Faculty

Erin Kelly has won the 2021 Max Weber Book Award for Distinguished Scholarship from the American Sociological Association Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work.

Her winning book, “Overload: How Good Jobs Went Bad and What We Can Do About It” (Princeton University Press, 2020), co-authored with Phyllis Moen (University of Minnesota), was recognized among books published within the last three years (2018-2020) for its “outstanding contribution to scholarship on organizations, occupations, and/or work.”

Stuart Madnick, co-director and co-founder of Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan (CAMS), and Angelica Marotta (CAMS and National Research Council of Italy) have won the 2021 Best Paper Award from the International Association for Computer Information Systems (IACIS) Europe Conference. Their winning paper, recognized for significant contributions to information systems and related fields, is entitled “Convergence and Divergence of Regulatory Compliance and Cybersecurity.”

Jónas Oddur Jónasson has won the INFORMS Institute for Operations Research and the Management Science (INFORMS) 2020/21 M&SOM (Manufacturing & Service Operations Management) Practice-Based Research Competition, which recognizes outstanding unpublished Operations Management research papers with a high potential or realized impact on practice.

Jónasson’s winning paper, “Redesigning Sample Transportation in Malawi Through Improved Data Sharing and Daily Route Optimization,” was co-authored with Emma Gibson (MIT ORC PhD student), Sarang Deo (Indian School of Business), Mphatso Kachule (Riders for Health Malawi), and Kara Palamountain (Kellogg School of Management). 

Emil Verner has won the 2021 European Systemic Risk Board’s Ieke van den Burg Prize, which recognizes outstanding research conducted by young scholars on a topic related to the ESRB’s mission in the macroprudential oversight of the European Union financial system and the prevention and mitigation of systemic risk. The prize is administered in the spirit of its namesake’s dedication to the belief that finance should serve society.  Verner’s winning paper, “Credit Allocation and Macroeconomic Fluctuations,” was co-authored with Karsten Müller (Princeton).

Swati Gupta won the JP Morgan Chase Early Career Faculty Award in 2021. The award honors “outstanding faculty researcher early in their careers.” Gupta won this while she was the Fouts Family Early Career Professor and assistant professor at the Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech.

Sean Willems, Adrien Verdelhan, Nikolaos Trichakis, Andrew Lo, Miro Kazakoff, Joseph Doyle, Kristin Forbes, and Arathi Mehrotra have each won a 2021 Teaching with Digital Technology Award from MIT for their work teaching on campus and/or remotely. These student-nominated awards recognize faculty and instructors who have used digital technology to improve teaching and learning for MIT students. This recognition also gives the MIT community the opportunity to learn from their innovative practices.

The awards are co-sponsored by MIT Open Learning and the Office of the Vice Chancellor. This year students submitted a total of 230 nominations for 104 faculty and instructors, and 23 winners (35% from MIT Sloan) were selected by Dean for Digital Learning Krishna Rajagopal and Vice Chancellor Ian Waitz, in partnership with a panel of MIT students.  

Adrien Verdelhan, Nikolaos Trichakis, Andrew Lo, Miro Kazakoff, Joseph Doyle, Kristin Forbes, Arathi Mehrotra, and Sean Willems have each won a 2021 Teaching with Digital Technology Award from MIT for their work teaching on campus and/or remotely. These student-nominated awards recognize faculty and instructors who have used digital technology to improve teaching and learning for MIT students. This recognition also gives the MIT community the opportunity to learn from their innovative practices.

The awards are co-sponsored by MIT Open Learning and the Office of the Vice Chancellor. This year students submitted a total of 230 nominations for 104 faculty and instructors, and 23 winners (35% from MIT Sloan) were selected by Dean for Digital Learning Krishna Rajagopal and Vice Chancellor Ian Waitz, in partnership with a panel of MIT students.  

Nikolaos Trichakis, Andrew Lo, Miro Kazakoff, Joseph Doyle, Kristin Forbes, Arathi Mehrotra, Adrien Verdelhan, and Sean Willems have each won a 2021 Teaching with Digital Technology Award from MIT for their work teaching on campus and/or remotely. These student-nominated awards recognize faculty and instructors who have used digital technology to improve teaching and learning for MIT students. This recognition also gives the MIT community the opportunity to learn from their innovative practices.

The awards are co-sponsored by MIT Open Learning and the Office of the Vice Chancellor. This year students submitted a total of 230 nominations for 104 faculty and instructors, and 23 winners (35% from MIT Sloan) were selected by Dean for Digital Learning Krishna Rajagopal and Vice Chancellor Ian Waitz, in partnership with a panel of MIT students.  

Arathi Mehrotra, Miro Kazakoff, Andrew W. Lo, Joseph Doyle, Kristin Forbes, Nikolaos Trichakis, Adrien Verdelhan, and Sean Willems have each won a 2021 Teaching with Digital Technology Award from MIT for their work teaching on campus and/or remotely. These student-nominated awards recognize faculty and instructors who have used digital technology to improve teaching and learning for MIT students. This recognition also gives the MIT community the opportunity to learn from their innovative practices.

Mehrotra was cited for her classes Communication for Leaders taught in the fall of 2020, and Communicating with Data, taught in the spring of 2021. One student nominator commented, "Arathi made an end of semester video with our best moments from each presentation, which was such a nice use of the video content and made the most of our virtual situation!"

The awards are co-sponsored by MIT Open Learning and the Office of the Vice Chancellor. 
This year students submitted a total of 230 nominations for 104 faculty and instructors, 
and 23 winners (35% from MIT Sloan) were selected by Dean for Digital Learning Krishna Rajagopal and Vice Chancellor Ian Waitz, in partnership with a panel of MIT students. 

Andrew Lo, Miro Kazakoff, Joseph Doyle, Kristin Forbes, Arathi Mehrotra, Nikolaos Trichakis, Adrien Verdelhan, and Sean Willems have each won a 2021 Teaching with Digital Technology Award from MIT for their work teaching on campus and/or remotely. These student-nominated awards recognize faculty and instructors who have used digital technology to improve teaching and learning for MIT students. This recognition also gives the MIT community the opportunity to learn from their innovative practices.

The awards are co-sponsored by MIT Open Learning and the Office of the Vice Chancellor. This year students submitted a total of 230 nominations for 104 faculty and instructors, and 23 winners (35% from MIT Sloan) were selected by Dean for Digital Learning Krishna Rajagopal and Vice Chancellor Ian Waitz, in partnership with a panel of MIT students.