Professional Activities

Fellowships / Scholarships

BASF / Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Data-Driven Optimization (2022 – 2027)
EPSRC Early Career Fellowship (2017 – 2022)
Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship (2012 – 2017)
Imperial College Junior Research Fellowship (declined, 2012 – 2015)
USA National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2007 – 2012)
Princeton University Gordon Y. S. Wu Fellowship (2007 – 2012)
Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship (2003 – 2007)

2018 Finalist for Best Teaching for Postgraduates, Imperial Student Academic Choice Awards
2016 Finalist for Best Innovation in Teaching, Imperial Student Academic Choice Awards
2010 Excellence in Teaching; Princeton School of Engineering & Applied Sciences

2023 Roger Needham Award, British Computing Society (BCS)
2023 Princeton University Saville Lecture
2022, 2023 Top reviewer; NeurIPS
2022 COIN-OR Cup Winner, OMLT judged best contribution to open-source operations research software development (with F Ceccon, J Jalving, J Haddad, A Thebelt, C Tsay & C D Laird)
2021 Rosenbrock Prize; Optimization & Engineering (with J Kronqvist)
2021 CPAIOR Distinguished Paper Award; Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming Artificial Intelligence, & Operations Research (with J Kronqvist & C Tsay)
2020 CAST Outstanding Young Researcher Award; Computer & Systems Technology Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
2020 AAMAS Best (Innovative) Demo; 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (with K Cyras, A Karamlou, M Lee, D Letsios, F Toni)
2018 Georgia Tech Mellichamp Lecture
2017 Sir George Macfarlane Medal
2017 RAEng Engineers Trust Young Engineer of the Year
2017 American Institute of Chemical Engineers 35 Under 35, Innovation category
2014 W. David Smith, Jr. Graduation Publication Award
2013 Best Paper; Journal of Global Optimization (with C A Floudas)
2013 Top Reviewer; Computers & Chemical Engineering
2013 Best Poster; 2nd Belgian Symposium on Tissue Engineering

European Science Foundation Travel Grant to BSTE (2013, €500)
Princeton University Dean’s Fund for Scholarly Travel (2012, $600)
Princeton University Wu Travel Fund Award (2009, $1000)
CACHE Corporation USA National Science Foundation Travel Grant (2009, 2014, $1000)
Princeton University Walter R. Schowalter Travel Fund Award (2008 – 2012, $2000)

Senior Member, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) 2008 –
Member, British Computer Society (BCS) 2017 –
- I am registered with the Engineering Council as a Chartered Engineer (CEng) 2019 –
- Since 2020, I am also a Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS) 2020 –
Member, Sargent Centre for Process Systems Engineering (CPSE) 2014 –
Academic Fellow, Data Science Institute
Member, Institute for Operations Research & Management Sciences (INFORMS) 2014 –
Member, Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS) 2021 –
Member, Tau Beta Pi (TBP) – Engineering Honor Society 2007 –
- The top 20% of MIT engineering undergraduates are eligible for TBP