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<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_p4vq226 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_nvq0439 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_2oca439 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_di07439   \" 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.<br><b>Winner:\u00a0 Matthew Zurek<br><\/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.<br><b>Winner: Daniel Russo and Sarah Penington<br><\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Blackwell Prize<\/h3>\n<p>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.<br><b>Winner: Francois Baccelli<br><\/b><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_qz1j439   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Artificial Intelligence\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">(Data Science Workshop)\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3>Best Paper Award<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Winner: Yunxin Sang, Yan Leng, and Ashish Agarwal<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>Best Reviewer Award<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div><b>Winner: Pan Li, Hamid Reza Firoozfar, and Ann-Kathrin Meyer<\/b><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/div>\n<h3><span style=\"background-color: initial;\">Best Student Paper Award<\/span><\/h3>\n<div><b><span style=\"background-color: initial;\">Winner: Bora Keskin, Chenghuai Li, andMeng Li<br><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"background-color: initial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/div>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_qi81607   \" 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.<br><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial; font-weight: bold;\">Soonbong Lee<\/span><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_eos4439   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Aviation Applications Section<\/h2>\n<h3>Best Presentation Award<\/h3>\n<p>The Aviation Applications Section (AAS) of INFORMS awards a prize for the best student presentation within the AAS cluster during the INFORMS annual meeting.<br><b>Winner: Haochen Wu<br><\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Best Paper Award<\/h3>\n<p>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.<br><b>Winner: Kai Wang, Alexandre Jacquillat, and Vikrant Vaze<br><\/b><\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-1 tb_vcr6439 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_aecu603   \" 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.<br><b>Winner: Chenshan Hu, Xiaoyang Long, Jiankun Sun, and Dennis Zhang<\/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.\u00a0<br><b>Winners: Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Shixiang Chen, Jiaxiang Li, Shiqian Ma, Anthony Man-Cho So, and Tong 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.\u00a0<br><b>Winner: Shuvomoy Das Gupta<\/b><\/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.<br><b>Winner: Selvaprabu Nadarajah and Andre Cire<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Distinguished Service Award<\/h3>\n<p>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.<br><b>Winner: Robin Lougee<\/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: Yu Ma and Dimitris Bertsimas<br><\/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: Ryan Cory-Wright and Jean Pauphilet<br><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"background-color: initial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<h3><span style=\"background-color: initial;\">Best Paper General Paper<\/span><\/h3>\n<div><b><span style=\"background-color: initial;\">Winner: Naichen Shi, Salar Fattahi, and Raed Al Kontar\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: initial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<h3><span style=\"background-color: initial;\">Best Paper Student Paper<\/span><\/h3>\n<div><b><span style=\"background-color: initial;\">Winner: Brian Liu<br><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<h3>Data Challenge<\/h3>\n<div><strong>Winner: Jie Wang and Yongchun Li<\/strong><\/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>Frank P. Ramsey Medal<\/h3>\n<p>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.<br><strong>Winner: Sam E. Bodily<\/strong><\/p>\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. <br><b>Winner: Simon French<\/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. <br><b>Winner: Yuchen Hu<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>DAS\/SDP Practice Award<\/h3>\n<p>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.