Faculty

Vivek Farias and Eric So (Accounting) were each awarded the 2020 Jamieson Prize for Excellence in Teaching, established to honor educational innovation and excellence. The Jamieson Prize for Excellence in Teaching Award is the most prestigious teaching prize offered by the school. The award was established in 2006 and is awarded each year to two MIT Sloan faculty members, as well as two electrical engineering and computer science faculty members, for their contributions to educational excellence at MIT. The Jamieson faculty prize is selected by a review committee at MIT.

Vivek Farias has won a 2020 Teaching with Digital Technology Award from MIT for his work teaching on campus and/or remotely. Farias won the award along with fellow Sloan faculty members Kara Blackburn, Michelle Hanlon, Alexandre Jacquillat, Miro Kazakoff, Ben Shields, and Rodrigo Verdi. These student-nominated awards recognize faculty and instructors who have used digital technology to improve teaching and learning for MIT students. This recognition also gives the MIT community the opportunity to learn from their innovative practices. The awards were co-sponsored by MIT Open Learning and the Office of the Vice Chancellor. This year, students submitted a total of 487 nominations for 232 faculty and instructors, and 30 winners were selected by Dean of Digital Learning Krishna Rajagopal and Vice Chancellor Ian Waitz, with help from MIT Open Learning staff. 

Vivek F. Farias’ paper, Primal-Dual Algorithms for Order Fulfillment at Urban Outfitters, Inc., was a Finalist for the INFORMS 2018 Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice. Farias’ co-authors were J.M. Andrews, A.I. Khojandi, and C.M. Yan. The Wagner Prize was established in 1998 to commemorate the life and work of Dr. Daniel H. Wagner. 

Mohammed Fazel-Zarandi (Senior Lecturer in Operations Research/Statistics; Research Scientist) won an MIT Sloan School Outstanding Teacher Award for the 2022-2023 academic year. Kerry Siani (Assistant Professor of Finance) also won an Outstanding Teacher Award.  Each year, students nominate instructors for these teaching awards and the final recipients are chosen based on the quantity and quality of their nominations. Deputy Dean Michael Cusumano thanked the winners of this year’s teaching awards for “exemplifying the dedication to pedagogical excellence that is so central to our mission at MIT Sloan.”

Fiona Murray's winning paper is titled "Trading in the shadow of the market: An analysis of layman-scientist exchange relationships in genetics."

Fiona Murray has been honored with a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) award for her contributions to innovation and entrepreneurship as part of the Queen of England’s Diplomatic Service and Overseas “New Year 2015 Honours List,” which recognizes Britons for their exceptional service to Britain overseas.

Kristin Forbes, Joseph Doyle, Miro Kazakoff, Andrew Lo, Arathi Mehrotra, Nikolaos Trichakis, Adrien Verdelhan, and Sean Willems have each won a 2021 Teaching with Digital Technology Award from MIT for their work teaching on campus and/or remotely. These student-nominated awards recognize faculty and instructors who have used digital technology to improve teaching and learning for MIT students. This recognition also gives the MIT community the opportunity to learn from their innovative practices.

The awards are co-sponsored by MIT Open Learning and the Office of the Vice Chancellor. This year students submitted a total of 230 nominations for 104 faculty and instructors, and 23 winners (35% from MIT Sloan) were selected by Dean for Digital Learning Krishna Rajagopal and Vice Chancellor Ian Waitz, in partnership with a panel of MIT students.  

Rob Freund has been elected as an INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Fellow, Class of 2018.  This award honoring lifetime achievement recognizes “distinguished individuals who have demonstrated outstanding and exceptional accomplishments and experience in operations research and the management sciences” and who have also provided outstanding service to the profession and to INFORMS. 
 

Robert Freund won the Samuel M. Seegal Faculty Prize, which was established by Paula Seegal-Thompson for her father, a member of the class of 1922. The Seegal Prize is shared with the MIT School of Engineering and is awarded every other year to a professor “who inspires students in pursuing and achieving excellence.”  The Seegal faculty prize is selected by a review committee at MIT.

David Gamarnik, Nanyang Technological University Professor of Operations Research, has been named a 2023 Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). Each Fellow is assessed by a committee of peers to have demonstrated distinction in research (in statistics or probability) or leadership that has profoundly influenced the field. This honor recognizes Gamarnik’s contributions to discrete probability, including the theory of random graphs, algorithms, and computations, as well as queueing theory.