Faculty Honors and Awards

Globally recognized for world-class research, we offer students a wide variety of excellent instruction from a growing body of award-winning faculty.

Jun Zhuang received the volunteer service award from INFORMS
UB takes home four awards at the 2018 INFORMS conference
12/31/18
Faculty and students from UB’s Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering received four awards at the 2018 INFORMS Annual Meeting and Analytics Conference.
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Batta receives Koopman Prize from the Military Applications Society of INFORMS
12/20/18

Rajan Batta, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and SEAS associate dean for faculty affairs, human resources and diversity, recently won the 2018 Koopman Prize from the Military Applications Society of INFORMS.

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Quanxi Jia named Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
12/19/18

A world-renowned expert in materials science and technology, Jia holds 49 U.S. patents.

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Bruneau named SUNY Distinguished Professor
11/30/18
Michel Bruneau has been named a SUNY Distinguished Professor, the highest faculty rank in the SUNY system. He was among 14 SUNY faculty members appointed to the distinguished professor ranks by the SUNY Board of Trustees at its meeting on Nov. 15.
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Five faculty receive achievement awards from IEEE Region 1
10/25/18
Over the past two years, five faculty members from UB’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have received awards from the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) Region 1 chapter.
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Rivera Reyes receives best paper award from IEEE Education Society
10/9/18

Presentacion Rivera Reyes, an assistant teaching professor in the newly established Department of Engineering Education, received the Theodore E. Batchman Best Paper Award at the 2018 Frontiers in Education Conference.