{"id":122,"date":"2011-08-26T20:21:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T20:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ise.ufl.edu\/abrownz\/?page_id=122"},"modified":"2025-12-11T15:59:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T19:59:01","slug":"recognition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/guan\/recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>INFORMS Computing Society Prize, Honorable\u00a0Mention, 2025<\/li>\n<li>IISE Energy System Academic Lifetime Achievement Award, 2022<\/li>\n<li>Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Class of 2021<\/li>\n<li>George and Rolande Willis Endowed Professor 2020<\/li>\n<li>University of Florida Term Professorship 2019-2022<\/li>\n<li>Fellow, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), Class of 2019<\/li>\n<li>IISE Global Faculty Advisor Award, 2019<\/li>\n<li>Doctoral Dissertation Advisor Award, College of Engineering, University of Florida, 2017-2018<\/li>\n<li>University of Florida Term Professorship 2017-2019<\/li>\n<li>Promoted to Full Professor of Industrial and Systems\u00a0Engineering 2015<\/li>\n<li>Doctoral Dissertation Advisor Award, College of Engineering, University of Florida, 2014-2015<\/li>\n<li>Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award 2010\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onr.navy.mil\/Media-Center\/Press-Releases\/2010\/Young-Investigator-2010.aspx\">17 awardees selected in the nation from\u00a0211 competitive proposals (the rate is 8%)<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>National Science Foundation CAREER Award 2008\n<ul>\n<li>Operations Research Program<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>As Advisor<\/h2>\n<h3>External Awards<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>May 2022: Tong Zhang\u00a0took third place for the prestigious 2022 Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iise.org\/\">Institute of Industrial Engineers<\/a> for her dissertation entitled &#8220;Multistage Stochastic Unit Commitment and Convex Hull Pricing.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>May 2017: Kai Pan took first place for the prestigious 2017 Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iise.org\/\">Institute of Industrial Engineers<\/a> for his dissertation entitled &#8220;Deterministic and Stochastic Unit Commitment Problems: Convex Hulls, Strong Formulations, and Case Studies.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>July 2014:\u00a0UF\u2019s\u00a0IIE Chapter, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iise.org\/\">Institute of Industrial Engineers<\/a>, received the Gold Student Chapter Recognition Award for the 2013-2014 academic year (Faculty Advisor: Yongpei Guan; Student President: Amadeus Spirk). This is the\u00a013th consecutive year in which the\u00a0chapter has received this honor.\u00a0Student chapters across the country are evaluated on their meetings, events, community outreach, membership development, and regional\/institute participation.\u00a0 The Gold Award is the highest honor that a chapter\u00a0can achieve.<\/li>\n<li>April 2014: Qianfan Wang\u00a0took third place for the prestigious 2014 Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iise.org\/\">Institute of Industrial Engineers<\/a>\u00a0for his dissertation entitled\u00a0&#8220;Two-Stage Chance and Expected Value\u00a0Constrained Stochastic Unit Commitment: Formulations, Algorithms and Case Studies&#8221;.\u00a0The award recognizes outstanding doctoral dissertation research in industrial engineering.\u00a0He was\u00a0honored at the IIE Annual Conference held in May 2014 in Montreal, CA. The first and second places were taken by Dr. Murat Kurt graduated from the University of Pittsburgh (advised by Professor\u00a0Andrew J. Schaefer) and Dr.\u00a0Kaibo Liu graduated from Georgia Tech (advised by Professor Jianjun Shi).<\/li>\n<li>October 2013: Ruiwei Jiang took first place for the prestigious 2013 George Nicholson Student Paper Competition from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.informs.org\/\">Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences<\/a>, for his paper entitled Data-Driven Chance Constrained Stochastic Program, co-authored with his adviser, Yongpei Guan. This competition is held each year to identify and honor outstanding student papers in the field of operations research and the management sciences for the whole society. He was honored at the INFORMS National Meeting in October 2013 in Minneapolis, MN. This year&#8217;s competition received the largest number of submissions (over 80s) in history. There were eight finalists (Columbia (1), Cornell (1), Georgia Tech (1), MIT (2), Stanford (2) and UF (1)) in total honored in the conference including one first place, one second place, and two honorable mentions. Before joining in our department, Ruiwei obtained his Bachelor degree in Industrial Engineering from Tsinghua University, China in 2009. After graduation, he immediately joined the University of Arizona as a tenure-track assistant professor.<\/li>\n<li>July 2013:\u00a0UF\u2019s\u00a0IIE Chapter, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iise.org\/\">Institute of Industrial Engineers<\/a>, received the Gold Student Chapter Recognition Award for the 2012-2013 academic year (Faculty Advisor: Yongpei Guan; Student President: Daniel Schra). \u00a0This is the\u00a012th consecutive year in which the\u00a0chapter has received this honor.\u00a0Student chapters across the country are evaluated on their meetings, events, community outreach, membership development, and regional\/institute participation.