Prof. Wasil Named Kogod’s Graduate Professor of the Year

The end of the academic year brought new awards and accolades Kogod School of Business students, faculty and staff. One winner was Professor Edward Wasil, who received the Graduate Professor of the Year award from the Graduate Business Association.

Professor Wasil specializes in network optimization and applications of decision-aiding methods. He has had more than 100 technical articles published on a wide variety of academic outlets including Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, and Manufacturing and Service Operations Management.

This isn’t Professor Wasil’s first award. In 2005, Wasil and four co-authors received the INFORMS Computing Society Prize for research excellence in the interface between operations research and computer science. In 2002 and 2005, Professor Wasil received the Kogod Graduate Business Association award for Distinguished Professor of the Year. In 2006, he was named the American University Scholar/Teacher of the Year. He was also awarded the 2011 American University Faculty Award for Outstanding Scholarship, an award he received for his many years of research excellence.

Wail currently serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences and INFOR: Canadian Journal of Operational Research and Information Processing. Since 1992, he has been the Feature Article Editor of the INFORMS Journal on Computing.

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