Volunteer Service Award

2024 - Winner(s)

2024 Winner(s)

Purpose of the Award

Committee Chair

Jennifer Mason Lobo
University of Virginia

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The Volunteer Service Award was first awarded in 2016. Its purpose is to recognize exceptional volunteer service to INFORMS.

The award winners will be publicized on the INFORMS website, a dedicated Volunteer Service Award page, OR/MS Today, Enews, Social Media and other media vehicles. 

Application Process

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2025 deadline is June 30, 2025

Past Awardees

2024 Winner(s)
Arnold (Arnie) Greenland, IBM (Retired); University of Maryland (Retired) Irvin Lustig, Princeton Consultants Johan Bos-Beijer, Navy/Government, GSA Mehran Hojati, University of Saskatchewan (retired) Nicholas Ulmer, CANA Oscar Dowson, Independent Scholar Paul Rubin, Michigan State University Pelin Pekgun, University of South Carolina Rajesh Tyagi, GR Shannon Browning, Haskell Thor Osborn, Sandia National Laboratories Zohar Strinka
2023 Winner(s)
Beverly Wright, Burtch Works Jun Zhuang , University of Buffalo Michael P. Johnson
2022 Winner(s)
Abdullah Konak, Pennsylvania State University Anahita Khojandi, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Daniel Reich, Naval Postgraduate School Jay Simon, American University Tarun Mohan Lal, Atrium Health Yael Grushka-Cockayne, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia
2021 Winner(s)
Canan G. Corlu, Boston University
 Jorge Samayoa, Galileo University Kara M. Morgan, Ohio State University Norm Reitter, CANA Advisors
2020 Winner(s)
Col William K. Klimack, United States Military Academy Dayana Cope, Engineering USA Jack Levis, UPS Julie L. Swann, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Industrial & Systems Engineering Shantih Spanton, CSX Sheldon H. Jacobson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Warren Hearnes, Cardlytics
2019 Winner(s)
Stefan Karisch, The Boeing Company
Scott Nestler, University of Notre Dame
2018 Winner(s)
Aly Megahed, IBM Research Cameron MacKenzie, Iowa State University Grace Lin, Asia University Jun Zhuang , University of Buffalo Mark Eisner, Cornell University Matthew Saltzman, Clemson University Paul Maglio, University of California - Merced Pratik Parikh, Wright State University
2017 Awardee(s)
Allen Holder, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Bjorn Berg, University of Minnesota Chanaka Edirisinghe, University of Tennessee Christopher Tang, University of California-Los Angeles David Hunt, Oliver Wyman Dorothee Honhon, University of Texas at Dallas Erick Moreno Centeno, Texas A&M University Guzin Bayraksan, University of Arizona Irvin Lustig, Princeton Consultants Michael Gorman, University of Dayton Murat Kurt, University of Pittsburgh Paul Messinger, University of Alberta Pooja Dewan, BNSF Railway Robin Qiu, Pennsylvania State University Sadan Kulturel-Konak, Penn State Berks Saif Benjaafar, University of Michigan Sarah Nurre, University of Arkansas Shengfan Zhang, University of Arkansas Shreya Gupta, The University of Texas at Austin Suvrajeet Sen, University of Southern California
2016 Awardee(s)
Aaron Burciaga, CAP Anna Nagurney, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, Isenberg School of Management Aurélie Thiele, Southern Methodist University Carri W. Chan, Columbia University Daniel Reich, Naval Postgraduate School Deepak Agrawal Dionne Aleman, University of Toronto Don N. Kleinmuntz, Strata Decision Technology, LLC Doug M. Matty Douglas A. Samuelson, InfoLogix Gino J. Lim Karen T. Hicklin Peter C. Bell, University of Western Ontario, Richard Ivey School of Business Ranganath S. Nuggehalli, CAP Simge Kucukyavuz, Ohio State University Stefan E. Karisch Terry P. Harrison, CAP, Penn State University Theodore T. Allen, The Ohio State University Wedad Elmaghraby, University of Maryland, RH Smith School of Business İ. Esra Büyüktahtakın