Honors and Awards

  • Winner of the 2021 INFORMS Minority Issues Forum (MIF) Paper Competition

  • Invited to present my research on algorithmic bias in medical scheduling at Harvard Business School, as part of the Workshop on Fairness, Bias, and Inequality in Management and Decision Sciences

  • Selected by AACSB among the highlights of the "2021 Innovations That Inspire"

  • United Nations Human Rights Council, 2020:

    • My paper on racial disparity in appointment scheduling has been included in a UN report presented to the 44th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council

  • Honorable Mention for the Best Non-Student Paper Award, INFORMS Data Mining Section, 2017

  • Leavey School of Business Teaching Award 2017

  • Award POMS Appreciation award 2017

  • Industry Grant Principal Investigator, $20,000, 2014-2015

  • SAS Fellowship for a "Transformative Project", $5,000, University of Alberta, 2014

  • "Nova Faculty Fellowship", $12,000, University of Alberta, 2012-2013

  • Semi-finalist of the INFORMS Innovation in Analytics Award, 2012

  • Winner of the 2009 INFORMS Data Mining Best Student Paper Award