- POMS 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 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) Best Paper Competition (Honorable Mention)
- First Prize, INFORMS 2012 MSOM (Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society) Best Student Paper Award
- Finalist, POMS 2013 (Production and Operations Management Society) College of Supply Chain Best Paper Award
- 2012 IOE Richard Wilson Prize for the Best Student Paper
- INFORMS 2010 Pierskalla Award for the Best Paper in Healthcare (from INFORMS Healthcare Applications Society)
- INFORMS 2011 Doing Good with Good OR Award (finalist)
- University of Michigan College of Engineering 2011 Outstanding Ph.D. Research Award (Richard and Eleanor Towner Award, $2500)
- POMS 2011 College of Healthcare Best Paper Award (second place)
- MSOM 2011 Healthcare Operations Management SIG Workshop (among 6 papers accepted)
- 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
- University Honor of Exceptionally Outstanding Graduate Student (Department of Industrial Engineering, Sharif University of Technology)
- Top Ranked Graduate Student for the highest graduate cumulative GPA among all peers (Department of Industrial Engineering, Sharif University of Technology)
- Second Top Ranked Undergraduate Student for the second highest cumulative GPA among all peers (Department of Industrial Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology)
- Top 10 Students in the Country for 9th highest score among about 3500 participants in Iranian Nation-Wide Graduate Entrance Exam
- Honorable Mention: 3rd and 4th International Conference of Industrial Engineering (2004 and 2005)
Soroush Saghafian
Assistant Professor of Public Policy (Management, Leadership, and Decision Making), Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University
79 JFK Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138
