•  Second place honorable mention in the Optimization and Decision-Making track at the IISE Dissertation Pitch Competition, "Real Time Digital-twin Based Optimization with Predictive Simulation Learning," presented by doctoral student Travis, Goodwin, May 2022, Seattle, WA.

•  Honorable Mention for the Best Paper in the 2020 IISE Transactions Focus Issue on Design and Manufacturing from all papers published from July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2020, issues 51:7 through 52:6, (2021).

•  The Operational Research Society's Tocher Medal for the best paper published in the Journal of Simulation in 2015 and 2016 (2017).

•  Jeffress Trust Awards Program in Interdisciplinary Research (2017)

•  Finalist, best conference paper award competition, IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (2017).

•  Outstanding Reviewer Award for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2016, 2017).

•  Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, Oak Ridge Associated Universities (2013)

•  Team excellence award Q3&Q4, for research and development work on next generation revenue management system, Continuous Improvement & Enterprise Optimization, United Airlines (2010).

•  Best overall paper award, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (2010).

•  George L. Nemhauser Dissertation Prize, IEMS Department, Northwestern University (2010).

•  Arthur P. Hurter Award for Outstanding Academic Excellence among First Year Graduate Students, IEMS Department, Northwestern University (2005).

•  Royal E. Cabell Fellowship, Northwestern University (2004-2005).

•  President Fellowship, State University of New York at Buffalo (2002-2004).

•  Yuan Fang Fellowship, Shanghai Jiaotong University (2001).

•  Alcatel Fellowship, Shanghai Jiaotong University (2000).