Professor Kevin Glazebrook has this week received his award after he and co-authors Professor Kyle Lin and Professor Michael Atkinson were named winners of the 2017 Harold​ ​W.​ ​Kuhn Award​, for their paper “Optimal​ ​patrol​ ​to​ ​uncover​ ​threats​ ​in​ ​time​ ​when​ ​detection​ ​is​ ​imperfect”​.

The​ ​​Harold​ ​W.​ ​Kuhn Award​ ​​is​ ​presented​ ​annually​ ​to​ the authors of ​an​ ​exceptional​ ​paper​ ​published​ ​in​ ​​Naval Research Logistics. Professor Glazebrook’s paper was singled out from all papers published ​​between 2014 and 2017 ​​by​ ​a​ ​committee​ ​of​ Associate​ ​Editors.

Professor Glazebrook said: “Lancaster's STOR-I Centre for Doctoral Training has a longstanding strategic partnership with the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, CA. My co-authors Kyle Lin and Mike Atkinson both have strong Lancaster connections, being NPS faculty currently co-supervising STOR-I students. We are all delighted to receive this prestigious award.”

Professor Glazebrook also received a LUMS Dean’s Award for Researcher of the Year.