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: Matthew Zurek
Erlang Prize
A single prize will be awarded once every two years during even calendar years by the Applied Probability Society (APS) of INFORMS to an early career researcher who has made a significant contribution to applied probability.
Winner: Daniel Russo and Sarah Penington
Blackwell Prize
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: Francois Baccelli
Artificial Intelligence (Data Science Workshop)
Best Paper Award
Winner: Yunxin Sang, Yan Leng, and Ashish Agarwal
Best Reviewer Award
Best Student Paper Award
Auctions and Market Design
Rothkopf Junior Researcher Paper Prize
The prize recognizes the best paper by a junior researcher in the area of Auctions and Market Design, with a particular focus on the use of Operations Research and/or Management Science techniques in the design or analysis of markets. The paper should provide an innovative approach to a realistic market-design problem, and should have potential impact for real-world market design.
Winner: Soonbong Lee
Aviation Applications Section
Best Presentation Award
The Aviation Applications Section (AAS) of INFORMS awards a prize for the best student presentation within the AAS cluster during the INFORMS annual meeting.
Winner: Haochen Wu
Best Paper Award
This award will be given at the INFORMS Annual Meeting to the author of the best paper submitted by a full-time student in the area of aviation applications. Specific topics include (but are not limited to) passenger and cargo airline operations, pricing, marketing, and yield management; air traffic control; airport planning; aviation financial/economic/policy analysis, aviation forecasting, and aviation human factors.
Winner: Kai Wang, Alexandre Jacquillat, and Vikrant Vaze
Behavioral Operations Management
Best Working Paper Award
The goal of this Competition is to highlight the best working papers in the area of Behavioral Operations.
Winner: Chenshan Hu, Xiaoyang Long, Jiankun Sun, and Dennis Zhang
Computing Society
INFORMS Computing Society Prize
The ICS Prize is an annual award for best English language paper on the OR/CS interface.
Winners: Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Shixiang Chen, Jiaxiang Li, Shiqian Ma, Anthony Man-Cho So, and Tong Zhang
Student Paper Award
This award is given annually to the best paper on computing and O.R. by a student author, as judged by a panel of the ICS.
Winner: Shuvomoy Das Gupta
Harvey J. Greenberg Service Award
The Harvey J Greenberg Research Award is a recently established annual award that honors research excellence in the field of computation and operations research applications, especially those in emerging application fields. Honored research would focus on contributions that exhibit the promise of making a significant impact in the scope of OR/MS/Analytics practice.
Winner: Selvaprabu Nadarajah and Andre Cire
Distinguished Service Award
he ICS Distinguished Service Award is given to an individual in recognition of their impact on the INFORMS Computing Society (ICS). It is given at most once every two years.
Winner: Robin Lougee
Data Mining
Best Applied Paper Competition
Best Theoretical Paper Competition
Best Paper General Paper
Best Paper Student Paper
Data Challenge
Decision Analysis Society
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: Sam E. Bodily
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: Simon French
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.
Winner: Yuchen Hu
DAS/SDP Practice Award
The Decision Analysis Practice Award is sponsored jointly by the Decision Analysis Society and the Society of Decision Professionals. It is given annually to the best decision analysis application, as judged by a panel of members of both Societies.
Winner: Saurabh Bansal, Ying He, and Tanveer Ahmed
eBusiness Section
Best Paper Award
The award is given annually in recognition of research excellence in the field of Information Systems and e-Business, as judged by the award selection committee.
Winner: Kai Sun, Wangsheng Zhu, and Vijay Mookerjee
Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment Section
Best Publication in Energy
The ENRE Best Publication Awards are given annually to the best refereed journal articles in the areas of interest of ENRE. The objective of the award is to recognize the contributions of ENRE members to the respective research areas.
Winner: Conleigh Byers and Gabriela Hug
Best Publication in Environment & Sustainability
The ENRE Best Publication Awards are given annually to the best refereed journal articles in the areas of interest of ENRE. The objective of the award is to recognize the contributions of ENRE members to the respective research areas.
Winner: M. Brozynski and B. Leibowicz
Best Publication in Natural Resources
The ENRE Best Publication Awards are given annually to the best refereed journal articles in the areas of interest of ENRE. The objective of the award is to recognize the contributions of ENRE members to the respective research areas.
Winner: Ali Fattah, Sriram Das, and Reza Ahmadi
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: Felipe Corder, Rodrigo Moren, and Fernando Ordonez
The Harold Hotelling Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Energy, Natural Resources, and Environment
Winner: Hung Po Chao
Early Career Best Paper Award
Winner: Jacob Mays
Section on Finance
Student Paper Competition
The objectives of the section are to provide a continuing, specialized focus within INFORMS on the topic of financial services, with the aim of identifying current and potential problems and contributions to their solutions; to lead in the development, dissemination, and implementation of knowledge, basic and applied research and technologies in the area of finance and financial services.
