Awards and Recognition

Lauren Stulgis, the Swanson Director of Student Project Teams, been named one of the 2024-25 Faculty Fellows in Engaged Learning.

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. 

Brian Bauer, professor of practice (CBE), received a Louis H. Zalaznick Teaching Assistantship grant from Entrepreneurship at Cornell to support a teaching assistant for his I-Corps training course.

Tom O’Rourke, the Thomas R. Briggs Professor Emeritus (CEE), has been selected by the Geo-Institute Board of Governors to receive the 2025 Harry Schnabel Jr. Award for outstanding contributions to the field of earth retaining structures.

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.