Three members of the ORIE faculty will be presented prizes at the INFORMS Annual Meeting October 20-23 in Seattle.
Jim Dai, the Leon C. Welch Professor, will receive the John von Neumann Theory Prize, which is awarded annually to a scholar who has made fundamental, sustained contributions to theory in operations research and the management sciences.
David Shmoys, the Laibe/Acheson Professor of Business Management and Leadership Studies, will receive the George E. Kimball Medal, which is awarded for recognition of distinguished service to the Institute and to the profession of operations research and the management sciences.
Huseyin Topaloglu, the Eleanor and Howard Morgan Professor and program director at Cornell Tech, will receive the Lanchester Prize honorable mention for contributions to operations research and the management sciences published in the past five years.