<br><strong>Winner: Saurabh Bansal, Ying He, and Tanveer Ahmed<\/strong><\/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>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.<br><b>Winner<\/b><b>: Kai Sun, Wangsheng Zhu, and Vijay Mookerjee<\/b><\/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 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.<br><b>Winner: Conleigh Byers and Gabriela Hug<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Best Publication in Environment &amp; Sustainability<\/h3>\n<p>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.<br><b>Winner: M. Brozynski\u00a0 and B. Leibowicz<\/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><b>Winner: Ali Fattah, Sriram Das, and Reza Ahmadi<br><\/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><b>Winner: Felipe Corder, Rodrigo Moren, and Fernando Ordonez<br><\/b><\/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><b>Winner: Hung Po Chao<br><br><\/b><\/div>\n<h3>Early Career Best Paper Award<\/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><b>Winner: Jacob Mays<\/b><\/div>    <\/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.<br><b>Winner: N<\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial;\"><b>o award given this year.<\/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.<br><b>Winner: No award given this year.<\/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.<br><b>Winner: \u00a0Jackie Baek, Justin J. Boutilier, Vivek F. Farias, J\u00f3nas Oddur J\u00f3nasson, and Erez Yoeli<\/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.<br><b>Winner: Mehmet Ayvaci<\/b><\/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.<br><b>Winner:\u00a0 Xue Guo, Jing Gong, Min-Seok Pang, Nan Zhang, Heng Xu, Avijit Sengupta, Yimeng Deng, and Isam Faik<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>ISS Distinguished Fellow<\/h3>\n<p>Recognizes individuals who have made outstanding intellectual contributions to the information systems discipline.<br><b>Winner: Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng, Hsing Kenneth Cheng, Karthik Natarajan Kannan, Michael D. Smith, Sulin Ba, and Wonseok Oh<\/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.<br><b>Winner: Emre Demirezen, Wei Chen, Elina Hwang, Hani Safadi, Panagiotis Adamopoulos, Ananya Sen, and Shu He<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award<\/h3>\n<p>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.<br><b>Winner:\u00a0 Shuxuan Zeng<\/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 that is deemed most deserving for its contribution to the theory and practice of information systems (IS).<br><b>Winner: Miguel Godinho de Matos and Idris Adjerid<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>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.<br><b>Winner:\u00a0 Hongchang Wang, Jaehwuen Jung, Jane (Xue) Tan, Mingwen Yang, Rakesh Mallipeddi, Xuan Bi, Yicheng Song, and Yoonseock (Yoon) Son<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Practical Impacts Award<\/h3>\n<p>This award honors distinguished information systems academics who have demonstrated outstanding leadership and sustained impact on the industry.<br><b>Winner:\u00a0 Bradley C. Wheeler, Ramnath K. Chellappa, Michael D. Smith, and Rahul Telang<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>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.<br><b>Winner:\u00a0 Anindya Ghose, Olivia R. Liu Sheng, Varghese S. Jacob, and\u00a0 Yong Tan<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>ISS Cluster Best Paper Award<\/h3>\n<p><b>Winner: Christian Peukert, Florian Abeillon, J\u00e9r\u00e9mie Haese, Franziska Kaiser, and Alexander Staub<\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Haim Mendelson Teaching Innovation Award<\/h3>\n<p>The primary aim of the award is to recognize IS faculty who have made outstanding pedagogical contributions to the IS discipline.<br><strong>Winner: Dmitry Zhdanov and Harry Jiannan Wang<\/strong><\/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.<br><b>Winner: Chen Chen, Yilun Chen, and Pengyu Qian<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Teaching Excellence Award<\/h3>\n<div>An annual national award recognizing excellence in teaching in operations research and management science (ORMS).