Welcome to the Awards Hall! Please check back each day to view the prizes and competitions occurring on that day.
INFORMS President’s Award
The purpose of the INFORMS President’s Award is to recognize, and thereby encourage, important contributions to the welfare of society by members of our profession at the local, national, or global level. The award is an engraved citation.
This year, the President’s Award is given to:
Pinar Keskinocak
Georgia Tech
John von Neumann Theory Prize
The John von Neumann Theory Prize is awarded annually to a scholar (or scholars in the case of joint work) who has made fundamental, sustained contributions to theory in operations research and the management sciences. The prize is awarded for a body of work, typically published over a period of several years. Although recent work should not be excluded, the prize typically reflects contributions that have stood the test of time. The criteria for the prize are broad, and include significance, innovation, depth, and scientific excellence.
Learn more about the von Neumann Prize and how to be nominated in the INFORMS website.
This year’s winner is:
Jim Dai
Cornell University
INFORMS Fellows Class of 2024
Congratulations to the 2024 INFORMS Fellows! We’re so excited to have you join the ranks of other great contributors to our organization.
Russell Barton
Amy Cohn
Michael Gorman
Alok Gupta
Teck-Hua Ho
Philip Kaminsky
Hani Mahmassani
Alexandra Newman
Celso Ribeiro
M. Grazia Speranza
David Woodruff
Shuzhong Zhang
George E. Kimball Medal
The George E. Kimball Medal is awarded for recognition of distinguished service to the Institute and to the profession of operations research and the management sciences. The award is a commemorative engraved medallion and a framed citation.
Learn more about the Kimball Medal and how to be nominated on the INFORMS website.
This year, there are two Medal winners:
Pinar Keskinocak
Georgia Tech
David Shmoys
Cornell University
Volunteer Service Award
The Volunteer Service Award was first awarded in 2016. Its purpose is to recognize exceptional volunteer service to INFORMS.
Learn more about the Volunteer Service Award on the website.
This year’s winners are:
Rajesh Tyagi
Paul Rubin
Pelin Pekgun
Arnie Greenland
Irv Lustig
Thor Osborn
Shannon Browning
Nicholas Ulmer
Zohar Strinka
Johan Bos-Beijer
Mehran Hojati
Oscar Dowson
Saul Gass Expository Writing Award
The Saul Gass Expository Writing Award honors an operations researcher or management scientist whose publications demonstrate a consistently high standard of expository writing. The awardee’s written work, published over a period of at least 10 years, should indicate (in terms of breadth of readership) an influence and accessibility enhanced by expository excellence.
Learn more about the Saul Gass Award and how to apply on the INFORMS website.
This winner of this year’s award is:
Barry L Nelson
Frederick W. Lanchester Prize
The Lanchester Prize is awarded for the best contribution to operations research and the management sciences published in English in the past five years.
Learn more about the Lanchester Prize and how to be nominated on the INFORMS website.
WINNING TEAM ONE
Anatoli Juditsky
Arkadi Nemirovski
WINNING TEAM TWO
Itai Ashlagi
Yash Kanoria
Jacob Leshno
Mark Braverman
Peng Shi
Honorable Mention
Guillermo Gallego
Huseyin Topaloglu
INFORMS Impact Prize
The Impact Prize, awarded once every two years, is intended to recognize widespread impact in the practice of operations research. It may be awarded to an individual or a single set of collaborators. The award may be given for the original research (if these ideas have been widely adopted), and/or for special efforts required to bring the research to a practical form (e.g., implementation as a software package or the communication of a body of research through writings, teaching, and consulting). The important criteria are breadth of use in practice and relevance to operations research. The technical assessment of the quality of the work is considered secondary to the degree to which it has been widely adopted.
Learn more about the INFORMS Impact Prize on the INFORMS website.
This year’s winner is:
John W. Chinneck
Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in the Practice of Advanced Analytics and Operations Research
This prize emphasizes the quality and coherence of the analysis used in practice. Dr. Wagner strove for strong mathematics applied to practical problems, supported by clear and intelligible writing. This prize recognizes those principles by emphasizing good writing, strong analytical content, and verifiable practice successes. This award is administered by the Practice Section of INFORMS.
Learn more about the Wagner Prize and how to apply on the INFORMS website.
Here are this year’s finalists:
Transportation marketplace rate forecast using signature transform
Haotian Gu
Xin Guo
Timothy L. Jacobs
Philip Kaminsky
Xinyu Li
Redesigning Zoning Systems for Equitable and Efficient Last-Mile Delivery at Ninja Van
Stanley Lim
John Gunnar Carlsson
Sheng Liu
Han Yu
Witsanu Arntong
Ee Hsin Tan
JD.com Improves Fulfillment Efficiency with Data-driven Integrated Assortment Planning and Inventory Allocation
Shuo Sun
Zuo-Jun Max Shen
Yongzhi Qi
Hao Hu
Ningxuan Kang
Jianshen Zhang
Xin Wang
Xiaoming Lin
Optimizing Music Station Playlists on Broadcast Radio
Jose Antonio Carbajal
Juan Ma
Nannan Chen
Mario Aboytes-Ojeda
Prize for the Teaching of OR/MS Practice
The purpose of this award is to recognize a teacher who has succeeded in helping their students to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to be effective practitioners of operations research or the management sciences. An “effective practitioner” has respect for, understanding of, and the skills to surmount both the practical difficulties and technical challenges of doing good OR/MS work.
