Santanu Dey, assistant professor in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), has been selected to receive the IBM Faculty Award for 2009. The IBM Faculty Award is a worldwide competition program intended to foster collaboration between researchers at leading universities worldwide and those in IBM research, development and services organizations and to promote courseware and curriculum innovation to stimulate growth in disciplines and geographies that are strategic to IBM.

Dey joins the ranks of other ISyE faculty who have received the award, including Shabbir Ahmed in 2002 and 2005; Jiangang  (Jim) Dai in 2003; William “Bill” Rouse in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008; and Bert Zwart in 2008.

Having worked as a research fellow at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) of the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, Dey’s research interests are in the areas of large-scale optimization, mixed integer programming, and applications of discrete optimization.