MSandE News

2012

Professor Kathleen Eisenhardt has been named the fourth recipient of the annual Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, the most prestigious award for outstanding research contributions in this rapidly evolving field. Prof. Eisenhardt’s research on corporate entrepreneurship, how existing firms can remain innovative, was honored for its substantial, original and innovative contributions to entrepreneurship research in the management and economics literature. For more information on the prize, see: link

2011

Professor Sig Hecker of MS&E will be the recipient of the 2012 Leo Szilard Lectureship Award of the American Physical Society. This award is sponsored by donations from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Energy Foundation, the David and Lucille Packard Foundation and individuals, and was established to recognize outstanding accomplishments by physicists in promoting the use of physics for the benefit of society in such areas as the environment, arms control, and science policy.

Margaret Brandeau's comittee work with the Institute of Medicince was cited in a CNN news report on the public health response to an anthrax attack.

Chuck Eesley has received a prestigious International Young Scientist Research Fund award from the National Natural Science Foundation of China. It provides for funding of research, plus living expenses/arrangements while traveling in China. The award was one of only 5 nominations from Tsinghua University this year. (Click for more information).

Robert Carlson Memorial

Anne Robinson, a 2005 Ph.D. graduate of MS&E, has been elected President-Elect of INFORMS for the coming year. Anne obtained experience in elective office while studying here as a Ph.D. student, having served as President of our Stanford Student Informs Chapter in 2001-2002. She is currently Director, Connected Information, Global Business Operations, Customer Value Chain Management, CISCO. Visit Informs for more information.

Amin Saberi and Shayan Oveis receive best paper award at FOCS 2011. FOCS (Foundations of Computer Science) is one of the two premier conferences in Theoretical Computer Science. They improve the best known approximation ratio for undirected TSP, perhaps the most famous hard problem in combinatorial optimization. The paper can be downloaded here.

Margaret Brandeau's doctoral students, Lauren Cipriano (from MS&E) and Eva Enns (from EE) won the prize for Best Short Course for their class (co-taught with our MS&E alums David Hutton and Greg Zaric) on Spreadsheet-Based Disease Modeling. This is the second time they have won this award, having also been recognized at last year's SMDM Annual Meeting.

Warren Hausman was elected chair of the 2011 INFORMS Fellows Section Committee.

Anant Sudarshan received the Best Student Paper Award at the 2011 Stockholm meeting of the International Association for Energy Economics.

On June 12th, Stanford's Department of Management Science and Engineering (MS&E) held its annual graduation ceremony for its 2011 graduates. Under a beautiful sunny sky, 66 BS degrees, 173 MS degrees, and 10 Ph.D. degrees were awarded by the Department. We wish our graduates the very best, as they embark upon the next phase in their lives, and hope that they will stay in touch with the Department in the years ahead...[more]

2010

Nick Bambos received multiple awards for his work on wireless scheduling and IT security risks: 2011 IEEE Multimedia Communications Best Journal Paper Awards, Best Paper Award at the 2010 International Conference on Emerging Network Intelligence, and Best Paper Award at the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Communications.

Kathy Eisenhardt received the first Ghoshal Award at the London Business School for her research on strategy and organization. She also received an honorary doctorate from Aalto University in Finland.

Siegfried Hecker was awarded the Eugene L. Grant Undergraduate Teaching Award.

Tom Kosnik was awarded the Stanford Management Science and Engineering Graduate Teaching Prize.

Vic Stanton received the Stanford Management Science and Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Prize.

Peter Glynn was awarded the 2010 John von Neumann Theory Prize from INFORMS, given for fundamental and sustained contributions to a theory in operations research and the management sciences.

Sabina Alistar won First Prize in the Lee B. Lusted Competition for Best Student Research Presentation at the Society for Medical Decision Making 32nd Annual Meeting.

John Carlsson was awarded the 2010 INFORMS Best Interactive Session Award.

Lauren Cipriano received the Stanford Centennial Teach Assistant Award, which honors teaching assistants who display an unusual commitment to, and excellence in, teaching.

Rory McDonald received Stanford’s Lieberman Fellowship, awarded for superior research, teaching skills, and university service.

Hugo Mora was awarded the Stanford Management Science and Engineering Course Assistant Award.

Michael Padilla received the Best Student Research Paper Award.

Waraporn Tongprasit received an honorable mention from the INFORMS Financial Services Section.

Patrick Hayes and Thomas Hansmann were the winners of the Outstanding Academic Achievement awards at the undergraduate and graduate levels, respectively.