David Shmoys named INFORMS Fellow, joining other ORIE faculty and alumni

Laibe/Acheson Professor David Shmoys has been elected a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences

The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) has elected ORIE professor David Shmoys as a Fellow of the Institute.  The award, for “outstanding lifetime achievement,” is now given to no more than 12 individuals each year who “have demonstrated exceptional accomplishments and made significant contributions to the advancement of OR/MS.”  Shmoys was cited for “his landmark achievements in the design of approximation algorithms for discrete and stochastic optimization problems, and for his exemplary contributions to education.”

Shmoys recently became Director of Cornell’s School of Operations Research and Information Engineering (ORIE) and the book he coauthored with David S. Williamson won the 2013 INFORMS Lanchester Prize.  Shmoys joined ORIE in 1989.

Along with Shmoys, two ORIE Ph.D. alumni, Sheldon Jacobson Ph.D. ’88 and Jon Lee ’81 Ph.D. ‘86, were among the twelve individuals elected Fellows this year.  Jacobson is a professor of computer science at the University of Illinois and Lee is the G. Lawton and Louise G. Johnson Professor Engineering at the University of Michigan.

Previously elected ORIE INFORMS Fellows

Shmoys joins previously named INFORMS Fellows from ORIE, including four emeriti: Emerson Electric Company Professor of Manufacturing Management Richard Conway ’54 Ph.D. ‘58; Andrew Schultz Jr. Professor of Industrial Engineering William Maxwell ’57 Ph.D. ’61; Robin Roundy; and Acheson-Laibe Professor of Engineering John (Jack) Muckstadt. Current ORIE professors Jim Dai and Michael Todd are also INFORMS Fellows.

Jacob Gould Professor of Computer Science Eva Tardos and Joseph P. Ripley Professor of Engineering Christine Shoemaker, both members of the Graduate Field of Operations Research, are INFORMS Fellows, as are previous ORIE professors Donald Iglehart, George Nemhauser, Lee Schruben '68, and Shaler Stidham.

In addition to Conway, Maxwell, Jacobson and Lee, ORIE alumni who have been elected INFORMS Fellows include:

Salah Elmaghraby Ph.D. ’58
University Professor Emeritus, North Carolina State University

Alfred Blumstein  ’51 Ph.D. ’60
J. Erik Jonsson University Professor of Urban Systems and Operations Research,
Carnegie Mellon, University

Stephen Pollack ‘58
Professor Emeritus, Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering,
University of Michigan

Arthur Geoffrion  ’59 M.S. ’60
James A. Collins Chair in Management Emeritus,
UCLA Anderson School of Management

Donald Gross Ph.D. ’62
Research Professor, George Mason University

Linus Schrage Ph.D. ’66
Professor Emeritus of Operations Management,
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Martin Puterman ‘66
Professor of Operations and Logistics,
University of British Columbia Sauder School of Business

Lee Schruben ‘68
Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research,
University of California, Berkeley

Kenneth Baker Ph.D. ’69
Nathaniel Leverone Professor of Management,
Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College

Ward Whitt Ph.D. ’69
Wai T. Chang Professor, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research,
Columbia University

Robert Bixby Ph.D. ’72
Research Professor of Management, Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management,
Rice University

Michael Ball Ph.D. ’77
Orkand Corporation Professor of Management Science, Robert H. Smith School of Business,
University of Maryland

Lawrence Wein ’79
Jeffrey S. Skoll Professor of Management Science, Graduate School of Business,
Stanford University

Avishai Mandelbaum ’74 Ph.D. ’83
Professor, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology

Brenda Dietrich Ph.D. ’86
IBM Fellow and VP, Business Analytics, IBM

Guillermo Gallego Ph.D. ’88
Liu Family Professor. Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research,
Columbia University

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