• Fellow, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2017
  • Fellow, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), 2017
  • Richard C. Wilson Faculty Scholar, Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, January 2012 – December 2013
  • Department Award, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, 2010-11
  • Featured article: H.E. Romeijn, R.K. Ahuja, J.F. Dempsey, and A. Kumar. A new linear programming approach to radiation therapy treatment planning problems. Operations Research 54:2 (2006), 201-216.
  • Industrial Engineering Research Conference Best Paper Award, Service Systems Track, 2006
  • Industrial Engineering Research Conference Best Paper Award, Logistics and Inventory Track, 2005
  • Young Investigator’s Award for paper presented at the International Conference on the use of Computers in Radiotherapy (ICCR), 2004
  • Pierskalla Best Paper Award, INFORMS Health Applications Section, 2003
  • Research fellow, ERASM, September 1996 – September 1999
  • External research fellow, Tinbergen Institute, May 1994 – September 1999
  • Finalist, George E. Nicholson Student Paper competition (ORSA), 1993
  • Master’s thesis prize of the Netherlands Society for Statistics and Operations Research (VVS), 1989