Learn more about the Prize for the Teaching of OR/MS Practice on the INFORMS website.
This year’s winners are:
Daniel Guetta
Donald P. Gaver, Jr. Early Career Award
This award was established by a generous endowment from the Donald P. Gaver family. The purpose of the award is to support creative and diverse work in operations research in the early career of the recipient. The candidate must be within 10 years of receiving a Ph.D. and be in a tenure-track academic appointment.
Learn more about the establishment of the Gaver Award and how to be nominated on the INFORMS website.
The winner of this year’s award is:
Adam Elmachtoub
INFORMS Case Competition
The purpose of this annual competition is to encourage the creation, dissemination, and classroom use of new, unpublished cases in operations research and the management sciences. All cases are reviewed by a panel of judges familiar with the case method.
Learn more about the Case Competition and how to apply on the INFORMS website.
This year’s finalists are:
Pricing Analytics for Porsche Drive Vehicle Subscription Program
Varun Gupta
Vaughan Griffiths
Jing Li
Xiao Zhang
Darren Manion
LandMover Equipment Company: Optimizing Servicizing Product Contract
Saurabh Bansal
Dan Guide
Wei Wu
Yinshi (Agnes) Gao
Potty Parity: Stadium Restroom Design
Vahid Roshanaei
Setareh Farajollahzadeh
Ming Hu
INFORMS Scholarship
INFORMS is pleased to announce scholarships for undergraduate students to attend the 2024 Annual Meeting. This scholarship program aims to foster the professional pipeline of operations research, management science, and analytics researchers by providing undergraduate students an opportunity to experience these exciting fields and gain professional development opportunities by attending the INFORMS Annual Meeting.
Learn more about the INFORMS Scholarship and how to apply on the INFORMS website.
Here are the 2024 winners of the scholarship:
Elise Han
Alexander Zalles
Aubree Xia
Riley Byrd
Zachary Ramirez
Yang (Vivian) Yang
Andrea Zamudio
Van Tran
Seth Bonder Scholarship for Applied Operations Research in Health Services
The purpose of the Bonder Scholarship in Health Services is to promote the development and application of process modeling and O.R. analyses to healthcare design, delivery, and operations. The tenure of the award is one year. The scholarship provides funding from the Seth Bonder Scholarship Endowment and an additional $2,000 grant is funded by the Seth Bonder Foundation.
Learn more about the Bonder Scholarship for Health Services and how to apply on the INFORMS website.
This year’s scholarship recipient is:
Che-Yi Liao
Seth Bonder Scholarship for Applied Operations Research in Military and Security Applications
The purpose of the Bonder Scholarship for Applied Operations Research in Military & Security Applications is to promote the development and application of process modeling and operations research analyses to military issues. The scholarship provides funding from the Seth Bonder Scholarship Endowment and an additional $2,000 grant is funded by the Seth Bonder Foundation.
This year’s scholarship recipient is:
Joseph Haden Boone
Doing Good with Good O.R. Student Paper Competition
Doing Good with Good O.R. Student Paper Competition is held each year to identify and honor outstanding projects in the field of operations research and the management sciences conducted by a student or student group that have a significant societal impact. Operations research and management science methods and tools (broadly interpreted) must be central to the success of the projects described.
Here are this year’s finalists:
Optimizing the Path Towards Plastic-Free Oceans
Baizhi Song
Strengthening Blood Transfusion System in Kenya by Analytic Tools
Yiqi Tian
Identification of Hazard Clusters for Priority Landmine Clearance as a Quadratic Knapsack Problem
Mateo Dulce Rubio
Optimizing Health Supply Chains with Decision-Aware Machine Learning
Tsai-Hsuan (Angel) Chung
George Nicholson Student Paper Competition
The George Nicholson Student Paper Competition is held each year to identify and honor outstanding student papers in the field of operations research and the management sciences.
Learn more about the Nicholson Competition and how to apply on the INFORMS website.
Here are this year’s finalists:
The Cost of Impatience in Dynamic Matching: Scaling Laws and Operating Regimes
Angela Kohlenberg
Branch-and-Bound Performance Estimation Programming: A Unified Methodology for Constructing Optimal Optimization Methods
Shuvomoy Das Gupta
The Role of Level-Set Geometry on the Performance of PDHG for Conic Linear Optimization
Zikai Xiong
The (Surprising) Sample Optimality of Greedy Procedures for Large-Scale Ranking and Selection
Zaile Li
Differential Privacy via Distributionally Robust Optimization
Aras Selvi
Optimizing Inventory Placement for a Downstream Online Matching Problem
Boris Epstein
Sensitivity analysis for mixed binary quadratic programming
Jingye Xu
Causal Message Passing: A Method for Experiments with Unknown and General Network Interference
Mohamad Sadegh Shirani Faradonbeh
George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award
The George B. Dantzig Award is given for the best dissertation in any area of operations research and the management sciences that is innovative and relevant to practice. The award was established to encourage academic research that combines theory and practice and stimulates greater interaction between doctoral students (and their advisors) and the world of practice.
