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: Yanlin Qu
Best Publication Award
This award recognizes outstanding contributions to applied probability.
Winners: Jose Blanchet, Yang Kang, and Karthyek Murthy
Blackwell Prize
The Prize serves primarily as a recognition of scholarly innovation, depth, significance, and impact within the area of Applied Probability, but service to the Applied Probability community may also contribute to the award selection. The award is intended to recognize a lifetime career of theoretical and/or applications-driven scholarship within Applied Probability that has had a significant impact on operations research and the management sciences.
Winner: Onno Boxma
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: Massey Cashore
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: Jan-Rasmus Künnen
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.
Winners: Chiwei Yan, Cynthia Barnhart, and Vikrant Vaze
Michael H. Rothkopf Junior Research 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: Massey Cashore
Guest Speaker Award
Winner: Brad Beakley
Guest Presenter Award
Winner: Wayne Ng
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.
Winners: Ignacio Rios and Pramit Ghosh
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.
Winner: Ying He
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.
Winners: Xiaoquan Gao and Billy Jin
Frank P. Ramsey Medal
The Frank P. Ramsey medal is awarded for distinguished contributions in decision analysis. Distinguished contributions can be internal, such as theoretical or procedural advances in decision analysis, or external, such as developing or spreading decision analysis in new fields.
Winner: David Budescu
eBusiness Section
Best Paper Award
Winners: Gaoyang Cai, Xia Han, and Grace Yuan Gu
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.
Winners: Anirudh Subramanyam, Jacob Roth, Albert Lam, and Mihai Anitescu
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.
Winners: Owen Q. Wu, Şafak Yücel, and Yangfang (Helen) Zhou
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.
Winners: Alessandro Hill, Andrea Brickey, Italo Cipriano, Marcos Goycoolea, and Alexandra M. Newman
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: Heraldo Rozas
ENRE Young Researcher award
Winner: Bolun Xu
Section on Finance
The Best Paper Award on Financial Engineering in the Journal “Operations Research”
Winners: Paul Embrecht, Alexander Schied, and Ruodu Wang
The Best Paper Award on Finance in the Journal “Management Science”
Winners: Will Cong and Sabrina T Howell
Student Paper Competition
Winner: Sicong Li
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.
Winners: Timothy C. Y. Chan, Rafid Mahmood, Deborah L. O’Connor, Debbie Stone, Sharon Unger, Rachel K. Wong, and Ian Yihang Zhu
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: Nikos Trichakis
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.
Winners: Sofia Bapna, Russell Funk, Priyanga Gunarathne, Huaxia Rui, Abraham Seidmann, Lauren Rhue, and Jessica Clark
ISS Distinguished Fellow
Recognizes individuals who have made outstanding intellectual contributions to the information systems discipline.
Winners: Pei-yu (Sharon) Chen, Venkat Venkatraman, Subodha Kumar, Yu Jeffrey Hu, D. J. (DONGJUN) WU, GALIT SHMUELI
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.
Winners: Terence J.V. Saldanha, Idris Adjerid, Zhijie Lin, Keongtae Kim, Dokyun (DK) Lee, Zhuoxin (Allen) Li
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.
Winner: Meizi Zhou
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).
Winners: Grace Gu and Feng Zhu
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.
Winners: Mochen Yang, Jinyang Zheng, Che-Wei Liu, Sagar Samtani, Dandan Qiao, Chen Liang, HYEOKKOO ERIC KWON, and Jingchuan Pu
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.
Winners: Hsinchun Chen, Jay F. Nunamaker, Jr., and Ramayya Krishnan
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.
Winners: D.J. (Dongjun) Wu, Hemant Bhargava, Prabuddha De, Ravi Bapna, and Elena Karahanna
INFORMS ISS Cluster Best Paper Award
Winners: Yi-Jen (Ian) Ho, Wael Jabr, Yifan Zhang, Indranil Bardhan, Wen Wen, and Minghong Yuan
ISS Haim Mendelson Teaching Innovation Award
Winner: Heng Xu, Anitesh Barua, Karthik Hosanagar, and Ramnath K Chellappa
2023 ISS Cluster Best Session Chair Award
Winners: Han-fen Hu, Shweta Singh, Paramveer Dhillon, Min Chen, Jack Tong
Junming Yin, Yinan Yu, Wael Jabr, Jin Sik Kim, Xia Zhao
ISS Design Science Award
Winnners: Pan Li, Alexander Tuzhilin, Sagar Samtani, and Hsinchun Chen
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: Levi DeValve
Location Analysis
Chuck ReVelle Rising Star
This award is a biennial honor awarded to a person within eight years of receiving his or her Ph.D. who has made a significant contribution to location analysis research and displays the potential to continue to do so. The award will be given every other year at the SOLA business meeting at the national INFORMS conference.
Winners: Kayse Maass and Baris Yildiz
Life Time Achievement Award (LALA)
The Lifetime Achievement in Location Analysis (LALA) award is a triennial honor awarded to a person who has made significant lifetime contributions to location analysis research.
