Faculty Awards and Honors

Fellow, American Society Of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 

Fellow, American Society of Nondestructive Testing (ASNT)

Fellow, Acoustic Emission Working Group (AEWG)

Fellow, British Institute of Nondestructive Testing (BINDT) 

Fellow, International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)

Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 

Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA)

Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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

W.E. O'Neil Faculty Research Fellow

Faculty Fellow, Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership

Faculty Fellow, Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education (iFoundry)

Fellow, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE)

Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

Young Investigator Award (YIP)

NSF CAREER Award

Dean's Award for Excellence in Research

INFORMS Koopman Prize for the paper "Multi-Agent UAV Routing: A Game Theory Analysis with Tight Price of Anarchy Bounds" 

NSF CAREER Award

Exemplary Theory Paper Award at 21st ACM EC for "EFX Exists for Three Agents"

NSF CRII Award

Collins Award for Innovative Teaching from the Grainger College of Engineering

Central Illinois Business Forty under 40

Reviewers' choice award in ICED21 conference

Reviewers' choice award in ICED19 conference

ASME Kos Ishii - Toshiba Award

Donald Biggar Willett Scholar, College of Engineering, University of Illinois

John Deere Innovation Award

Reviewers' choice award in ICED13 conference

NSF CAREER Award 

Best Paper Award, ASME Design for Manufacturing and Life Cycle Conference

Alphonse Chapanis Best Student Paper Award (Finalist), Human Factors and Ergonomic Society

Best Student Paper, Computer & Information Systems Division, Institute of Industrial Engineers 

Distinguished Paper Award, Ergonomics Society of Korea 

INFORMS Service Science Best Paper Award, First Place 

INFORMS Public Sector Operations Research Best Paper Award, Finalist

IISE Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award

INFORMS Innovation in Analytics Award, Semifinalist 

INFORMS Section on Public Programs, Services and Needs (SPPSN) Best Paper Competition, Finalist 

Freudenstein Young Investigator award from ASME 

NSF CAREER Award 

Semi-finalist, INFORMS Innovative Applications in Analytics Award

Feature article, "Managing EMS Systems with User Abandonment in Emerging Economies" IISE Transactions 

Invited member, Senior Advisory Board, AGIFORS 

INFORMS Aviation Applications Section, Best Student Paper Honorable Mention with student Jing Gao 

Best paper award, System Performance track, International Conference for Research and Air Transportation 

Best Paper Award, System Performance Track

Center for Advanced Study Fellow, 2021-22, University of Illinois 

KDD Startup Research Award for paper with Deepair Solutions, 25th ACM SIGKDD

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” 

Best Technical Presentation, AGIFORS Revenue Management Study Group Conference 

Best Technical Presentation Award, AGIFORS Revenue Management Study Group Conference, AGIFORS

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" 

KDD Startup Research Award, with Deepair Solutions, 25th ACM SIGKDD,

AGIFORS Anna Valicek Award Honorable mention with student Jane Lee 

Honorable Mention in AGIFORS Anna Valicek Competition

INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics (TSL) Society, Cross-Regional Collaboration Grant, sponsored by Kalyx Warehousing; with Prof. Gitakrishnan Ramadurai as collaborator from India

Winner, Cross-Regional Collaboration Grant by the INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics (TSL) Society, sponsored by Kalyx Warehousing; with Prof. Gitakrishnan Ramadurai as Co-PI.

Invited Keynote speaker, Society of Women Engineers 

US Department of Transportation Grant to establish a University Transportation Center (UTC) at Carnegie Mellon University

Ann Hershfang Graduate Scholarship

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship

National Merit Scholarship Fellow, National Council for Educational Research and Training

NSF Career Award, Algorithmic Foundations

List of Teachers Ranked Excellent by Students

Best Paper with a Student Lead Author and Exemplary Paper in Theory Track Award, EC

Robert C. McMaster Gold Medal Award from the American Society for Nondestructive Testing

Lester/Mehl Honor Lecture, American Society for Nondestructive Testing

Research Council Award for Sustained Excellence, American Society for Nondestructive Testing

Outstanding Paper published in the American Society for Nondestructive Testing Journal of Materials Evaluation 

ASME NDPD Founders’ Award, ASME Diagnosis and Prognosis Division 

George L. Pherigo Tutorial Citation Award, American Society for Nondestructive Testing

SPACE AWARD, Space Society, for contributions to Float’n Illini

IFAC High Impact Paper Award

Fellow, International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)

Mohammed Dahleh Distinguished Lecture Award 

AACC Donald P. Eckman Award 

NSF Young Investigator Award 

Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching

Arthur Davis Faculty Scholar

Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Foreign Member of the Academy of Engineering Sciences of Serbia

