Jun Zhuang selected for 2024 IISE Fellow Award

By Elizabeth Egan 

Published April 23, 2024

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“Dr. Zhuang’s distinguished record of teaching, research and service excellence has had profound impact on the industrial engineering profession. I am pleased that IISE has recognized his many significant accomplishments with this award. ”
Victor Paquet, professor and chair of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Jun Zhuang, Morton C. Frank Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, has been selected for the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers’ (IISE) 2024 Fellow Award, recognizing Zhuang’s outstanding leadership and service to IISE. 

Jun Zhuang.

A fellow is the highest classification of IISE membership. The award is given to an outstanding leader in the profession who has made significant, nationally recognized contributions to industrial and systems engineering.

“I am extremely honored to receive this prestigious award,” noted Zhuang, who has been involved with IISE since 2007.  

IISE is the world’s largest professional society dedicated to the support of the profession. The international nonprofit association provides leadership for the application, education, training, research and development of industrial and systems engineers.

“Dr. Zhuang’s distinguished record of teaching, research and service excellence has had profound impact on the industrial engineering profession,” said Victor Paquet, professor and chair of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. “I am pleased that IISE has recognized his many significant accomplishments with this award.”

In 2022 Zhuang became a fellow of the Society of Risk Analysis (SRA) and received the SRA’s Distinguished Educator of the Year award in 2023 and Chauncey Starr Distinguished Young Risk Analyst Award in 2019, on top of numerous other awards since starting at UB in 2008.

Zhuang has peer reviewed over 140 journal articles as well as many conference papers and book chapters.

His research interests include applications to health care, sports, transportation, supply chain management, sustainability and architecture, with a long-term goal to integrate operations research, big data analytics, game theory and decision analysis to improve mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery for natural and human-made disasters.

Zhuang received his PhD and master’s degree in industrial engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a masters’ degree in agricultural economics from the University of Kentucky and his bachelor’s degree from the Southeast University in Nanjing, China.

Zhuang will be presented with the award in person at the IISE 2024 Annual Conference and Expo in Montreal from May 18 to 21.