Three faculty members and one student from the Naveen Jindal School of Management’s Information Systems Area were honored recently at the 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting.
Dr. Zhiquiang (Eric) Zheng, George and Fonsa Brody Distinguished Professor; Drs. Ruijiang Gao and Hongchang Wang, both assistant professors; and PhD student Michael Yang were among this year’s honorees at the meeting held in Atlanta Oct.26-29.
Each year INFORMS grants several prestigious institute-wide prizes and awards for meritorious achievement. Generally conferred at each year’s Annual Meeting and Analytics Conference, these prizes and awards celebrate wide ranging categories of achievement from teaching, writing, and practice to distinguished service to the institute and the profession and contributions to the welfare of society.
Yang, Gao and Zheng won Best Paper for their work, “Sell Data to AI Algorithms Without Revealing It: Secure Data Valuation and Sharing via Homomorphic Encryption.”
Gao also earned runner-up honors for the Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award for his paper, “Advancing Human-AI Systems: On Robustness, Decision Making, and Beyond.”
Wang won the Bapna-Ghose Social Justice Best Paper Award, for his work on “The Effect of AI-Enabled Credit Scoring on Financial Inclusion: Evidence from an Underserved Population of over One Million.” This award aims to foster and encourage high-quality IS research that makes an impact on improving social justice outcomes. Wang was also tabbed as ISS Management Science Best IS Associate Editor, an award presented to the best associate editor of Management Science, the flagship journal of INFORMS each year.
With almost 12,000 members from around the globe, INFORMS is the leading international association for professionals in operations research, analytics, management science, economics, behavioral science, statistics, artificial intelligence, data science, applied mathematics, and other relevant fields.
INFORMS advances and promotes the science and technology of decision making to save lives, save money, and solve problems through an array of highly cited publications, conferences, competitions, networking communities, and professional development services