<br><strong>Winner: Anna Svirsko<\/strong><\/div>    <\/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. T<br><b>Winner<\/b><strong>: Michael D. Moskal II, Erdi Dasdemir, and Rajan Batta<\/strong><\/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. <br><b>Winner<\/b><strong>: Sheldon H. Jacobson<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Student Paper<\/h3>\n<p>The Student Paper Competition is currently sponsored by MAS members and recognizes outstanding student research in topics directly related to MAS goals.<br><strong>Winner: J. Hayden Boone<\/strong><\/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>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.<br><b>Winner: Priyank Arora and Morvarid Rahmani, and Karthik Ramachandran<\/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.<br><b>Winner: N. Bora Keskin and Daniela Saban<\/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.<br><b>Winner: Bhavani Shanker Uppari, Serguei Netessine, Ioana Popescu, and Rowan P. Clarke<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Best OM Paper in Management Science Award<\/h3>\n<p><b>Winner: Andrew M. Davis, Blair Flicker, Kyle Hyndman, Elena Katok, Samantha Keppler, Stephen Leider, Xiaoyang Long, and Jordan D. Tong<br><\/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.<br><b>Winner: J\u00e9r\u00e9mie Gallien<br><\/b><\/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.<br><b>Winner: Mor Armony, Saif Benjaafar, and Vishal Gaur<\/b><b><br><\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Student Paper Competition<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">The awards are given annually for papers judged to be the best in the field of Operations Management.<br><\/span><strong>Winner: Soonbong Lee<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>MSOM Service Management SIG Best Paper Award<\/h3>\n<p>Award for the best published paper(s) on service management.<br><strong>Winner: Brett A. Hathaway, Evgeny Kagan and Maqbool Dada<\/strong><\/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>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.<br><b>Winner:<\/b> <strong>Gian-Gabriel P. Garcia, Lauren N. Steimle, Wesley J. Marrero, and Jeremy B. Sussman<\/strong><\/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. Since then, MIF has sponsored the travel of underrepresented minority graduate students who participate in the poster session and need financial support.<br><b>Winner: Himadri Pandey<br><\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Summer Webinar Competition<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Winner: Carmen Haseltine<\/strong><\/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.<br><b>Winner: Dilay Akta\u015f Dejaegere<br><br><\/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.<br><b>Winner:\u00a0 <\/b><span style=\"background-color: initial;\"><b>Dorit Hochbaum<\/b><\/span><\/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.<br><b>Winner:\u00a0 Daniel Kuhn<\/b><\/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.<br><b>Winner: Eitan Levin<\/b><\/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.<br><b>Winner: Ernest K. Ryu, Joseph Paat, Ingo Stallknecht, Zach Walsh, and Luze Xu<\/b><\/p>\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.<br><b>Winner: Amir Ali Ahmadi<\/b><\/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>This competition is one of the most prestigious available to doctoral students studying organizations.<br><b>Winner: Susie Choe <\/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>Pride Forum<\/h2>\n<h3>INFORMS Pride Spirit Award<\/h3>\n<p>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&#8217;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.<br><strong>Winner: Chris Parker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\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.<br><b>Winner: Tsai-Hsuan Chung, Hamsa Bastani, Osbert Bastani, Jatu Abdulai, Patrick Bayoh, Lawrence Sandi, and Francis Smart<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>PSOR Video Competition<\/h2>\n<p>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.<br><strong>Winner: Rakesh Allu, Maya Ganesh, Sarang Deo, and Sripad Devalkar<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>PSOR <\/strong>Webinar on Contemporary Operations Management in Developing Economies\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Winner: Maya Ganesh, Debjit Roy, and Daniel Abraham <br><\/strong><\/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.<br><strong>Winner: Yifan Li <\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Best Refereed Paper<\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Winner: Michael Biehler, Daniel Lin, Reinaldo Mock, and Jianjun Shi<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Best Poster Award<\/h3>\n<p>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.