Past Awards
2020
Moving Spirit Award for Chapters:
Winner(s)
Citation:
In recognition of his continued volunteer and leadership role with the INFORMS Chicago Chapter since 2015. Vinod helped led the effort to create an ambitious strategic plan for the chapter for 2020. Vinod led the organization of four successful virtual activities and conferences. He and the Board also established a Volunteer Action Committee, an apprenticeship like platform that successfully seeded the pipeline of aspirants to the Board.
Vinod is a Senior Lead Data Scientist at Enova. He works in Research and Platform Analytics. He has a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Georgia Tech. To know more about him, please see https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinod-cheriyan-data-scientist/.