The Grainger College of Engineering
Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering

Faculty Fellow and Awards

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Faculty Society Fellows

CAROLYN BECK

  • Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2023)

ELIZABETH HSIAO-WECKSLER 

  • Fellow, American Society of Biomechanics (2022)
  • Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2008)

SHELDON JACOBSON

  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2020)
  • Fellow, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (2013)
  • Fellow, Institute of Industrial Engineers (2011)

HARRISON KIM

  • Fellow, American Society Of Mechanical Engineers (2016) 

RAKESH NAGI

  • Fellow, Chair of Council of Fellows, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (2010)

HENRIQUE REIS

  • Fellow, American Society of Nondestructive Testing (ASNT)
  • Fellow, British Institute of Nondestructive Testing (BINDT)
  • Fellow, Acoustic Emission Working Group (AEWG)

JEFF SHAMMA

  • Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • Fellow, International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)

DUSAN STIPANOVIC

  • Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2024)

ALEXANDER STOLYAR

  • Fellow, The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (2021)

Faculty Awards

JAMES ALLISON

  • ARPA-E ATLANTIS award (2020)
  • NASA SBIR award (2017)
  • NSF CAREER award (2017)

CAROLYN BECK

  • ONR Young Investigator Award (2001)
  • NSF CAREER Award (1998)
  • Alcoa Foundation Award (1997)
  • ORAU Junior Faculty Award (1997)

RASOUL ETESAMI

  • YIP Young Investigator Award (2023)
  • NSF CAREER Award (2020)

JUGAL GARG

  • Dean's Award for Excellence in Research (2022)
  • NSF CAREER Award (2020)
  • NSF CRII Award (2018)
  • INFORMS Koopman Prize (2021) for the paper "Multi-Agent UAV Routing: A Game Theory Analysis with Tight Price of Anarchy Bounds" 
  • Exemplary Theory Paper Award at 21st ACM EC (2020) for "EFX Exists for Three Agents"

MOLLY GOLDSTEIN

  • Collins Award for Innovative Teaching from the Grainger College of Engineering (2023)
  • Central Illinois Business Forty under 40 (2021)

HARRISON KIM

  • Reviewers' choice award in ICED21 conference (2021)
  • Reviewers' choice award in ICED19 conference (2019)
  • ASME Kos Ishii - Toshiba Award (2019)
  • Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2016)
  • Donald Biggar Willett Scholar, College of Engineering, University of Illinois (2015)
  • John Deere Innovation Award (2015) 
  • Reviewers' choice award in ICED13 conference (2013)
  • NSF CAREER Award  (2010)
  • Best Paper Award, ASME Design for Manufacturing and Life Cycle Conference (2009)

GIRISH KRISHNAN

  • Freudenstein Young Investigator award from ASME (2017)
  • NSF CAREER Award (2015)

LAVANYA MARLA

  • University of Illinois Center for Advanced Study Fellow (2021-22)
  • INFORMS Aviation Applications Section, Best Student Paper Honorable Mention with student Jing Gao (2020)
  • Best paper award, System Performance track, International Conference for Research and Air Transportation (2020)
  • KDD Startup Research Award for paper with Deepair Solutions, 25th ACM SIGKDD (2019)
  • Top-10 most cited paper in Transportation Research – Part A, 2016-2019, “An Empirical Analysis of Bike Sharing Usage and Rebalancing: Evidence from Barcelona and Seville” (2019)
  • Best Technical Presentation, AGIFORS Revenue Management Study Group Conference, AGIFORS, May 2019.5 (2019)
  • AGIFORS Anna Valicek Award Honorable mention with student Jane Lee (2018)
  • INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics (TSL) Society, Cross-Regional Collaboration Grant, sponsored by Kalyx Warehousing; with Prof. Gitakrishnan Ramadurai as collaborator from India (2017-2018)