\u00a0 The Gold Award is the highest honor that a chapter\u00a0can achieve.<\/li>\n<li>July 2013: Ruiwei Jiang was awarded the &#8220;best student paper award&#8221; from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dinamico2.unibg.it\/icsp2013\/\">13th international conference on stochastic programming<\/a>\u00a0held in\u00a0Bergamo, Italy, July 8-12,\u00a02013.The stochastic programming conference is held every three years and the best student award is the only award provided by this conference. Two students are awarded this time: one for &#8220;best student paper for modeling&#8221; and the other for &#8220;best student paper for theory&#8221;. Ruiwei Jiang was awarded the &#8220;best student paper for theory&#8221; award for his paper entitled &#8220;Data Driven Chance-Constrained Stochastic Program.&#8221; The &#8220;best student paper for modeling&#8221; award goes to Dr.\u00a0Ali Ko\u00e7 for his paper entitled\u00a0&#8220;Prioritization via stochastic optimization&#8221;,\u00a0who graduated from the University of Texas in 2010, under the supervision of\u00a0Professor David Morton.<\/li>\n<li>May 2013:\u00a0Jing Ma won the 2013 Best Paper Award in the Production Planning and Scheduling Track at the 2013 Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference. \u00a0The paper, \u201cQuantity Discount Mechanisms in a Two-level Supply Chain,\u201d was presented during the Annual Conference of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iise.org\/\">Institute of Industrial Engineers<\/a>,\u00a0which was held from May 18 through the 22 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.<\/li>\n<li>May 2012:\u00a0Chaoyue Zhao won the best student paper award for her paper entitled &#8220;Two-stage Robust Optimization for Power Grid with Uncertain Demand Response&#8221; from the Computer and Information Systems Division of the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iise.org\/\">\u00a0Institute of Industrial Engineers<\/a>\u00a0for this year\u2019s Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference held in Orlando.<\/li>\n<li>May 2011: Zhili Zhou took second place for the prestigious\u00a02011 Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iise.org\/\">Institute of Industrial Engineers<\/a>\u00a0for her dissertation entitled &#8220;Multi-Stage Discrete Optimization Under Uncertainty and Lot-Sizing&#8221;. The award recognizes outstanding doctoral dissertation research in industrial engineering. She was honored at the IIE Annual Conference held in May 2011 in Reno, NV. The first place was taken by Dr. Matthew Robbins, graduated from\u00a0University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (advised by Professor Sheldon Jacobson).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Internal Awards<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>December 2025: The advised undergraduate senior design team: Tala Atway, Lorenzo Massobrio, Andrew McGrath, Nyla Pierre, Lily Sikorski and Victoria Zbierowski won the Best Senior Design Poster award for the poster \u201cImproving Forecast Accuracy at Eaton Aerospace Through Predictive Modeling.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>April 2014: Chaoyue Zhao won the 2014 Outstanding Research Award from\u00a0the UF Graduate Student Council (GSC) for her outstanding research accomplishment on developing innovative stochastic optimization methods to integrate renewable energy into smart grid systems.\u00a0GSC offers awards for Outstanding Research by a graduate student, Outstanding Service by a graduate student, Outstanding Service by a faculty, and Outstanding Service by a staff. Chaoyue was the only one\u00a0for the Outstanding Research Award by a graduate student for the whole university.\u00a0She was honored on April 15 in Turlington Hall.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>November 2011: Qianfan Wang won the\u00a02011\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufic.ufl.edu\/ISS\/UFdepAwards.html\">UFIC Outstanding International Student Award.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>May 2011:\u00a0Zeidee Pineda won the 2011-2012\u00a0University Scholar Award\u00a0for her project entitled\u00a0&#8220;Analysis on the\u00a0Future of Renewable Energy in Florida.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INFORMS Computing Society Prize, Honorable\u00a0Mention, 2025 IISE Energy System Academic Lifetime Achievement Award, 2022 Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Class of 2021 George and Rolande Willis Endowed Professor 2020 University of Florida Term Professorship 2019-2022 Fellow, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), Class of 2019 IISE Global Faculty Advisor Award, 2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1122,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-sidebar-none.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-122","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/guan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/guan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/guan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/guan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/guan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/guan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2355,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/guan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122\/revisions\/2355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/guan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}