Dr WANG Hui, a recent PhD graduate of the ISE Department and currently with Bank One Card Services, Inc., USA, is a member of the team that won the 2002 Daniel H. Wagner Prize for the Excellence in Operations Research Practice awarded by INFORMS. Other members of the winning team include Margaret S. Trench, Shane P. Pederson, Edward T. Lau, and Lizhi Ma of Bank One Card Services, Inc., USA, and Suresh K. Nair of School of Business, University of Connecticut, USA.

WANG Hui received her PhD degree from NUS in 2000 with Prof GOH Thong Ngee and A/Prof XIE Min of the ISE Department as her project supervisors. After working for a while at Productivity and Quality Research Centre in NUS, she joined the FirstUSA Bank whose parent company is Bank One, the America's sixth-largest bank holding company. Bank One Card Services has been chosen by INFORMS as the award winner in 2002 for its PORTICO, a portfolio optimization and control system used to manage credit line and APR changes which WANG Hui had helped to develop.

The award is given once every two years by INFORMS. More details may be found in the following web-site:

http://www.informs.org/Prizes/WagnerPrize.html

Photo caption: Wang Hui (in the centre holding the plaque) at the award ceremony.