Faculty honoured for outstanding research

The two recipients of the School’s 2008 awards for outstanding research were acknowledged at a reception in Goodes Hall in November.

Jeffrey McGill, Distinguished Professor in Management Science/Operations Management, received the 2008 Award for Research Achievement. The long-time faculty member, who joined the School in 1993, was selected by a committee comprised of past award recipients and senior researchers at the School.

His research interests focus on revenue management and dynamic pricing in transportation and service industries, as well as stochastic approximation and other adaptive methods for sequential business decision-making. His research has been published in top management science journals, has made him a respected Associate Editor of both Operations Research and Transportation Science, and led to a stint as a guest editor of the European Journal of Operational Research. He has presented his research at national and international conferences, and has been invited to give seminars at the Canadian Operational Research Society and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. In addition to receiving a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) grant, Jeff is also a member of the Canadian Operational Research Society and the Institutes for Operations Research and Management Science.

Mikhail Nediak, Assistant Professor of Management Science, received the New Researcher Achievement Award that recognizes a pre-tenured faculty member’s research contribution. A QSB faculty member since 2004, Mikhail holds a Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, a Master’s degree in Computer Science and a PhD in Operations Research, both from Rutgers University.

His research interests include operations research problems with a significant computational component and use techniques ranging from integer and nonlinear optimization to control theory and stochastic simulation. His current research focuses on new models in revenue management and dynamic pricing. Mikhail, a former Shared Hierarchal Academic Research Network (SHARCNET) Postdoctoral Fellow, has published in leading management science journals and has presented the results of his research at national and international conferences.