Applied Probability Society
Best Student Paper Prize
This prize identifies and honors outstanding papers in the field of applied probability that are written primarily by a student.
Winner: Tianyi Peng, Andrew Zheng
Erlang Prize
A single prize will be awarded once every two years during even calendar years by the Applied Probability Society (APS) of INFORMS to an early career researcher who has made a significant contribution to applied probability.
Winner: Siddhartha Banerjee
Artificial Intelligence
Best Complete Paper Award
Winner: Gordon Burtch, Edward McFowland III, Mochen Yang, Gediminas Adomavicius
Best Reviewer Award
Best Short Paper Award
Best Short Paper Award
Auctions and Market Design
Rothkopf Junior Researcher Paper Prize
The prize recognizes the best paper by a junior researcher in the area of Auctions and Market Design, with a particular focus on the use of Operations Research and/or Management Science techniques in the design or analysis of markets. The paper should provide an innovative approach to a realistic market-design problem, and should have potential impact for real-world market design.
Winner: Haihao Lu
Aviation Applications Section
Best Dissertation Award
This prize is awarded for the best dissertation in any area related to aviation O.R. (air traffic management O.R. and airline O.R.).
Winner: Max Zhaoyu Li
Best Paper Award
This award will be given at the INFORMS National Meeting to the author of the best paper submitted by a full-time student in the area of aviation applications. Specific topics include (but are not limited to) passenger and cargo airline operations, pricing, marketing, and yield management; air traffic control; airport planning; aviation financial/economic/policy analysis, aviation forecasting, and aviation human factors.
Behavioral Operations Management
Best Working Paper Award
The goal of this Competition is to highlight the best working papers in the area of Behavioral Operations.
Winner: Sebastián Villa, Rafael Escamilla, Jan Fransoo
Computing Society
INFORMS Computing Society Prize
The ICS Prize is an annual award for best English language paper on the OR/CS interface. The award includes a plaque and cash prize.
Winners: Saeed Ghadimi, Guanghui Lan, Hongchao Zhang
Student Paper Award
This award is given annually to the best paper on computing and O.R. by a student author, as judged by a panel of the ICS. The award includes a plaque and $500 cash prize.
Winner: Irina Wang
Harvey J. Greenberg Service Award
The Harvey J Greenberg Research Award is a recently established annual award that honors research excellence in the field of computation and operations research applications, especially those in emerging application fields. Honored research would focus on contributions that exhibit the promise of making a significant impact in the scope of OR/MS/Analytics practice.
Winner: Zeyu Liu, Anahita Khojandi, Xueping Li, Akram Mohammed, Robert L. Davis, Rishikesan Kamaleswaran
Data Mining
Best Applied Paper Competition
Best Theoretical Paper Competition
Data Mining Best Paper Award: General Track
Data Mining Best Paper Award: Student Track
Decision Analysis Society
Publication Award
This award is given annually to the best decision analysis article or book published in the second preceding calendar year, as judged by a panel of Society members. The award includes a plaque and $750 cash prize.
Winner: Saurabh Bansal, Genaro J. Gutierrez
Student Paper Award
This award is given annually to the best decision analysis paper by a student author, as judged by a panel of Society members. Student papers need not be sole-authored or first-authored. This award includes a plaque and $500 cash prize.
Winner: Giacomo Lanzani
eBusiness Section
Best Paper Award
Winner: Hao Hu
Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment Section
Best Publication in Energy
The ENRE Best Publication Awards are given annually to the best refereed journal articles in the areas of interest of ENRE. The objective of the award is to recognize the contributions of ENRE members to the respective research areas.
Winner: Long He, Guangrui Ma, Wei Qi, Xin Wang
Best Publication in Environment & Sustainability
The ENRE Best Publication Awards are given annually to the best refereed journal articles in the areas of interest of ENRE. The objective of the award is to recognize the contributions of ENRE members to the respective research areas.
