Sheldon Howard Jacobson, Ph.D.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Awards, Honors, and Recognitions

National

• Aviation Security Research Award, Aviation Security International, 2002 (with J.E. Kobza).
• Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2003.
• Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation Homeland Security Award, Runner-Up, Border and Transportation Security, 2010.

Professional Societies

• Application Award, Operations Research Division, Institute of Industrial Engineers, 1998 (with J.E. Kobza).
• Operations Research Meritorious Service Award, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2003.
• INFORMS Health Applications Section Pierskalla Best Paper Award, Finalist, 2004, 2007.
• Outstanding IIE Publication Award, Institute of Industrial Engineers, 2009 (with L.A. McLay).
• Award for Technical Innovation in Industrial Engineering, Institute of Industrial Engineers, 2010 (with E.C. Sewell).
• Fellow, Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), 2011.
• Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Operations Research, Institute of Industrial Engineers Operations Research Division, 2011.
• Award for Technical Innovation in Industrial Engineering, Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), 2013.
• Fellow, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2013.
• Treasurer (Elected), Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, 2015-2016.
• David F. Baker Distinguished Research Award, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), 2017.
• Impact Award, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) (with K.C. Fletcher, L.A. Albert, A.G. Nikolaev, A.J. Lee), 2018.
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2020.
• Volunteer Service Award, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2020
• George E. Kimball Medal, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2020.
• Saul Gass Expository Writing Award, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2020.
• Omega Rho Plenary, INFORMS National Meeting, November 2020.
• Clayton J. Thomas Award, Military Operations Research Society, 2023.
• President’s Award, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2023.

Conferences and Journals

• Best Paper Award, Industrial Simulation Track, European Simulation Multiconference, Istanbul, Turkey, 1997.
• Best Paper Award, IIE Transactions Focused area on Operations Engineering, 2003 (with J.E. Kobza, A.E. Easterling).
• Best Paper Award, Honorable Mention, Computational Optimization and Applications, 2011.
• Best Paper Award, Finalist, INFORMS Section for Public Programs, Services and Needs, 2012 (with D.M. King, E.C. Sewell).
• INFORMS Innovations in Analytics Award, Semi-Finalist, 2012 (with D.M. King).
• Top-5 Papers (of 149) Published in Journal of Global Optimization in 2012 (Sewell, E.C., Sauppe, J.J., Morrison, D.M., Jacobson, S.H., Kao, G.K., 2012, “Minimizing Total Tardiness for the Single Machine with Sequence Dependent Setup Time Problem Using the BB&R Algorithm,” Journal of Global Optimization, 54(4), 791-812).
• Best Research Poster (First Place), Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDIM) Spring 2014 Conference, “Annual Rotation Schedules in 45 Seconds: Simplifying Life for an Internal Medicine Residency Program” (with D.R. Morrison, J.T. Fairbank, J.A. Jokela).
• Best Paper Award, Honorable Mention, INFORMS Public Sector Operations Research, (with R. Swamy, D.M. King), 2018.
• First Place, 2018 INFORMS National Meeting Poster Competition, “Political Districting with Fairness Objectives: An Optimization-Based Framework” (with R. Swamy, D.M. King).
• First Place, 2019 Service Sciences Best Paper Award, INFORMS National Meeting (with R. Swamy, D.M. King), “Multi-objective Optimization for Political Districting: A Scalable Multi-level Approach.”

University

• Associate, Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois, 2002-2003.
• Willett Faculty Scholar, College of Engineering, University of Illinois, 2002-2008.
• Award of Excellence (“College or University” and “Video News Release” Categories) for “Aviation Security: Researching the Risk,” 13^th Annual Communicator’s Award Competition (with WILL-TV), 2006.
• “List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students,” University of Illinois, IE410: Stochastic Processes and its Applications, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2010.
• “List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students,” University of Illinois, IE413: Computer Simulation, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2010.
• University of Illinois Office of Public Affairs Award for Communications & Marketing Excellence - Media Relations, 2013.
• Grainger Engineering Breakthroughs Initiative’s (GEBI) Founder Professor in Engineering, 2017-2027.

· Campus Excellence in Public Engagement Distinguished Award, University of Illinois, 2024.

Last Updated: 19 May 2024