Learn more about the Dantzig Award and how to apply on the INFORMS website.
Here are this year’s finalists:
Essays on Technology-enabled Social Impact
Alp Sungu
Analytics and Decision Making in Sustainable Operations
Leann Thayaparan
Scalable, Efficient, and Fair Algorithms for Structured Convex Optimization Problems
Mehrdad Ghadiri
Simulating Dynamical Systems from Data
Abdullah Alomar
Undergraduate Operations Research Prize
The Undergraduate Operations Research Prize Competition is held each year to honor a student or group of students who conducted a significant applied project in OR/MS, and/or original and important theoretical or applied research in OR/MS, while enrolled as an undergraduate student.
Learn more about the Undergraduate Prize and how to apply on the INFORMS website.
This year’s finalists are:
On Partial Optimal Transport: Revising the Infeasibility of Sinkhorn and Efficient Gradient Methods
Anh Duc Nguyen
The maximum length car sequencing problem
Lara Pontes
Carlos Neves
Planning Adaptive Experiments: A Mathematical Programming Approach
Jimmy Wang
Online Newsvendor Problem with Blackbox Predictions
Rohan Kulkarni
A Projection-Free Method for Solving Convex Bilevel Optimization Problems
Khanh-Hung Giang-Tran
Practical Bayesian Algorithm Execution via Posterior Sampling
Chu Xin (Cloris) Cheng
Statistical Properties of Robust Satisficing
Zhiyi Li
Allocation of Surveillance Assets in Undersea Warfare
Sebastian Martin
Judith Liebman Award
The Judith Liebman Award has been established to recognize outstanding student volunteers who have been “moving spirits” in their universities, their student chapters, and INFORMS.
Please help us congratulate and celebrate this year’s winners, seen below:
Kara Combs
Tu Feng
Zihan Zhang
Student Chapter Annual Awards
The purpose of the Student Chapter Annual Awards is to recognize achievements of student chapters and to motivate them to perform well. The award will be given at the INFORMS Annual Meeting. All active INFORMS student chapters are eligible for this award. All student chapter officers must be current members of INFORMS at the time of Activity Report submission. Only completed submissions received by the submission deadline will be considered.
Learn more about the Student Chapter Annual Awards and previous winners on the INFORMS website.
Please help us congratulate and celebrate this year’s winners, seen below:
Cum Laude
- Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Student Chapter
- University of Louisville Student Chapter
- Pennsylvania State University Student Chapter
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology Student Chapter
- Auburn University Student Chapter
- Northwestern University Student Chapter
- Cornell University Student Chapter
- University of Maryland Student Chapter
- The University of Texas at Dallas Student Chapter
Magna Cum Laude
- Clemson University Student Chapter
- Galileo University Student Chapter
- University of Illinois-Chicago Student Chapter
- University of Michigan Student Chapter
- Virginia Tech Student Chapter
- Lehigh University Student Chapter
- Carnegie Mellon University Student Chapter
- University of Oklahoma Student Chapter
- University of Massachusetts-Amherst Student Chapter
- Georgia Southern University Student Chapter
- Rice University Student Chapter
Honorable Mention
- Koç University Student Chapter
- University of Florida Student Chapter
- Claremont Colleges Student Chapter
- Iowa State University Student Chapter
- University of Wisconsin – Madison Student Chapter
- Southern Methodist University Student Chapter
- University of California Berkeley Student Chapter
- Johns Hopkins University Student Chapter
- United States Coast Guard Academy Student Chapter
Poster Competition Winners
Youssef Hebaish
Data Science/Stats/Machine Learning track
Gaussian Process Regression For Ragged Data Structure with Application in Mental Health
Justin Dumouchelle
Popular/People Choice Award
A Unified Machine Learning Framework for Optimization Under Uncertainty
Zhe Fu
Multidisciplinary Applications track
Cooperative Connected Automated Vehicle Control: Strategies For Speed Harmonization In Mixed Autonomy Traffic
Feng-Yi Liao
Operations Research and Optimization Methodologies track
Spectral Bundle Methods for Primal and Dual Semidefinite Programs
Sohom Chatterjee
Emerging Applications track
Learning From Unfolding Dynamics: Forecast-driven Adaptive Scheduling In Multi-service Non-stationary Queues
Moving Spirit Award for Chapters
The Moving Spirit Award has been established to recognize outstanding geographic chapter volunteers or student chapter faculty advisors who have been “moving spirits” in their chapters.
Learn more about the Moving Spirit Award for Chapters on the INFORMS website.
This year’s winners are:
Anita Bowers
Monica Brussolo
Moving Spirit Award for Forums
The Moving Spirit Award has been established to recognize outstanding forum volunteers who have been “moving spirits” in their forum.
Learn more about the Moving Spirit Award for Forums on the INFORMS website.
This year’s winner is:
Albert Berahas
2024 Community Awards
Every year, each INFORMS Community has numerous awards to recognize the efforts of community members and volunteers.
