February 3, 2014 in INFORMS News

2013 INFORMS Subdivision Awards

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The following INFORMS awards were presented by the respective subdivisions, societies, sections, interest groups, etc. at the 2013 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Minneapolis in October.

Applied Probability

Award: 2013 Best Publication Award

Christian Gromoll, Devavrat Shah, Jinwoo Shin and Mark Lewis (l-r).

Recipients: Devavrat Shah, MIT, and Jinwoo Shin, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Recognized Work: “Randomized Scheduling Algorithm for Queueing Networks”

Aviation Applications

Award: 2013 Dissertation Prize

Amedeo Odoni, Farshid Azadian and Thomas Vossen (l-r).

Recipient: Farshid Azadian, Wayne State University

Recognized Work: “An Integrated Framework for Freight Forwarders: Exploitation of Dynamic Information for Multimodal Transportation”

Award: 2013 Best Presentation Competition

Vikrant Vaze (left) and Alexandre Jacquillat.

Recipient: Alexandre Jacquillat, MIT

Recognized Work: “Airport Congestion Mitigation through Schedule Coordination: An Integrated Approach”

Behavioral Operations Management Section

Award: Best Working Paper Award

Robert Batt (left) and Anton Ovchinnikov.

Recipients: Robert Batt, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Christian Terwiesch, University of Pennsylvania

Recognized Work: “Waiting Patiently: An Empirical Study of Queue Abandonment in an Emergency Department”

Computing Society

Award: 2013 INFORMS Computing Society Prize

Dan Bienstock, John Gunnar Carlsson and Bill Cook (l-r).

Recipient: John Gunnar Carlsson, University of Minnesota

Award: 2013 ICS Student Paper Award

Recipient: Jing Xie, Cornell University

Recognized Work: “Sequential Bayes-Optimal Policies for Multiple Comparisons with a Known Standard”

CPMS: Practice Section of INFORMS

The Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research

Retsef Levi, Allen Butler and Yale Herer (l-r).

Recipient: Assaf Avrahami, Yedioth Group, Israel; Yale Herer, Israel Institute of Technology; and Retsef Levi, MIT

Recognized Work: “Matching Supply and Demand via Delayed 2-Phase Distribution at Yedioth Group – Models, Algorithms and IT”

Data Mining

Best Student Paper Award

Chun-An Chou (left) and Benjamin Letham.

Recipient: Benjamin Letham, MIT

Decision Analysis (DAS)

Frank P. Ramsey Medal

Recipient: Peter P. Wakker, Erasmus University

Recognition: For distinguished contributions in decision analysis

Practice Award

Frank Koch, William Haskett and Johannes Siebert (l-r).

Recipient: William J. Haskett, Decision Strategies, Inc.

Recognized Work: “Evaluation, Play Entry Strategy, and Materiality in Unconventional Gas and Liquids-Rich Opportunities”

Student Paper Award

Jun Zhuang, Chen Wang, Mohammad Nikoofal and Woonam Hwang (l-r).

Recipient: Chen Wang, Tsinghua University

Recognized Work: “Quantifying Adversary Capabilities to Inform Defensive Resource Allocation”

Publication Award

Canan Ulu, Ahti Salo and Jeffrey Keisler (l-r).

Recipients: Ahti Salo, Aalto University; Jeffrey Keisler, University of Massachusetts Boston; and Alec Morton, London School of Economics and Political Science

Recognized Work: Portfolio Decision Analysis

Energy, Natural Resources and the Environment

Student Paper Award

Recipient: Rowan Wang
Recognized Work: “Stochastic Inventory Systems with Cumulative Ordering Capacity Constraints”

Best Publication Award in Energy

Recipients: Andreas Ehrenmann, Yves Smeers
Recognized Work: “Generation Capacity Expansion in a Risky Environment: A Stochastic Equilibrium Analysis”

Best Publication Award in Environment & Sustainability

Recipients: Sándor F. Tóth, Robert G. Haight, Luke W. Rogers
Recognized Work: “Dynamic Reserve Selection: Optimal Land Retention with Land-Price Feedbacks”

Best Publication Award in Natural Resources

Recipients: Mauricio A. Acuna, Cristian D. Palma, Wenbin Cui, David L. Martell, Andres Weintraub
Recognized Work: “Integrated Spatial Fire and Forest Management Planning”

Best Paper in Forestry Sponsored Sessions

Recipient: Erin McCowen
Recognized Work: “A Stochastic Integer Programming Model for Optimizing Suppression Resource Assignments on a Wildfire”

ENRE Young Researcher

Recipient: Alireza Soroudi
Recognized Work: “Possibilistic-Scenario Model for DG Impact Assessment on Distribution Networks in an Uncertain Environment”

Health Applications Section

Pierskalla Best Paper Award

John Silberholz, Dimitris Bertsimas, John Birge, Allison O’Hair and William Pierskalla (l-r).

