Prof. Weijun XIE has received the 2026 Donald P. Gaver, Jr. Early Career Award for Excellence in Operations Research, a prestigious recognition presented by INFORMS. The award was presented at the 2026 INFORMS Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
Prof. Xie was recognized for his outstanding contributions to operations research, particularly in developing innovative and rigorous methods for data-driven optimization under uncertainty. His work spans chance-constrained optimization, distributionally robust optimization, sparse learning, optimal design, and fair machine learning, with applications in transportation, urban air mobility, energy, reliability, and public health analytics.
The Department warmly congratulates Prof. Xie on this distinguished achievement.
