Awards and Honors

Selected Awards and Honors

• Donald P. Gaver, Jr. Early Career Award for Excellence in Operations Research, 2021
• INFORMS Optimization Society Young Researchers Award, 2020
• Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award (ONR YIP), 2018
• Annals of Statistics Special Invited Session Speaker at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), 2017


• Google Research Award (funding for AI/ML research), 2021
• MIT-IBM Watson AI Initiative Research Awards: 2019, 2020
• Plenary Speaker, 14th UMBC Probability and Statistics Day, 2020. (postponed due to pandemic)
• Plenary tutorial speaker at 2016-17 SAMSI Optimization Program.
• MIT Research Support Committee (Solomon Buchsbaum) Award 2017.
• Stanford Statistics Department Award for Excellence in Teaching (2010-2011).
• Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) award for the best Masters thesis, Indian Statistical Institute, 2007.

Paper Awards to Student co-authors

• Mixed Integer Programming Workshop Student Poster Award, 2021 (most popular poster, as advisor)
• INFORMS Computing Society Student Paper Prize, 2020 (honorable mention, as advisor)
• MIT Operations Research Center Best Student Paper Award, 2020 (as advisor)
• Mixed Integer Programming Workshop Student Poster Award, 2019 (honorable mention, as advisor)
• INFORMS Optimization Society Student Paper Prize, 2015 (as co-author)