Winner: A. Gürhan Kök, Kevin Shang, Şafak Yücel
Best Publication in Natural Resources
The ENRE Best Publication Awards are given annually to the best refereed journal articles in the areas of interest of ENRE. The objective of the award is to recognize the contributions of ENRE members to the respective research areas.
Winner: Eyyüb Y. Kıbış, Esra Büyüktahtakın, Robert G. Haight, Najmaddin Akhundov, Kathleen Knight, Charles E. Flower
Best Student Paper
This award is given annually to the best paper dealing with energy, environmental, or natural resource issues by a student author who is presenting at the INFORMS Annual Meeting, as judged by a panel of the Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment Section.
Winner: Dirk Lauinger
The Harold Hotelling Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Energy, Natural Resources, and Environment
Winner: Richard O’Neill
ENRE Young Researchers Prize
Winner: Chen Jin, Luyi Yang, Cungen Zhu
Section on Finance
Student Paper Competition
The objectives of the section are to provide a continuing, specialized focus within INFORMS on the topic of financial services, with the aim of identifying current and potential problems and contributions to their solutions; to lead in the development, dissemination, and implementation of knowledge, basic and applied research and technologies in the area of finance and financial services.
Winner: Lewen Zheng
Management Science Best Paper Award
Starting from 2022, the Finance Section of INFORMS will sponsor a Best Paper Award every year. Papers will be evaluated based on their contribution to theory, empirics, operational aspects, and managerial practice of finance.
Winner: Lauren Cohen, Umit G. Gurun, Scott Duke Kominers
Health Applications Society
Pierskalla Award
This award recognizes research excellence in the field of healthcare management science. The award includes an honorarium for the best paper presented in a Health Applications Society sponsored session at the INFORMS Annual Meeting. The award is named after Dr. William Pierskalla to recognize his contribution and dedication to improving health services delivery through operations research.
Winner: Jiayi Lin, Hrayer Aprahamian, George Golovko
Sanjay and Panna Mehrotra Research Excellence Award
Recognizes a mid-career researcher for significant contributions to the practice of health applications through operations research (OR) and management science (MS) modeling and methodologies. The award is named after Professor Sanjay Mehrotra and his wife, in recognition of Professor Mehrotra’s contributions and dedication to translating OR/MS modeling and methodology research to practice so as to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare systems.
Winner: Mariel Lavieri
Information Systems
ISS Bapna-Ghose Social Justice Best Paper Award
This best paper award’s purpose is to foster and encourage high quality IS research that makes an impact towards improving social justice outcomes. The award’s concept of social justice research is broadly scoped to include all facets of modern IS, analytics, digital platforms and AI perspectives, as well as the full palette of methodologies.
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ISS Distinguished Fellow
Recognizes individuals who have made outstanding intellectual contributions to the information systems discipline.
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The Sandy Slaughter Early Career Award
The spirit of the award is to honor the memory of the late Professor Sandy Slaughter who was tireless in her pursuit of recognizing the potential leaders of the “next generation” of information systems academics. The award will recognize and honor early career individuals who are on a path towards making outstanding intellectual contributions to the information systems discipline.
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Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award
The NCDA is named in honor of two University of Arizona professors, Jay Nunamaker and Hsinchun Chen, who have made significant contributions to the field of Information Systems over the past several decades. The NCDA has been created to recognize and reward outstanding dissertation research by scholars in the field of Information Systems.
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ISS Management Science Best Paper Award
The award is given to the paper published in Management Science in the previous three years (2017-2019) that is deemed most deserving for its contribution to the theory and practice of information systems (IS).
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Information Systems Society Gordon B. Davis Young Scholar Award
The award is named in honor of University of Minnesota professor, Gordon Davis, who was part of the founding fathers of the information systems discipline. The award recognizes and honors young scholars who are on a path towards making outstanding intellectual contributions to the information systems discipline.
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INFORMS Information Systems Society Practical Impacts Award
This award honors distinguished information systems academics who have demonstrated outstanding leadership and sustained impact on the industry.
