Selection committee members, verifiers, coaches, judges, and the Edelman Gala Committee all deserve thanks for the significant effort they put into making the Franz Edelman Award competition a success.
We thank this year’s members of the selection committee: Pooja Dewan (chair), Layek Abdel-Malek, Susan Albin, Jeffrey Alden, Sudharshana Apte, Sharon Arroyo, Carrie Beam, Peter Bell, Sudip Bhattacharjee, John Birge, Ann Bixby, Srinivas Bollapragrada, Antonio Carbajal, Manoj Chari, Pallav Chhaochhria, Walt DeGrange, Howard Finkelberg, Kenneth Fordyce, Arnold Greenland, Sidney Hess, Yoshi Ikura, Ananth Iyer, Shailendra Jain, Burcu Keskin, Russell Labe, Evan Levine, Grace Lin, Irvin Lustig, Douglas Matty, John Milne, Sven Müller, Patricia Neri, Ranganath Nuggehalli, Pelin Pekgun, Graham Rand, Olga Raskina, Anne Robinson, Maytal Saar-Tsechansky, Harrison Schramm, Kendra Taylor, Michael Trick, Rajesh Tyagi, Andres Weintraub, and Peiling Wu-Smith.
We thank this year’s verifiers: Layek Abdel-Malek, Jeffrey Alden, Sudharshana Apte, Carrie Beam, Peter Bell, Sudip Bhattacharjee, Ann Bixby, Srinivas Bollapragrada, Manoj Chari, Pallav Chhaochhria, Walt DeGrange, Kenneth Fordyce, Arnold Greenland, Yoshi Ikura, Shailendra Jain, Burcu Keskin, Grace Lin, Irvin Lustig, Sven Müller, Pelin Pekgun, Olga Raskina, Harrison Schramm, Rajesh Tyagi, and Andre Weintrab.
We thank the coaches: Layek Abdel-Malek, Jeffrey Alden, Sudharshana Apte, Carrie Beam, Sudip Bhattacharjee, John Birge, Ann Bixby, Walt DeGrange, Irvin Lustig, Sven Müller, Harrison Schramm, and Rajesh Tyagi.
We thank the judging panel: Pooja Dewan (chair), Antonio Carbajal, Manoj Chari, Michael Gorman, Arnold Greenland, Patricia Neri, Pelin Pekgun, Julie Swann, and Michael Trick.
We thank the Edelman Gala Committee: Ranganath Nuggehalli (chair), Jeffrey Alden, Sudharshana Apte, Peter Bell, Ann Bixby, Allen Butler, Antonio Carbajal, Pooja Dewan, Mark Gallagher, Ahmet Kuyumcu, Russell Labe, Patricia Neri, Anne Robinson, Randall Robinson, and Rina Schneur; and INFORMS staff members Ashley Kilgore, Mary Leszczynski, Max Resnick, and Kara Tucker. We thank Peter Bell, who served as the Gala’s master of ceremonies.
We thank Alice Mack, the manuscript editor of this issue, and the INFORMS staff who helped with many aspects of the process.
