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Faculty Awards

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Elif Akçalı
Michael Durham Professor in Creativity, Associate Professor

  • NSF MCA award, 2023
  • Industrial Engineering Division, American Society of Engineering Education, ASEE National Conference & Exposition, IED Division, Best Paper Runner Up, 2020
  • UF, Faculty Innovation Award, 2020
  • SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineering Award, 2004
  • Creative Scholar in Residence (UF Creative Campus award), 2013
  • ISCIS Best Paper Award, 2003
  • Gilbreth Memorial Fellowship Recipient, 1999

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Katie Basinger-Ellis
Instructional Associate Professor

  • Engineering Economy Division, American Society of Engineering Education, ASEE National Conference & Exposition, EED Division, New Engineering Educator Award, 2022

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Yongpei Guan
Rolande G. Willis Endowed Professor

  • Team Member, Best Healthcare Automation Paper, IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, 2021
  • Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021
  • Fellow, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), 2019
  • Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, 2010
  • NSF CAREER Award, 2008

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Boyi Hu
Associate Professor

  • UF Global Fellows, 2020
  • UF ISE Cottmeyer Family Faculty Fellow, 2020
  • National Award for Outstanding Self-financed Chinese Students Studying Abroad, 2016
  • Team member, 2016 NASA Centennial Sample Return Robot Challenge champion, 2016
  • Human Factor and Ergonomics Society Student Member with Honors Award, 2015
  • Team member, 2015 NASA Centennial Sample Return Robot Challenge champion, 2015

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Minhee Kim
Assistant Professor

  • Best Paper Competition (Finalist), INFORMS Conference on Quality, Statistics, and Reliability (ICQSR), 2025

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McKenzie Landrum
Instructional Associate Professor

  • Industrial Engineering Division, American Society of Engineering Education, ASEE National Conference & Exposition, IED Division, Best Paper Runner Up, 2020

Mengyu Li
Instructional Assistant Professor

  • UF Center for Teaching Excellence, Rising Star Award, 2021

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Hongcheng Liu
Associate Professor

  • INFORMS Railway Applications Section, Team member, Second Prize of the 2020 RAS Problem-Solving Competition, 2020

Mostafa Reisi Gahrooei
Associate Professor

  • Team Member, ISE Quality Control and Reliability Engineering, Best Poster competition, 2021
  • NSF Scholarships for QPRC, Team member, Student Assist Travel Award, 2021

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Jorge A. Sefair
Associate Professor

  • NSF CAREER award, 2021
  • Elected (by vote) Vice-chair for Network Optimization. INFORMS Optimization Society, 2018
  • Best Teaching Award (Top 5%). Arizona State University, 2018

Yu Yang
Assistant Professor

  • Air Research, Alibaba DAMO, 2021

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Xiang Zhong
Associate Professor

  • Team Member, Best Healthcare Automation Paper, IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, 2021
  • UF Informatics Institute, Seed Fund Award, 2021
  • UF ISE, Lauderdale Faculty Fellow in ISE, 2020