Winner: No award given this year.
Management Science Best Paper Award
Starting from 2022, the Finance Section of INFORMS will sponsor a Best Paper Award every year. Papers will be evaluated based on their contribution to theory, empirics, operational aspects, and managerial practice of finance.
Winner: No award given this year.
Health Applications Society
Pierskalla Award
This award recognizes research excellence in the field of healthcare management science. The award includes an honorarium for the best paper presented in a Health Applications Society sponsored session at the INFORMS Annual Meeting. The award is named after Dr. William Pierskalla to recognize his contribution and dedication to improving health services delivery through operations research.
Winner: Jackie Baek, Justin J. Boutilier, Vivek F. Farias, Jónas Oddur Jónasson, and Erez Yoeli
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: Mehmet Ayvaci
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.
Winner: Xue Guo, Jing Gong, Min-Seok Pang, Nan Zhang, Heng Xu, Avijit Sengupta, Yimeng Deng, and Isam Faik
ISS Distinguished Fellow
Recognizes individuals who have made outstanding intellectual contributions to the information systems discipline.
Winner: Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng, Hsing Kenneth Cheng, Karthik Natarajan Kannan, Michael D. Smith, Sulin Ba, and Wonseok Oh
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.
Winner: Emre Demirezen, Wei Chen, Elina Hwang, Hani Safadi, Panagiotis Adamopoulos, Ananya Sen, and Shu He
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: Shuxuan Zeng
ISS Management Science Best Paper Award
The award is given to the paper published in Management Science in the previous three years that is deemed most deserving for its contribution to the theory and practice of information systems (IS).
Winner: Miguel Godinho de Matos and Idris Adjerid
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.
Winner: Hongchang Wang, Jaehwuen Jung, Jane (Xue) Tan, Mingwen Yang, Rakesh Mallipeddi, Xuan Bi, Yicheng Song, and Yoonseock (Yoon) Son
Practical Impacts Award
This award honors distinguished information systems academics who have demonstrated outstanding leadership and sustained impact on the industry.
Winner: Bradley C. Wheeler, Ramnath K. Chellappa, Michael D. Smith, and Rahul Telang
President’s Service Award
This award honors distinguished information systems (IS) academics who have demonstrated outstanding dedication in their service to the IS community.
Winner: Anindya Ghose, Olivia R. Liu Sheng, Varghese S. Jacob, and Yong Tan
ISS Cluster Best Paper Award
Winner: Christian Peukert, Florian Abeillon, Jérémie Haese, Franziska Kaiser, and Alexander Staub
Haim Mendelson Teaching Innovation Award
The primary aim of the award is to recognize IS faculty who have made outstanding pedagogical contributions to the IS discipline.
Winner: Dmitry Zhdanov and Harry Jiannan Wang
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: Chen Chen, Yilun Chen, and Pengyu Qian
Teaching Excellence Award
Winner: Anna Svirsko
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. T
Winner: Michael D. Moskal II, Erdi Dasdemir, and Rajan Batta
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.
Winner: Sheldon H. Jacobson
Student Paper
The Student Paper Competition is currently sponsored by MAS members and recognizes outstanding student research in topics directly related to MAS goals.
Winner: J. Hayden Boone
Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society
MSOM Journal Best Paper Award
The Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society selects one paper for the Management Science Best Paper Award. This paper is deemed most deserving for its contribution to the theory and practice of operations management.
Winner: Priyank Arora and Morvarid Rahmani, and Karthik Ramachandran
MSOM Young Scholar Prize
Starting in 2013, the annual MSOM Young Scholar Prize recognizes exceptional young researchers who have made outstanding contributions to scholarship in operations management. Scholars of age 40 years or younger on January 31st of the year in which they are nominated are eligible.
Winner: N. Bora Keskin and Daniela Saban
MSOM Responsible Research Award
The purpose of responsible research is to encourage studies contributing knowledge that may have implications for making the world a better place through informing evidence-based, high quality and societally beneficial organizational practices across business, government and non-government organizations.
Winner: Bhavani Shanker Uppari, Serguei Netessine, Ioana Popescu, and Rowan P. Clarke
Best OM Paper in Management Science Award
Winner: Andrew M. Davis, Blair Flicker, Kyle Hyndman, Elena Katok, Samantha Keppler, Stephen Leider, Xiaoyang Long, and Jordan D. Tong
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: Jérémie Gallien
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: Mor Armony, Saif Benjaafar, and Vishal Gaur
Student Paper Competition
The awards are given annually for papers judged to be the best in the field of Operations Management.
Winner: Soonbong Lee
MSOM Service Management SIG Best Paper Award
Award for the best published paper(s) on service management.
Winner: Brett A. Hathaway, Evgeny Kagan and Maqbool Dada
Minority Issues Forum
Paper Competition
In 2016, MIF started the Paper Competition to promote and bring visibility to recent contributions of MIF members in the field of operations research, management science, or information systems. The motivation stemmed from the desire to feature work from younger scholars within the MIF population, and recognize them for their research.
Winner: Gian-Gabriel P. Garcia, Lauren N. Steimle, Wesley J. Marrero, and Jeremy B. Sussman
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: Himadri Pandey
Summer Webinar Competition
Winner: Carmen Haseltine
Multiple Criteria Decision Making Section
MCDM Junior Researcher Best Paper Award
The MCDM Junior Researcher Best Paper Award recognizes outstanding papers in the field of multi-criteria decision making written by a junior researcher or a team of junior researchers. The award is given every year at the INFORMS Annual Meeting.
Winner: Dilay Aktaş Dejaegere
Optimization Society
Optimization Society Khachiyan Prize
The Khachiyan Prize of the INFORMS Optimization Society was established in 2010 and is awarded annually at the INFORMS Annual Meeting to an individual or a team for lifetime achievements in the area of optimization. The award recognizes a sustained career of scholarship from nominees who are still active during the year of the nomination. The prize serves as an esteemed recognition of innovativeness and impact in the area of optimization, including theory and applications. Recipients of the INFORMS John von Neumann Theory Prize or the MPS/SIAM Dantzig Prize in prior years are not eligible for the Khachiyan Prize.
Winner: Dorit Hochbaum
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: Daniel Kuhn
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: Eitan Levin
Optimization Society Young Researchers Prize
This prize, established in 1998 and administered by the Optimization Society of INFORMS, is awarded in even-numbered years at the INFORMS Annual Meeting to one (or more) young researchers for the most outstanding paper in optimization that is submitted to or published in a refereed professional journal. The prize serves as an esteemed recognition of promising colleagues who are at the beginning of their academic or industrial career.
Winner: Ernest K. Ryu, Joseph Paat, Ingo Stallknecht, Zach Walsh, and Luze Xu
Egon Balas Prize
The Egon Balas Prize of the INFORMS Optimization Society was established in 2020 and is awarded annually to an individual for a body of contributions in the area of optimization. The awardee must be within 15 years of their terminal degree as of January 1 of the year of the award. The award serves as recognition of the winner’s innovativeness and impact in the area of optimization, including its theory, algorithms, and/or computations.
Winner: Amir Ali Ahmadi
Organization Science Section
Dissertation Proposal Competition
This competition is one of the most prestigious available to doctoral students studying organizations.
Winner: Susie Choe
Pride Forum
INFORMS Pride Spirit Award
An annual award given by the INFORMS Pride Forum to celebrate an individual who has continually demonstrated an excellent spirit of pride. In particular, the award recognizes contributions of an INFORMS member to the LGBTQ+ community. The individual’s LGBTQ-focused contributions could span any subset of the following areas (or other related areas of relevance to the LGBTQ+ community): research and scholarship, teaching and student development, leadership and mentorship, and service and community building.
Winner: Chris Parker
Public Sector OR Section
Best Paper Award
The INFORMS Public Sector Operations Research (PSOR) Best Paper Award, sponsored by the PSOR Section, recognizes research judged to be of the best quality in all of the disciplines and application areas represented within PSOR. Through this competition, PSOR seeks to build a tradition of scholarly exchange of knowledge of public policy, programs, safety, service, and needs within the entire INFORMS community.
Winner: Tsai-Hsuan Chung, Hamsa Bastani, Osbert Bastani, Jatu Abdulai, Patrick Bayoh, Lawrence Sandi, and Francis Smart
PSOR Video Competition
The purpose of this award is to recognize creative efforts that showcase public sector operations research to a broad audience. Via this award, the Section aims to increase visibility about the impact of operations research in the public sector, grow the community through increased awareness and engagement, and distribute content that can be shared readily with students, prospective collaborators, and future beneficiaries.
Winner: Rakesh Allu, Maya Ganesh, Sarang Deo, and Sripad Devalkar
PSOR Webinar on Contemporary Operations Management in Developing Economies
Winner: Maya Ganesh, Debjit Roy, and Daniel Abraham
Quality, Statistics & Reliability Section
Best Student Paper Award
The Quality Statistics and Reliability (QSR) Section of INFORMS announces the Best Student Paper Award to recognize excellence among its student members. The award program brings prestige to the QSR Section as well as to the recipients honored.
Winner: Yifan Li
Best Refereed Paper
The Quality, Statistics, and Reliability (QSR) cluster of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS) announces the Best Paper Award to recognize excellence among the high-quality papers submitted to INFORMS QSR refereed sessions. This award program brings prestige to the QSR Section as well as to the recipients of this honor.