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Information Systems Society President’s Service Award
This award honors distinguished information systems (IS) academics who have demonstrated outstanding dedication in their service to the IS community.
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INFORMS ISS Cluster Best Paper Award
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ISS Haim Mendelson Teaching Innovation Award
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2022 ISS Cluster Best Session Chair Award
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JFIG
JFIG Paper Competition
JFIG was created in 2001 to promote the career development of tenure-track faculty in INFORMS. The goals of the paper competition are to encourage research among junior faculty and to increase the visibility of research conducted by junior faculty within the fields of operations research and management science.
Winner: Ningji Wei, Peter Zhang
Military and Security Society
Koopman Prize
This prize was named after Bernard Koopman, a founding father of military operations research. It is awarded for the outstanding publication in military operations research from the previous year. The award includes a plaque and $500 cash prize.
Winner: Linan Huang, Quanyan Zhu
J. Steinhardt Prize
This prize is awarded for outstanding contributions to military O.R. and is awarded for life work rather than for any particular contribution. The selection committee is composed of previous award winners. The award is accompanied by a plaque and $2,000 honorarium.
Winner: Raymond R Hill
Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society
MSOM Journal Best Paper Award
Winner: Soo-Haeng Cho, Xin Fang, Sridhar Tayur, Ying Xu
MSOM Young Scholar Prize
Starting in 2013, the annual MSOM Young Scholar Prize recognizes exceptional young researchers who have made outstanding contributions to scholarship in operations management. Scholars of age 40 years or younger on January 31st of the year in which they are nominated are eligible.
Winner: Maxime Cohen, Jun Li
MSOM Responsible Research Award
The purpose of responsible research is to encourage studies contributing knowledge that may have implications for making the world a better place through informing evidence-based, high quality and societally beneficial organizational practices across business, government and non-government organizations.
Winner: Samantha M. Keppler, Jun Li, Di (Andrew) Wu, Saravanan Kesavan, Susan J. Lambert, Joan Williams, Pradeep K. Pendem
Best OM Paper in Management Science Award
Winner: Saif Benjaafar, Guangwen Kong, Xiang Li, Costas Courcoubetis
Distinguished Service Award
The MSOM Society is now considering nominations for the MSOM Distinguished Service Award. The MSOM Distinguished Service Award was approved by the members at Spring Business Meeting in 1996 in Atlanta and has been given annually since 1997. The award was created to recognize individuals whose distinguished service to MSOM has helped to advance significantly the goals and objectives of the Society.
Winner: Kamalini Ramdas
MSOM Distinguished Fellow Award
MSOM recognizes outstanding research and scholarship in operations management by electing a limited number of MSOM Fellows each year. Election as an MSOM Fellow is a rare distinction, comparable with membership in Omega Rho.
Winner: Panagiotis (Panos) Kouvelis
Minority Issues Forum
Early Career Award
The purpose of the MIF Early Career Award is to recognize outstanding contributions to the theory or practice of OR/MS and service made by active members of MIF. The award recognizes exceptional researchers who have shown promise at the beginning of their academic or industrial career.
Winner: Jessye Leigh Bemley Talley
Paper Competition
In 2016, MIF started the Paper Competition to promote and bring visibility to recent contributions of MIF members in the field of operations research, management science, or information systems. The motivation stemmed from the desire to feature work from younger scholars within the MIF population, and recognize them for their research.
Winner: Karmel Shehadeh
Student Poster Competition
The purpose of the MIF Student Poster Competition is to highlight and promote the research of underrepresented students and their advisors. While the MIF poster session has been in place since 2004, the poster competition began in 2012. Since then, MIF has sponsored the travel of underrepresented minority graduate students who participate in the poster session and need financial support.
Winner: Meghan Meredith
Multiple Criteria Decision Making Section
MCDM Junior Researcher Best Paper Award
The MCDM Junior Researcher Best Paper Award recognizes outstanding papers in the field of multi-criteria decision making written by a junior researcher or a team of junior researchers. The award is given every year at the INFORMS Annual Meeting.