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany 

Arnold O. Beckman Research Award, University of Illinois

Xerox Award for Faculty Research, College of Engineering, University of Illinois 

Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship Award Bonn, Germany 

The INFORMS Applied Probability Society Best Publication Award 

ACM Sigmetrics Conference Best Simulation Paper 

Trusted CI Open Science Cybersecurity Fellowship

Best Paper Award in EISIC 2018 with Sean Suehr for "Now You See Me: Identifying Duplicate Network Personas" 

Gerondelis Foundation Scholarship for excellence in studies 

Awards in the Hellenic Mathematical Society Competition for all prefectures except for Attiki and Thessaloniki 

ASME Journal of Mechanical Design Associate Editor Award 

IISE Best Paper Award for QCRE Track 

ASME Design Automation Young Investigator Award 

Wallace Award for Excellence in Research

NSF CAREER Award

ASME-DAC Best Paper Award 

IEEE PHM Best Paper Award (IEEE Reliability Society)

Young Researcher Award 

First Award (NSF Kansas EPSCoR)

Strategic Engineering Research Fellowship

Future Faculty Program (FFP) Fellowship (U. Maryland)

ASME-DAC Best Paper Award 

The Robert L. Wears Early Career Award, Healthcare Technical Group, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 

University of Illinois System’s Presidential Medallion Note: This is the highest award in the University of Illinois System

Grainger Engineering COVID-19 Wall of Recognition in Engineering 

Advisor/co-author of Winner, HFES Health Care Technical Group Marilyn Sue Bogner Student Paper Award 

Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award for edited volume Advancing Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice Through Human Systems Engineering 

National Science Foundation Smart and Connected Health Aspiring PI Award, Advancing Health Through Science Workshop 

Advisor/co-author of Winner, HFES Health Care Technical Group Marilyn Sue Bogner Student Paper Award 

Winner, Best Paper Award, International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography

Keynote Speaker, EDIFICA Conference, Monterrey, Mexico

Best Paper Award, ASCE Construction Congress, Bahamas 

Keynote speaker, Korean Institute of Construction Engineering and Management Conference, Seoul

Best Paper Award on Building Blackbox Research, ASCE Construction Congress 

Stanley H. Pierce Faculty Award, College of Engineering 

Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 8th Edition 

Technical Review Panelist, O'Hare Modernization Program ($6.8 billion)Construction Management contractor selection review 

Keynote Speaker, Facility Area Networking Conference and Workshop, Construction Engineering Research Laboratories (CERL), Army Corps of Engineers

Technical Review Panelist, NSF-FIATECH Joint Workshop 

Center Proposal Panelist, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)

Discovery Channel Innovation Award semi-finalist for Digital Hardhat Research 

Department of Defense Advanced Technology Demonstration, Washington D.C 

American Association of Cost Engineers Convention, Top 10 Presenters

IISE David Baker Award 

Business First of Buffalo's "40 under Forty" award

ASME's Milton C. Shaw Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award

IIE's Outstanding Young Industrial Engineer Award in Academia

NSF CAREER Award

Faculty Fellow, Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership

Faculty Fellow, Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education

Best Paper, Innovation Track, American Marketing Association Winter Educators’ Conference. 

National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) Midwest Region Innovative Program Award for Illinois Leadership.

Design Theory and Methodology Award, ASME 

Best Paper Award, Institute of Industrial Engineers Annual Conference, IIE Sustainable Development Division. 

Best Paper Award, ISERC, Manufacturing and Design Track. 

Kos Ishii-Toshiba Award for Sustained and Meritorious Contributions as a Researcher, Educator and Mentor, presented at ASME Design for Manufacturing and Life-Cycle Conference.

American Academy of Environmental Engineering Honors University Research Award for Electrothermal Swing Adsorption and VaPRRS and Steady-State Tracking wit Mark Rood et. al.

Best Paper Award, ASME Design for Manufacturing and the Lifecycle Conference 

Best Paper Award, ASME Design for Manufacturing and Lifecycle Conference

Best Paper Award, ASME Design for Manufacturing and Lifecycle Conference. "Variability and Component Criticality in Component Reuse and Remanufacturing Systems".

Runner up for Best paper of the year award in IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. Mangun, D. and D. L. Thurston. “Incorporating Component Reuse, Remanufacture, and Recycle into Product Portfolio Design.,” 49:4

Senior Xerox Award for Faculty Research

Eugene L. Grant Award for Best paper of the year in The Engineering Economist. “Decision Theory for Design Economists,” D. L. Thurston and A. Locascio.

Junior Xerox Award for Faculty Research

Semi-Finalist, Edelman Award for Management Science Achievement for "Product Strategy and Cycle Planning at Chrysler Motors Corporation."

Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation

Receipt of Research Initiation Grant for "Integration of Utility Analysis and Rule Based Computer Aids to Design," National Science Foundation