Awards

Teaching Excellence Award for Online Teaching, Georgia Tech, April 2021.
Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching: Class of 1934 Award, Georgia Tech., 2021.
GovTech Innovation of the Month (February 2020) for the the work of the Socially-Aware Mobility Lab.
Outstanding Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (2019).
A. Russell Chandler III Chair, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018
Merit Award. Industrial and Operations Engineering. University of Michigan, 2018.
Fellow of the INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and Management Science), 2016.
Seth Bonder Collegiate Professorship, University of Michigan, 2015.
Richard Newton Research Excellence Award, NICTA, 2015.
Test of Time Award (20 years): Association of Logic Programming, 2014
Senior Visiting Fellow: Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Bologna, 2014
IFORS Distinguished Lecturer, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2013.
Ulam Fellow, Center for NonLinear Studies, Los Alamos, 2012.
Doctor Honoris Causa, the University of Nantesx, 2014
Philip J. Bray Award for teaching excellence in the physical sciences, Brown University, 2010.
Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artifical Intelligence (AAAI), 2009
Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Louvain, Belgium, 2009.
ACP Award for Research Excellence in Constraint Programming, 2016.
IBM Faculty Award, 2004.
INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) Award for research excellence, 2002.
NSF National Young Investigator Award (USA), 1993.

Best Papers

Best Paper Award (March 2021) in the IEEE Transactions of Power Systems for 2020.
Travel Behaviour & Society (TBS) Outstanding Paper Award 2020.
Journal track of the 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2020) for the paper “OptStream: Releasing Time Series Privately”.
CP-2016. Best Paper Award, 2016.
CPAIOR-2016: Fast-tracked paper to Constraints, 2016.
AAAI-15, Best Paper Award, Blue Sky Research Track, Austin, Texas, 2015.
CPAIOR-2015: Fast-Tracked paper to Constraints, 2015.
Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS’14), Best paper Award, 2014.
Best paper award at SEDE’09, 2009.
Distinguished Paper at IJCAI’07 (one of 3 out of 1353 submissions), 2007.
Distinguished Paper CP’04, Toronto, Canada, 2004.
Best Paper Award, CP’03, Kinsale, Ireland, 2003.

Jisoon (Mark) Lim: INFORMS Undergraduate Operations Research Prize, October 2021.
Keyu Zhu: Margaret and Stephen Kendrick Research Fellowships (Analytics and Machine Learning), ISyE, 2021.
Tejas Santanam: ISyE Alpha Pi Mu Academic Excellence Award, 2021.
Mark Lim: IISE Outstanding Senior Award, Georgia Tech, 2021.
Mark Lim: Nicolas & Aurora Suarez Condezo International Award, Georgia Tech, 2021
Guenyeong Byeon. Rising Stars in Computational and Data Science
University of Texas at Austin, 2020.
Guenyeong Byeon, Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for Outstanding PhD research. 2019.
Mohd Hafiz Hasan 2019: Distinguished Student Paper Award, CP’2019, Stamford, CT. 2019.
Edward Lam: 2019 ACP Doctotoral Dissertation Award, Association of Constraint Programming, (2019).
Terrence Mak: INFORMS ICS Student Prize (runner up), (2016).
Byron Tasseff: NSF Graduate Research Fellow. (2016).
Justin Yip: Best Thesis Award. Honorable Mention. (2013).
Nabeel Gillani: Rhodes Scholarship (2012).
Nabeel Gillani: Brown University Distinguished Senior Thesis Award (2012).
Carleton Coffrin: 2011 INFORMS North Eastern Conference, Best Poster (2011).
Carleton Coffrin: INFORMS 2010 Doing Good with Good OR Competition, Finalist (2010).