Awards and Recognition

David Shmoys, the Laibe/Acheson Professor, is the newly elected Vice President of Emerging Fields and Technologies at INFORMS. An INFORMS member since 1995, he has served on the INFORMS AI Ad Hoc Committee and the NSF Liaison and U.S. Federal Research Engagement Committees. Shmoys is a recipient of the INFORMS Kimball Medal, Optimization Society Khachiyan Prize, Wagner Prize and Lanchester Prize, and was named an AAAS Fellow in 2024.  He will begin his tenure on January 1, 2027. 

Huseyin Topaloglu, the Eleanor and Howard Morgan Professor, has been named one of 12 distinguished leaders as the 2026 class of INFORMS Fellows. He is being recognized for deep theoretical advances in operations management, particularly in revenue management and assortment optimization; transformative impact on industry practice; distinguished teaching; and dedicated service to the profession. 

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers has announced that Rong Yang, the Marjorie L. Hart ’50 Professor of Engineering, will receive the Allan P. Colburn Award for Excellence in Publications by a Young Member of the Institute at the AIChE Annual Meeting, Nov. 8-12, in Minneapolis.

Gregory Falco, assistant professor, has been awarded an Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program Award for pioneering work on multi-agent coordination of space systems.

William “Bill” White, professor emeritus, has been awarded the Harry H. Hess Medal by the American Geophysical Union, recognizing his contributions to understanding the chemical evolution and dynamics of the Earth.

Jae-sun Seo, associate professor, has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 Korean Computer Scientists and Engineers Association in America Mid-career Faculty Award (K-MFA). Seo will give an invited talk at the symposium to share his research with the KOCSEA community.

Geoffrey Abers, the William and Katherine Snee Professor in Geological Sciences in Cornell’s Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, has been selected by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) to deliver the 2026 Beno Gutenberg Lecture, an annual honor recognizing outstanding contributions to the field of seismology.

Andreas Malikopoulos, professor, received the 2026 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Outstanding Application Award for pioneering and commercially deployed decentralized control technologies that improve the energy efficiency and sustainability of connected and automated vehicles.

John Albertson, professor, has won the Award for Outstanding Contributions to Boundary-Layer Meteorology from the American Meteorological Society.

Eve Donnelly, associate professor, will receive the Adele L. Boskey Award at the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research Annual Meeting in October.