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: Carrie Beam (chair), Layek Abdel-Malek, Sudip Bhattacharjee, Ann Bixby, Aaron Burciaga, Ulaş Çakmak, Pooja Dewan, Carol DeZwarte, Goutam Dutta, Gul Ege, Ken Fordyce, Diala Gammoh, Michael Gorman, Ananth Iyer, Mustafa Kabul, Burcu B. Keskin, Don Kleinmuntz, Matthes Koch, Russell P. Labe, Grace Lin, Tim Lowe, Aly Megahed, Polly Mitchell-Guthrie, Sven Müller, Chanel Murray, Yanni Pappadakis, Sanjay Prasad, Michael Prokle, Mikael Rönnqvist, Onur Seref, Inderjeet Singh, Zohar Strinka, Kendra Taylor, Kermit Threatte, Rajesh Tyagi, Joyce Weiner, and Xiaodi Zhu.
We thank the coaches: Layek Abdel-Malek, Sudip Bhattacharjee, Aaron Burciaga, Ulaş Çakmak, Pooja Dewan, Carol DeZwarte, Ken Fordyce, Mustafa Kabul, Grace Lin, Aly Megahed, Chanel Murray, Sanjay Prasad, Onur Seref, Inderjeet Singh, Zohar Strinka, and Joyce Weiner.
We thank the judging panel: Carrie Beam (chair), Manoj Chari, Gul Ege, Michael Gorman, Julie Ivy, Tim Lowe, Kendra Taylor, Rajesh Tyagi, and Kermit Threatte.
We thank the Edelman Award Ceremony Organizing Committee: Harrison Schramm (chair), Jeffrey Alden, Carrie Beam, Ann Bixby, Margrét Bjarnadóttir, C. Allen Butler, Pooja Dewan, Bryan Flietstra, Russell P. Labe, Ranganath Nuggehalli, 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.
We thank Erica Klampfl, 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.
