February 8, 2019 in Awards & Prizes

INFORMS Community Awards

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The following awards were presented by the respective INFORMS societies, sections, fora, and student chapters at the 2018 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix.

Analytics Society

Kahkashan Afrin, 2018 Analytics Society President Jack Levis and Shrikant Jarugumilli of Bayer (l-r).

Award: Women in Operations Research – Bayer Scholarship
Recipient: Kahkashan Afrin

Kahkashan Afrin, 2018 Analytics Society President Jack Levis and Shrikant Jarugumilli of Bayer (l-r).


Applied Probability Society

Committee chair Amber Puha, Mykhaylo Shkolnikov and APS President Amy Ward (l-r).

Award: Erlang Prize
Winners: Mykhaylo Shkolnikov, Neil Walton and Hongseok Namkoong
Recognition: Fundamental contributions in stochastic analysis that have significantly advanced understanding of a range of models of interest in applied probability, and most notably financial mathematics.

Committee chair Amber Puha, Mykhaylo Shkolnikov and APS President Amy Ward (l-r).

Ahmadreza Momeni (finalist), Hongseok Namkoong (winner), John Hasenbein (committee chair), Renyuan Xu (finalist) and Ziv Scully (finalist) (l-r).

Award: Best Student Paper
Winner: Hongseok Namkoong
Recognized work: “Statistics of Robust Optimization: A Generalized Empirical Likelihood Approach,” co-authored with John C. Duchi and Peter W. Glynn

Ahmadreza Momeni (finalist), Hongseok Namkoong (winner), John Hasenbein (committee chair), Renyuan Xu (finalist) and Ziv Scully (finalist) (l-r).


Aviation Applications

Committee chair Senay Solak, Chiwei Yan and section chair Vikrant Vaze (l-r).

Award: Best Dissertation Prize
Winner: Chiwei Yan
Recognized work: “Airline Scheduling and Air Traffic Control: Incorporating Uncertainty and Passenger and Airline Preferences”

Committee chair Senay Solak, Chiwei Yan and section chair Vikrant Vaze (l-r).


Behavioral Operations Management

Award: Best Working Paper Award
Winners: Andrew Davis and Kyle Hyndman
Recognized work: “Private Information and Endogenous Matching in Supply Chains”
Second place: Ruthy Beer, Ignacio Rios and Daniela Saban
Recognized work: “Increased Transparency in Procurement: The Role of Peer Effects”
Third place: Daniel Feller, Jordan Tong
Recognized work: “From Noise to Bias in Linked Supply Chain Decisions”


Conference on Systems and Technology

Award: Best Conference Paper
Winners: Yicheng Song, Zhuoxin Li and Nachiketa Sahoo
Second place: Meng Liu, Erik Brynjolfsson, Jason Dowlatabadi, Scott Schanke, Gordon Burtch and Gautam Ray

Award: Best Student Paper
Winners: Alex P. Miller and Kartik Hosanagar
Second place: Yipu Deng, Jinyang Zheng, Warut Khern-Am-Nuai and Karthik Kannan


Computing Society

Awardees James Burke, Frank Curtis and ICS chair Cole Smith (l-r).

Award: Computing Society Prize
Recipients: James V. Burke, Frank E. Curtis, Adrian S. Lewis and Michael L. Overton

Awardees James Burke, Frank Curtis and ICS chair Cole Smith (l-r).

Committee chair Anna Nagurney, award recipient Aleksandr Kazachkov and ICS chair Cole Smith (l-r).

Award: ICS Student Paper Prize
Winner: Aleksandr M. Kazachkov
Recognized work: “V-Polyhedral Disjunctive Cuts”
Second place: Colin P. Gillen and Christopher Lourenco

Committee chair Anna Nagurney, award recipient Aleksandr Kazachkov and ICS chair Cole Smith (l-r).


