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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 Achievements
Faculty Name of Awards
Mabel Chou Best Paper Award by the Asia Pacific Operations Research Society, 2006
Hum Sin Hoon Faculty Outstanding Educator Award 2005/06
Ou Jihong Faculty Outstanding Researcher Award 2005/06
Melvyn Sim

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

Faculty Outstanding Researcher Award 2007/08

Department Outstanding Researcher Award 2005/06

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

Nominee for Outstanding Educator Award 2007/08

University Teaching Excellence Award 2005/06
Sun Jie

Nominee for University Outstanding Researcher Award 2007/08

Faculty Outstanding Researcher Award 2003/04
Teo Chung Piaw

Faculty Outstanding Researcher Award 2003/04

Outstanding Researcher Award Recognition List 2006
Wu Yaozhong Department Outstanding Researcher Award 2007/08
Sheila Wang Department Teaching Award 2007/08
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Staff Achievements
Name Award Name
Ms Teng Siew Geok Outstanding Faculty Service Award
Students' Achievements
Name Award Name
Geoffrey Bryan Ang Chua

President's Graduate Fellowship (PGF), 2006, National University of Singapore

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)
Annapoornima M.Subramanian President's Graduate Fellowship 2005 to 2009
Shirish C. Srivastava

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

President's Graduate Fellowship (PGF), 2005, 2006, 2007, National University of Singapore, Singapore, for three consecutive years in recognition of outstanding promise and research output

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.
Tao Hua President's Graduate Fellowship, 2003 - 2004
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