Honors and Awards
- NSF CAREER award. Operations Engineering (OE) program, 2021.
- Elected (by vote) Vice-chair for Network Optimization in INFORMS Optimization Society. Term: 2018-2019.
- Ira A. Fulton Top 5% Teaching Award. Arizona State University, 2018.
- INFORMS Computing Society Student Paper Award (Runner-up). INFORMS Annual Conference 2015, Philadelphia, PA.
- Graduate Student Research Award 2015. Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida.
- National Science Foundation (NSF) Travel Grant Award. Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) Annual Conference 2015, Nashville, TN.
- National Science Foundation (NSF) Travel Grant Award. Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) Annual Conference 2013, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
- Advisor to Juan S. Navarrete, Sandra J. La Rota, and Camilo Peña, 2nd place in the VIII Regional Conference, IIE Central and South American Region, Technical Paper Competition, Bogotá, Colombia, 2011.
- Outstanding Research Instructor at the School of Engineering (ranked 1st out of 37). Universidad de los Andes. 2009.
- Co-author (with A. Molano, O.L. Sarmiento and A.L. Medaglia), 1st prize in the paper competition: “El papel de la planeación en el desarrollo colombiano”, organized by the Departamento Nacional de Planeación, Bogotá, Colombia, 2008.
- Co-author (with D. Castro-Lacouture, A.L. Medaglia and L. Flórez) 2nd prize in the Sustainability Poster Session for the work titled “Optimization model for the selection of materials using a LEED-based green building rating system in Colombia”. Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (ISS) at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 2008.
- Co-advisor (with A.L. Medaglia and J. L. Walteros) to Miguel Angel Vargas (Universidad de los Andes), 2nd place in the V Regional Conference, IIE Central and South American Region, Technical Paper Competition, Paipa ,Colombia, 2008.