Decision Analysis Society

Award: Practice Award
Winners: Jarrod Goentzel, Gilberto Montibeller and Corinne Carland
Recognized work: “Modeling the Values of Agents in Supply Chains of Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Test Kits with Decision Analysis” 

Award: Council & Leadership
Recipients: Saurabh Bansal, Emanuele Borgonovo, Jason Merrick, Erin Baker and Joe Hahn 

Award: Student Paper Award
Winner: Xiaojia Guo
Second place: Christoph Werner and Alireza Boloori

Award: Publication Award
Winners: Gülden Ülkümen, Craig R. Fox and Bertram F. Malle 

Award: Frank P. Ramsey Medal
Recipient: Max Henrion
Recognition: Distinguished contributions in decision analysis


Data Mining

Award: Applied Paper
Winners: Salar Fattahi, Angela Zhou and Will Ma
Finalist: Velibor V. Misic 

Award: Theoretical Paper
Winners: Max Biggs, Rim Hariss and Mostafa Reisi Gahrooei
Finalists: Raquel de Souza Borges Ferreira and Negin Golrezaei


E-Business

Award: Best Paper Award
Winners: Yeongin Kim, Mehmet Ulvi Saygi Ayvaci, Srinivasan Raghunathan and Turgay Ayer
Recognized work: “When IT Creates Legal Vulnerability: Not Just Overutilization but Underprovisioning of Health Care Could be a Consequence”
Second place: Dongwon Lee, Anandasivam Gopal and Dokyun Lee
Recognized work: “Micro-Giving: On the Use of Mobile Devices and Monetary Subsidies in Charitable Giving”
Third place: Mingwen Yang, Vijay S. Mookerjee and Zhiqiang Eric Zheng
Recognized work: “Are you Paying too Much for Financial Advice? Measuring the Value of Information in a Copy Trading Platform”


Energy, Natural Resources and the Environment

Miguel Anjos (ENRE president-elect), Hayri Onal (president), Goran Vojvodic (winner), Shmuel Oren (committee chair) and Steffen Rebennack (honorary mention) (l-r).

Award: Best Publication Award in Energy
Winners: Ahmad I. Jarrah, David P. Morton and Goran Vojvodic
Recognized work: “Forward thresholds for operation of pumped-storage stations in the real-time energy market,” European Journal of Operational Research

Miguel Anjos (ENRE president-elect), Hayri Onal (president), Goran Vojvodic (winner), Shmuel Oren (committee chair) and Steffen Rebennack (honorary mention) (l-r).

Miguel Anjos (ENRE president-elect), Hayri Onal (ENRE president) and prize-winners Shouqiang Wang and Peng Sun (l-r).

Award: Best Publication Award in Environment & Sustainability
Winners: Francis de Véricourt, Peng Sun and Shouqiang Wang
Recognized work: “Inducing Environmental Disclosures: A Dynamic Mechanism Design Approach,” Operations Research

Miguel Anjos (ENRE president-elect), Hayri Onal (ENRE president) and prize-winners Shouqiang Wang and Peng Sun (l-r).

Miguel Anjos (ENRE president-elect), Hayri Onal (president), Tingju Zhu (winner) and Yu Wei (committee chair) (l-r).

Award: Best Publication Award in Natural Resources
Winners: Tingju Zhu, Guilherme Fernandes Marques and Jay R. Lund
Recognized work: “Hydroeconomic Optimization of Integrated Water Management and Transfers under Stochastic Surface Water Supply,” Water Resources

Miguel Anjos (ENRE president-elect), Hayri Onal (president), Tingju Zhu (winner) and Yu Wei (committee chair) (l-r).

Miguel Anjos (ENRE president-elect), Hayri Onal (ENRE president), Beste Basciftci (winner) and Boris Defourny (committee chair) (l-r).

Award: Best Student Paper
Winner: Beste Basciftci
Recognized work: “Stochastic Optimization of Maintenance and Operations Schedules under Unexpected Failures,” co-authors: S. Ahmed, N. Gebraeel, M. Yildirim

Miguel Anjos (ENRE president-elect), Hayri Onal (ENRE president), Beste Basciftci (winner) and Boris Defourny (committee chair) (l-r).

Miguel Anjos (ENRE president-elect), Hayri Onal (ENRE president), Soongeol Kwon (winner) and Ramteen Sioshansi (committee chair) (l-r).

Award: ENRE Young Researcher
Winner: Soongeol Kwon
Recognized work: “Ensuring Renewable Energy Utilization for Sustainable and Energy-Efficient Data Centers”

Miguel Anjos (ENRE president-elect), Hayri Onal (ENRE president), Soongeol Kwon (winner) and Ramteen Sioshansi (committee chair) (l-r).


Finance

Philppe Casgrain (right) won the Student Paper Competition.

Award: Student Paper Competition
Winner: Philippe Casgrain
Honorable mention: Zhaoli Jiang

Philppe Casgrain (right) won the Student Paper Competition.