<br><strong>Winner: Weizhi Lin<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Manufacturing AI Case Competition<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Winner: Gyeongho Kim<\/strong><\/p>    <\/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            <\/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.<br><b>Winner: Ilan Lobel<\/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.<br><b>Winner: Akshit Kumar and Rachitesh Kumar<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Practice Award<\/h3>\n<p>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.<br><b>Winner: Marcelo Olivares, Gabriel Weintraub, Daniela Saban, Eduardo Lara, Piero Zanocco, and Paula Moreno<\/b><\/p>\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.<br><b>Winner: Jingwei Zhang<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b><span style=\"background-color: initial;\">Service Science\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/h2>\n<h3>Best DEIJ Paper Award<\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Winner: Daniel Freund and Wentao Weng<br><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Best Cluster Paper Award<\/h3>\n<p>This award is a competitive award, started in 2013, which is based on the best papers submitted to the Section&#8217;s sponsored cluster at the INFORMS Annual Meeting.<br><strong>Winner: Zhe Liu, Yiwen Shen, Yanwei Sun, Chengcheng Zhai, Rodney Parker, Kurt Bretthauer, Alfonso Pedraza-Martinez , and Jorge Mejia<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Best Student Paper Award<\/h3>\n<p>The Service Science Section&#8217;s Best Student Paper Award is intended to celebrate high-quality research generated by Ph.D. students that are presented at the Section&#8217;s sponsored cluster at the INFORMS Annual Meeting.<br><strong>Winner: Vinit Tipnis<br><\/strong><\/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.<br><b>Winner: Ye Liu<br><\/b><\/div>    <\/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_xvuh974   \" 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. Finalists are selected from INFORMS publications five years prior based on their citations and the winning paper is chosen by a panel of judges.<br><b>Winner: J\u00fcrgen Mihm and Jochen Schlapp<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Best Working Paper Award<\/h3>\n<p>Sponsored by Mack Institute for Innovation Management\u00a0<\/p>\n<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.<br><b>Winner: Ran Zhuo<\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Best Doctoral Dissertation Award<\/h3>\n<p>Sponsored by UCL School of Management<\/p>\n<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. <br><b>Winner:\u00a0 Sidika Tunc Candogan<\/b><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_c9ag827   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Telecommunications and Network Analytics Section<\/h2>\n<h3>Best Paper Award<\/h3>\n<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.<br><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_tdm5827   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2 class=\"line-header\">Transportation Science and Logistics Section<\/h2>\n<h3>TSL Dissertation Prize<\/h3>\n<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.<br><b>Winner: Xingmin Wang<\/b><\/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.<br><b>Winner: Alexander M. Stroh, Alan L. Erera, and Alejandro Toriello<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>TSL Outstanding SIG Paper Award<\/h3>\n<div><b>Winner: John Gunnar Carlsson, Sheng Liu, Nooshin Salari, Han Yu, Guodong Lyu, Wang Chi Cheung, Chung-Piaw Teo, and Hai Wang<br><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Stella Dafermos Achievement Award<\/h3>\n<div>The Stella Dafermos Achievement Award in Transportation Science is awarded by the INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society (TSL) to a mid-career scholar who has made fundamental scientific contributions to transportation science and logistics. To be eligible for the award, an individual must be within 10 and 20 years of having finished their Ph.D. on December 31 of the year that they are nominated. Other considerations when evaluating a nominee for the award include: the impact of their work on practice, their service to TSL, and their involvement in diversity and inclusion-related activities. <br><b>Winner: Alejandro Toriello<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>TSL Best Student Paper Award<\/h3>\n<p>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.