Faculty

Catherine Tucker has won the 2018 INFORMS Society for Marketing Science Long Term Impact Award. This annual award recognizes a paper published in Marketing Science, Management Science, or another INFORMS journal that is regarded as having made a significant long-term impact on the field of marketing. Tucker’s winning paper, co-authored with Avi Goldfarb (University of Toronto), is entitled “Online Display Advertising: Targeting and Obtrusiveness.”

Swati Gupta won a Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowship for Real-Time Decision Making, and was subsequently selected to be funded as a Microsoft Research Fellowship in the spring of 2018.

Gupta also won a Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowship for Bridging Continuous and Discrete Optimization in the fall of 2017.

The Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowships, given by the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at the University of California, Berkeley, are awarded to young scientists within five years of earning their PhD.

Joe Weber is the winner of the 2018 Samuel E. Seegal Faculty Prize , in recognition of his having inspired students in pursuing and achieving excellence. The prize is awarded to a faculty member for “pursuing excellence” at either MIT Sloan or the MIT School of Engineering every other year.

Bob Pindyck, along with Deborah Ancona, was awarded the 2018 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.

Deborah Ancona, along with Bob Pindyck, was awarded the 2018 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.

Negin Golrezaei has won a 2018 Google Faculty Research Award in Algorithms and Optimization. These awards facilitate interaction between Google and academia (both faculty and graduate students) and support cutting-edge technical academic research (in computer science, engineering, and related fields), for projects whose output will be made available to the research community. The winners were chosen from among over 900 proposals received from 40 countries and over 320 universities. Golrezaei’s award will fund a graduate student for one year to work on her research project entitled, "Pricing and Bidding in Supply Chain of Auctions.”

 Dean Eckles has won a 2018 Amazon Research Award, which recognizes and funds outstanding research projects conducted by PhD students or postdocs under the supervision of the faculty member awardee. Research areas considered for the award are computer vision; economics; knowledge management and data quality; machine learning algorithms and theory; natural language processing; online advertising; operations research and optimization; personalization; robotics; search and information retrieval; security, privacy and abuse prevention; and speech.  Eckles’s awarded research project is entitled, “Complex modeling and inference with online rating data.” 

Antoinette Schoar has been appointed as co-director of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Corporate Finance program. The NBER is a nonprofit economic research organization, dedicated to conducting research on a wide variety of issues confronting society, as well as disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals. With more than 1,400 scholars who are professors of economics and business at colleges and universities in North America, the NBER is a private and nonpartisan organization supported by research grants from government agencies and private foundations, by investment income, and by individual and corporate contributions. Twenty-seven Nobel Prize winners in Economics and 13 past chairs of the U.S. President's Council of Economic Advisers have held NBER affiliations.  

Schoar was appointed for her “wide-ranging” research that “spans many issues, including venture capital, entrepreneurship, household finance, and financial intermediation.” She has been a member of the NBER CF program since 2001 and also directs the NBER Working Group on Entrepreneurship.

Schoar is co-leading the NBER Corporate Finance program with Amir Sufi of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Their term began in January.

Haoxiang Zhu has won the 2017 Amundi Smith Breeden Prize (First Prize) for the best paper in any area other than corporate finance in The Journal of Finance, which is the official publication of The American Finance Association. Zhu’s winning paper, co-authored with Darrell Duffie (Stanford) and Piotr Dworczak (University of Chicago), is entitled, “Benchmarks in Search Markets” (The Journal of Finance, 72(5):1983-2044). The award was presented at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Finance Association in Philadelphia.

John Sterman has been elected as a Fellow of the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science). AAAS Fellows are elected by their peers in recognition of their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science. Sterman in particular was recognized for his “distinguished contributions to improving decision-making in complex systems, including corporate strategy and operations, energy policy, public health, environmental sustainability, and climate change.” The 2017 AAAS Fellows were formally announced recently in the AAAS News and Notes section of Science and will be honored at a ceremony in February 2018 at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas.