Honors and Awards
INFORMS Pierskalla Award for the Best Paper in Healthcare:
Third place for Best Paper Award, POMS Conference, Sevilla, Spain, 2000
Advisee Honors and Awards
Hussein El Hajj (postdoc, Univ of Waterloo)
Systems, SMU)
George Mason University)
Xiaomei Zhu: Winner, 2003 IIE MS Thesis Award (Graduate Research Award)
- Runner-up (awarded in 2021) for the paper, Novel Pooling strategies for genetic testing, with application to newborn screening, Management Science (Accepted, 2021).
- Runner-up (awarded in 2017) for the paper, Optimal risk-based group testing strategies, with equity considerations, Management Science, 65(9):3949-4450, 2019.
- Finalist (awarded in 2015) for the paper, Robust post-donation blood screening under prevalence rate uncertainty, Operations Research, 66(1):1-17, 2018.
- Winner (awarded in 2011) for the paper, Optimal selection of screening assays for infectious agents in donated blood, IIE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering, 1(2):67-90, 2011.
- Honorable Mention (awarded in 2021) for the paper, Optimal data-driven policies for disease screening under noisy biomarker measurement, IISE Transactions, 52:2,166-180, 2020.
- Winner (awarded in 2020) for the paper, Adaptive risk-based pooling in public health screening, IISE Transactions, 50(9):753-766, 2018.
- Winner (awarded in 2016) for the paper, Going beyond "same-for-all" testing of infectious agents in donated blood, IIE Transactions, 46(11):1147-1168, 2014.
- Winner (awarded in 2004) for the paper, Optimal investment strategies for flexible resources, considering pricing and correlated demands, Operations Research, 52(6), 954-964, 2004.
Third place for Best Paper Award, POMS Conference, Sevilla, Spain, 2000
Advisee Honors and Awards
Hussein El Hajj (postdoc, Univ of Waterloo)
- Finalist, 2020 INFORMS Seth Bonder Scholarship for Applied Operations Research in Health Services
- Second place, 2019 INFORMS Health Applications Society Student Paper Competition
- Outstanding Ph.D. Student, Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2021.
- Winner, 2019 IISE Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award
- Winner, 2018 Paul E. Torgersen Graduate Research Award
- Finalist, 2017 INFORMS Seth Bonder Scholarship for Applied Operations Research in Health Services
Systems, SMU)
- 2016 INFORMS Seth Bonder Scholarship for Applied Operations Research in Health Services
- Winner, 2016 INFORMS Minority Poster Competition
George Mason University)
- Second place, 2017 IISE Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award
- 2015 INFORMS Seth Bonder Scholarship for Applied Operations Research in Health
- Services
- Finalist, 2014 W-INFORMS Student Excellence Award
- Marie Sk lodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship, 2018-2020
Xiaomei Zhu: Winner, 2003 IIE MS Thesis Award (Graduate Research Award)