The INFORMS Fellows Award recognizes outstanding achievements in five areas: education in the field of operations research/management science; management of operations research/management science, including responsibility for applying the profession's techniques within an organization of any type; the practice of operations research/management science; research; and service to INFORMS and the profession of operations research.
The 2008 recipients are:
- Ravindra K. Ahuja, Innovative Scheduling, Inc. and the University of Florida Gainesville College of Engineering, Gainesville, FL
- Linda Argote, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
- Robert F. Bordley, General Motors Operations Research Group, Troy, MI
- Paul Glasserman, Columbia University Business School, New York, NY
- Frieda Granot, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Alexander Meeraus, GAMS Development Corporation, Washington, DC
- Richard E. Nance, Virginia Tech (Professor Emeritus) and Orca Computer, Inc., Blacksburg, VA
- Gregory S. Parnell, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY
- Jianjun (Jan) Shi, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
- Steven M. Shugan, Warrington College of Business Administration, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
- Richard Staelin, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, NC
- Ruth J. Williams, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA
The INFORMS Fellows Awards were presented at a luncheon on Monday, October 13 at the INFORMS annual meeting in Washington, DC. Over 4,000 academics and professionals attended the annual conference.
About INFORMS
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®) is an international scientific society with 10,000 members, including Nobel Prize laureates, dedicated to applying scientific methods to help improve decision-making, management, and operations. Members of INFORMS work in business, government, and academia. They are represented in fields as diverse as airlines, health care, law enforcement, the military, financial engineering, and telecommunications. The INFORMS website is www.informs.org. More information about operations research is at www.scienceofbetter.org.