Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Additional Information


  • Professional Affiliations
    • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Fellow)
    • Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (Fellow)
  • Honors & Awards
    • Markov Lecture, INFORMS Applied Probability Society, 2015
    • Member, National Academy of Engineering, 2015
    • Great Teacher Award, Society of Columbia Graduates, 2012
    • Honorary Professor, Xi'an Jiao Tong University, China, 2010
    • Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, Columbia Engineering Alumni Association, 2009
    • IBM Faculty Award, IBM Corporation, 2005
    • SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2003
    • Franz Edelman Award (first prize), Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, 1999
    • Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, IBM Research Division, 1999
    • Research Division Award, IBM Research, 1996
    • Guggenheim Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, 1991/92
    • Presidential Young Investigator, National Science Foundation, 1987-92
    • George E. Nicholson, Jr. Memorial Award, first prize; Operations Research Society of America, 1983
  • Professional Experience
    • Member, Board on Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BMSA), National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (2016 - )
    • Chair, Financial and Business Analytics Center, Data Science Institute, Columbia University (2012 - )
    • Member of the INFORMS OR-Grand Challenges Task Force (2012-13) sponsored by NSF, with the charge to identify OR catalysts for NAE Grand Challenges
    • Chair, INFORMS Lanchester Prize Committee (2012). Member, INFORMS Lanchester Prize Committee (2011-12)
    • Chair, INFORMS John von Neumann Theory Prize Committee (2003). Member, INFORMS John von Neumann Theory Prize Committee (2001-03)