Recipients: Dimitris Bertsimas, Allison O’Hair, Stephen Relyea, John Silberholz

Recognized Work: “An Analytics Approach to Designing Clinical Trials for Cancer”

Seth Bonder Scholarship for Applied Operations Research in Health Services

Merrill Bonder (left) and Pooyan Kazemian.

Recipient: Pooyan Kazemian, University of Michigan

Recognized Work: “Dynamic Monitoring and Treatment Control of Chronic Diseases”

Information Systems Society

Distinguished Fellow Award

Recipients: Ritu Agarwal, Chris Kemerer, Sumit Sarkar
Recognition: Outstanding intellectual contributions to the information systems discipline

Management Science Best Paper in Information Systems

Recipients: Erik Brynjolfsson, Yu Jeffrey Hu and Duncan Simester
Recognized Work: “Goodbye Pareto Principle, Hello Long Tail: The Effect of Search Costs on the Concentration of Product Sales”

INFORMS Moving Spirit Awards

Moving Spirit Award for Chapters

Recipient: Justin Yates

Recognition: Justin Yates was honored for his impact on the Texas A&M University Student Chapter. As Faculty Advisor, he improved the chapter’s image, strengthened industry relations and secured a $10,000 donation from Dow Chemical for a weekly seminar series. Under his leadership, the Texas A&M chapter partnered with the University at Buffalo student chapter to host a month-long data competition in which over 60 students participated.

Moving Spirit Award for Fora

Recipient: Burcu Keskin

Recognition: Burcu Keskin was honored for her consistent support of and contributions to the Junior Faculty Interest Group. In 2010, she assumed responsibilities as JFIG president when the elected president resigned, and ensured that the forum’s activities continued without interruption. She oversaw the JFIG Paper Competition for more than three years, secured sponsorships, helped plan events and continued to advise forum officers after her term.

Judith Liebman Awards

Recipients: John Coles (University at Buffalo), Amir Masoumi (University of Massachusetts) and Monica Puertas (University of South Florida)

Olga Raskina, John Coles and Anne Robinson (l-r).

Recognition: John Coles was honored for the reactivation of the University at Buffalo Student Chapter. Under his leadership, the chapter hosted series’ of software workshops and research symposiums, regular O.R. modeling competitions and a joint competition with the Texas A&M student chapter.

Olga Raskina, Amir Masoumi and Anne Robinson (l-r).

Recognition: Amir Masoumi was honored for his years of service to the University of Massachusetts student chapter, both as an officer and a member. He brought together students from multiple schools at the university to promote OR/MS, helped host the first Northeast Regional INFORMS Conference and worked constantly with the Graduate Student Organization to ensure that the chapter would be granted resources for its activities.

Olga Raskina, Monica Puertas and Anne Robinson (l-r).

Recognition: Monica Puertas was honored for her contributions to the University of South Florida Student chapter over many years of membership. As an officer, she enhanced the lecture program, engaged the chapter in community service, and increased participation in the INFORMS Annual Meeting. She has been especially active in service events targeted toward K-12 students, encouraging them to study STEM fields.

Student Chapter Annual Awards

Recipients: University of South Florida, Texas A&M University (Summa Cum Laude); Arizona State University, Oklahoma State University, University of Massachusetts and University of Oklahoma (Magna Cum Laude); North Carolina State University, Northwestern University, University at Buffalo, University of Michigan, University of Texas-Austin, University of Virginia, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Virginia Tech (Cum Laude)
Recognition: Outstanding participation and performance during the year of 2012.

Olga Raskina, Yazhuo Liu, Garrick Aden-Buie, Walter Silva, Anna Danandeh, Iman Nekooeimehr,
Mehrnaz Abdollahiam, Alireza Ghalebani and Anne Robinson (l-r).

South Florida:

Olga Raskina, Sung Ook Hwang, Manish Bansal, Michelle Alvarado, Samyukta Sethuraman,
Gokhan Memisoglu, Je Sang Sung and Anne Robinson (l-r).

Texas A&M:

Olga Raskina, Jonathan Adler and Anne Robinson (l-r).

Arizona State:

Olga Raskina, Juan Ma and Anne Robinson (l-r).

