For Decade of Service, Associate Professor Canan Gunes Corlu Wins INFORMS Meritorious Award

BU MET Associate Professor Canan Gunes Corlu has been recognized by the leading international association for professionals in operations research and management science, INFORMS, for her decade of exceptional dedication and leadership within the organization.

INFORMS President Stephen C. Graves, of MIT’s Sloan School of Management, presented Dr. Corlu with the INFORMS Meritorious Service Award during the prestigious professional society’s annual meeting, held October 24–27, 2021 in Anaheim, with many members attending virtually.

“It was a big pleasure to represent BU MET in front of more than 6,500 attendees,” said Dr. Corlu, who coordinates MET’s Supply Chain Management programs and serves as codirector of the Decision Sciences Research Laboratory (DSLab).

INFORMS is a 10,000 member-strong collection of operations research and management science professionals from all over the world, and Dr. Corlu has embraced a number of positions with the group over the past 10 years, from her beginnings as a conference organizer and session chair, to service on a series of committees, and her current roles as a mentor and as treasurer of the INFORMS Simulation Society.

In her decade of INFORMS service, Dr. Corlu has held the following invaluable roles:

  • Treasurer, INFORMS Simulation Society (2020–Present)
  • Communications Editor, INFORMS Simulation Society (2018–2020)
  • Treasurer, INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group (2016–2020)
  • INFORMS Winter Simulation Conference Track Coordinator, Robust Simulation Track, (2020, 2021)
  • INFORMS Winter Simulation Conference Program Committee Member
    • Logistics, SCM & Transportation Track Program Committee (2016–2021)
    • Analysis and Methodology Track Program Committee (2014, 2016, 2018, 2021)
    • Uncertainty Quantification and Robust Simulation Track Program Committee (2019)
  • INFORMS Annual Meeting and INFORMS Winter Simulation Conference Session Organizer and Session Chair (2011–Present)
  • Reviewer for INFORMS journals: Management Science, Operations Research, Informs Journal on Computing and Mathematics of Operations Research
  • Ad hoc referee for conference proceedings: Winter Simulation Conference Proceedings (2014–Present)
  • Mentor, INFORMS Women in Operations Research and Management Science (WORMS) Mentorship program (2015, 2021)

Read more at Informs.org. You can also view the full 2021 INFORMS Member Meeting in the YouTube video below—the service awards begin at 25:15.

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