Awards & Honors

Awards Received as a Faculty

• The 2024 Lehigh ISE Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award (2024).

• The 2023 Alfred Noble Robinson Faculty Award, Lehigh University.

• Winner of the 2022 INFORMS Minority Issues Forum (MIF) Paper Competition. The work awarded is my single-authored paper entitled ``Distributionally Robust Optimization Approaches for a Stochastic Mobile Facility Routing and Scheduling Problem,'' published in Transportation Science. 

• Finalist, the 2022 INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) Forum Paper Competition (2022). The work recognized is "Convex Fairness Measures: Theory and Optimization"  with PhD student Man Yiu Tsang. 

• Finalist, the 2022 INFORMS Service Science Best Cluster Paper Award (2022). The work recognized is "Operating Room-to-Downstream Elective Surgery Planning Under Uncertainty.” 

• Winner of Van Hoesen Family Best Publication Competition (2022) with Man Yiu Tsang. The work awarded is ``Stochastic Optimization Models for a Home Service Routing and Appointment Scheduling Problem with Random Travel and Service Times," published in the European Journal of Operational Research.

• Meritorious Reviewer Award, Healthcare Management Science (2024)

• Meritorious Service Award, Transportation Science (2022, 2023) 

• Meritorious Reviewer Award, INFORMS Journal on Computing (2021)  

• Third place, The Annual IISE-SHS Student Simulation Competition (FlexSim) with Lehigh students  Jose Castillo (ISE), Marcos Leal (ISE),  Rodrigo Gonzales (ISE/CS).

Honors

• • Dean Postdoctoral Emeritus, 2020-present, Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University 

Awards Received as a PhD Student (2015--2019)

• • Second Place, OR What? INFORMS Student Video Competition 2019. 

  • Travel Grants (2016--2019), Rackham Graduate School,  University of Michigan.

Awards Received as a Master Student (2013--201)—State University of New York at Binghamton

• • Engineering Honor List, Graduated with 4/4 GPA (2014)

  • Graduated Students Marshal, Commencement Ceremony (2014)

  • Graduate Research Ambassador Award (2014) 

Awards Received as an Undergraduate Student— Jordan University of Science and Technology

• • Engineering Honor List, Ranked First in the 2013 class (2013)

  • Outstanding Undergraduate Graduation Project (2013)

  • World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa (2013)