Introduction: 2023 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Advanced Analytics, Operations Research, and Management Science

Selection committee members, verifiers, coaches, judges, and those supporting the award ceremony all deserve thanks for the effort they put into making the Franz Edelman Award competition a success.

We thank this year’s members of the selection committee and verifiers: Rajesh Tyagi (chair), Layek Abdel-Malek, Carrie Beam, Ann Bixby, Aaron Burciaga, Ulaş Çakmak, Manoj Chari, Carol DeZwarte, Goutam Dutta, Gul Ege, Ken Fordyce, Michael Gorman, Ananth Iyer, Mustafa Onur Kabul, Burcu Keskin, Don Kleinmuntz, Matthes Koch, Tim Lowe, Irvin Lustig, Aly Megahed, Polly Mitchell-Guthrie, Sven Müller, Chanel Murray, Patricia Neri, Yanni Pappadakis, Tulia Plumettaz, Sanjay K. Prasad, Michael Prokle, Mikael Rönnqvist, Inderjeet Singh, Zohar Strinka, Kermit Threatte, Joyce Weiner, Erick Wikum, Xinhui Zhang, and Xiaodi (CoCo) Zhu.

We thank the coaches: Layek Abdel-Malek, Carrie Beam, Ann Bixby, Aaron Burciaga, Ulaş Çakmak, Goutam Dutta, Ken Fordyce, Matthes Koch, Sven Müller, Patricia Neri, Yanni Pappadakis, Tulia Plumettaz, Inderjeet Singh, Zohar Strinka, Kermit Threatte, Joyce Weiner, Erick Wikum, and Xinhui Zhang.

We thank the judging panel: Rajesh Tyagi (chair), Victoria Chen, Carol DeZwarte, Michael Gorman, Ananth Iyer, Don Kleinmutz, Irvin Lustig, Aly Megahed, and Chanel Murray.

We thank the Edelman Award Ceremony Organizing Committee: Harrison Schramm (chair), Jeffrey Alden, Ann Bixby, Nilay Noyan Bulbul, C. Allen Butler, James Cochran, Pooja Dewan, Carol DeZwarte, Amirali Ghaharikermani, Russell P. Labe, Robin Lougee, Scott Nestler, Ranganath Nuggehalli, Merhdad Tajalli, Kermitt Threatte, Rajesh Tyagi, and Andrew Wasser.

We thank the INFORMS staff members who helped with this year’s Edelman Award Ceremony: Christy Blevins, Ashley Kilgore, Mary Leszczynski, Max Liberatore-Resnick, Mary Magrogan, Olivia Schmitz, and Kara Tucker. The authors also thank Carrie Beam, who served as the award’s master of ceremony.

We thank Alice Mack, the manuscript editor of this issue, for her brilliant editing and diligent efforts in improving the quality of the writing, and the INFORMS staff who helped with many aspects of the process.