<br><strong>Winner: Bo Lin<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Transportation Science Journal Paper of the Year Award<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Winner: \u00d6mer Burak K\u0131nay, Fatma Gzara, Sibel A. Alumur, Lu Zhen, Zheyi Tan, Ren\u00e9 de Koster, Shuaian Wang, Jiaohong Xie, Yang Liu, Nan Chen, Shakiba Enayati, Haitao Li, James F. Campbell, and Deng Pan<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Robert Herman Lifetime Achievement Award<\/h3>\n<p>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.<br><strong>Winner: Martin Savelsbergh<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-1 tb_be8t827 last\">\n                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-anchor=\"w\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_has_section tb_section-w tb_e5ui235 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_nrfd235 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_57ch236   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Women in OR\/MS Forum (WORMS)<\/h2>\n<h3>Doctoral Colloquium Student Sponsorship Award<\/h3>\n<p>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.<br><b>Winner: Aysu Ozel and Emerald Dudzinski<br><\/b><\/p>\n<h3>WORMS Family Care Award<\/h3>\n<p>The WORMS Family Care Award aims to support INFORMS Annual Meeting attendees who are primary caregivers for a family member. 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decoding=\"async\" data-tf-src=\"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/seattle2024\/files\/2024\/11\/Student_Paper_Winner-360x200.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"200\" title=\"Student_Paper_Winner\" alt=\"Student_Paper_Winner\"><noscript><img data-tf-not-load data-no-script src=\"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/seattle2024\/files\/2024\/11\/Student_Paper_Winner-360x200.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"200\" title=\"Student_Paper_Winner\" alt=\"Student_Paper_Winner\"><\/noscript> <\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/seattle2024\/files\/2024\/11\/Best_Service_SIG_Paper.jpg\" data-rel=\"tb_i65q27\"> <img src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%27http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg%27%20width='360'%20height='200'%20viewBox=%270%200%20360%20200%27%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" loading=\"lazy\" data-lazy=\"1\" data-tf-not-load=\"1\" style=\"background:linear-gradient(to right,#243b7e 25%,#334142 25% 50%,#f3e5cb 50% 75%,#595238 75%),linear-gradient(to right,#dbe101 25%,#2a282b 25% 50%,#d6c49c 50% 75%,#595236 75%),linear-gradient(to right,#253b6c 25%,#000600 25% 50%,#070604 50% 75%,#635940 75%),linear-gradient(to right,#7586b4 25%,#504f3d 25% 50%,#010511 50% 75%,#463f2c 75%)\" decoding=\"async\" data-tf-src=\"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/seattle2024\/files\/2024\/11\/Best_Service_SIG_Paper-360x200.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"200\" title=\"Best_Service_SIG_Paper\" alt=\"Best_Service_SIG_Paper\"><noscript><img data-tf-not-load data-no-script src=\"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/seattle2024\/files\/2024\/11\/Best_Service_SIG_Paper-360x200.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"200\" title=\"Best_Service_SIG_Paper\" alt=\"Best_Service_SIG_Paper\"><\/noscript> <\/a>\n<h5>Jump to<\/h5> <ul> <li><a href=\"#a\">A<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#b\">B<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#c\">C<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#d\">D<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#e\">E<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#f\">F<\/a><\/li> <li>G<\/li> <li><a href=\"#h\">H<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#i\">I<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#j\">J<\/a><\/li> <li>K<\/li> <li>L<\/li> <li><a href=\"#m\">M<\/a><\/li> <li>N<\/li> <li><a href=\"#o\">O<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#p\">P<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#q\">Q<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#r\">R<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#s\">S<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#t\">T<\/a><\/li> <li>U<\/li> <li>V<\/li> <li><a href=\"#w\">W<\/a><\/li> <li>X<\/li> <li>Y<\/li> <li>Z<\/li> <\/ul>\n<h2>Applied Probability Society<\/h2> <h3>Best Student Paper Prize<\/h3> <p>This prize identifies and honors outstanding papers in the field of applied probability \u2028that are written primarily by a student.