Health Applications Society

HAS President Lisa Maillart, winners Jonathan Helm and Pengyi Shi, and presenters Sze-Chuan Suen and Margaret Brandeau (l-r).

Award: Pierskalla Best Paper Award
Winners: Pengyi Shi, Jonathan Helm, Jivan Romain Deglise-Hawkinson and Julian Pan
Recognized work: “Timing it Right: Balancing Inpatient Congestion versus Readmission Risk at Discharge”
Second place: Stephen E Chick, Noah Gans and Ozge Yapar
Recognized work: “Bayesian Sequential Learning for Clinical Trials of Multiple Correlated Medical Interventions”
Finalists: Hamsa Bastani, Osbert Bastani and Carolyn Kim,
Recognized work: “Interpreting Predictive Models for Human-in-the-Loop Analytics”
Finalists: Taylor Corcoran, Elisa Long and Fernanda Bravo
Recognized work: “Flexible FDA Approval Policies”
Finalists: Vishal Gupta, Brian Rongqing Han, Song-Hee Kim and Hyung Paek
Recognized work: “Maximizing Intervention Effectiveness”

HAS President Lisa Maillart, winners Jonathan Helm and Pengyi Shi, and presenters Sze-Chuan Suen and Margaret Brandeau (l-r).


Information Systems Society

Award: Distinguished Fellow Award
Recipients: Ravi Bapna, Anandhi Bharadwaj and Kevin Zhu 

Award: Management Science Best Paper Award
Winners: Ravi Bapna and Akhmed Umyarov
Recognized work: “Do Your Online Friends Make You Pay? A Randomized Field Experiment on Peer Influence in Online Social Networks” 

Award: Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award
Winner: Mochen Yang
Second place: Xue (Jane) Tan, Sagar Samtani and Manmohan Aseri 

Award: INFORMS ISS Sandy Slaughter Early Career Award
Recipients: Anuj Kumar, Ashish Agarwal, Brad Greenwood, Hong Guo, Huaxia Rui, Mohammad Rahman, Pedro Ferreira and Peng Huang


INFORMS Chapters/Fora Awards

Award: Moving Spirit Award
Recipients: Sarah Nurre and Shengfan Zhang 

Award: Judith Liebman Award
Recipients: Neda Mirzaeian, Lauren Steimle and Carlos Zetina


INFORMS Student Chapter Awards

Summa Cum Laude recipients: Auburn University, SUNY–Buffalo

Magna Cum Laude recipients: Carnegie Mellon, Concordia University, Koç University, University of Pittsburgh, University of South Florida and Texas A&M University

Cum Laude recipients: Arizona State University, Lehigh University, Mississippi State University, Northeastern University, Northwestern University, University of Alabama, University of Massachusetts, University of Michigan, University of Texas at Dallas, University of Toronto and Virginia Tech


Junior Faculty Interest Group

Prize-winner He Wang and Oleg Prokopyev (l-r).

Award: Paper Competition
Winner: He Wang
Recognized work: “A Re-solving Heuristic with Uniformly Bounded Loss for Network Revenue Management”
Second place: Nathan Kallus 
Recognized work: “Confounding-Robust Policy Improvement”
Third Place: Weijun Xie
Recognized work: “On Distributionally Robust Chance Constrained Program with Wasserstein Distance”
Honorable mention: Santiago Balseiro, Yonatan Gur Andres Gomez, Gah-Yi Ban and N. Bora Keskin


Location Analysis

Barıs Yıldız, committee chair Monica Gentili and committee member Bahar Yetis Kara (l-r).

Award: SOLA Dissertation Award
Co-winner: Barıs Yıldız
Recognized work: “Relay Location in Telecommunications and Transportation Networks”

Barıs Yıldız, committee chair Monica Gentili and committee member Bahar Yetis Kara (l-r).

Camilo Ortiz-Astorquiza, committee member Bahar Yetis Kara and committee chair Monica Gentili (l-r).

Award: SOLA Dissertation Award
Co-winner:
Camilo Ortiz-Astorquiza
Recognized work: “Multi-Level Facility Location Problems”

Camilo Ortiz-Astorquiza, committee member Bahar Yetis Kara and committee chair Monica Gentili (l-r).


Military & Security Society

Rajan Batta, Yan Xia, Rakesh Nagi and Col. Andy Hall (MAS president) (l-r).

Award: Koopman Prize
Recipients: Yan Xia, Rajan Batta and Rakesh Nagi
Recognition: Outstanding publication in military operations research

Rajan Batta, Yan Xia, Rakesh Nagi and Col. Andy Hall (MAS president) (l-r).

Warren Sutton (CNA) and Marlin Thomas (l-r).

Award: J. Steinhardt Prize
Recipient: Marlin Thomas
Recognition: Outstanding contributions to military operations research

Warren Sutton (CNA) and Marlin Thomas (l-r).


Multiple Criteria Decision Making

Gokhan Kirlik and judging committee chair Margaret Wiecek (l-r).

Award: Junior Researcher Best Paper Award
Winner: Gokhan Kirlik
Recognized work: “Bilevel Programming for Generating Discrete Representations in Multiobjective Optimization”
Finalists: Milosz Kadzinski and Valentina Feretti

Gokhan Kirlik and judging committee chair Margaret Wiecek (l-r).


Minority Issues Forum

Award: Early Career Award
Winner: Eduardo Perez 

Award: Paper Competition
Winners: Ragavendran Gopalakrishnan, Sherwin Doroudi, Amy R. Ward and Adam Wierman
Recognized work: “Routing and Staffing When Servers are Strategic”
Finalists: Canan G. Corlu and Sridhar Tayur
Recognized work: “Demand Fulfillment Probability in a Multi-item Inventory System with Limited Historical Data”
Finalists: Karen Hicklin, Julie Ivy, Fay Cobb Payton, Meera Viswanathan and Evan Myers
Recognized work: “The Value of Waiting During Labor”
Finalists: Belleh Fontem, Sharif H. Melouk, Burcu B. Keskin and Naeem Bajwa
Recognized work: “A Decomposition-Based Heuristic for Stochastic Emergency Routing Problems” 

Award: Minority Issues Poster Competition
Winners: Destinie Nock and Donald Richardson
Recognized work: “Sustainable Electric Generation Portfolios: A Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis” 

Award: Doctoral Colloquium Student Sponsorship Award
Winners: Gian-Gabriel Garcia and Alejandro Vigo Camargo


MSOM Society

MSOM President Wedad Elmaghraby congratulates Junfei Huang (l-r).

Award: Service Management Special Interest Group Best Paper
Co-winners: Junfei Huang, Boaz Carmeli and Avishai Mandelbaum
Recognized work: “Control of Patient Flow in Emergency Departments, or Multiclass Queues with Deadlines and Feedback”

MSOM President Wedad Elmaghraby congratulates Junfei Huang (l-r).

MSOM President Wedad Elmaghraby and Hummy Song (co-winner) (l-r).

Award: Service Management Special Interest Group Best Paper
Co-winners: Hummy Song, Anita L. Tucker and Karen L. Murrell
Recognized work: “The Diseconomies of Queue Pooling: An Empirical Investigation of Emergency Department Length of Stay”

MSOM President Wedad Elmaghraby and Hummy Song (co-winner) (l-r).

Prize-winner Robert Bray and MSOM President Wedad Elmaghraby (l-r).

Award: Data Driven Challenge
Winner: Robert Bray
Finalists: Maggie Li, Xiang Liu, Yan Huang, Cong Shi, Cheng Hua, Xiaocheng Li, Yufeng Zheng, Zhenpeng Zhou, Zeyu Zheng, Vinayak Deshpande and Pradeep Pendem

Prize-winner Robert Bray and MSOM President Wedad Elmaghraby (l-r).

Dan Iancu, MSOM President Wedad Elmaghraby, Nikos Trichakis and Gerry Tsoukalas (l-r).

Award: iFORM Best Paper Award
Winners: Dan A. Iancu, Nikolaos Trichakis and Gerry Tsoukalas
Finalists: Jiri Chod, Mert Hakan Hekimolu, Burak Kazaz and Scott Webster

Dan Iancu, MSOM President Wedad Elmaghraby, Nikos Trichakis and Gerry Tsoukalas (l-r).

Carri W. Chan, MSOM President Wedad Elmaghraby and Song-Hee Kim (l-r).

Award: Management Science Best Paper in Operations Management Award
Winners: Song-Hee Kim, Carri W. Chan, Marcelo Olivares and Gabriel Escobar
Finalists: Omar Besbes, Ilan Lobel, Ludwig Kuntz, Roman Mennicken and Stefan Scholtes

Carri W. Chan, MSOM President Wedad Elmaghraby and Song-Hee Kim (l-r).

Award winner Beril Toktay and MSOM President Wedad Elmaghraby (l-r).

Award: Distinguished Service Award
Winner: Beril Toktay

Award winner Beril Toktay and MSOM President Wedad Elmaghraby (l-r).

Award: Fellow
Recipients: Edward Kaplan and Serguei Netessine

Ying Rong, MSOM President Wedad Elmaghraby, Ho-Yin Mak and Michael Lim (l-r).

Award: M&SOM Journal Best Paper
Winners: Michael Lim, Ho-Yin Mak and Ying Rong
Finalists: Robert Bray, Haim Mendelson, Kris Ferreira Johnson, Bin Hong Alex Lee, David Simchi-Levi, Gerard P. Cachon, Kaitlin M. Daniels and Ruben Lobel

Ying Rong, MSOM President Wedad Elmaghraby, Ho-Yin Mak and Michael Lim (l-r).

Award: M&SOM Student Paper Competition
Winner: Sajad Modaresi
Second place: Bhavani Shanker Uppari
Finalists: Taylor Courtney Corcoran, Baek Jung Kim, Pornpawee Bumpensanti and Lai Wei 

MSOM President Wedad Elmaghraby and Victor Martínez de Albéniz (l-r).

Award: Young Scholar Award
Winners: Victor Martínez de Albéniz

MSOM President Wedad Elmaghraby and Victor Martínez de Albéniz (l-r).

MSOM President Wedad Elmaghraby and Ilan Lobel (l-r).

Award: Young Scholar Award
Winners: Ilan Lobel

MSOM President Wedad Elmaghraby and Ilan Lobel (l-r).


Optimization Society

Award: Khachiyan Prize
Winners: John N. Hooker, James Renegar and Werner Römisch
Recognition: Lifetime achievements in optimization 

Award: Farkas Prize
Winner: Shabbir Ahmed
Recognition: Mid-career researcher for outstanding contributions to the field of optimization

Award: Prize for Young Researchers
Co-winners: Amir Ahmadi and Georgina Hall
Recognized work: “On the Construction of Converging Hierarchies for Polynomial Optimization Based on Certificates of Global Positivity”
Co-winners: Dan Iancu and Nikos Trichakis
Recognized work: “Pareto Efficiency in Robust Optimization”

Award: Student Paper Prize
Winner: Yong Sheng Soh
Recognized work: “Learning Semidefinite Regularizers”
Second place: Joey Huchette
Recognized work: “A Combinatorial Approach for Small and Strong Formulations of Disjunctive Constraints”
Second place: Felix Happach
Recognized work: “Good Clusterings Have Large Volume”
Honorable mention: Yanli Liu, Naman Agarwal, Brian Bullins and Nam Ho-Nguyen


Organization Science

Award: Dissertation Proposal Competition
Winner: Basima Tewfik
Recognized work: “Impostor Thoughts as a Double-Edged Sword: Theoretical Conceptualization, Construct Measurement, and Relationships with Work-Related Outcomes”
Second place: Hyo Kang
Recognized work: “How Does Competition Affect Innovation? Evidence from U.S. Antitrust Cases”
Second place: Rebecca Paluch
Recognized work: “Until We Meet Again: The Role of Corporate Alumni Benefits in Managing Post-Employment Relationships”
Finalists: John Eklund, Stefan Dimitriadis, Britta Glennon, Trey Cummings and Michael Lee


Public Sector OR

Award: Best Paper Competition
Winners: Taylor Corcoran, Fernanda Bravo and Elisa F. Long
Recognized work: “Flexible FDA Approval Policies”
Second place: Soroush Saghafian and Wallace J. Hopp
Recognized work: “Can Public Reporting Cure Healthcare? The Role of Quality Transparency in Improving Patient-Provider Alignment”
Finalists: Rahul Swamy, Douglas M. King, Sheldon H. Jacobson, Jean L. Kiddoo, Evan Kwerel, Sasha Javid, Melissa Dunford, Gary M. Epstein, Charles E. Meisch, Jr., Karla L. Hoffman, Brian B. Smith, Anthony Coudert, Rudy K. Sultana, James A. Costa, Steven Charbonneau, Michael Trick, Ilya Segal, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Alexandre Fréchette, Neil Newman, Dinesh Menon, Paul Salasznyk, Zhaowei She, Turgay Ayer and Daniel Montanera


