2021 INFORMS Awards Ceremony Recap

The annual Awards Ceremony took place on Oct. 24 during the 2021 INFORMS Annual Meeting. The winners of the following INFORMS awards were recognized live in Anaheim, Calif., with a livestream for virtual attendees:

• Bonder Scholarship for Applied Operations Research in Health Services
  Luke DeRoos, University of Michigan
• Bonder Scholarships in Applied Operations in Military Applications
  Kyle J. Hunt, University at Buffalo
• Donald P. Gaver Jr. Early Career Award
  Rahul Mazumder, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• INFORMS Case Competition
  Georgina Hall, Piyush Gulati, and Anton Ovchinnikov, INSEAD
• Prize for the Teaching of OR/MS Practice
  Jill Hardin Wilson, Northwestern University
• Saul Gass Expository Writing Award
  Michael Fu, University of Maryland
• Philip McCord Morse Lectureship Award
  Alvin E. Roth, Stanford University
• John von Neumann Theory Prize
  Alexander Shapiro, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Frederick W. Lanchester Prize
  Dimitris Bertsimas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Jack Dunn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• George E. Kimball Medal
  Cynthia Barnhart, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Michael Gorman, University of Dayton
• INFORMS President's Award
  Brenda Dietrich, Cornell University

Four student awards were also announced during the ceremony:

• Undergraduate Operations Research Prize 
  Jisoon Lim, Georgia Institute of Technology
• George E. Nicholson Student Paper Competition
  Shi Dong, Stanford University
• Doing Good with Good OR Student Paper Competition
  Lily Xu, Harvard University
• George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award
  Somya Singhvi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Visit the Awards Hall, located in the Virtual Meeting Lobby, for a recording of the ceremony and additional information on this year’s winners.