Honors and Awards

  • 2023 - Third place, INFORMS Service Science Best Student Paper Award Competition (Entrant: X. Zhang)
  • 2023 - Finalist, POMS Service Operations Management Student Paper Competition (Entrant: X. Zhang)
  • 2023 - First place, POMS Sustainable Operations Student Paper Competition (Entrant: X. Zhang)
  • 2023 - First Place, MSOM Practice-Based Research Competition
  • 2022 - USC Grief Entrepreneurship Faculty Research Awards ($8,000)
  • 2022 - USC Institute for Outlier Research in Business Grant ($20,000)
  • 2021 - First Place, INFORMS George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award
  • 2021 - First Place, POMS Applied Research Challenge
  • 2020 - First Place, INFORMS Public Sector Operations Research Best Paper Award
  • 2020 - First Place, MSOM Award for Responsible Research in Operations Management
  • 2020 - First Place, POMS Behavioral OM Junior Scholar Paper Competition
  • 2020 - First Place, POMS Sustainable Operations Student Paper Competition
  • 2020 - First Place, POMS Supply Chain Management Student Paper Competition
  • 2020 - People's Choice Award, Early Career Sustainable OM Workshop
  • 2019 - First Place, INFORMS Doing Good With Good OR Competition
  • 2019 - First Place, POMS College of Sustainable Operations Best Student Paper Competition
  • 2017-2019 - Tata Fellowship, Tata Center for Technology and Design at MIT
  • 2011-2015 - Tata Scholarship for Students from India, Cornell University
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