<br><b>Winner:\u00a0 Matthew Zurek<br><\/b><\/p> <h3>Erlang Prize<\/h3> <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.<br><b>Winner: Daniel Russo and Sarah Penington<br><\/b><\/p> <h3>Blackwell Prize<\/h3> <p>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.<br><b>Winner: Francois Baccelli<br><\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Artificial Intelligence\u00a0(Data Science Workshop)\u00a0<\/h2> <h3>Best Paper Award<\/h3> <p><strong>Winner: Yunxin Sang, Yan Leng, and Ashish Agarwal<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Best Reviewer Award<\/h3>\n<b>Winner: Pan Li, Hamid Reza Firoozfar, and Ann-Kathrin Meyer<\/b> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <h3>Best Student Paper Award<\/h3> <b>Winner: Bora Keskin, Chenghuai Li, andMeng Li<br><\/b> <b>\u00a0<\/b>\n<h2>Auctions and Market Design<\/h2> <h3>Rothkopf Junior Researcher Paper Prize<\/h3> <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.<br><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/b>Soonbong Lee<\/p>\n<h2>Aviation Applications Section<\/h2> <h3>Best Presentation Award<\/h3> <p>The Aviation Applications Section (AAS) of INFORMS awards a prize for the best student presentation within the AAS cluster during the INFORMS annual meeting.<br><b>Winner: Haochen Wu<br><\/b><\/p> <h3>Best Paper Award<\/h3> <p>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.<br><b>Winner: Kai Wang, Alexandre Jacquillat, and Vikrant Vaze<br><\/b><\/p> \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.<br><b>Winner: Chenshan Hu, Xiaoyang Long, Jiankun Sun, and Dennis Zhang<\/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.\u00a0<br><b>Winners: Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Shixiang Chen, Jiaxiang Li, Shiqian Ma, Anthony Man-Cho So, and Tong 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.\u00a0<br><b>Winner: Shuvomoy Das Gupta<\/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.<br><b>Winner: Selvaprabu Nadarajah and Andre Cire<\/b><\/p> <h3>Distinguished Service Award<\/h3> <p>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.<br><b>Winner: Robin Lougee<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Data Mining<\/h2> <h3>Best Applied Paper Competition<\/h3> <b>Winner: Yu Ma and Dimitris Bertsimas<br><\/b> <b>\u00a0<\/b> <h3>Best Theoretical Paper Competition<\/h3> <b>Winner: Ryan Cory-Wright and Jean Pauphilet<br><\/b> <b>\u00a0<\/b> <h3>Best Paper General Paper<\/h3> <b>Winner: Naichen Shi, Salar Fattahi, and Raed Al Kontar\u00a0<\/b> \u00a0 <h3>Best Paper Student Paper<\/h3> <b>Winner: Brian Liu<br><\/b> \u00a0 <h3>Data Challenge<\/h3> <strong>Winner: Jie Wang and Yongchun Li<\/strong> \u00a0\n<h2>Decision Analysis Society<\/h2> <h3>Frank P. Ramsey Medal<\/h3> <p>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.<br><strong>Winner: Sam E. Bodily<\/strong><\/p> <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. <br><b>Winner: Simon French<\/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. <br><b>Winner: Yuchen Hu<\/b><\/p> <h3>DAS\/SDP Practice Award<\/h3> <p>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.<br><strong>Winner: Saurabh Bansal, Ying He, and Tanveer Ahmed<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>eBusiness Section<\/h2> <h3>Best Paper Award<\/h3> <p>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.<br><b>Winner<\/b><b>: Kai Sun, Wangsheng Zhu, and Vijay Mookerjee<\/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 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.<br><b>Winner: Conleigh Byers and Gabriela Hug<\/b><\/p> <h3>Best Publication in Environment &amp; Sustainability<\/h3> <p>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.<br><b>Winner: M. Brozynski\u00a0 and B. Leibowicz<\/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><b>Winner: Ali Fattah, Sriram Das, and Reza Ahmadi<br><\/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><b>Winner: Felipe Corder, Rodrigo Moren, and Fernando Ordonez<br><\/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><b>Winner: Hung Po Chao<br><br><\/b> <h3>Early Career Best Paper Award<\/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><b>Winner: Jacob Mays<\/b>\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.<br><b>Winner: N<\/b><b>o award given this year.<\/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.<br><b>Winner: No award given this year.