Sheldon
Howard Jacobson, Ph.D.
University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2010, Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation Homeland Security Award (Runner-Up), Border
and Transportation Security, for his contributions to risk-based security and its influence on
airport security.
2003, Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, for his research on aviation
security.
2002, Aviation Security Research Award, Aviation Security International (with
J.E. Kobza), for outstanding research contributions to aviation security
operations.
2026, Advocacy Governance
Committee Public Engagement Award, Institute for Operations
Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), for distinguished and impactful career contributions public engagement
and advocacy of the operations research profession.
2024, J. Steinhardt Prize, Institute for
Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Military and Security
Section, for distinguished and
impactful career contributions to aviation security and the design of TSA
PreCheck.
2023, Clayton J. Thomas Award, Military Operations Research Society
(MORS), for distinguished and impactful career contributions to aviation
security and the design of TSA PreCheck. This is the highest honor
for research contributions and impact within MORS.
2023, President’s Award, Institute for
Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), for outstanding
career contributions that benefited society and the public good. This is the
highest honor for societal contributions in the INFORMS community.
2020, Fellow, American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), for outstanding
lifelong contributions in the field of engineering, the influence of his
research on public policy, and his unparalleled distinguished contributions on
science communication.
2020, Volunteer Service
Award, Institute for Operations Research and the
Management Sciences (INFORMS), for distinguished service to the INFORMS
community.
2020, George E. Kimball
Medal, Institute for Operations Research and the
Management Sciences (INFORMS), for distinguished service to advance the field
of operations research.
2020, Saul Gass Expository
Writing Award, Institute for Operations Research and the
Management Sciences (INFORMS), for outstanding expository writing in the field of
operations research. This is the highest honor for technical writing in the
INFORMS community.
2020, Omega Rho Plenary, INFORMS National Meeting, November 2020, for distinguished research
delivered during the annual meeting plenary.
2018, INFORMS Impact Award,
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) (with
K.C. Fletcher, L.A. Albert, A.G. Nikolaev, A.J. Lee), for outstanding
applications and contributions to risk-based security and its influence on the
design of TSA PreCheck.
2017, David F. Baker
Distinguished Research Award, Institute of Industrial and Systems
Engineers (IISE), for outstanding lifelong research contributions to the field
of field of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
This is the highest research honor within Industrial and Systems
Engineering.
2015-2016, Treasurer (Elected), Institute for Operations Research and the
Management Sciences.
2013, Award for Technical
Innovation in Industrial Engineering, Institute of Industrial
Engineers (IIE), for innovative
contributions to risk-based aviation security research and its influence on the
design of TSA PreCheck.
2013, Fellow, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
(INFORMS), for outstanding lifelong contributions to the field of Operations
Research.
2011, Fellow,
Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), for outstanding lifelong
contributions to the field of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
2011, Award for Excellence in the Teaching
of Operations Research, Institute of Industrial Engineers
Operations Research Division, for outstanding contributions to education.
2010, Award for Technical Innovation in Industrial Engineering, Institute of Industrial Engineers, (with
E.C. Sewell), for innovative contributions to pediatric vaccine economics
research.
2009, Outstanding IIE Publication Award, Institute of Industrial Engineers, (with
L.A. McLay), for outstanding contributions to aviation security.
2004, 2007, INFORMS Health Applications
Section Pierskalla Best Paper Award, Finalist, for
outstanding health applications of operations research.
2003, Operations Research
Meritorious Service Award, Institute for Operations
Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), for dedicated service to INFORMS journals.
1998, Application Award, Operations Research Division,
2019, First Place, 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.”
2018, Best Paper Award,
Honorable Mention, INFORMS Public Sector Operations Research, (with R.
Swamy, D.M. King).
2018, First Place, INFORMS
National Meeting Poster Competition, “Political Districting with
Fairness Objectives: An Optimization-Based Framework” (with R. Swamy, D.M.
King).
2014, 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).
2012, Best Paper Award, Finalist, INFORMS
Section for Public Programs, Services and Needs, 2012
(with D.M. King, E.C. Sewell).
2012, INFORMS Innovations in
Analytics Award, Semi-Finalist, (with D.M. King).
2012, Top-5 Papers (of 149) Published in Journal of Global Optimization (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).
2011, Best Paper Award, Honorable Mention,
Computational Optimization and Applications.
2003, Best Paper Award, IIE Transactions Focused area on Operations Engineering, (with
J.E. Kobza, A.E. Easterling).
1997, Best Paper Award, Industrial Simulation Track, European Simulation Multiconference,
2024, Campus Excellence in Public Engagement Distinguished Award, University of Illinois, for outstanding
and sustained career public engagement contributions. This is the highest honor for public
engagement within the University of Illinois.
2017-2027, Grainger
Engineering Breakthroughs Initiative’s (GEBI) Founder Professor in Engineering.
2013, University of Illinois Office
of Public Affairs Award for Communications & Marketing Excellence - Media
Relations.
“List of Teachers Ranked as
Excellent by their Students,” University of Illinois, IE413: Computer
Simulation, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2010.
“List of Teachers Ranked as
Excellent by their Students,”
2006, Award of Excellence (“College or University” and “Video News Release” Categories) for
“Aviation Security: Researching the Risk,” 13th Annual
Communicator’s Award Competition (with WILL-TV).
2002-2008, Willett Faculty
Scholar,
2002-2003, Associate, Center for Advanced Study, University of
Illinois.