2025 Operations Research Reviewer Meritorious Service Awards
Abstract
Reviewers are an integral part of the journal. Without their efforts, the journal could not operate. The journal recognizes a select number of reviewers that have gone above and beyond normal expectations with “Distinguished Service” and “Meritorious Service” awards. On behalf of OPRE, editor-in-chief Amy Ward expresses her deepest gratitude to all those who served as reviewers for the journal in 2025. The process for determining these awards in a given year is as follows:
The list of names of reviewers for the journal over the past year, along with the number of papers each individual reviewed, is circulated to the area editors (with all sensitive information removed).
The area editors, in consultation with their associate editors, provide feedback.
Reviewers that have done either a large volume of quality reviews or a small volume of particularly insightful reviews are designated to receive Meritorious Service Awards.
A small number of reviewers (no more than five) may be upgraded to Distinguished Service Awards, based on extraordinary work.
2025 Distinguished Service Awards
Ningyuan Chen, University of Toronto, Mississauga
Yanzhe (Murray) Lei, Queen’s University, Canada
Ilan Morgenstern, University of California, Berkeley
Michael Wagner, University of Washington
Julia Yan, The University of British Columbia
2025 Meritorious Service Awards
Jackie Baek, New York University
Boxiao Chen, University of Illinois at Chicago
Wang Chi Cheung, National University of Singapore
Antoine Desir, INSEAD
Rupert Freeman, University of Virginia
Long He, The George Washington University
Chamsi Hssaine, University of Southern California
Zhenyu Hu, National University of Singapore
Jiashuo Jiang, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Billy Jin, Purdue University
Süleyman Kerimov, Rice University
Xiaobo Li, National University of Singapore
Sheng Liu, University of Toronto
Meng Qi, Cornell University
Pengyu Qian, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Shouqiang Wang, University of Texas at Dallas
Yining Wang, University of Texas at Dallas
Ruixun Zhang, Peking University
Jingwei Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Jinglong Zhao, Boston University