Winner: Mohammad Ghaderi
Optimization Society
Optimization Society Khachiyan Prize
The Khachiyan Prize of the INFORMS Optimization Society was established in 2010 and is awarded annually at the INFORMS Annual Meeting to an individual or a team for lifetime achievements in the area of optimization. The award recognizes a sustained career of scholarship from nominees who are still active during the year of the nomination. The prize serves as an esteemed recognition of innovativeness and impact in the area of optimization, including theory and applications. Recipients of the INFORMS John von Neumann Theory Prize or the MPS/SIAM Dantzig Prize in prior years are not eligible for the Khachiyan Prize.
Winner: Daniel Bienstock, David Shmoys
Optimization Society Farkas Prize
The G. Farkas Prize established in 2006 and is administered by the Optimization Society of INFORMS. The Farkas Prize is awarded for the most significant contribution to the field of optimization by a researcher or a team of researchers. It is awarded bi-annually at the INFORMS Annual Meeting.
Winner: Amir Beck
Optimization Society Student Paper Prize
The Student Paper Prize recognizes the most outstanding paper in optimization that is submitted to and received, or published, in a refereed professional journal no more than three years before the closing date of the nomination.
Winner: Bahar Taskesen
Optimization Society Young Researchers Prize
This prize, established in 1998 and administered by the Optimization Society of INFORMS, is awarded in even-numbered years at the INFORMS Annual Meeting to one (or more) young researchers for the most outstanding paper in optimization that is submitted to or published in a refereed professional journal. The prize serves as an esteemed recognition of promising colleagues who are at the beginning of their academic or industrial career.
Winner: David H. Gutman, Nam Ho-Nguyen
Egon Balas Prize
The Egon Balas Prize of the INFORMS Optimization Society was established in 2020 and is awarded annually to an individual for a body of contributions in the area of optimization. The awardee must be within 15 years of their terminal degree as of January 1 of the year of the award. The award serves as recognition of the winner’s innovativeness and impact in the area of optimization, including its theory, algorithms, and/or computations.
Winner: Amitabh Basu
Organization Science Section
Dissertation Proposal Competition
Now in its 26th year, this competition is one of the most prestigious available to doctoral students studying organizations.
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Public Sector OR Section
Best Paper Award
The INFORMS Public Sector Operations Research (PSOR) Best Paper Award, sponsored by the PSOR Section, recognizes research judged to be of the best quality in all of the disciplines and application areas represented within PSOR. Through this competition, PSOR seeks to build a tradition of scholarly exchange of knowledge of public policy, programs, safety, service, and needs within the entire INFORMS community.
Winner: Yanhan (Savannah) Tang, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Sridhar Tayur, Emily R. Perito, John P. Roberts
Quality, Statistics & Reliability Section
Best Student Paper Award
The Quality Statistics and Reliability (QSR) Section of INFORMS announces the Best Student Paper Award to recognize excellence among its student members. The award program brings prestige to the QSR Section as well as to the recipients honored.
Best Refereed Paper
Best Case Study Paper Award
Data Challenge Award
The Egon Balas Prize of the INFORMS Optimization Society was established in 2020 and is awarded annually to an individual for a body of contributions in the area of optimization. The awardee must be within 15 years of their terminal degree as of January 1 of the year of the award. The award serves as recognition of the winner’s innovativeness and impact in the area of optimization, including its theory, algorithms, and/or computations.
Best Student Poster Award
Railway Applications Section
Railway Applications Section Student Paper Award
This award is given to recognize the best student research paper on analytics and fact-based decision making in railway applications. The First Place paper will be considered for publication in Networks.
Winner: Bart Van Rossum
Railway Applications Problem Solving Competition
Railway Applications Poster Competition
Railway Applications Student Participation Scholarship
Revenue, Management and Pricing
Section Prize
The INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Prize is awarded for the best contribution to the science of pricing and revenue management published in English.
