Faculty, students, and alumni from Georgia Tech’s H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) earned numerous honors and shared their research alongside more than 6,000 attendees at the 2026 INFORMS Annual Meeting in San Francisco.

Held Nov. 1-4, the annual meeting brought together members of the operations research and analytics community from academia and industry. ISyE faculty, students, postdocs, and alumni participated throughout the conference, presenting research, contributing to panels and sessions, and serving in leadership roles across the profession.

Among this year’s honors, Oktay Günlük was named to the 2026 INFORMS Fellows Class. Nikolaos “Nick” Sahinidis received the INFORMS Optimization Society Khachiyan Prize, recognizing lifetime achievement in optimization, while Guanghui (George) Lan received the society’s Farkas Prize for outstanding contributions to optimization. Ashwin Pananjady, with Liwei Jiang of Purdue University, won first place in the INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group Paper Competition.

Georgia Tech’s interdisciplinary Master of Science in Analytics program also received the 2026 INFORMS UPS George D. Smith Prize, with Joel Sokol presenting a reprise of the prize-winning work at the meeting.

Beyond the awards, the meeting offered an opportunity for the ISyE community to reconnect. The school’s booth served as a gathering place throughout the conference, and faculty, students, alumni, friends, and collaborators came together at ISyE’s annual evening reception.