2025
Top 10 Scholar in Operations Management in top journals (MS, MSOM, POM, JOM) from 2008-2022
(https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10591478251334200)
Best Department Editor, Production and Operations Management Journal
Top 1% of scholars worldwide across all fields, 2024 (http://www.scholargps.com)
2024
Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellow, Kenan Institute of Private Enterprises
Outstanding Teacher in the MBA Program, Kenan-Flagler Business School
2021
Jack Meredith Best Paper Award given by the Journal of Operations Management for the best paper published in 2020: Honorable Mention
Top 10 Scholar in Operations Management in top journals (MS, MSOM, POM, JOM) from 2000-2015 (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/deci.12452?af=R)
Top 1% of scholars worldwide in Operations Research and across all disciplines, 2020
2020
Fellow, Manufacturing and Service Operations Society (MSOM), 2020
2018
Fellow, Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), 2018
Weatherspoon Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Doctoral Program, Kenan-Flagler Business School
2017
Roy W. Holsten Exceptional Service Award, Kenan-Flagler Business School
Best Instructor Award, UNC-Tsinghua Dual Degree Program, Kenan-Flagler Business School
2015
Fellow, Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), 2015
M&SOM Best Paper Award given by Manufacturing and Service Operations Management journal for the best published paper in the previous three years, 2015: Finalist
2013
Franz Edelman Award for Outstanding Example of Management Science and Operations Research Practice given by The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS): Semi-Finalist
2010
Fellow, Academic Leadership Program, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2010
2008
Outstanding Teacher in the MBA Program, Kenan-Flagler Business School
2007
Weatherspoon Award for Excellence in Research, Kenan-Flagler Business School
2006
Outstanding Teacher in the MBA Program, Kenan-Flagler Business School
Weatherspoon Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Doctoral Program, Kenan-Flagler Business School
2003
Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice given by the Practice Section of The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS): Finalist
Franz Edelman Award for Outstanding Example of Management Science and Operations Research Practice given by The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS): Semi-Finalist
2002
Outstanding Role Model, Doctoral Program, Kenan-Flagler Business School
2000
CAREER Award for outstanding research and teaching potential in Operations Research and Production Systems, Division of Design Manufacture and Industrial Innovation, National Science Foundation
Outstanding Teacher in the MBA Program (Club 6), Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
1999
Outstanding Teacher in the MBA Program (Club 6), Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
1998
Outstanding Teacher in the MBA Program (Club 6), Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
Schwabacher Fellowship for outstanding research and teaching performance by a junior faculty, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
1997
Operations Research Meritorious Service Award given by Operations Research Journal
George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award for the most applied dissertation given by The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS): Honorable Mention
1996
George E. Nicholson Award for the best student paper given by The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS): First Prize