Oklahoma State:

Olga Raskina, Dong “Michelle” Li, Joanne Oh, Xiaoling Gao, Amir Masoumi, Yoeran Zhuo and Anne Robinson (l-r).

UMass:

Olga Raskina, Ebisa Wollega, Hiba Baroud, Hasan Manzour, Amine Kamali and Anne Robinson (l-r).

Oklahoma:

Olga Raskina, Gokce Akin Aras, Irem Sengul and Anne Robinson (l-r).

N.C. State:

Olga Raskina, Edwin Shi, Kezban Yagci Sokat, Brittany Bogle and Anne Robinson (l-r).

Northerwestern:

Olga Raskina, John Coles, Michael Moskal and Anne Robinson (l-r).

Buffalo:

Olga Raskina, Christine Barnett, Zohar Strinka, Kayse Maass, Troy Long, Gregory Schell, Victor Wu and Anne Robinson (l-r).

Michigan:

Olga Raskina, Ivan Saavedra-Antonilez, Thomas Omwando and Anne Robinson (l-r).

Wisconsin-Milwaukee:

Olga Raskina, Daniel Steeneck, Nasibeh Azadeh Fard and Anne Robinson (l-r).

Virginia Tech:

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Case Competition Award

First Place Recipient: Allison Elias, Tim Kraft and Gal Raz, University of Virginia
Recognized Work: “Eastman Tritan”

Runner-Up Recipient: Masoud Talebian, University of Newcastle; Garrett J. van Ryzin, Columbia University
Recognized Work: “Markdown Management at Sports Unlimited”

Junior Faculty Interest Group

JFIG Paper Competition Award

First Place Recipients: Dan Iancu, Stanford University; Nikolaos Trichakis, Harvard Business School
Recognized Work: “Pareto Efficiency in Robust Optimization”

Runner-Up Recipients: Sajad Modaresi, Duke University; Denis Saure, University of Chile; Juan Pablo Vielma, MIT
Recognized Work: “ Learning in Combinatorial Optimization: What and How to Explore”

MSOM

Student Paper Competition

First Place Recipient: Song-Hee Kim, Columbia University
Recognized Work: “ICU Admission Control: An Empirical Study of Capacity Allocation and its Implication on Patient Outcomes”

Guillame Roels, Song-Hee Kim, Xuan Wang, Felipe Caro and Gabriel Weintraub (l-r).

First Place Recipient: Xuan Wang, New York University

Recognized Work: “Process Flexibility: A Distribution-free Bound on the Performance of k-chain”

Distinguished Service Award

Recipient: Noah Gans, University of Pennsylvania

Recognition: Meritorious service toward advancing the goals and objectives of the MSOM Society of INFORMS

Distinguished Fellows Award

Guillermo Gallego, John Birge and Mark Ferguson (l-r).

Recipients: John Birge, University of Chicago; Guillermo Gallego, Columbia University; David Simchi-Levi, MIT

Best Paper Award

Robert Phillips, Omar Besbes, Assaf Zeevi and Mark Ferguson (l-r).

Recipient: Omar Besbes, Columbia University; Robert Phillips, Columbia University and Nomis Solutions; Assaf Zeevi, Columbia University

Recognized Work: “Testing the Validity of a Demand Model: An Operations Perspective”

Young Scholar Prize

Steve Gilbert (left) and Serguei Netessine.

Recipient: Serguei Netessine, INSEAD

Recognition: Outstanding contributions to scholarship in operations management

Military Applications

2013 Koopman Prize

Recipients: Susan M. Sanchez, Thomas W. Lucas, Paul J. Sanchez, Christopher J. Nannini, Hong Wan
Recognized Work: “Designs for Large-Scale Simulation Experiments, with Applications to Defense and Homeland Security”

Seth Bonder Scholarship for Applied Operations Research in Military Applications

Walt DeGrange, Nathaniel Bastian and Anne Robinson (l-r).

Recipient: Nathaniel D. Bastian, The Pennsylvania State University

J. Steinhardt Prize

Recipient: Dean S. Hartley, III

Omega Rho Distinguished Lecturer

Lawrence M. Wein, Stanford University

“Data-Driven Operations Research Analyses in the Public Sector”

Optimization

Student Paper Prize

Sanjay Mehrotra, Afonso Bandeira, Simge Kucukyavuz (l-r).

Recipient: Afonso S. Bandeira

Recognized Work: “Computation of Sparse Low Degree Interpolating Polynomials and their Application to Derivative-Free Optimization”
Sanjay Mehrotra, Afonso Bandeira, Simge Kucukyavuz (l-r).

