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Dr Melvyn Sim is winner of JGIF INFORMS 2007

Dr Melvyn Sim's paper "Satisficing measures for analysis of risky positions", with David Brown (Duke) won the INFORMS JFIG (Junior Faculty Interest Group) competition 2007. This is a distinctive honor and the Department of Decision Sciences is extremely proud of Dr Sim's achievement.

 

JFIG was created in 2001 to promote the career development of tenure-track faculty in INFORMS. The goals of the paper competition are to encourage research among junior faculty and to increase the visibility of research conducted by junior faculty within the fields of operations research and management science.

  

Faculty Awards
Faculty Name of Awards
Mabel Chou Best Paper Award by the Asia Pacific Operations Research Society, 2006
Melvyn Sim

JFIG Winner 2007 for paper: "Satisficing measures for analysis of risky positions"

Two-time winner of George E. Nicholson Best Paper Award

 

Students' Achievements
Name Award Name
Geoffrey Bryan Ang Chua

Best Theoretical Paper Award, 2006, Asia-Pacific Operational Research Societies Conference 2006 (APORS 2006)

Young Scholars Award, 2006, Asia-Pacific Operational Research Societies Conference 2006 (APORS 2006)
Shirish C. Srivastava

Nominee, Carolyn Dexter Award, 2007, Academy of Management Meeting 2007 (AOM 2007), August 3-8, 2007, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Nominee, Carolyn Dexter Award, 2005, Academy of Management Meeting 2005 (AOM 2005), August 5-10, 2005, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A.

Paper selected for Best Paper Proceedings, 2005, Academy of Management Meeting 2005 (AOM 2005), August 5-10, 2005, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A.