Introduction: 2024 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), Irvin Lustig (vice chair), Layek Abdel-Malek, Manish Bansal, Carrie Beam, Ann Bixby, Luciana Buriol, Ulaş Çakmak, Manoj Chari, Goutam Dutta, Mahyar Eftekhar, Gul Ege, Zeynep Ertem, Javier Faulin, Ken Fordyce, Shailendra Jain, Hansheng Jiang, Don Kleinmuntz, Matthes Koch, Sumit B. Makashir, Aly Megahed, Polly Mitchell-Guthrie, Juan Morales, Sven Müller, Chanel Murray, Alper Nakkas, Patricia Neri, Dessislava Pachamanova, Ioannis (Yanni) Papadakis, Pelin Pekgün, Tulia Plumettaz, Sanjay K. Prasad, Michael Prokle, Sreekanth Rajagopalan, Mikael Rönnqvist, Meinolf Sellmann, Inderjeet Singh, Swapnil Srivastava, Zohar Strinka, Natalia Summerville, Kermit Threatte, Joyce Weiner, Erick Wikum, Peiling Wu-Smith, Fred Zahrn, and Xinhui Zhang.

We thank the coaches: Jeff Alden, Manish Bansal, Carrie Beam, Luciana Buriol, Manoj Chari, Gul Ege, Shailendra Jain, Hansheng Jiang, Matthes Koch, Sven Müller, Ranganath Nuggehalli, Dessislava Pachamanova, Sanjay K. Prasad, Sreekanth Rajagopalan, Mikael Rönnqvist, Natalia Summerville, Kermit Threatte, Erick Wikum, Fred Zahrn, and Xinhui Zhang.

We thank the judging panel: Rajesh Tyagi (chair), Irvin Lustig (vice chair), Ken Fordyce, Suzan Iloglu, Aly Megahed, Ioannis (Yanni) Papadakis, Pelin Pekgün, Zohar Strinka, and Joyce Weiner.

We thank the Edelman Award Ceremony Organizing Committee: Carol DeZwarte (chair), Jeffrey Alden, C. Allen Butler, James Cochran, Pooja Dewan, Amirali Ghaharikermani, Mehmet Gumus, Russell P. Labe, Robin Lougee, Ranganath Nuggehalli, Anne Robinson, Shantih Spanton, Merhdad Tajalli, and Rajesh Tyagi.

We thank the INFORMS staff members who helped with this year’s Edelman Award Ceremony: Christy Blevins, Eilyn Cubillo, Kristine Ferg, Ashley Kilgore, Mary Leszczynski, Mary Magrogan, and Kara Tucker. We thank Pooja Dewan, who served as the award’s host 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.