Awards and honors

Awards

• PhD Advisor for INFORMS Service Science Best Student Paper Awardee, 2017. Seungyup Lee was awarded the INFORMS IBM Service Science Best Student Paper Award (3rd Place among 52 applicants): Lee, S.Y., Dalkiran, E., Chinnam, R.B., Proactive Inpatient Bed Reservations from ED to Reduce Patient Boarding, Technical Article, Industrial & Systems Engineering Department, Wayne State University, 2017.
• PhD Advisor for IISE Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Awardee, 2016. Mahyar Movahednejad was awarded the IISE Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award for 2016 along with a $1,000 cash prize from the Pritsker Corp.: Mahyar Movahednejad, Adaptive Routing Algorithms for Electrified Vehicles, Ph.D. Dissertation, Industrial & Systems Engineering Department, Wayne State University, 2015.
• IIE Transactions Article profiled in IIE Magazine, 2016. The following IIE Transactions Article is profiled in IIE Magazine, Vol 48, January 2016: Movahednejad, M., Mashayekhy, L., Chinnam, R.B, and Phillips, A., “Hierarchical Time-Dependent Shortest Path Algorithms for Vehicle Routing under ITS,” IIE Transactions. Vol. 48, Issue 2, pp. 158-169, 2016.
• PhD Advisor for IBM Service Science Best Student Paper Award (Finalist), 2015. Mahyar Movahednejad is one of the few finalists among the 55 submissions for the IBM Service Science Best Student Paper Award for the following article based on his dissertation research (presentation at INFORMS 2015): Movahednejad, M., Mashayekhy, L., Chinnam, R.B., and Grosu, D. “Scheduling and Pricing Services for Online Electric Vehicle Charging”.
• PhD Advisor for INFORMS ENRE Best Student Paper Award, 2014. Mahyar Movahednejad, my PhD student, was awarded the 2014 INFORMS ENRE (Section on Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment) Best Student Paper Award for the following article based on his dissertation research: Movahednejad, M., Mashayekhy, L., Grosu, D., and Chinnam, R.B, "Optimal Routing for Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles".
• PhD Advisor for Runner-Up Prize, POMS College of Sustainable Operations Student Paper Competition, 2014. Mahyar Movahednejad, my PhD student, was awarded the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) College of Sustainable Operations 2014 Student Paper Competition award and prize for the following article based on his dissertation research: Movahednejad, M., Mashayekhy, L., Grosu, D., and Chinnam, R.B, "Optimal Routing for Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles".
• INFORMS Best Dissertation Prize - Aviation Applications Section, 2013. Farshid Azadian, 2012 PhD alumnus of Wayne State University, co-advised by me and Dr. Alper Murat, won the INFORMS Best Dissertation Prize in the Aviation Applications Section of the INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society. This prize is awarded following Farshid's presentation of his research in a special session at the INFORMS Annual Meeting on October 6, 2013. As part of this prize, Farshid has received a plaque and an honorarium of $500. This is the first such award to WSU.
• Best Paper Award, Society of Operations Management, 2012. Kumar, A., Chinnam, R.B., "Strategic Capacity Planning and Management of Remanufactured Products," 16th Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management (SOM 2012), IIT Delhi, India, December 21-23, 2012.
• Gold Paper Award, ITS Michigan Annual Meeting, Intelligent Transportation Society, 2012. Movahednejad, M. and Chinnam, R.B., "Efficient Routing on Large-Scale Dynamic Networks under ITS Using Hierarchical Communities," ITS Michigan Annual Meeting & Exposition, Dearborn, MI, June 1, 2011.
• Outstanding Faculty Service Award, Engineering Student Faculty Board, Wayne State University, 2012.
• Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award in the Natural Sciences/Engineering, Wayne State University, 2012. Outstanding Graduate Mentor Awards honor Graduate Faculty recognized by their departments and their graduate students as excellent graduate mentors. Up to four awards are granted annually. Each award includes a $2,500 honorarium and a citation presented at the Faculty Recognition Ceremony.
• Most Productive Researcher, Faculty Annual Peer Reviews, Industrial & Systems Engineering Department, Wayne State University, 2002-2012 (Peer Evaluations Started in 2002).
• Gold Paper Award, ITS Michigan Annual Meeting, Intelligent Transportation Society, 2011. Movahednejad, M. and Chinnam, R.B., "State-Space Reduction in Modeling Traffic Network Dynamics for Efficient Graph-Based Hierarchical Routing Algorithms under ITS," ITS Michigan Annual Meeting & Exposition, Dearborn, MI, June 1, 2011.
• Bronze Paper Award, ITS Michigan Annual Meeting, Intelligent Transportation Society, 2011. Guner, A., Chinnam, R.B., and Murat, A.E., "Dynamic Routing Policies in Stochastic Time-Dependent Networks Under ITS," ITS Michigan Annual Meeting & Exposition, Dearborn, MI, June 1, 2011.
• Best Data Mining Paper Award - Finalist, INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2010. Kumar, A., Chinnam, R.B., Guo, Y., and Tseng, F., "Hidden-Markov Model based Sequential Clustering for Autonomous Diagnostics," INFORMS Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, November 7-10, 2010.
• Best Paper - Bronze Award, ITS Michigan Annual Meeting, Intelligent Transportation Society, 2010. Guner, A., Chinnam, R.B., and Murat, A.E., "Dynamic Routing in Stochastic Time-Dependent Networks for Milk-Run Tours with Time Windows," ITS Michigan Annual Meeting, Dearborn, MI, May 19- 20, 2010.
• Best Paper Award, American Society for Engineering Management, 2008. Nepal, B., Chinnam, R.B., Petrycia, J., Brush, E., Chisholm, C., Hearn, M., and Meixner, M., "A quality-based business model for determining non-product investment: A case study from a Ford automotive engine plant," Engineering Management Journal, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 31-46, 2007.
• Outstanding Faculty Award, Engineering Student Faculty Board, Wayne State University, 2005.
• Outstanding Faculty Service Award, College of Engineering, Wayne State University, 2003.
• Finalist, Best Paper Award, ANNIE Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, 2000. Paper was later invited and published in International Journal of Smart Engineering System Design.
• Preferred Professor, Mortar Board Honor Society, North Dakota State University, 1999.
• Researcher of the Year Award - Runner Up, College of Engineering and Architecture, North Dakota State University, 1999.
• Finalist, Best Novel Engineering Application Paper, ANNIE Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, 1997. Paper was later invited and published in International Journal of Smart Engineering System Design.
• Nominee, Most Outstanding Graduate Student, Texas Tech University, 1994.
• Merit Scholarship, Texas Tech University, 1989-1990.
• Outstanding Academic Performance Award, T.M.A. Pai Foundation, 1988.
• General Proficiency Award, Manipal Institute of Technology, 1985, 1986, and 1987.
• Sri Sudhakara Reddy Memorial Award for Best Mechanical Engineering Student of the Year, 1986.