<\/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.<br><b>Winner: \u00a0Jackie Baek, Justin J. Boutilier, Vivek F. Farias, J\u00f3nas Oddur J\u00f3nasson, and Erez Yoeli<\/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.<br><b>Winner: Mehmet Ayvaci<\/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.<br><b>Winner:\u00a0 Xue Guo, Jing Gong, Min-Seok Pang, Nan Zhang, Heng Xu, Avijit Sengupta, Yimeng Deng, and Isam Faik<\/b><\/p> <h3>ISS Distinguished Fellow<\/h3> <p>Recognizes individuals who have made outstanding intellectual contributions to the information systems discipline.<br><b>Winner: Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng, Hsing Kenneth Cheng, Karthik Natarajan Kannan, Michael D. Smith, Sulin Ba, and Wonseok Oh<\/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.<br><b>Winner: Emre Demirezen, Wei Chen, Elina Hwang, Hani Safadi, Panagiotis Adamopoulos, Ananya Sen, and Shu He<\/b><\/p> <h3>Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award<\/h3> <p>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.<br><b>Winner:\u00a0 Shuxuan Zeng<\/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 that is deemed most deserving for its contribution to the theory and practice of information systems (IS).<br><b>Winner: Miguel Godinho de Matos and Idris Adjerid<\/b><\/p> <h3>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.<br><b>Winner:\u00a0 Hongchang Wang, Jaehwuen Jung, Jane (Xue) Tan, Mingwen Yang, Rakesh Mallipeddi, Xuan Bi, Yicheng Song, and Yoonseock (Yoon) Son<\/b><\/p> <h3>Practical Impacts Award<\/h3> <p>This award honors distinguished information systems academics who have demonstrated outstanding leadership and sustained impact on the industry.<br><b>Winner:\u00a0 Bradley C. Wheeler, Ramnath K. Chellappa, Michael D. Smith, and Rahul Telang<\/b><\/p> <h3>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.<br><b>Winner:\u00a0 Anindya Ghose, Olivia R. Liu Sheng, Varghese S. Jacob, and\u00a0 Yong Tan<\/b><\/p> <h3>ISS Cluster Best Paper Award<\/h3> <p><b>Winner: Christian Peukert, Florian Abeillon, J\u00e9r\u00e9mie Haese, Franziska Kaiser, and Alexander Staub<\/b><b><\/b><\/p> <h3>Haim Mendelson Teaching Innovation Award<\/h3> <p>The primary aim of the award is to recognize IS faculty who have made outstanding pedagogical contributions to the IS discipline.<br><strong>Winner: Dmitry Zhdanov and Harry Jiannan Wang<\/strong><\/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.<br><b>Winner: Chen Chen, Yilun Chen, and Pengyu Qian<\/b><\/p> <h3>Teaching Excellence Award<\/h3> An annual national award recognizing excellence in teaching in operations research and management science (ORMS).<br><strong>Winner: Anna Svirsko<\/strong>\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. T<br><b>Winner<\/b><strong>: Michael D. Moskal II, Erdi Dasdemir, and Rajan Batta<\/strong><\/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. <br><b>Winner<\/b><strong>: Sheldon H. Jacobson<\/strong><\/p> <h3>Student Paper<\/h3> <p>The Student Paper Competition is currently sponsored by MAS members and recognizes outstanding student research in topics directly related to MAS goals.<br><strong>Winner: J. Hayden Boone<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society<\/h2> <h3>MSOM Journal Best Paper Award<\/h3> <p>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.<br><b>Winner: Priyank Arora and Morvarid Rahmani, and Karthik Ramachandran<\/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.<br><b>Winner: N. Bora Keskin and Daniela Saban<\/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.<br><b>Winner: Bhavani Shanker Uppari, Serguei Netessine, Ioana Popescu, and Rowan P. Clarke<\/b><\/p> <h3>Best OM Paper in Management Science Award<\/h3> <p><b>Winner: Andrew M. Davis, Blair Flicker, Kyle Hyndman, Elena Katok, Samantha Keppler, Stephen Leider, Xiaoyang Long, and Jordan D. Tong<br><\/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.<br><b>Winner: J\u00e9r\u00e9mie Gallien<br><\/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.<br><b>Winner: Mor Armony, Saif Benjaafar, and Vishal Gaur<\/b><b><br><\/b><\/p> <h3>Student Paper Competition<\/h3> <p>The awards are given annually for papers judged to be the best in the field of Operations Management.<br><strong>Winner: Soonbong Lee<\/strong><\/p> <h3>MSOM Service Management SIG Best Paper Award<\/h3> <p>Award for the best published paper(s) on service management.<br><strong>Winner: Brett A. Hathaway, Evgeny Kagan and Maqbool Dada<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Minority Issues Forum<\/h2> <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.