
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

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

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

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

Minhee Kim
Assistant Professor
- Best Paper Competition (Finalist), INFORMS Conference on Quality, Statistics, and Reliability (ICQSR), 2025

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

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

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

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