Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences Faculty and Students Earn Major Honors

Faculty and students in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences received a range of honors recognizing their accomplishments in research, teaching, and scholarship. The recognitions include best paper and poster awards, university honors, teaching awards, and the department’s annual student awards.

FACULTY AWARDS AND HONORS

Minshuo Chen received the INFORMS Student Chapter’s Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award.

Barry Nelson received the 2026 Distinguished Alumni Award from Purdue University. Nelson also delivered the Jeffrey D. ’84 and Karen G. ’82 Camm Lecture, “New Opportunities in Fake Data,” at Clemson University’s School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences on October 14.

Sean Sinclair received the Best Paper Award at the 2026 ACM SIGMETRICS conference for “Sequential Fair Allocation with Replenishments: A Little Envy Goes an Exponentially Long Way.”

STUDENT AWARDS AND HONORS

Akul Bansal, a PhD student, received the Best Poster Award at the Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) Workshop.

Sha Chen, a PhD student, received the Best Paper Award in the IISE Transactions Focus Issue on Supply Chain & Logistics with Professors Izak Duenyas and Seyed Iravani.

DEPARTMENT STUDENT AWARDS

The department recognized its annual student award recipients. Aden Benson and Livia Fingerson received IEMS Department Awards; Nick Grabon received the Hurter Award for Outstanding IE Senior; Rachel Silverman and Nicky Williams received Senior Leadership Awards; and Heyuan Yao received the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.