INFORMS SALUTES 32 ‘FELLOWS’

INFORMS honored 32 recipients of the INFORMS Fellows Award at a special luncheon held in conjunction with the INFORMS meeting in Denver. The Fellows Award recognizes INFORMS members who have made significant contributions to the advancement of the fields of operations research and management science. The Class of 2004 brings the total number of Fellows to 156.

INFORMS inaugurated the Fellows Award in 2002 to recognize several categories of outstanding achievements in the field, including academic research in operations research; the practice of operations research; operations research on the management
level of organizations; education in the O.R. field; and service to the association and the profession.

INFORMS President Mike Rothkopf and Jim Bean made the presentations. Bean, chairman of the 2003 Fellows Award Selection Committee, was filling in for 2004 Committee Chair Randy Robinson, who was unable to attend the meeting due to an illness in the family. Robinson was joined on the 2004 Selection Committee by John Birge, Paul Gray, and Bill Rouse.

As Robinson explained in prepared remarks, “An INFORMS Fellow is a person whose contributions to the advancement of the profession have been distinguished. In the inaugural year 2002, founding Fellows were named according to special one-time selection rules and without nomination. Beginning in 2003 and continuing, a candidate must be nominated. The selection committee reviews submitted material and then makes final selections based upon well-specified criteria set forth in the call for nominations.

“We believe the INFORMS Fellow award, as it matures, will be considered one of the very highest honors in the field of operations research and the management sciences.”

The 2004 Fellow Award recipients are:

• KENNETH R. BAKER, Tuck School of Business and Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College
  
  
• MICHAEL O. BALL, Robert H. Smith School of Business and Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland-College Park
  
  
• U.NARAYAN BHAT, Department of Engineering Management, Information and Systems, Southern Methodist University
  
  
• MARK S. DASKIN, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University
  
  
• MARY R. DEMELIM, TIMS Executive Director (1968-1994), INFORMS Rhode Island Director (1995)
  
  
• WARD EDWARDS, Department of Psychology and Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Southern California
  
  
• SALAH ELDIN ELMAGHRABY, Department of Industrial Engineering and Graduate Program in Operations Research, North Carolina State University
  
  
• AUGUSTINE O. ESOGBUE, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
  
  
• ROBERT FOURER, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University
  
  
• BRUCE L. GOLDEN, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland-College Park
  
  
• LINDA V. GREEN, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University
  
  
• JOHN R. HALL JR., National Fire Protection Association
  
  
• DONALD W. HEARN, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida
  
  
• FREDERICK S. HILLIER, Department of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
  
  
• WALLACE J. HOPP, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University
  
  
• L. ROBIN KELLER, Graduate School of Management, University of California-Irvine
  
  
• JOHN P. LEHOCZKY, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
  
  
• JAN KAREL LENSTRA, CWI - Centrum vo or Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam
  
  
• JAMES E. MATHESON, SmartOrg, Inc., and Department of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
  
  
• JOHN A. MUCKSTADT, School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Cornell University
  
  
• AMEDEO R.ODONI, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  
  
• SHMUEL S. OREN, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California-Berkeley
  
  
• WARREN B.POWELL, Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University
  
  
• STEPHEN M.ROBINSON, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  
  
• BRUCE W. SCHMEISER, School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University
  
  
• LESLIE DAVID SERVI, Advanced Network, and Applications Group, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
  
  
• CHRISTINE A.SHOEMAKER, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Cornell University
  
  
• KALYAN SINGHAL, Merrick School of Business, University of Baltimore
  
  
• MATTHEW J. SOBEL, Department of Operations, Case Western Reserve University
  
  
• GERALD L.THOMPSON, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
  
  
• MICHAEL J.TODD, School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Cornell University
  
  
• DETLOF VON WINTERFELDT, School of Policy, Planning and Development, University of Southern California