{"id":185,"date":"2022-07-11T18:08:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T18:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitmgmtfaculty.mit.edu\/dfreund\/?page_id=185"},"modified":"2026-02-17T19:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:37:07","slug":"awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mitmgmtfaculty.mit.edu\/dfreund\/awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  • Runner-up for the 2024 Public Sector\u00a0 Operations Research Best Paper Award (INFORMS)<\/li>\n
  • Winner of the 2024 Service Science Best Paper in Socially Responsible Research Award (INFORMS)<\/li>\n
  • Winner of the 2023 MSOM Best OM Paper in Operations Research Award (INFORMS)<\/li>\n
  • Recipient of a 2023 Transportation Science Meritorious Service Award (INFORMS)<\/li>\n
  • Recipient of 2022, 2023, and 2024 Management Science Meritorious Service Awards (INFORMS)<\/li>\n
  • Winner of the 2021 Applied Probability Society Best Publication Award (INFORMS)<\/li>\n
  • Recipient of a 2021 Management Science Distinguished Service Award (INFORMS)<\/li>\n
  • Finalist for the 2020 Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research (INFORMS)<\/li>\n
  • Winner of a 2018 ACM SIGCAS COMPASS Conference Best Paper Award<\/li>\n
  • Winner of the 2018 George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award (INFORMS)<\/li>\n
  • Finalist in the 2018 POM Applied Research Challenge<\/li>\n
  • Winner of the 2018 Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research (INFORMS)<\/li>\n
  • Finalist for the 2017 Applied Probability Society Best Student Paper Award (INFORMS)<\/li>\n
  • Finalist in the 2017 George Nicholson Student Paper Competition (INFORMS)<\/li>\n
  • Recipient of the 2014 Yahoo! Graduate Teaching Award (Cornell)<\/li>\n
  • Scholarship of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>

    Awarded to students for joint work<\/h2>
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    • Jiayu (Kamessi) Zhao: Winner of the 2025 Dan and Eva Roos Thesis Prize for the outstanding MIT PhD dissertation in transportation<\/li>\n
    • Jiayu (Kamessi) Zhao: Winner of the 2024 ORC Best Student Paper Award<\/li>\n
    • Wentao Weng: Finalist for the 2022 Applied Probability Society Best Student Paper Award (INFORMS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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