{"id":1893,"date":"2022-09-26T20:29:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T20:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/indianapolis2022\/?page_id=1893"},"modified":"2026-02-06T20:08:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T20:08:57","slug":"community-awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/indianapolis2022\/community-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1893\" data-postid=\"1893\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1893 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n                    <div  data-css_id=\"x56i196\" id=\"top-2-2-2-2-2-2\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row alphaList fullwidth_row_container tb_x56i196 tb_first tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-3 tb_gwyo197 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_vym3197 alphaList  \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h5>Jump to<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#a\">A<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#b\">B<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#c\">C<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#d\">D<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#e\">E<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#f\">F<\/a><\/li>\n<li>G<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#h\">H<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#i\">I<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#j\">J<\/a><\/li>\n<li>K<\/li>\n<li>L<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#m\">M<\/a><\/li>\n<li>N<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#o\">O<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#p\">P<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#q\">Q<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#r\">R<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#s\">S<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#t\">T<\/a><\/li>\n<li>U<\/li>\n<li>V<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#w\">W<\/a><\/li>\n<li>X<\/li>\n<li>Y<\/li>\n<li>Z<\/li>\n<\/ul>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-1 tb_okdq197 last\">\n                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-anchor=\"a\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_has_section tb_section-a tb_augx224 tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-3 tb_we90224 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_b3oo224   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>\u00a0<\/h2>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_5sh8225   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Applied Probability Society<\/h2>\n<h3>Best Student Paper Prize<\/h3>\n<p>This prize identifies and honors outstanding papers in the field of applied probability \u2028that are written primarily by a student.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Tianyi Peng,\u00a0<\/b><\/span><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Andrew Zheng<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Erlang Prize<\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Siddhartha Banerjee<\/b><\/span><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_gf6e587   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Artificial Intelligence<\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 23.2px\">Best Complete Paper Award<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Gordon Burtch,\u00a0<\/b><\/span><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Edward McFowland III,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Mochen Yang,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Gediminas Adomavicius<\/b><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>Best Reviewer Award<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div><b>Winner:\u00a0<span style=\"background-color: initial\">Donghyuk Shin,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: initial\">Aijia Yuan,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: initial\">Yicheng Song<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"background-color: initial\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<h3><span style=\"background-color: initial\">Best Short Paper Award<\/span><\/h3>\n<div><b><span style=\"background-color: initial\">Winner:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: initial\">Yeshuai He,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: initial\">Yong Ge,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: initial\">Jianqiang Cheng<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"background-color: initial\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<h3><span style=\"background-color: initial\">Best Short Paper Award<\/span><\/h3>\n<div><b>Winner:\u00a0<span style=\"background-color: initial\">Junho Yoon,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: initial\">Gautam Pant,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: initial\">Shagun Pant<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_24ve225   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Auctions and Market Design<\/h2>\n<h3>Rothkopf Junior Researcher Paper Prize<\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Haihao Lu<\/b><\/span><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_8nle225   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Aviation Applications Section<\/h2>\n<h3>Best Dissertation Award<\/h3>\n<p>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.).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Max Zhaoyu Li<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Best Paper Award<\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<div><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Xiaojia Guo,\u00a0<\/b><\/span><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Yael Grushka-Cockayne,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Bert De Reyck<\/b><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-1 tb_p4vq226 last\">\n                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-anchor=\"b\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_has_section tb_section-b tb_anti355 tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-3 tb_3lr5355 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_oa2e355   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Behavioral Operations Management<\/h2>\n<h3>Best Working Paper Award<\/h3>\n<p>The goal of this Competition is to highlight the best working papers in the area of Behavioral Operations.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Sebasti\u00e1n Villa,\u00a0<\/b><\/span><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Rafael Escamilla,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Jan Fransoo<\/b><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-1 tb_5uuo355 last\">\n                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-anchor=\"c\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_has_section tb_section-c tb_7v0m221 tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-3 tb_2620222 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_geih222   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Computing Society<\/h2>\n<h3>INFORMS Computing Society Prize<\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winners:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Saeed Ghadimi,\u00a0<\/b><\/span><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Guanghui Lan,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Hongchao Zhang<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Student Paper Award<\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Irina Wang\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Harvey J. Greenberg Service Award<\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Zeyu Liu,\u00a0<\/b><\/span><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Anahita Khojandi,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Xueping Li,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Akram Mohammed,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Robert L. Davis,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Rishikesan Kamaleswaran\u00a0<\/b><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-1 tb_2v86222 last\">\n                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-anchor=\"d\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_has_section tb_section-d tb_qdsq506 tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-3 tb_m269507 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_rzni507   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Data Mining<\/h2>\n<h3>Best Applied Paper Competition<\/h3>\n<div><b>Winner:\u00a0<span style=\"background-color: initial\">Zheng Dong,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: initial\">Shixiang Zhu,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: initial\">Yao Xie,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: initial\">Jorge Mateu,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: initial\">Francisco J. Rodriguez-Cortes<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"background-color: initial\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<h3>Best Theoretical Paper Competition<\/h3>\n<div><b>Winner:\u00a0<span style=\"background-color: initial\">Kaixun Hua,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: initial\">Jiayang Ren,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: initial\">Yankai Cao<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"background-color: initial\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<h3><span style=\"background-color: initial\">Data Mining Best Paper Award: General Track<\/span><\/h3>\n<div><b><span style=\"background-color: initial\">Winner:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: initial\">Hamsa Bastani, Osbert Bastani, Park Sinchaisri\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: initial\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<h3><span style=\"background-color: initial\">Data Mining Best Paper Award: Student Track<\/span><\/h3>\n<div><b><span style=\"background-color: initial\">Winner:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: initial\">Xiaojun Zheng, Simon Mak, Liyan Xie, Yao Xie<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_0ukf508   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Decision Analysis Society<\/h2>\n<h3>Publication Award<\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Saurabh Bansal,\u00a0<\/b><\/span><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Genaro J. Gutierrez<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Student Paper Award<\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Giacomo Lanzani<\/b><\/span><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-1 tb_jlql508 last\">\n                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-anchor=\"e\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_has_section tb_section-e tb_dglf5 tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-3 tb_4qyc6 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_kmho6   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>eBusiness Section<\/h2>\n<h3>Best Paper Award<\/h3>\n<p><b>Winner<\/b><b>:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Hao Hu<\/b><\/span><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_rcx86   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment Section<\/h2>\n<h3>Best Publication in Energy<\/h3>\n<p>The ENRE Best Publication Awards are given annually to the\u00a0best refereed\u00a0journal 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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Long He,\u00a0<\/b><\/span><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Guangrui Ma,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Wei Qi,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Xin Wang<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Best Publication in Environment &amp; Sustainability<\/h3>\n<p>The ENRE Best Publication Awards are given annually to the\u00a0best refereed\u00a0journal 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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>A. G\u00fcrhan K\u00f6k,\u00a0<\/b><\/span><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Kevin Shang,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">\u015eafak Y\u00fccel<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Best Publication in Natural Resources<\/h3>\n<p>The ENRE Best Publication Awards are given annually to the\u00a0best refereed\u00a0journal 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.<br><br><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Eyyu\u0308b Y. K\u0131b\u0131\u015f,\u00a0<\/b><\/span><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Esra Bu\u0308yu\u0308ktahtak\u0131n,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Robert G. Haight,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Najmaddin Akhundov,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Kathleen Knight,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Charles E. Flower\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Best Student Paper<\/h3>\n<p>This award is given annually to the best paper dealing with energy, environmental,\u00a0or natural resource issues by a student author who is presenting at the INFORMS\u00a0Annual Meeting, as judged by a panel of the Energy, Natural Resources, and the\u00a0Environment Section.<br><br><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Dirk Lauinger<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>The Harold Hotelling Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Energy, Natural Resources, and Environment<\/h3>\n<div>This is a competitive award that recognizes \u200bthe 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.<br><br><\/div>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Richard O&#8217;Neill<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>ENRE Young Researchers Prize<\/h3>\n<div>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.\u00a0 The award serves as an esteemed recognition of promising researchers who are at the beginning of their academic or industrial career..<br><br><\/div>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Chen Jin,\u00a0<\/b><\/span><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Luyi Yang,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Cungen Zhu<\/b><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-1 tb_nwtq6 last\">\n                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-anchor=\"f\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_has_section tb_section-f tb_xlle6 tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-3 tb_esq87 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_5qec7   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Section on Finance<\/h2>\n<h3>Student Paper Competition<\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Lewen Zheng<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Management Science Best Paper Award<\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Lauren Cohen,\u00a0<\/b><\/span><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Umit G. Gurun,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Scott Duke Kominers<\/b><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-1 tb_9o227 last\">\n                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-anchor=\"h\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_has_section tb_section-h tb_rx69906 tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-3 tb_eqft907 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_tszc907   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Health Applications Society<\/h2>\n<h3>Pierskalla Award<\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Jiayi Lin,\u00a0<\/b><\/span><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Hrayer Aprahamian,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">George Golovko<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Sanjay and Panna Mehrotra Research Excellence Award<\/h3>\n<p>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\u2019s contributions and dedication to translating OR\/MS modeling and methodology research to practice so as to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare systems.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Mariel Lavieri<\/b><\/span><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-1 tb_v5eh907 last\">\n                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-anchor=\"i\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_has_section tb_section-i tb_imwv738 tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-3 tb_mvro738 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_lrhj739   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Information Systems<\/h2>\n<h3>ISS Bapna-Ghose Social Justice Best Paper Award<\/h3>\n<p>This best paper award\u2019s purpose is to foster and encourage high quality IS research that makes an impact towards improving social justice outcomes. The award\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>ISS Distinguished Fellow<\/h3>\n<p>Recognizes individuals who have made outstanding intellectual contributions to the information systems discipline.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0 \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>The Sandy Slaughter Early Career Award<\/h3>\n<p>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 &#8220;next generation&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award<\/h3>\n<p>The NCDA is named in honor of two University of Arizona professors,\u00a0Jay Nunamaker\u00a0and\u00a0Hsinchun 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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>ISS Management Science Best Paper Award<\/h3>\n<p>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).<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Information Systems Society Gordon B. Davis Young Scholar Award<\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>INFORMS Information Systems Society Practical Impacts Award<\/h3>\n<p>This award honors distinguished information systems academics who have demonstrated outstanding leadership and sustained impact on the industry.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Information Systems Society President&#8217;s Service Award<\/h3>\n<p>This award honors distinguished information systems (IS) academics who have demonstrated outstanding dedication in their service to the IS community.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>INFORMS ISS Cluster Best Paper Award<\/h3>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>ISS Haim Mendelson Teaching Innovation Award<\/h3>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>2022 ISS Cluster Best Session Chair Award<\/h3>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-1 tb_wpuj739 last\">\n                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-anchor=\"j\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_has_section tb_section-j tb_cjvm57 tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-3 tb_ie7157 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_5d6v57   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>JFIG<\/h2>\n<h3>JFIG Paper Competition<\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Ningji Wei,\u00a0<\/b><\/span><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Peter Zhang<\/b><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-1 tb_eket58 last\">\n                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-anchor=\"m\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_has_section tb_section-m tb_1f5e823 tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-3 tb_za60823 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_twby824   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Military and Security Society<\/h2>\n<h3>Koopman Prize<\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner<\/b><strong>:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Linan Huang,\u00a0<\/b><\/span><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Quanyan Zhu<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>J. Steinhardt Prize<\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner<\/b><strong>:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Raymond R Hill<\/b><\/span><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_oaj9824   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society<\/h2>\n<h3>MSOM Journal Best Paper Award<\/h3>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Soo-Haeng Cho,\u00a0<\/b><\/span><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Xin Fang,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Sridhar Tayur,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Ying Xu<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>MSOM Young Scholar Prize<\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Maxime Cohen,\u00a0<\/b><\/span><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Jun Li\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>MSOM Responsible Research Award<\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Samantha M. Keppler,\u00a0<\/b><\/span><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Jun Li,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Di (Andrew) Wu,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Saravanan Kesavan,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Susan J. Lambert,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Joan Williams,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Pradeep K. Pendem<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Best OM Paper in Management Science Award<\/h3>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Saif Benjaafar,\u00a0<\/b><\/span><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Guangwen Kong,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Xiang Li,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Costas Courcoubetis<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Distinguished Service Award<\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Kamalini Ramdas<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>MSOM Distinguished Fellow Award<\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Panagiotis (Panos) Kouvelis<\/b><\/span><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_4pw0824   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Minority Issues Forum<\/h2>\n<h3>Early Career Award<\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:<\/b>\u00a0<span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Jessye Leigh Bemley Talley<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Paper Competition<\/h3>\n<p>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.\u00a0The motivation stemmed from the desire to feature work from younger scholars within the MIF population, and recognize them for their research.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:<\/b>\u00a0<span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Karmel Shehadeh<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Student Poster Competition<\/h3>\n<p>The purpose of the MIF Student Poster Competition is to highlight and promote the research of underrepresented students and their advisors.\u00a0 While the MIF poster session has been in place since 2004, the poster competition began in 2012.\u00a0Since then, MIF has sponsored the travel of underrepresented minority graduate students who participate in the poster session and need financial support.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0<span style=\"background-color: initial\">Meghan Meredith<\/span><\/b><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_9f9q824   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Multiple Criteria Decision Making Section<\/h2>\n<h3>MCDM Junior Researcher Best Paper Award<\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0<span style=\"background-color: initial\">Mohammad Ghaderi<\/span><\/b><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-1 tb_6xd5824 last\">\n                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-anchor=\"o\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_has_section tb_section-o tb_ol32492 tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-3 tb_j9hi492 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_wgwy492   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Optimization Society<\/h2>\n<h3>Optimization Society Khachiyan Prize<\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Daniel Bienstock,\u00a0<\/b><\/span><b style=\"background-color: initial\">David Shmoys<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Optimization Society Farkas Prize<\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Amir Beck<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Optimization Society Student Paper Prize<\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Bahar Taskesen<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Optimization Society Young Researchers Prize<\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>David H. Gutman,\u00a0<\/b><\/span><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Nam Ho-Nguyen\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<h3>Egon Balas Prize<\/h3>\n<p>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\u2019s innovativeness and impact in the area of optimization, including its theory, algorithms, and\/or computations.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Amitabh Basu<\/b><\/span><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_yah0492   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Organization Science Section<\/h2>\n<h3>Dissertation Proposal Competition<\/h3>\n<p>Now in its 26th year, this competition is one of the most prestigious available to doctoral students studying organizations.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-1 tb_o1ht493 last\">\n                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-anchor=\"p\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_has_section tb_section-p tb_r0mk475 tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-3 tb_8apq476 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_1ya0476   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Public Sector OR Section<\/h2>\n<h3>Best Paper Award<\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0<span style=\"background-color: initial\">Yanhan (Savannah) Tang,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: initial\">Alan Scheller-Wolf,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: initial\">Sridhar Tayur,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: initial\">Emily R. Perito,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: initial\">John P. Roberts<\/span><\/b><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-1 tb_ik47476 last\">\n                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-anchor=\"q\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_has_section tb_section-q tb_k0yw992 tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-3 tb_ppu0992 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_nen3992   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Quality, Statistics &amp; Reliability Section<\/h2>\n<h3>Best Student Paper Award<\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<h3>Best Refereed Paper<\/h3>\n<div>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 23.2px\">Best Case Study Paper Award<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>Winner:\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Data Challenge Award<\/h3>\n<p>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\u2019s innovativeness and impact in the area of optimization, including its theory, algorithms, and\/or computations.<\/p>\n<h3>Best Student Poster Award<\/h3>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-1 tb_705g992 last\">\n                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-anchor=\"r\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_has_section tb_section-r tb_ymbu792 tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-3 tb_kp1v793 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_wr67793   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Railway Applications Section<\/h2>\n<h3>Railway Applications Section Student Paper Award<\/h3>\n<p>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\u00a0<em>Networks<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0Bart Van Rossum<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Railway Applications Problem Solving Competition<\/h3>\n<div><b>Winner:\u00a0Hendrik Speh, Shanqing Chai, Cedric Steinbach, Arturo Crespo Materna<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Railway Applications Poster Competition<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div><b>Winner:\u00a0<span style=\"background-color: initial\">L\u00e9on Sobrie, Marijn Verschelde, Bart Roets<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"background-color: initial\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Railway Applications Student Participation Scholarship<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div><b>Winner:\u00a0<span style=\"background-color: initial\">Swastika Mishra,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: initial\">Tabish Haque<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_wy3f793   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Revenue, Management and Pricing<\/h2>\n<h3>Section Prize<\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0<span style=\"background-color: initial\">Kostas Bimpikis,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: initial\">Ozan Candogan,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: initial\">Daniela Saban<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Jeff McGill Student Paper Prize<\/h3>\n<p>This award is given annually for student papers judged to be the best in the field of revenue management and pricing.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0<span style=\"background-color: initial\">Tianyi Peng<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Practice Award<\/h3>\n<div><b>Winner:\u00a0<span style=\"background-color: initial\">Sridhar Seshadri<\/span><span style=\"background-color: initial\">Shiv Sehgal,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: initial\">Sebastian Souyris,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: initial\">Sriram Subramanian<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-1 tb_zmuz793 last\">\n                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-anchor=\"s\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_has_section tb_section-s tb_ibwr226 tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-3 tb_2isg226 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_opap227   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Section on Location Analysis<\/h2>\n<h3>Dissertation Award<\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0<span style=\"background-color: initial\">Jing Xu,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: initial\">Aditya Malik<\/span><\/b><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_2y4j760   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Social Media Analytics<\/h2>\n<h3>Best Student Paper Award<\/h3>\n<div>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.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Yunduan Lin<\/b><\/span><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-1 tb_h82t227 last\">\n                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-anchor=\"t\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_has_section tb_section-t tb_bwni827 tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-3 tb_d53a827 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_do28827   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Technology, Innovation Management &amp; Entrepreneurship Section (TIMES)<\/h2>\n<h3>Best Paper Award<\/h3>\n<p>Sponsored by Mack Institute for Innovation Management\u00a0<br><br>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. 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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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Matthias Soppert<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Best Paper Award<\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Ye Chen,\u00a0<\/b><\/span><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Nikola Markovi\u0107,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Ilya O. Ryzhov,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Paul Schonfeld<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>SIG Best Paper Award (Facility Logistics)<\/h3>\n<div><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial\"><b>Maximilian Schiffer,\u00a0<\/b><\/span><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Nils Boysen,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Patrick S. 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The paper should provide an innovative approach to a realistic market-design problem, and should have potential impact for real-world market design.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><b>Haihao Lu<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Aviation Applications Section<\/h2> <h3>Best Dissertation Award<\/h3> <p>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.).\u00a0<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><b>Max Zhaoyu Li<\/b><\/p> <h3>Best Paper Award<\/h3> <p>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.<\/p> <b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><b>Xiaojia Guo,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Yael Grushka-Cockayne,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Bert De Reyck<\/b> \u00a0\n<h2>Behavioral Operations Management<\/h2> <h3>Best Working Paper Award<\/h3> <p>The goal of this Competition is to highlight the best working papers in the area of Behavioral Operations.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><b>Sebasti\u00e1n Villa,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Rafael Escamilla,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Jan Fransoo<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Computing Society<\/h2> <h3>INFORMS Computing Society Prize<\/h3> <p>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.<\/p> <p><b>Winners:\u00a0<\/b><b>Saeed Ghadimi,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Guanghui Lan,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Hongchao Zhang<\/b><\/p> <h3>Student Paper Award<\/h3> <p>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.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><b>Irina Wang\u00a0<\/b><\/p> <h3>Harvey J. Greenberg Service Award<\/h3> <p>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.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><b>Zeyu Liu,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Anahita Khojandi,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Xueping Li,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Akram Mohammed,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Robert L. Davis,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Rishikesan Kamaleswaran\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Data Mining<\/h2> <h3>Best Applied Paper Competition<\/h3> <b>Winner:\u00a0Zheng Dong,\u00a0Shixiang Zhu,\u00a0Yao Xie,\u00a0Jorge Mateu,\u00a0Francisco J. Rodriguez-Cortes<\/b> <b>\u00a0<\/b> <h3>Best Theoretical Paper Competition<\/h3> <b>Winner:\u00a0Kaixun Hua,\u00a0Jiayang Ren,\u00a0Yankai Cao<\/b> <b>\u00a0<\/b> <h3>Data Mining Best Paper Award: General Track<\/h3> <b>Winner:\u00a0Hamsa Bastani, Osbert Bastani, Park Sinchaisri\u00a0<\/b> \u00a0 <h3>Data Mining Best Paper Award: Student Track<\/h3> <b>Winner:\u00a0Xiaojun Zheng, Simon Mak, Liyan Xie, Yao Xie<\/b> \u00a0\n<h2>Decision Analysis Society<\/h2> <h3>Publication Award<\/h3> <p>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.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><b>Saurabh Bansal,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Genaro J. Gutierrez<\/b><\/p> <h3>Student Paper Award<\/h3> <p>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.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><b>Giacomo Lanzani<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>eBusiness Section<\/h2> <h3>Best Paper Award<\/h3> <p><b>Winner<\/b><b>:\u00a0<\/b><b>Hao Hu<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment Section<\/h2> <h3>Best Publication in Energy<\/h3> <p>The ENRE Best Publication Awards are given annually to the\u00a0best refereed\u00a0journal 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.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><b>Long He,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Guangrui Ma,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Wei Qi,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Xin Wang<\/b><\/p> <h3>Best Publication in Environment &amp; Sustainability<\/h3> <p>The ENRE Best Publication Awards are given annually to the\u00a0best refereed\u00a0journal 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.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><b>A. G\u00fcrhan K\u00f6k,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Kevin Shang,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">\u015eafak Y\u00fccel<\/b><\/p> <h3>Best Publication in Natural Resources<\/h3> <p>The ENRE Best Publication Awards are given annually to the\u00a0best refereed\u00a0journal 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.<br><br><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><b>Eyyu\u0308b Y. K\u0131b\u0131\u015f,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Esra Bu\u0308yu\u0308ktahtak\u0131n,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Robert G. Haight,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Najmaddin Akhundov,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Kathleen Knight,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Charles E. Flower\u00a0<\/b><\/p> <h3>Best Student Paper<\/h3> <p>This award is given annually to the best paper dealing with energy, environmental,\u00a0or natural resource issues by a student author who is presenting at the INFORMS\u00a0Annual Meeting, as judged by a panel of the Energy, Natural Resources, and the\u00a0Environment Section.<br><br><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><b>Dirk Lauinger<\/b><\/p> <h3>The Harold Hotelling Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Energy, Natural Resources, and Environment<\/h3> This is a competitive award that recognizes \u200bthe 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.<br><br> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><b>Richard O'Neill<\/b><\/p> <h3>ENRE Young Researchers Prize<\/h3> 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.\u00a0 The award serves as an esteemed recognition of promising researchers who are at the beginning of their academic or industrial career..<br><br> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><b>Chen Jin,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Luyi Yang,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Cungen Zhu<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Section on Finance<\/h2> <h3>Student Paper Competition<\/h3> <p>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.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><b>Lewen Zheng<\/b><\/p> <h3>Management Science Best Paper Award<\/h3> <p>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.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><b>Lauren Cohen,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Umit G. Gurun,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Scott Duke Kominers<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Health Applications Society<\/h2> <h3>Pierskalla Award<\/h3> <p>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.