#  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**