Quality, Statistics & Reliability

Award: Best Student Poster Award
Winners: Ashif Sikandar Iquebal and Chenang Liu 

Award: Best Refereed Paper Award
Winners: Linglin He and Ying Hung
Finalists: Shenghan Guo and Weihong (Grace) Guo, Raed Al Kontar, Garvesh Raskutti, Shiyu Zhou, Juan Du, Xiaowei Yue, Jeffrey H. Hunt and Jianjun Shi 

Award: Former Chair
Recipient: Kaibo Wang 

Award: Best Student Paper Award
Winner: Raquel de Souza Borges Ferreira
Recognized work: “Predictive Comparisons for Screening and Interpreting Inputs in Machine Learning”
Finalists: Anh Tuan Bui, Shuang Li and Ruizhi Zhang


Railway Applications

Kamalesh Somani (chair) and Mike Gorman (l-r).

Award: Distinguished Member Award
Recipient: Michael Gorman 

Kamalesh Somani (chair) and Mike Gorman (l-r).

Award: Railway Applications Student Paper Award
Winner: Fei Yan
Recognized work: “Multi-objective Periodic Railway Timetabling”
Second place: Rolf N. van Lieshout
Recognized work: “Determining and Evaluating Alternative Line Plans in (Near) Out-of-Control Situations”
Third place: Manuel Fuentes
Recognized work: “A Hybrid Model for Robust Crew Scheduling in Rapid Transit Networks” 

Shantih Spanton and Kamalesh Somani (l-r).

Award: Service Award
Recipient: Kamalesh Somani

Shantih Spanton and Kamalesh Somani (l-r).

Award: Problem Solving Competition
Winners: Jørgen Thorlund Haahr, Erik Orm Hellsten and Evelien van der Hurk
Recognized work: “Forecasting Train Delays in the Netherlands using Neural Networks” 

Zhang Qi and Shantih Spanton (chair) (l-r).

Award: Poster Competition
Winners: Zhang Qi and Wang Yu
Second place: Adrian Diaz de Rivera, Tyler Dick, Darkhan Mussanov and Leonel Evans
Third place: Abhishek Pathak, Faeze Ghofrani, Reza Mohammad, Amjad Aref and Qing He

Zhang Qi and Shantih Spanton (chair) (l-r).


Revenue Management and Pricing

Omar Besbes (committee chair) congratulates Stefanus Jasin (l-r).

Award: Section Award
Winner: Stefanus Jasin
Recognized work: “Re-optimization and Self-Adjusting Price Control for Network Revenue Management,” Operations Research

Omar Besbes (committee chair) congratulates Stefanus Jasin (l-r).

Prize-winner Antoine Desir and prize committee member Ozge Sahin (l-r).

Award: Section Dissertation Award
Winner: Antoine Desir
Recognized work: “Fundamental Tradeoffs for Modeling Customer Preferences in Revenue Management”
Honorable mention: Anna Papush, Rad Niazadeh and Yun Zhou

Prize-winner Antoine Desir and prize committee member Ozge Sahin (l-r).


Service Science

Award: Best Cluster Paper Award
Winners: Maxime Cohen, Michael D. Fiszer, Baek Jung Kim, Tamar Cohen-Hillel, Georgia Perakis and Kiran Panchamgam
Second place: Selin Merdan, Christine Barnett, Brian T. Denton, James E. Montie and David C. Miller
Finalists: Adam Elmachtoub, Vishal Gupta, Michael L. Hamilton, Jon M. Stauffer, Aly Megahed, Chelliah Sriskandarajah, Ahmed Nazeem, Jianfu Wang, Ming Hu, Saif Benjaafar, Jian-Ya Ding, Guangwen Kong, Terry Taylor, Luyi Yang, Zhongbin Wang, Shiliang Cui, Zhong-Zhong Jiang, Guangwen Kong and Yinghao Zhang 

Award-winner Shan Wang with committee chair Aly Megahed (l-r).

Award: IBM Best Student Paper Award
Winner: Shan Wang
Second place: Yunke Mai
Third place: Rakesh Mallipeddi
Finalists: Kraig Delana, Lai Wei, Sina Golara, Pu He, Jiayi Joey Yu, Lennart Baardman, Divya Singhvi, Ekaterina Astashkina, Levi DeValve, Kalinda Ukanwa and Behrooz Pourghannad

Award-winner Shan Wang with committee chair Aly Megahed (l-r).