Winner: Kostas Bimpikis, Ozan Candogan, Daniela Saban
Jeff McGill Student Paper Prize
This award is given annually for student papers judged to be the best in the field of revenue management and pricing.
Winner: Tianyi Peng
Practice Award
Section on Location Analysis
Dissertation Award
The SOLA Dissertation Award recognizes outstanding Ph.D. dissertations related to the field of location analysis. The price is awarded biennially and announced during the INFORMS annual meetings.
Winner: Jing Xu, Aditya Malik
Social Media Analytics
Best Student Paper Award
Winner: Yunduan Lin
Technology, Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship Section (TIMES)
Best Paper Award
Sponsored by Mack Institute for Innovation Management
The best paper award is given out annually at the TIMES Business Meeting to the best paper in technology management, product/process innovation, business model innovation, new product development, and entrepreneurship. Finalists are selected from INFORMS publications five years prior based on their citations and the winning paper is chosen by a panel of judges.
Winner: Vishal V. Agrawal
Best Working Paper Award
Sponsored by Mack Institute for Innovation Management
The best working paper award is given out annually at the TIMES Business Meeting to the best working paper in technology management, product/process innovation, business model innovation, new product development, and entrepreneurship.
Winner: Bhavani Shanker Uppari, Serguei Netessine, Ioana Popescu, Rowan Clarke
Best Doctoral Dissertation Award
Sponsored by Lazaridis Institute
The best thesis award is given out annually at the TIMES Business Meeting to the best doctoral thesis in technology management, product/process innovation, business model innovation, new product development, and entrepreneurship.
Winner: Philippe Blaettchen, Rowena (Jingxing) Gan
Telecommunications and Network Analytics Section
Best Paper Award
The INFORMS Technical Section on Telecommunications and Network Analytics Best Paper Award will be given to an outstanding paper applying OR techniques in the context of telecommunications. The paper must have been published in a refereed journal and written in English. The paper must present innovative OR approaches to complex problems in all topics related to the field of telecommunications.
Winner: Zhengyuan Zhou, Panayotis Mertikopoulos, Aris L. Moustakas, Nicholas Bambos, Peter Glynn
Transportation Science and Logistics Section
TSL Dissertation Prize
Relevant dissertation topics in the domain of technology management may reflect, but are not limited to, research in science and engineering based organizations; industrial research and development (R&D) laboratories; research units in universities, teaching hospitals, etc.; organizational processes by which technically-oriented activities are integrated into other company goals; innovation processes, and the development of technological innovations for competitive markets. Dissertations may also focus on such topics as the characteristics and behavior of scientist, engineers, and other technical professionals; the flow of technical knowledge; the diffusion of innovations, technological forecasts and policies; and the behavior and management of project teams.
Winner: Matthias Soppert
Best Paper Award
The TSL Best Paper Award is given once a year to an outstanding paper in the field of transportation science and logistics. The paper must have been published in a refereed journal and must present innovative approaches for solving complex problems in transportation and/or logistics, with an emphasis on operations research and quantitative methods.
Winner: Ye Chen, Nikola Marković, Ilya O. Ryzhov, Paul Schonfeld
SIG Best Paper Award (Facility Logistics)
SIG Best Paper Award (Freight Transportation)
SIG Best Paper Award (Urban Transportation)
Transportation Science Journal Paper of the Year Award
Stella Dafermos Achievement Award
Women in OR/MS Forum (WORMS)
Doctoral Colloquium Student Sponsorship Award
WORMS will sponsor one student member to attend the Doctoral Student Colloquium at the INFORMS Annual Meeting. The award includes registration to the INFORMS Annual Meeting, the Doctoral Student Colloquium, and a year membership to WORMS.
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WORMS Family Care Award
The WORMS Family Care Award aims to support INFORMS Annual Meeting attendees who are primary caregivers for a family member. The award will partially reimburse recipients for up to $500 in costs associated with care and/or travel for family members whose caregiver is participating in the INFORMS Annual Meeting.
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