Faculty Fellow and Awards
Faculty Society Fellows
CAROLYN BECK
- Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2023)
ELIZABETH HSAIO-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)
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)
XIN CHEN
- Finalist, Informs Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Society best operations management paper published in Operations Research (2021)
- Third Prize, The CSAMSE Annual Conference Best Paper Award (2019)
- First Prize, The CSAMSE Annual Conference Best Paper Award (2014)
- INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Prize (2009)
- INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group Paper Competition, Finalist (2008)
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
- ASNT 2020 Lester/Mehl Honor Lecture (2020)
- ASNT 2016 Research Council Award for Sustained Excellence (2016)
- Outstanding Paper published in the ASNT Journal of Materials Evaluation (12 Issues) (2015)
- ASME 2015 NDPD Founders’ Award (2015), ASME Diagnosis and Prognosis Division (2015)
- ASNT George L. Pherigo Tutorial Citation Award (2002)
- SPACE AWARD, Space Society, 2001—From the Space Society, for contributions to Float’n Illini (2001)
JEFF SHAMMA
- IFAC High Impact Paper Award (2020)
- Mohammed Dahleh Distinguished Lecture Award (2013)
- AACC Donald P. Eckman Award (1996)
R.S. SREENIVAS
-
Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching (2023)
DUSAN STIPANOVICH
- 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)
RUOYO SUN
- INFORMS Optimization Society Student Paper Competition, Honorable Mention (2015)
- INFORMS George Nicholson Student Paper Competition, Second Place (2015)
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)