Honors & Awards

  • INFORMS MSOM Scoecity Responsible Research Award (2023) (second place) “[for] contributing knowledge that may have implications for making the world a better place by informing evidence-based, high-quality, and societally beneficial organizational practices across the business, government, and non-government organizations.”
     
  • INFORMS MSOM Society Young Scholar Prize (2021) “[for] outstanding contributions to scholarship in operations management.”
     
  • Inaugural INFORMS 2020 Mehrotra Research Excellence Award (first place) “for significant contributions to the practice of health applications through operations research (OR) and management science (MS) modeling and methodologies.”
     
  • Harvard Kennedy School Dinner on the Dean Excellence Award (Multiple Years)
     
  • POMS (Production and Operations Management Society) 2019 College of Healthcare Best Paper Award (first place)
     
  • INFORMS 2018 Public Sector Operations Research Best Paper Award (second place)
     
  • INFORMS Decision Analysis Society 2018 Best Student Paper Award (second place, awarded to Ph.D. advisee)
     
  • POMS (Production and Operations Management Society) 2017 College of Healthcare Best Paper Award (second place)
     
  • INFORMS MSOM (Manufacturing & Service Operations Management) Journal 2016 Best Paper Award (awarded to one paper among all published in the prior three years)
     
  • INFORMS MSOM Society 2016 Best Paper Award of Service Special Interest Group (SIG)
     
  • INFORMS 2015 Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) Paper Competition (honorable mention)
     
  • Outstanding Professor Recognition– USCIS 2014
     
  • Research Paper selected as one of five papers representing the best work published in MSOM Journal 2011-2015
     
  • POMS (Production and Operations Management Society) 2013 College of Supply Chain Best Student Paper Award  (honorable mention)
     
  • INFORMS MSOM (Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Society) 2012 Best Student Paper Award (first place)
     
  • 2012 Universsity of Mihcigan IOE Richard Wilson Prize for the Best Student Paper
     
  • INFORMS 2011 Doing Good with Good OR Award (finalist)
     
  • POMS 2011 College of Healthcare Best Paper Award (second place)
     
  • University of Michigan College of Engineering 2011 Outstanding Ph.D. Research Award (Richard and Eleanor Towner Award, $2500)
     
  • INFORMS 2010 Pierskalla Award for the Best Paper in Healthcare (from INFORMS Healthcare Applications Society, not a student paper award)
     
  • 2010 Katta Murty Prize for the Best Research Paper on Optimization
     
  • POMS 2009 College of Supply Chain Best Student Paper Award (finalist)
     
  • IOE 2007 Bonder Fellowship Award in Applied Operations Research
     
  • University of Michigan 2006 Named & Deans Fellowship Award
     
  • Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi