Honors & Awards

International or National Awards

  • Wilcoxon Award, American Society for Quality, 2023.
  • Lloyd S. Nelson Award, American Society for Quality, 2021.
  • Fellow, American Society for Quality, 2020.
  • SPAIG Award, American Statistical Association, 2020 (for collaboration with P&G).
  • Editor-in-Chief, Technometrics, 2020-2022.
  • Statistics in Physical & Engineering Sciences Award, American Statistical Association, 2019.
  • The Quality Engineering & System Assurance Award, U.S. Army ARDEC, 2017.
  • Franz Edelman Laureate, INFORMS, 2017.
  • First Prize in MSOM Practice-based Research Competition, 2017 (with T. Ayer and C. White).
  • First Prize in INFORMS Doing Good with Good OR competition, 2015 (with T. Ayer and C. White).
  • Fellow, American Statistical Association, 2012.
  • Elected Member, International Statistical Institute, 2012.
  • Best Paper Award, IIE Transactions-Quality and Reliability Engineering, 2009.
  • Jack Youden Prize, American Society for Quality, 2005.
  • CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2005.

Institute or School Awards

  • Distinguished Alumni Award-Academic Excellence, National Institute of Technology, Calicut, 2024.
  • Inaugural Outstanding Faculty Achievement in Research: Mid-Career, ISyE, Georgia Tech, 2024.
  • A. Russell Chandler III Professorship, ISyE, Georgia Tech, 2019-2021.
  • Special Lecture, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2012. (To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Rackham graduate school).
  • Coca-Cola Junior Chair, ISyE, Georgia Tech, 2008-2011.
  • Distinguished Dissertation Award, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2003.
  • Gold Medal, M. Tech (QROR), Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, 1995.
  • First Rank, B. Tech (PEM), University of Calicut (NITC), India, 1993.

Awards won by my students

  • Difan Song, Best Poster Award: Design Theory, DAE, 2024.
  • Akhil Vakayil, Wilcoxon Award, ASQ, 2023.
  • Shangkun Wang, SPES+Q&P Student Paper Award, ASA, 2023.
  • Chaofan Huang, Student Poster Award, Georgia Statistics Day, 2023.
  • Chaofan Huang, SPES+Q&P Student Paper Award, ASA, 2022.
  • Chaofan Huang, Robert Goodell Brown Research Excellence Award, ISyE, 2022.
  • Arvind Krishna, Graduate Student Instructor of the Year Award, Georgia Tech, 2021
  • Arvind Krishna, Best Poster Award, Georgia Statistics Day, 2019.
  • Jialei Chen, Ellis R. Otts scholarship, ASQ, 2020.
  • Jialei Chen, Best Student Paper Award, INFORMS-QSR, 2020.
  • Jialei Chen, Best Student Paper Award, Data Analytics & IS-IISE 2019.
  • Simon Mak, SPES Award, ASA, 2019.
  • Simon Mak, Best Student Paper Award, INFORMS-QSR, 2016.
  • Simon Mak, Natrella Scholarship, ASA, 2017.
  • Simon Mak, John Jarvis Graduate Student Research Award, ISyE, 2017.
  • Matthew Plumlee, Sigma Xi Best Thesis Award, Georgia Tech, 2016.
  • Matthew Plumlee, Ellis R. Otts scholarship, ASQ, 2014.
  • Matthew Plumlee, ARCS Fellowship, ARCS Foundation, 2013, 2014.
  • Matthew Plumlee, Natrella Scholarship, ASA, 2013.
  • Matthew Plumlee, Best Student Paper Award, INFORMS-QSR, 2012.
  • Shan Ba, Best Student Paper Award, INFORMS-QSR, 2011.
  • Chai-Jung Chang, Best Poster Award, INFORMS-QSR, 2011.
  • Lulu Kang, Best Student Paper Award, INFORMS-QSR, 2009.