December 7, 2009 in INFORMS News

DOING GOOD WITH GOOD O.R. STUDENT COMPETITION

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David Hutton, a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University, won the inaugural INFORMS Doing Good with Good O.R. Student Competition with his project, “Cost-effective Hepatitis B Prevention and Treatment.” The competitions’ co-chairs, Cynthia Barnhart and Ozlem Ergun, announced the results at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in San Diego, Calif.

INFORMS President Don Kleinmuntz (back row, far left) and
Competition co-chairs Ozlem Ergun (back row, center)
and Cynthia Barnhart (back row, second from right)
congratulate the “Doing Good With Good O.R. Student
Competition” finalists, including the winner,
David Hutton (back row, far right).

The competition is designed to identify and honor outstanding projects in the field of operations research and the management sciences conducted by a student or student group that have a significant societal impact. The projects must have, or are likely to have, a significant societal impact, and operations research and management science methods and tools (broadly interpreted) must be central to the success of the projects described. “Societal impact” should be construed to mean an impact on individuals, communities and organizations that goes beyond that associated with a private-sector for-profit initiative. The projects might also strive to include innovation through theory, creative computational methods,and should address implementation challenges.

Stanford professor Margaret Brandeau served as Hutton’s project advisor. The partner organization was the Asian Liver Center at Stanford University.

Two projects received honorable mention:

  • “Catch-up Scheduling for Childhood Immunization” by Faramroze G. Engineer, Georgia Tech; advisors – Pinar Keskinocak of Georgia Tech and L. K. Pickering, M.D., of the CDC and Emory University School of Medicine; partner organization – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

  • “Optimal Learning for Drug Discovery in Ewing’s Sarcoma,” by Diana Negoescu and Peter Frazier, Princeton University; advisor – W. B. Powell of Princeton University; partner organizations – Go 4 the Goal and Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University.

Other finalists:

  • “Network Design for Middle East Water Distribution,” by Rachel Bullene, Virginia Commonwealth University; advisors – Toni Sorrell, James Springer, Charles Stewart, Yasser Tanvir, P. Brooks and E. Boone of VCU; partner organization – Arava Institute of Environmental Studies, Eilat, Israel.

  • “At What Lipid Ratios Should a Patient with Type 2 Diabetes Initiate Statins?” by Murat Kurt, University of Pittsburgh; advisor – Andrew Schaefer, University of Pittsburgh; partner organization – Healthcare Policy and Research Division, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine.

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