Prize for Young Researchers

Sanjay Mehrotra, James Luedtke and Alper Atamturk (l-r).

Recipient: James R. Luedtke

Recognized Work: “A Branch-and-Cut Decomposition Algorithm for Solving Chance-Constrained Mathematical Programs with Finite Support”

Khachiyan Prize

Sanjay Mehrotra, Alexander Shapiro and Donald Goldfarb (l-r).

Recipients: Donald Goldfarb and Alexander Shapiro

Recognition: Lifetime achievements in the field of optimization

Farkas Prize of the Optimization Society

Sanjay Mehrotra, Pablo Parrilo, and Dimitris Bertsimas (l-r).

Recipient: Pablo A. Parrilo

Recognition: Outstanding contributions to the field of optimization

Organization Science

Best Dissertation Proposal Competition

First-Place Recipient: Sujin Jang, Harvard Business School
Recognized Work: “Bringing Worlds Together: Cultural Brokerage in Multicultural Teams”
Runner-Up Recipient: Chad Murphy, Pennsylvania State University
Recognized Work: “Facing the Void: Identity and Legitimacy in Emerging Professions”

Public Programs, Service & Needs

Best Paper Competition

Ozlem Ergun, Peng Shi and Jérémie Gallien (l-r).

First-Place Recipients: Itai Ashlagi and Peng Shi

Recognized Work: “Optimal Allocation of Public Services Without Monetary Transfers or Costly Signals”

Ozlem Ergun, Tolga Tezcan and Jérémie Gallien (l-r).

Second Place-Recipients: Edieal Pinker and Tolga Tezcan

Recognized Work: “Determining the Optimal Configuration of Hospital Inpatient Rooms in the Presence of Isolation Patients”

Quality, Statistics & Reliability

Best Student Paper

Tirthankar Dasgupta, Linmiao Zhang and Irad Ben-Gal (l-r).

Recipient: Linmiao Zhang

Recognized Work: “Monitoring Wafer Geometric Quality using Additive Gaussian Process Model”

Railroad Applications

Problem Solving Competition

Sandra Eksioglu, Hai Wang, Maokai Lin (l-r).

Recipients: Hai Wang and Maokai Lin, MIT; Jiangang Jin, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Railway Applications Student Paper Contest

Recipient: Yutian Yang

Recognized Work: “Balanced Train Crew Assignment in Double-ended District”

Distinguished Member Award

Jagadish Jampani (left) and Ravindra Ahuja.

Recipient: Ravindra Ahuja

Service Science

Best Paper Award

Recipient: R.G. Qiu, Pennsylvania State University
Recognized Work: “Computational Thinking of Service Systems: Dynamics and Adaptiveness Modeling”

Best Paper Award of the Service Science Cluster

Recipient: Guillaume Roels, University of California-Los Angeles
Recognized Work: “A Service Classification Framework Based on Joint Production”

IBM Best Student Paper Award

Recipient: Yao Cui, University of Michigan
Recognized Work: “Should Event Organizers Prevent Resale of Tickets?”

Technology Management

Distinguished Speaker Award

Juliana Hsuan, Dundar Kocaoglu and Cheryl Druehl (l-r).

Recipient: Dundar Kocaoglu, Portland State University

Best Dissertation Award

Phillip Anderson, Ayfer Ali and Leonardo Santiago (l-r).

First-Place Recipient: Ayfer Ali, Harvard University

Recognized Work: “From Idea to Product – Translating Knowledge Between the Lab and the Clinic”
Runner-Up Recipient: Phillip C. Anderson, MIT
Recognized Work: “Complementary Capabilities in Dynamic Environments: The Evolution of Professional Services in Information Technology Product Firms”

Transportation Science & Logistics

Dissertation Prize

Recipient: Max Klimm, Technische Universität Berlin

Recognized Work: “Competition for Resources: The Equilibrium Existence Problem in Congestion Games”

Best Paper Award

Ann Campbell, Amadeo Odoni, Guglielmo Lulli, Dimitris Bertsimas and Laurie Garrow (l-r).

Recipients: Dimitris Bertsimas, Guglielmo Lulli and Amadeo Odoni

Recognized Work: “An Integer Optimization Approach to Large-Scale Air Traffic Flow Management”

Robert Herman Lifetime Achievement

Recipients: Carlos Daganzo, U.C.-Berkeley
Recognition: Fundamental and sustained contributions to transportation science and logistics

Women in ORMS

Advancement of Women in OR/MS

Recipient: Kathryn E. Stecke, University of Texas-Dallas

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