Batta has won the 2024 Koopman Prize from the Military and Security Society of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).
Moore will assume the role on Sept. 1. She follows the leadership of Rajan Batta, who will continue to serve as associate dean for faculty affairs and recognition.
A widely reprinted article reported on Rajan Batta, associate dean for faculty affairs and diversity in UB’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, receiving the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers’ top award, the Frank & Lillian Gilbreth Industrial Engineering Award.
Rajan Batta received the Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Industrial Engineering Award, the highest and most esteemed honor from the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
Rajan Batta has been named editor-in-chief of the Socio-Economic Planning Sciences journal, a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering socio-economics as it relates to development economics and public policy.
The Military Operations Research Society recently gave the 2020 MOR Journal Award to Rajan Batta and his former student, Michael Moskal II for their paper on real-time routing of UAVs to collect threat information.