RAKESH NAGI

  • IISE David Baker Award (2022)
  • Business First of Buffalo's "40 under Forty" award (2004)
  • SME's Milton C. Shaw Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award (1999)
  • IIE's Outstanding Young Industrial Engineer Award in Academia (1999)
  • NSF CAREER Award (1996)

BOB NORRIS

  • Best Paper ASAE (out of 150) (2001)
  • Best Control Systems Paper SCI2001 (IEEE) (out of 500) (2001)
  • John Deere Innovation Award

HENRIQUE REIS

  • Robert C. McMaster Gold Medal Award from the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (2023)
  • Lester/Mehl Honor Lecture, American Society for Nondestructive Testing (2020)
  • Research Council Award for Sustained Excellence, American Society for Nondestructive Testing (2016)
  • Outstanding Paper published in the American Society for Nondestructive Testing Journal of Materials Evaluation (12 Issues) (2015)
  • ASME NDPD Founders’ Award (2015), ASME Diagnosis and Prognosis Division (2015)
  • George L. Pherigo Tutorial Citation Award, American Society for Nondestructive Testing (2002)
  • SPACE AWARD, Space Society, for contributions to Float’n Illini (2001)

JEFF SHAMMA

R.S. SREENIVAS

  • Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching (2023)

DUSAN STIPANOVIC

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany (2017)
  • Arnold O. Beckman Research Award, University of Illinois (2009)
  • Xerox Award for Faculty Research, College of Engineering, University of Illinois (2009)
  • Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship Award (duration 2008-2010), Bonn, Germany (2008)

ALEXANDER STOLYAR

  • The INFORMS Applied Probability Society Best Publication Award (2004)
  • ACM Sigmetrics'96 Conference Best Simulation Paper (1996)

CHRYSAFIS VOGIATZIS

  • Trusted CI Open Science Cybersecurity Fellowship, member of the inaugural cohort of fellows (2019-2020)
  • Best Paper Award in EISIC 2018 with Sean Suehr for "Now You See Me: Identifying Duplicate Network Personas" (2018)
  • Gerondelis Foundation Scholarship for excellence in studies (2011)
  • Awards in the Hellenic Mathematical Society Competition for all prefectures except for Attiki and Thessaloniki in 1998 (1st), 1999 (1st), and 2000 (3rd).

PINGFENG WANG

  • ASME Journal of Mechanical Design Associate Editor Award (2020)
  • ASME-DAC Best Paper Award (ASME, 2008)
  • Future Faculty Program (FFP) Fellowship (U. Maryland, 2009~2010)
  • First Award (NSF Kansas EPSCoR, 2011)
  • Strategic Engineering Research Fellowship (WSU CoE, 2011)
  • IEEE PHM Best Paper Award (IEEE Reliability Society, 2012)
  • Young Researcher Award (ISGMA, 2012)
  • ASME-DAC Best Paper Award (ASME, 2013)
  • Wallace Award for Excellence in Research (WSU, 2014)
  • NSF CAREER Award (NSF, 2014)
  • ASME Design Automation Young Investigator Award (ASME, 2016)
  • IISE Best Paper Award for QCRE Track (IISE, 2020)

ABIGAIL WOOLDRIDGE

  • The Robert L. Wears Early Career Award, Healthcare Technical Group, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (2021)
  • Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2020 Award for edited volume Advancing Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice Through Human Systems Engineering (2020)
  • National Science Foundation Smart and Connected Health Aspiring PI Award, 2020 Advancing Health Through Science Workshop (2020)
  • University of Illinois System’s Presidential Medallion (2021) Note: This is the highest award in the University of Illinois System
  • Grainger Engineering COVID-19 Wall of Recognition in Engineering (2021)
  • Advisor/co-author of Winner, HFES Health Care Technical Group Marilyn Sue Bogner Student Paper Award (2021)
  • Advisor/co-author of Winner, HFES Health Care Technical Group Marilyn Sue Bogner Student Paper Award (2020)
  • Winner, Best Paper Award, International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography 2019 (2019)
     

ISE Awards

ISE awards are in recognition of excellence in support of the mission of ISE.