Erin Baker Receives INFORMS Lifetime Achievement Award

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Erin Baker, Distinguished Professor of Industrial Engineering and faculty director of the Energy Transition Institute, has been named the recipient of the 2026 Harold Hotelling Medal for Lifetime Achievement, the highest honor bestowed by the Energy, Natural Resources, and Environment (ENRE) section of INFORMS, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.

Baker will receive “for her outstanding policy-engaged, community-centered contributions to understanding technological change, sustainable and just energy transitions, energy systems modeling and economics, dedicated graduate student mentorship, and service to ENRE and INFORMS.” She will receive the medal and present the Hotelling Medal Lecture, “Planning for Human Ingenuity and Finding Common Ground in the Fight Against Climate Change,” at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in San Francisco on Nov. 2.

INFORMS is the largest international professional association for data and decision sciences. ENRE is the primary intellectual community for researchers, practitioners, and students applying operations research, management science, and advanced analytics to solve complex global challenges across ecological and industrial systems.

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