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><b>Jiayi Lin,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Hrayer Aprahamian,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">George Golovko<\/b><\/p> <h3>Sanjay and Panna Mehrotra Research Excellence Award<\/h3> <p>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\u2019s contributions and dedication to translating OR\/MS modeling and methodology research to practice so as to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare systems.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><b>Mariel Lavieri<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Information Systems<\/h2> <h3>ISS Bapna-Ghose Social Justice Best Paper Award<\/h3> <p>This best paper award\u2019s purpose is to foster and encourage high quality IS research that makes an impact towards improving social justice outcomes. The award\u2019s 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.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p> <h3>ISS Distinguished Fellow<\/h3> <p>Recognizes individuals who have made outstanding intellectual contributions to the information systems discipline.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0 \u00a0<\/b><\/p> <h3>The Sandy Slaughter Early Career Award<\/h3> <p>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.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><\/p> <h3>Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award<\/h3> <p>The NCDA is named in honor of two University of Arizona professors,\u00a0Jay Nunamaker\u00a0and\u00a0Hsinchun 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.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p> <h3>ISS Management Science Best Paper Award<\/h3> <p>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).<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p> <h3>Information Systems Society Gordon B. Davis Young Scholar Award<\/h3> <p>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.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p> <h3>INFORMS Information Systems Society Practical Impacts Award<\/h3> <p>This award honors distinguished information systems academics who have demonstrated outstanding leadership and sustained impact on the industry.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p> <h3>Information Systems Society President's Service Award<\/h3> <p>This award honors distinguished information systems (IS) academics who have demonstrated outstanding dedication in their service to the IS community.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p> <h3>INFORMS ISS Cluster Best Paper Award<\/h3> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p> <h3>ISS Haim Mendelson Teaching Innovation Award<\/h3> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><\/p> <h3>2022 ISS Cluster Best Session Chair Award<\/h3> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>JFIG<\/h2> <h3>JFIG Paper Competition<\/h3> <p>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.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><b>Ningji Wei,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Peter Zhang<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Military and Security Society<\/h2> <h3>Koopman Prize<\/h3> <p>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.<\/p> <p><b>Winner<\/b><strong>:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><b>Linan Huang,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Quanyan Zhu<\/b><\/p> <h3>J. Steinhardt Prize<\/h3> <p>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.<\/p> <p><b>Winner<\/b><strong>:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><b>Raymond R Hill<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society<\/h2> <h3>MSOM Journal Best Paper Award<\/h3> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><b>Soo-Haeng Cho,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Xin Fang,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Sridhar Tayur,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Ying Xu<\/b><\/p> <h3>MSOM Young Scholar Prize<\/h3> <p>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.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><b>Maxime Cohen,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Jun Li\u00a0<\/b><\/p> <h3>MSOM Responsible Research Award<\/h3> <p>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.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><b>Samantha M. Keppler,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Jun Li,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Di (Andrew) Wu,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Saravanan Kesavan,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Susan J. Lambert,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Joan Williams,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Pradeep K. Pendem<\/b><\/p> <h3>Best OM Paper in Management Science Award<\/h3> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><b>Saif Benjaafar,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Guangwen Kong,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Xiang Li,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Costas Courcoubetis<\/b><\/p> <h3>Distinguished Service Award<\/h3> <p>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.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><b>Kamalini Ramdas<\/b><\/p> <h3>MSOM Distinguished Fellow Award<\/h3> <p>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.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><b>Panagiotis (Panos) Kouvelis<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Minority Issues Forum<\/h2> <h3>Early Career Award<\/h3> <p>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.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:<\/b>\u00a0<b>Jessye Leigh Bemley Talley<\/b><\/p> <h3>Paper Competition<\/h3> <p>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.\u00a0The motivation stemmed from the desire to feature work from younger scholars within the MIF population, and recognize them for their research.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:<\/b>\u00a0<b>Karmel Shehadeh<\/b><\/p> <h3>Student Poster Competition<\/h3> <p>The purpose of the MIF Student Poster Competition is to highlight and promote the research of underrepresented students and their advisors.\u00a0 While the MIF poster session has been in place since 2004, the poster competition began in 2012.\u00a0Since then, MIF has sponsored the travel of underrepresented minority graduate students who participate in the poster session and need financial support.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0Meghan Meredith<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Multiple Criteria Decision Making Section<\/h2> <h3>MCDM Junior Researcher Best Paper Award<\/h3> <p>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.