Faculty

Roberto Fernandez, the William F. Pounds Professor of Organization Studies and 
Georgia Perakis, John C Head III Dean (Interim) and professor of Operations Management, Operations Research & Statistics, each received an MIT Sloan Outstanding Teacher Award. Each year, students nominate instructors for several teaching awards and the final recipients are chosen based on the quantity and quality of their nominations.
 

Mohammad Fazel-Zarandi, research scientist and senior lecturer, was named the  MIT Sloan School Teacher of the Year. Each year, students nominate instructors for several teaching awards, and the final recipients are chosen based on the quantity and quality of their nominations.

Tavneet Suri (Louis E. Seley Professor of Applied Economics) received the Frank E. Perkins Award for Excellence in Graduate Advising, established by the MIT Graduate Student Council to recognize faculty demonstrating “unbounded compassion and dedication towards students.”

Wanda Orlikowski has won the 2024 Samuel M. Seegal Faculty Prize. Orlikowski is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Management at MIT Sloan. The Seegal Prize is shared with the MIT School of Engineering and is awarded every other year to a professor “who inspires students in pursuing and achieving excellence.” The award was established by Paula Seegal-Thompson for her father, a member of the class of 1922. The Seegal faculty prize is selected by a review committee at MIT.
 

Renée Richardson Gosline and Scott Stern were each awarded the 2024 Jamieson Prize for Excellence in Teaching, established to honor  educational innovation and excellence. The Jamieson Prize for Excellence in Teaching Award is the most prestigious teaching prize offered by the School.  The award was established in 2006 and is awarded each year to two MIT Sloan faculty members, as well as two electrical engineering and computer science faculty members, for their contributions to educational excellence at MIT.

Gosline is a research scientist and a senior lecturer in marketing; Stern is the David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology at MIT Sloan.
 

Anna Stansbury has won a 2024 Early Career Research Award from the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. This honor recognizes and supports outstanding scholars who have received their PhD within the last six years, “to carry out policy-relevant research on labor market issues,” furthering the Upjohn Institute’s “mission of informing employment policy and practice with timely research.” Stanbury’s awarded project is entitled “Minimum Wages and Workplace Injuries.”

Jackson Lu, Sloan School Career Development Associate Professor of Work and Organization Studies, recently received three honors:

First, Lu is a recipient of the 2024 Association for Psychological Science (APS) Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions, recognizing cutting-edge research of “particularly creative and promising APS members who embody the future of the field,” from among scholars of all domains of psychology (e.g., social psychology, personality psychology, clinical psychology, developmental psychology, etc.), making it perhaps the most prestigious early-career award in psychology. The award announcement cites “Lu’s groundbreaking research on the ‘Bamboo Ceiling’ … that East Asians face in the United States” and his studies of “the benefits and drawbacks of multicultural experiences,” as well as noting “Lu’s innovative scientific methods,” concluding: “Lu’s work has advanced multiple areas of exploration, including industrial-organizational, social, cognitive, and educational psychology.”

Second, Lu has won the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues 2023 Louise Kidder Early Career Award, which recognizes “social issues researchers who have made substantial contributions to the field early in their careers” (within 10 years of a graduate degree).

Third, Lu is the winner of the 2023 Future of Work Research Prize from the Center for Leadership in the Future of Work at the University of Zurich. The award announcement includes a short video of his research proposal for his winning project, “The Dark Side of Using Generative AI,” with collaborators Lesley Song (MIT), Dong Liu (Georgia Institute of Technology), and Li Zhu and Jingjing Ma (both at Peking University), and notes: “Dr. Lu’s research, conducted through surveys and a longitudinal field experiment in both China and the US, will shed light on the ethical implications of generative AI and its impact on the future of work.”

Daniel Freund, Class of 1947 Career Development Assistant Professor and Assistant Professor of Operations Management, has won the 2023 INFORMS (The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) MSOM (Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society) Best OM (Operations Management) Paper in Operations Research Award. This honor is bestowed every two years and recognizes an outstanding publication, from among those published in the preceding four years in Operations Research, “deemed to have made the most significant contribution to the theory and practice of operations management.”

Freund’s winning paper, co-authored with Shane G. Henderson and David B. Shmoys (both at Cornell University), is entitled, “Minimizing Multimodular Functions and Allocating Capacity in Bike-Sharing Systems” (Operations Research, 70(5): 2715-2731, 2022).

Rahul Mazumder, Nanyang Technological University Associate Professor of Operations Research and Statistics, has won the 2024 Leo Breiman Junior Award from the Statistical Learning and Data Science (SLDS) Section of the American Statistical Association. This award, given every two years, recognizes “outstanding theoretical or methodological contributions to machine learning and/or computational statistics” by a junior SLDS scholar (a senior scholar is also chosen for a Senior Award), “contributions which have made a substantial, sustained impact on the subject and on practical applications.”

Mazumder’s award specifically cites his outstanding contributions to optimization methods and their applications to statistical and machine learning problems.

Negin Golrezaei, Associate Professor of Operations Management, has won the 2023 Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Minority Issues Forum (MIF) Paper Competition Award, which recognizes outstanding recent contributions of MIF members in the field of operations research, management science, or information systems.

Golrezaei’s winning paper, co-authored with Vahideh Manshadi (Yale), Jon Schneider (Google Research), and Shreyas Sekar (University of Toronto), is entitled “Learning Product Rankings Robust to Fake Users” (Operations Research, 71(4): 1171-1196, 2023).