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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

Winner: Donghyuk Shin, Aijia Yuan, Yicheng Song
 

Best Short Paper Award

Winner: Yeshuai He, Yong Ge, Jianqiang Cheng
 

Best Short Paper Award

Winner: Junho Yoon, Gautam Pant, Shagun Pant
 

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.

Winner: Xiaojia Guo, Yael Grushka-Cockayne, Bert De Reyck
 

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

Winner: Zheng Dong, Shixiang Zhu, Yao Xie, Jorge Mateu, Francisco J. Rodriguez-Cortes
 

Best Theoretical Paper Competition

Winner: Kaixun Hua, Jiayang Ren, Yankai Cao
 

Data Mining Best Paper Award: General Track

Winner: Hamsa Bastani, Osbert Bastani, Park Sinchaisri 
 

Data Mining Best Paper Award: Student Track

Winner: Xiaojun Zheng, Simon Mak, Liyan Xie, Yao Xie
 

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

WinnerHao 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

This is a competitive award that recognizes ​the lifetime achievements of INFORMS scholars who have made sustained and exceptional contributions to the major areas spanned by ENRE. The name honors the legacy of Harold Hotelling (1895-1973) who made extensive theoretical contributions to the fields of economics and statistics, and applied optimization methods to various practical and important problems in economics, most notably to spatial economics and optimum management of natural resources.

Winner: Richard O’Neill

ENRE Young Researchers Prize

This prize is awarded annually at the INFORMS Annual Meeting to one or more young researcher(s) for an outstanding paper on the application of OR/MS to an important problem in energy, natural resources, or the environment.  The award serves as an esteemed recognition of promising researchers who are at the beginning of their academic or industrial career..

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

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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

Winner: Hendrik Speh, Shanqing Chai, Cedric Steinbach, Arturo Crespo Materna
 

Railway Applications Poster Competition

Winner: Léon Sobrie, Marijn Verschelde, Bart Roets
 

Railway Applications Student Participation Scholarship

Winner: Swastika Mishra, Tabish Haque
 

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

Winner: Sridhar SeshadriShiv Sehgal, Sebastian Souyris, Sriram Subramanian
 

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

Recognizes excellence among its student members. Four finalists for the Best Student Paper Award will be selected to make presentations at the INFORMS Annual Meeting.
 

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)

Winner: Maximilian Schiffer, Nils Boysen, Patrick S. Klein, Gilbert Laporte, Marco Pavone
 

SIG Best Paper Award (Freight Transportation)

Winner: Luca Accorsi, Daniele Vigo
 

SIG Best Paper Award (Urban Transportation)

Winner: Mostafa Ameli, Mohamad Sadegh Shirani Faradonbeh, Jean-Patrick Lebacque, Hossein Abouee-Mehrizi, Ludovic Leclercq
 

Transportation Science Journal Paper of the Year Award

Winner: Mouad Morabit, Guy Desaulniers, Andrea Lodi 
 

Stella Dafermos Achievement Award

The Stella Dafermos Achievement Award in Transportation Science is awarded by the INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society (TSL) to a mid-career scholar who has made fundamental scientific contributions to transportation science and logistics. To be eligible for the award, an individual must be within 10 and 20 years of having finished their Ph.D. on December 31 of the year that they are nominated. Other considerations when evaluating a nominee for the award include: the impact of their work on practice, their service to TSL, and their involvement in diversity and inclusion-related activities. 
 
Winner: Dr. Niels Agatz
 

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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