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0Mohammad Ghaderi<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Optimization Society<\/h2> <h3>Optimization Society Khachiyan Prize<\/h3> <p>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.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><b>Daniel Bienstock,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">David Shmoys<\/b><\/p> <h3>Optimization Society Farkas Prize<\/h3> <p>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.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><b>Amir Beck<\/b><\/p> <h3>Optimization Society Student Paper Prize<\/h3> <p>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.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><b>Bahar Taskesen<\/b><\/p> <h3>Optimization Society Young Researchers Prize<\/h3> <p>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.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><b>David H. Gutman,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Nam Ho-Nguyen\u00a0<\/b><\/p> \u00a0 <h3>Egon Balas Prize<\/h3> <p>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\u2019s innovativeness and impact in the area of optimization, including its theory, algorithms, and\/or computations.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><b>Amitabh Basu<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Organization Science Section<\/h2> <h3>Dissertation Proposal Competition<\/h3> <p>Now in its 26th year, this competition is one of the most prestigious available to doctoral students studying organizations.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Public Sector OR Section<\/h2> <h3>Best Paper Award<\/h3> <p>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.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0Yanhan (Savannah) Tang,\u00a0Alan Scheller-Wolf,\u00a0Sridhar Tayur,\u00a0Emily R. Perito,\u00a0John P. Roberts<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Quality, Statistics &amp; Reliability Section<\/h2> <h3>Best Student Paper Award<\/h3> <p>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.<\/p> <h3>Best Refereed Paper<\/h3>\n<h3>Best Case Study Paper Award<\/h3>\nWinner:\u00a0 <p>\u00a0<\/p> <h3>Data Challenge Award<\/h3> <p>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\u2019s innovativeness and impact in the area of optimization, including its theory, algorithms, and\/or computations.<\/p> <h3>Best Student Poster Award<\/h3>\n<h2>Railway Applications Section<\/h2> <h3>Railway Applications Section Student Paper Award<\/h3> <p>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\u00a0<em>Networks<\/em>.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0Bart Van Rossum<\/b><\/p> <h3>Railway Applications Problem Solving Competition<\/h3> <b>Winner:\u00a0Hendrik Speh, Shanqing Chai, Cedric Steinbach, Arturo Crespo Materna<\/b> <b>\u00a0<\/b>\n<h3>Railway Applications Poster Competition<\/h3>\n<b>Winner:\u00a0L\u00e9on Sobrie, Marijn Verschelde, Bart Roets<\/b> <b>\u00a0<\/b>\n<h3>Railway Applications Student Participation Scholarship<\/h3>\n<b>Winner:\u00a0Swastika Mishra,\u00a0Tabish Haque<\/b> \u00a0\n<h2>Revenue, Management and Pricing<\/h2> <h3>Section Prize<\/h3> <p>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.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0Kostas Bimpikis,\u00a0Ozan Candogan,\u00a0Daniela Saban<\/b><\/p> <h3>Jeff McGill Student Paper Prize<\/h3> <p>This award is given annually for student papers judged to be the best in the field of revenue management and pricing.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0Tianyi Peng<\/b><\/p> <h3>Practice Award<\/h3> <b>Winner:\u00a0Sridhar SeshadriShiv Sehgal,\u00a0Sebastian Souyris,\u00a0Sriram Subramanian<\/b> \u00a0\n<h2>Section on Location Analysis<\/h2> <h3>Dissertation Award<\/h3> <p>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.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0Jing Xu,\u00a0Aditya Malik<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Social Media Analytics<\/h2> <h3>Best Student Paper Award<\/h3> 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. \u00a0 <p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><b>Yunduan Lin<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Technology, Innovation Management &amp; Entrepreneurship Section (TIMES)<\/h2> <h3>Best Paper Award<\/h3> <p>Sponsored by Mack Institute for Innovation Management\u00a0<br><br>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.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><b>Vishal V. Agrawal<\/b><\/p> <h3>Best Working Paper Award<\/h3> <p>Sponsored by Mack Institute for Innovation Management\u00a0<\/p> <p>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.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><b>Bhavani Shanker Uppari,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Serguei Netessine,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Ioana Popescu,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Rowan Clarke<\/b><\/p> <h3>Best Doctoral Dissertation Award<\/h3> <p>Sponsored by Lazaridis Institute<\/p> <p>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.\u00a0<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><b>Philippe Blaettchen,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Rowena (Jingxing) Gan<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Telecommunications and Network Analytics Section<\/h2> <h3>Best Paper Award<\/h3> <p>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.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0Zhengyuan Zhou,\u00a0Panayotis Mertikopoulos,\u00a0Aris L. Moustakas,\u00a0Nicholas Bambos,\u00a0Peter Glynn<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Transportation Science and Logistics Section<\/h2> <h3>TSL Dissertation Prize<\/h3> <p>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&amp;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.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><b>Matthias Soppert<\/b><\/p> <h3>Best Paper Award<\/h3> <p>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.<\/p> <p><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><b>Ye Chen,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Nikola Markovi\u0107,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Ilya O. Ryzhov,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Paul Schonfeld<\/b><\/p> <h3>SIG Best Paper Award (Facility Logistics)<\/h3> <b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><b>Maximilian Schiffer,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Nils Boysen,\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"background-color: initial\">Patrick S. 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