Social Media

Award: Best Student Paper Competition
Winner: Nicolas Guenon des Mesnards
Recognized work: “Detecting Influence Campaigns in Social Networks Using the Ising Model”
Finalists: Shuang Li, Yuan Zhang and D. Scott Hunter


Telecommunications and Network Analytics

Eli Olinick (past president of Telecommunications and Network Analytics) and Martim Joyce-Moniz (l-r).

Award: Best Dissertation Award
Winner: Martim Joyce-Moniz
Recognized work: “Models and Methods for Traffic Engineering Problems with Single-Path Routing”
Finalists: Lei Lei and Marco Premoli

Eli Olinick (past president of Telecommunications and Network Analytics) and Martim Joyce-Moniz (l-r).


Technology, Innovation, Management and Entrepreneurship

Award: Distinguished Speaker Award
Recipient: Karl T. Ulrich

Florian Ederer (right) receives award on behalf of Tristan L. Botelho

Award: Best Dissertation
Winner: Tristan L. Botelho
Second place: Cédric Gutierrez Moreno
Third place: Philipp Cornelius and Konstantinos I. Stouras

Florian Ederer (right) receives award on behalf of Tristan L. Botelho

Award: Best Working Paper Award
Winners: Stelios Kavadias, Nektarios Oraiopoulos and Panos Markou
Second place: C. Gizem Korpeoglu, Isa Emin Hafalir and Ersin Körpeolu
Third place: Tian Chan, Morvarid Rahmani, Jiri Chod, Jurgen Mihm, Manuel Sosa, Karthik Ramachandran, Nikolaos Trichakis, Gerry Tsoukalas, Mark Weber and Henry Aspegren 

Award: Best Paper Award
Winner: Barry Bayus
Recognized work: “Crowdsourcing New Product Ideas Over Time: An Analysis of the Dell Idea Storm Community” 

Award: Best Paper Award
Winners: Florian Ederer and Gustavo Manso
Recognized work: “Is Pay for Performance Detrimental to Innovation?”
Second place: Elie Ofek, Karan Girotra, Sharon Alvarez, Glenn Voss, Ozge Turut, Serguei Netessine, Jay Barney, Philip Anderson and Zannie Giraud Voss 

Award: Distinguished Service Award
Recipients: Juliana Hsuan and John Angelis


Transportation Science & Logistics Society

Award: TSL Invited Cluster Keynote Address
Recipient: Andrea Lodi 

Tom van Woensel (TSL president), Martin Savelsbergh, Natashia Boland, Luke Marshall and Mike Hewitt (l-r).

Award: TSL Best Paper Award
Winners: Natashia Boland, Mike Hewitt, Luke Marshall and Martin Savelsbergh

Tom van Woensel (TSL president), Martin Savelsbergh, Natashia Boland, Luke Marshall and Mike Hewitt (l-r).

Emma Frejinger (presenter), Maximilian Schiffer and Tom van Woensel (TSL president) (l-r).

Award: TSL Best Dissertation Award
Recipient: Maximilian Schiffer
Recognized work: “Logistics Networks with Intermediate Stops – Designing Innovative and Green Solutions”
Honorable mention: Chiwei Yan
Recognized work: “Airline Scheduling and Air Traffic Control: Incorporating Uncertainty and Passenger and Airline Preferences”

Emma Frejinger (presenter), Maximilian Schiffer and Tom van Woensel (TSL president) (l-r).

Karen Smilowitz (TSL past president), Tom van Woensel (TSL president), Barrett W. Thomas and Alan Erera (TSL incoming president) (l-r).

Award: President’s Service Award
Recipient: Barrett W. Thomas

Karen Smilowitz (TSL past president), Tom van Woensel (TSL president), Barrett W. Thomas and Alan Erera (TSL incoming president) (l-r).


Women in OR/MS

Award: Advancement of Women in OR/MS
Recipient: Susan M. Sanchez 

Award: Doctoral Colloquium Student Sponsorship Award
Recipients: Emily Tucker and Toyya Pujo 

Award: Family Care Travel Award
Recipients: Amira Hijazi, Nibal Albashabsheh, Yaarit Even, Yuxin Wen and Seyma Güven-Koçak

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