Honors & Awards

  • Marquis Who’s Who Honored Listee Recognition (2025)
     
  • Semi-Finalist, INFORMS Franz Edelman Award (2025) “for achievement in advanced analytics, operations research, and management science.” 
     
  • Inaugural Best Published Paper Award by the Editorial Board of the Journal of Health Care Management Science (2024) for the paper “Who Should See the Patient? On Deviations from Preferred Patient- Provider Assignments in Hospitals.”
     
  • INFORMS MSOM Scoecity Responsible Research Award (2023) (second place) “[for] contributing knowledge that may have implications for making the world a better place by informing evidence-based, high-quality, and societally beneficial organizational practices across the business, government, and non-government organizations.”
     
  • INFORMS MSOM Society Young Scholar Prize (2021) “[for] outstanding contributions to scholarship in operations management.”
     
  • Inaugural INFORMS 2020 Mehrotra Research Excellence Award (first place) “for significant contributions to the practice of health applications through operations research (OR) and management science (MS) modeling and methodologies.”
     
  • Harvard Kennedy School Dinner on the Dean Excellence Award (Multiple Years)
     
  • POMS (Production and Operations Management Society) 2019 College of Healthcare Best Paper Award (first place)
     
  • INFORMS 2018 Public Sector Operations Research Best Paper Award (second place)
     
  • INFORMS Decision Analysis Society 2018 Best Student Paper Award (second place, awarded to Ph.D. advisee)
     
  • POMS (Production and Operations Management Society) 2017 College of Healthcare Best Paper Award (second place)
     
  • INFORMS MSOM (Manufacturing & Service Operations Management) Journal 2016 Best Paper Award (awarded to one paper among all published in the prior three years)
     
  • INFORMS MSOM Society 2016 Best Paper Award of Service Special Interest Group (SIG)
     
  • INFORMS 2015 Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) Paper Competition (honorable mention)
     
  • Outstanding Professor Recognition– USCIS 2014
     
  • Research Paper selected as one of five papers representing the best work published in MSOM Journal 2011-2015
     
  • POMS (Production and Operations Management Society) 2013 College of Supply Chain Best Student Paper Award  (honorable mention)
     
  • INFORMS MSOM (Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Society) 2012 Best Student Paper Award (first place)
     
  • 2012 Universsity of Mihcigan IOE Richard Wilson Prize for the Best Student Paper
     
  • INFORMS 2011 Doing Good with Good OR Award (finalist)
     
  • POMS 2011 College of Healthcare Best Paper Award (second place)
     
  • University of Michigan College of Engineering 2011 Outstanding Ph.D. Research Award (Richard and Eleanor Towner Award, $2500)
     
  • INFORMS 2010 Pierskalla Award for the Best Paper in Healthcare (from INFORMS Healthcare Applications Society, not a student paper award)
     
  • 2010 Katta Murty Prize for the Best Research Paper on Optimization
     
  • POMS 2009 College of Supply Chain Best Student Paper Award (finalist)
     
  • IOE 2007 Bonder Fellowship Award in Applied Operations Research
     
  • University of Michigan 2006 Named & Deans Fellowship Award
     
  • Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi