Awards and Honors

Georgia Tech ISyE DEI Fellow, 2022-2024

2022 INFORMS DEI Ambassador

New Investigator Award, Virginia Space Grant Consortium (NASA), 2022

NSF CAREER Award, 2021

Winner, INFORMS Optimization Society Young Researchers Paper Prize, 2020

Runner-up, Dupacova-Prekopa Best Student Paper Prize in Stochastic Programming, 2019

Third place, INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group Paper Competition, 2018

Top 3 Finalists, Engineering Undergraduate Research Advisor, Virginia Tech, Spring 2018, Spring 2020

Best Ph.D. Thesis for the 2018 Sigma Xi Research Awards, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018

New Professor Mentoring Project Award, Virginia Tech, 2017

Honorable mention, INFORMS George Nicholson Student Paper Competition, 2017

Alice and John Jarvis Ph.D. Student Research Award, ISyE, Georgia Institute of Technology, Spring 2016

Algorithm and Randomness Center Fellowship Award, Georgia Institute of Technology, Spring 2016

Operations Research Comprehensive Exam: Pass with Distinction, ISyE, Georgia Institute of Technology, Fall 2014

High Honor Degrees, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2006-2010

Class of 1969 Teaching Fellows, 2023-2024

SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP21) Early Career Travel Award, 2021

Large Class Teaching Grant Award, Virginia Tech (2020) 

Thank a Teacher, Center for Excellent in Teaching and Learning, Virginia Tech (2017, 2019, 2021) 

Mixed Integer Programming Workshop Student Travel Award, 2015

SGA-College of Engineering Travel Fund, Georgia Tech (2014-2017)

Supervised Ph.D. student Yongchun Li won Shabbir Ahmed Research Fellowship won Shabbir Ahmed Research Fellowship, Spring 2024

Supervised Ph.D. student Luying Sun won 2023 INFORMS TSL Dissertation Award, October 2023

Collaborated Ph.D. student Heraldo Rozas won 2023 INFORMS ENRE Best Paper Student Award, October 2023

Supervised Ph.D. student Yongchun Li was the finalist of the 2023 IISE-DAIS Best Student Paper Competition, May 2023

Supervised Ph.D. student Yongchun Li won the Algorithm and Randomness Center Fellowship Award, Georgia Tech, Spring 2023

Supervised Ph.D. student Nan Jiang won  First Place in the YinzOR Student Conference 2022 Poster Competition

Supervised Ph.D. student Nan Jiang won the 2022-23 IISE Gilbreth Memorial Fellowship

Supervised Ph.D. student Yongchun Li won the Scholarship of Faculty Women of Color in the Academy Conference, Virginia Tech, 2022 

Supervised Ph.D. student Nan Jiang won the 2022 ISE Outstanding GTA Award, Virginia Tech

Supervised research team (Nan Jiang, Xiaohan Ma, Boshen Zhang) was the finalist of IISE DAIS Mobile/Web App Competition, May 2022

Supervised Ph.D. student Qing Ye was the finalist of 2021 INFORMS Data Mining Section Best Paper Competition (Student Track), October 2021

Supervised Ph.D. student Yongchun Li was runner-up of the 2021 INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) Student Paper Award, October 2021

Supervised Ph.D. student Yongchun Li was the finalist of the 2021 IISE-DAIS Best Student Paper Competition, May 2021

Supervised Ph.D. student Yongchun Li won first place of poster competition in INFORMS & HFES Student Poster Competition, ISE, Virginia Tech, November 2020

Supervised Ph.D. student Qing Ye won third place of poster competition in INFORMS & HFES Student Poster Competition, ISE, Virginia Tech, November 2020

Supervised Ph.D. student Yongchun Li won first place in 2020 INFORMS Data Mining Section Best Paper Competition, November 2020

Supervised senior design team won first place in the IISE Outstanding Capstone Senior Design Project Award at IISE Annual Conference, November 2020

Supervised Ph.D. student Nan Jiang won 2020 ISE Outstanding GTA Award, Virginia Tech

Supervised senior design team won the Application of IE Tools Award during 2020 ISE Senior Symposium, Virginia Tech, May 2020

Supervised Ph.D. student Yongchun Li won the first place of poster competition in INFORMS & HFES Student Poster Competition, ISE, Virginia Tech, October 2019

Supervised Ph.D. student Yongchun Li won the first place of poster competition in 2019 Mixed Integer Programming Workshop at MIT, July 2019

Supervised senior design team won third place in the IISE Outstanding Capstone Senior Design Project Award at IISE Annual Conference, May 2019

Supervised undergraduate researcher Lauren Carpenito won first place in the technical paper competition of 2019 IISE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference at West Virginia University, February 2019

Supervised senior design team won the Application of IE Tools Award during the 2018 ISE Senior Symposium, Virginia Tech, May 2018