Winner: Rajan Batta
Best Student Paper
The award is given biennially for student papers judged to be the best in the broad field of facility location. We encourage papers that promote the development of analytical methods, techniques and tools in the tradition of operations research/management science (OR/MS) as applied to the study of facility location.
Winner: Weiliang Liu
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.
Winners: Nicholas C. Forrest, Raymond R. Hill, and Phillip R. Jenkins
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: Virginia “Robbin” Beall
Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society
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.
Winners: Vishal V Agrawal and Ozan Candogan
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: Feryal Erhun
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: Amy R. Ward
MSOM iFORM SIG Best Paper Award
Winners: Stephanie Kelley, Anton Ovchinnikov, David R. Hardoon, Adrienne Heinrich, Yuqian Xu, Lingjiong Zhu, and Michael Pinedo
MSOM Service Management SIG Best Paper Award
Winners: Ramesh Johari, Hannah Li, Inessa Liskovich, Gabriel Y. Weintraub, Samantha M. Keppler, Jun Li, and Di (Andrew) Wu
MSOM Society Best Associate Editor in Management Science Award
Winner: Bradley R. Staats
MSOM Society Best Associate Editor in M&SOM Award
Winner: Robert Swinney
MSOM Society Best Associate Editor in Operations Research Award
Winner: Xiuli Chao
BEST OM PAPER IN MANAGEMENT SCIENCE AWARD
Winners: Ruomeng Cui, Jun Li, and Dennis J. Zhang
BEST OM PAPER IN M&SOM AWARD
Winner: Michele Samorani, Shannon L. Harris, Linda Goler Blount, Haibing Lu, and Michael A. Santoro
BEST OM PAPER IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH AWARD
Winners: Daniel Freund, Shane G. Henderson, and David B. Shmoys
MSOM SOCIETY RESPONSIBLE RESEARCH AWARD
Winners: Felipe Caro, Leonard Lane, and Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca
MSOM Student Paper Competition
Winner: Alp Sungu
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: Adolfo R. Escobedo
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.
Winners: Negin Golrezaei, Vahideh Manshadi, Jon Schneider, and Shreyas Sekar
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: Maryam Kheirandish
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.
Winners: Monique Laurent and Renato Monteiro
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: Alper Atamturk
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: Wouter Jongeneel
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.
Winners: Gonzalo Muñoz and Felipe Serrano
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.
Winners: Alberto Del Pia and Stefan M. Wild
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.
Winners: Sheng Liu, Auyon Siddiq , and Jingwei Zhang
PSOR BEST VIDEO AWARD
Winners: Akshaya Suresh, Vahideh Manshadi, Scott Rodilitz, and Daniela Saban
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: Simin Chai
Distinguished Member Award
Winner: Marc Meketon
Problem-Solving Competition
Winners: Team UrbanRailOpt:
Shan Jiang, Qinyang Li, Siyuan Liu, Tianyin Zhao, and Yongxiang Zhang
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.
Winners: Santiago R. Balseiro, Haihao Lu, and Vahab Mirrokni
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: Alp Sungu
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.
Winners: Tian Heong Chan, Jürgen Mihm, and Manuel E. Sosa
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.
Winners: Evgeny Kagan, Maqbool Dada, and Brett Hathaway
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: Abhishek Deshmane
Distinguished Speaker Award
Winner: Kamalini Ramdas
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.
Winners: Maryam Daryalal, Hamed Pouya, and Marc-Antoine De Santis
BEST DISSERTATION AWARD
Winner: Hamidreza Validi
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: Luying Sun
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.
Winners: Wei Qi, Yuli Zhang, and Ningwei Zhang
Stella Dafermos Achievement Award
Robert Herman Lifetime Achievement Award
he Robert Herman Lifetime Achievement Award in Transportation Science is awarded at most every second year by the INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society to an individual who throughout their professional career has made fundamental and sustained contributions to transportation science and logistics, and has influenced the field through their writings, teaching, service, and nurturing of younger professionals.
Winner: Hani Mahmassani
Intelligent Transportation Systems SIG Best Paper
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 be published in a refereed journal and present innovative approaches for solving complex problems in transportation and/or logistics, with an emphasis on operations research, analytics, and quantitative methods. An author can submit only one paper; in addition, no individual may be a co-author on more than two papers submitted to the competition.
Winners: Kirby Ledvina, Hanzhang Qin, David Simchi-Levi, and Yehua Wei
Student Paper Prize
The TSL Best Student Paper Award is given once a year to an outstanding paper, primarily authored by a student(s), and whose topic is of interest to the broad TSL community.
Winner: Moïse Blanchard
Transportation Science Paper of the Year
Winners: Alexandre Jacquillat, Nicholas Kullman, Martin Cousineau, Justin Goodson, and Jorge Mendoza
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.
Winner: Aida Sanatizadeh
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.
Winners: Zlatana Nenova, Ayesha Farooq, Kayse Lee Maass, and Hongli Ye
Award for the Advancement of Women in OR/MS in Academia
Thei award celebrates and recognizes individual(s) who have contributed significantly to the advancement and recognition of women in the field of Operations Research and the Management Sciences (OR/MS).
Winners: Susan E. Martonosi and Polly Mitchell-Guthrie
