Awards and Recognition

Mark Lewis, the Maxwell M. Upson Professor, was named the 2025 Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) president-elect. Lewis will serve a one-year term as president elect, effective Jan.1, and then will serve as president of INFORMS for the 2026 calendar year. INFORMS is the leading international association for professionals in operations research, analytics, management science, economics, behavioral science, statistics, artificial intelligence, data science, applied mathematics, and other relevant fields, with more than 12,000 members.

Debdeep Jena, the David E. Burr Professor (ECE, MSE), was honored with the Art Gossard MBE Innovator Award at the North American Conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy (NAMBE 2024) in Boston, MA.

David Hysell, the Thomas R. Briggs Professor (EAS), has been named a 2024 American Geophysical Union Fellow.

Fengqi You, the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor of Energy Systems Engineering (CBE, Systems), had his work featured on the cover of the Energy & Environmental Science.

Jon Kleinberg ’93, the Tisch University Professor (CS), has received the World Laureates Association Prize for foundational contributions in computer science and social science.

Britney Schmidt, associate professor (EAS), has been named a laureate of the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists by the Blavatnik Family Foundation and The New York Academy of Sciences. 

Matt Pritchard, professor (EAS), was appointed to a three-year term on National Volcano Early Warning System Advisory Committee. The NVEWS is a national-scale plan to ensure that volcanoes are monitored at levels commensurate to their threats. The plan was developed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Volcano Hazards Program and its affiliated partners in state and academic institutions.

Atieh Moridi, assistant professor (MAE), has been awarded the 2025 Young Innovator in the Materials Science of Additive Manufacturing Award from the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society. The award recognizes “an outstanding, early career individual who is performing innovative research in the area of the materials science of additive manufacturing.”

Gregory Falco, assistant professor (MAE, Systems), has won the North American Actuarial Journal Best Paper Award for 2023. Falco and his co-authors won for their paper titled “The Economic Impact of Extreme Cyber Risk Scenarios.”

Natalie Mahowald, the Irving Porter Church Professor (EAS), has received the Syukuro Manabe Climate Research Award by American Meteorological Society. The Syukuro Manabe Award is presented to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the fundamental understanding of Earth’s climate system.