Any research laboratory likes to highlight awards that it has received as a measure of the recognition of the work. At CASTLE Lab, we are particularly proud of the recognition that students in the lab have received for their doctoral research.

AWARDS FOR GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH:

Dr. Tassio Carvalho:

Winner, 1996 Transportation Dissertation Prize Competition,

Dissertation title: Dynamic Control of Spatial Resource Allocation Problems

Professor Raymond K.-L.Cheung

Winner, 1994, George Dantzig Prize for the best dissertation in Operations Research

Honorable mention, 1994, Transportation Dissertation Prize Competition (highest award given that year).

Dissertation title: Dynamic Networks with Random Arc Capacities, with Application to the Stochastic Dynamic Vehicle Allocation Problem

Dr. Linos Frantzeskakis

Winner, 1990 Transportation Dissertation Prize Competition

Dissertation title: Dynamic Networks with Random Arc Capacities: Solution Methods and Applications

Dr. Yiannis Koskosidis

Honorable Mention, 1988 Transportation Dissertation Prize Competition

Dissertation title: Optimization-Based Models and Algorithms for Routing and Scheduling with Time Window Constraints

Dr. Hugo Simao

Honorable Mention, 1987 Transportation Dissertation Prize Competition

Dissertation title: Numerical, Discrete Time Simulation of Transportation Queueing Networks

General awards

Finalist, Franz Edelman Award from The Institute of Management Science, 1991, with Yellow Freight System.

Second place, Franz Edelman Award from The Institute of Management Science, 1987, with North American Van Lines.

Winner, Best Paper on Land Transportation, from IEEE Section on Vehicular Technologies, 1992. Paper title: "Optimization Models and Algorithms: An Emerging Technology for the Motor Carrier Industry" (award received 1995).