The WORMS Award for the Advancement of Women in Operations Research and Management Science is given annually by WORMS, the Forum on Women in OR/MS of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, to "a person who has contributed significantly to the advancement and recognition of women in the field of Operations Research and the Management Sciences (OR/MS)". [1]
The winners of the WORMS Award have included: [1]
Name | Institution | Year |
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Cynthia Barnhart [2] | MIT | 2005 |
Jane Ammons [3] | Georgia Tech | 2005 |
Radhika Kulkarni [4] | SAS Institute | 2006 |
Anna Nagurney [5] | U. Mass. Amherst | 2007 |
Candace A. Yano [6] | UC Berkeley | 2008 |
Alice E. Smith [7] | Auburn | 2009 |
Brenda L. Dietrich [8] | IBM | 2010 |
Berna Dengiz [9] | Başkent Univ. | 2011 |
Vicki Sauter [10] | U. Missouri–St. Louis | 2012 |
Kathryn Stecke [11] | UT Dallas | 2013 |
Aleda Roth [12] | Clemson | 2014 |
Margaret Brandeau [13] | Stanford | 2015 |
Karen Smilowitz [14] | Northwestern | 2016 |
Ruth J. Williams [15] | UC San Diego | 2017 |
Susan M. Sanchez [16] | Naval Postgraduate School | 2018 |
Laura Albert [17] | U. Wisconsin | 2019 |
Sharon Arroyo [1] | Boeing | 2019 |
Julie Ivy [18] | NC State | 2020 |
Pınar Keskinocak [19] | Georgia Tech | 2021 |
Mehran University of Engineering & Technology is a public research university located in Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan focused on STEM education.
Anna Nagurney is a Ukrainian-American mathematician, economist, educator and author in the field of Operations Management. Nagurney is the Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies in the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Amherst, Massachusetts. Previously, she held the John F. Smith Memorial Professorship of Operations Management at the Isenberg School of Management from 1998 to 2021.
Candace A. Yano is Professor and Chair at Haas School of Business's Operations and Information Technology Management Group, and Professor and former Head of Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, both at University of California, Berkeley. She is also a senior technical consultant on operations management issues for Yano Accountancy Corporation (YAC).
Cynthia Barnhart is an American civil engineer and academic. She previously served as the Chancellor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the first woman to hold that position. Barnhart's work focuses on transportation and operations research, specifically specializing in developing models, optimization methods and decision support systems for large-scale transportation problems. She also is a professor in MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and is an associate dean of the School of Engineering, serving a brief tenure as interim dean of engineering from 2010 to 2011.
Laura Albert is a professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the College of Engineering. Albert is an expert in Operations Research, specializing solving and modeling discrete optimization problems arising from applications in homeland security, disaster management, emergency response, public services, and healthcare.
Julie Simmons Ivy is a professor of industrial and systems engineering and a Fitts Faculty Fellow in Health Systems Engineering at North Carolina State University. Her research involves health care statistics and the application of systems engineering to health care and to other social services including food bank distribution systems.
Jane Chumley Ammons is an American industrial engineer known for her research on supply chain engineering and on the recycling of industrial goods, including carpet. She is the former chair of the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech, the former president of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, and a professor emerita at Georgia Tech.
Brenda Lynn Jorgensen Dietrich is an American operations researcher, the Arthur and Helen Geoffrion Professor of Practice in the School of Operations Research at Cornell University. She has been Vice President of Business Analytics and Mathematical Sciences at IBM, and a president of INFORMS.
Pınar Keskinocak is a Turkish-American systems engineer at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she is William W. George Chair, Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Director of the Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems, and College of Engineering ADVANCE Professor. Her research involves the application of operations research and management science to health care and supply-chain management. She is the president of INFORMS.
Susan Lee Albin is an American industrial engineer known for her research in quality engineering, queueing theory, and industrial process monitoring. She is a professor of industrial engineering at Rutgers University, the former president of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, and the former editor-in-chief of IIE Transactions, the flagship journal of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers.
Susan Marie Malila Sanchez is an American applied statistician and an expert in military applications of operations research, in agent-based simulation, and in data farming of simulation results. She is a professor of operations research at the Naval Postgraduate School.
Margaret Louise Brandeau is an American management scientist and engineer whose research applies operations research to decision-making in public health. The main focus of her work is on the development of applied mathematical and economic models to support health policy decisions. She is the Coleman F. Fung Professor in the Stanford University School of Engineering, and also holds a courtesy affiliation with the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Vicki Lynn Sauter is an American management scientist and systems engineer known for her books on decision support systems. She is a professor in the Information Systems and Technology Department at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.
Mark Edwin Lewis is an industrial engineer and professor at Cornell University. He was the first African-American faculty member hired in Industrial Engineering at University of Michigan and the first tenured African-American faculty member at the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell University. Lewis' research is focused on stochastic processes, and queueing theory and Markov decision processes in particular.
Niaz Ahmad Akhtar is a Pakistani academic who is working as a vice-chancellor of the University of the Punjab and the vice-chairman of the Pakistan Engineering Council. He is also working as the professor emeritus at the University of the Punjab. Previously he has served as the vice-chancellor of the University of Sahiwal, rector of the National Textile University, Faisalabad, vice-chancellor of the University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila and the vice-chancellor of the Information Technology University, Lahore. He is also the founding director of the Institute of Quality and Technology Management and the Quality Enhancement Cell at the University of the Punjab, Lahore.
Sharon Filipowski Arroyo is an American applied mathematician and operations researcher who works for Boeing as a Boeing Technical Fellow. She works in the Applied Mathematics Group of Boeing Research and Technology on mathematical optimization applications in aircraft manufacturing and management.
Radhika Vidyadhar Kulkarni is a retired Indian and American operations researcher, and the 2022 president of INFORMS.
Aleda Marie V. Roth is an American business scholar, operations researcher, and management scientist, specializing in supply chain management. She is the Burlington Industries Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management in the Clemson University College of Business and Behavioral Science.
Karen Renee Smilowitz is an American transportation scientist and operations researcher whose research concerns humanitarian logistics, including vehicle routing for disaster relief efforts, as well as safety and emergency preparedness for large public events such as marathons. She is James N. and Margie M. Krebs Professor in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern University, and editor-in-chief of the journal Transportation Science.
Berna Dengiz is a Turkish industrial engineer, the dean of engineering and professor of industrial engineering at Başkent University. Her research involves the heuristic optimization of complex systems.