Winner: Michael Biehler, Daniel Lin, Reinaldo Mock, and Jianjun Shi
Best Poster Award
Brings PhD students into the spotlight to showcase their research through a brief elevator speech, and then benefit from the advice of prominent QSR faculty, in a mini panel discussion on how to land academic positions, navigate academic life, research, and teaching.
Winner: Weizhi Lin
Manufacturing AI Case Competition
Winner: Gyeongho Kim
Revenue, Management and Pricing
Section Prize
The INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Prize is awarded for the best contribution to the science of pricing and revenue management published in English.
Winner: Ilan Lobel
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: Akshit Kumar and Rachitesh Kumar
Practice Award
The RMP Section Practice Award recognizes outstanding applications of revenue management and pricing techniques. The final competition for the award will take place live, at the INFORMS Annual Meeting. Finalists will present their work during a special session of the conference, and judging will take place immediately after the presentations.
Winner: Marcelo Olivares, Gabriel Weintraub, Daniela Saban, Eduardo Lara, Piero Zanocco, and Paula Moreno
Section on Location Analysis
Dissertation Award
The SOLA Dissertation Award recognizes outstanding Ph.D. dissertations related to the field of location analysis. The price is awarded biennially and announced during the INFORMS annual meetings.
Winner: Jingwei Zhang
Service Science
Best DEIJ Paper Award
A competition on diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ) topics in services. With this award competition, we aim to encourage and reward the development and publication of new, relevant, and rigorous academic papers that focus on DEIJ initiatives in service organizations.
Winner: Daniel Freund and Wentao Weng
Best Cluster Paper Award
This award is a competitive award, started in 2013, which is based on the best papers submitted to the Section’s sponsored cluster at the INFORMS Annual Meeting.
Winner: Zhe Liu, Yiwen Shen, Yanwei Sun, Chengcheng Zhai, Rodney Parker, Kurt Bretthauer, Alfonso Pedraza-Martinez , and Jorge Mejia
Best Student Paper Award
The Service Science Section’s Best Student Paper Award is intended to celebrate high-quality research generated by Ph.D. students that are presented at the Section’s sponsored cluster at the INFORMS Annual Meeting.
Winner: Vinit Tipnis
Social Media Analytics
Best Student Paper Award
Winner: Ye Liu
Technology, Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship Section (TIMES)
Best Paper Award
Sponsored by Mack Institute for Innovation Management
The best paper award is given out annually at the TIMES Business Meeting to the best paper in technology management, product/process innovation, business model innovation, new product development, and entrepreneurship. Finalists are selected from INFORMS publications five years prior based on their citations and the winning paper is chosen by a panel of judges.
Winner: Jürgen Mihm and Jochen Schlapp
Best Working Paper Award
Sponsored by Mack Institute for Innovation Management
The best working paper award is given out annually at the TIMES Business Meeting to the best working paper in technology management, product/process innovation, business model innovation, new product development, and entrepreneurship.
Winner: Ran Zhuo
Best Doctoral Dissertation Award
Sponsored by UCL School of Management
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: Sidika Tunc Candogan
Telecommunications and Network Analytics Section
Best Paper Award
The INFORMS Technical Section on Telecommunications and Network Analytics Best Paper Award will be given to an outstanding paper applying OR techniques in the context of telecommunications. The paper must have been published in a refereed journal and written in English. The paper must present innovative OR approaches to complex problems in all topics related to the field of telecommunications.
Winner:
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: Xingmin Wang
Best Paper Award
The TSL Best Paper Award is given once a year to an outstanding paper in the field of transportation science and logistics. The paper must have been published in a refereed journal and must present innovative approaches for solving complex problems in transportation and/or logistics, with an emphasis on operations research and quantitative methods.
Winner: Alexander M. Stroh, Alan L. Erera, and Alejandro Toriello
TSL Outstanding SIG Paper Award
Stella Dafermos Achievement Award
Winner: Alejandro Toriello
TSL Best Student Paper Award
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: Bo Lin
Transportation Science Journal Paper of the Year Award
Winner: Ömer Burak Kınay, Fatma Gzara, Sibel A. Alumur, Lu Zhen, Zheyi Tan, René de Koster, Shuaian Wang, Jiaohong Xie, Yang Liu, Nan Chen, Shakiba Enayati, Haitao Li, James F. Campbell, and Deng Pan
Robert Herman Lifetime Achievement Award
The 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: Martin Savelsbergh
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: Aysu Ozel and Emerald Dudzinski
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.
Winner: Sara Abu Aridah, Ayesha Farooq, and Tara Eslaminokandeh
Award for the Advancement of Women in OR/MS in Academia
Winner: Sila Cetinkaya
Award for the Advancement of Women in OR/MS in Industry
Winner: Bahar Biller