<br><b>Winner:<\/b> <strong>Gian-Gabriel P. Garcia, Lauren N. Steimle, Wesley J. Marrero, and Jeremy B. Sussman<\/strong><\/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. Since then, MIF has sponsored the travel of underrepresented minority graduate students who participate in the poster session and need financial support.<br><b>Winner: Himadri Pandey<br><\/b><\/p> <h3>Summer Webinar Competition<\/h3> <p><strong>Winner: Carmen Haseltine<\/strong><\/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.<br><b>Winner: Dilay Akta\u015f Dejaegere<br><br><\/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.<br><b>Winner:\u00a0 <\/b><b>Dorit Hochbaum<\/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.<br><b>Winner:\u00a0 Daniel Kuhn<\/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.<br><b>Winner: Eitan Levin<\/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.<br><b>Winner: Ernest K. Ryu, Joseph Paat, Ingo Stallknecht, Zach Walsh, and Luze Xu<\/b><\/p> <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.<br><b>Winner: Amir Ali Ahmadi<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Organization Science Section<\/h2> <h3>Dissertation Proposal Competition<\/h3> <p>This competition is one of the most prestigious available to doctoral students studying organizations.<br><b>Winner: Susie Choe <\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Pride Forum<\/h2> <h3>INFORMS Pride Spirit Award<\/h3> <p>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.<br><strong>Winner: Chris Parker<\/strong><\/p> <p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p> <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.<br><b>Winner: Tsai-Hsuan Chung, Hamsa Bastani, Osbert Bastani, Jatu Abdulai, Patrick Bayoh, Lawrence Sandi, and Francis Smart<\/b><\/p> <h2>PSOR Video Competition<\/h2> <p>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.<br><strong>Winner: Rakesh Allu, Maya Ganesh, Sarang Deo, and Sripad Devalkar<\/strong><\/p> <h2><strong>PSOR <\/strong>Webinar on Contemporary Operations Management in Developing Economies\u00a0<\/h2> <p><strong>Winner: Maya Ganesh, Debjit Roy, and Daniel Abraham <br><\/strong><\/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.<br><strong>Winner: Yifan Li <\/strong><\/p> <h3>Best Refereed Paper<\/h3> <p>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.<\/p> <p><strong>Winner: Michael Biehler, Daniel Lin, Reinaldo Mock, and Jianjun Shi<\/strong><\/p> <h3>Best Poster Award<\/h3> <p>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.<br><strong>Winner: Weizhi Lin<\/strong><\/p> <h3>Manufacturing AI Case Competition<\/h3> <p><strong>Winner: Gyeongho Kim<\/strong><\/p>\n\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.<br><b>Winner: Ilan Lobel<\/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.<br><b>Winner: Akshit Kumar and Rachitesh Kumar<\/b><\/p> <h3>Practice Award<\/h3> <p>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.<br><b>Winner: Marcelo Olivares, Gabriel Weintraub, Daniela Saban, Eduardo Lara, Piero Zanocco, and Paula Moreno<\/b><\/p> \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.<br><b>Winner: Jingwei Zhang<\/b><\/p> <p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p> <h2><b>Service Science\u00a0<\/b><\/h2> <h3>Best DEIJ Paper Award<\/h3> <p>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.<\/p> <p><strong>Winner: Daniel Freund and Wentao Weng<br><\/strong><\/p> <h3>Best Cluster Paper Award<\/h3> <p>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.<br><strong>Winner: Zhe Liu, Yiwen Shen, Yanwei Sun, Chengcheng Zhai, Rodney Parker, Kurt Bretthauer, Alfonso Pedraza-Martinez , and Jorge Mejia<\/strong><\/p> <h3>Best Student Paper Award<\/h3> <p>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.<br><strong>Winner: Vinit Tipnis<br><\/strong><\/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.<br><b>Winner: Ye Liu<br><\/b>\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.<br><b>Winner: J\u00fcrgen Mihm and Jochen Schlapp<\/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.<br><b>Winner: Ran Zhuo<\/b><b><\/b><\/p> <h3>Best Doctoral Dissertation Award<\/h3> <p>Sponsored by UCL School of Management<\/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. <br><b>Winner:\u00a0 Sidika Tunc Candogan<\/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.<br><b>Winner:\u00a0<\/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.<br><b>Winner: Xingmin Wang<\/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.<br><b>Winner: Alexander M. Stroh, Alan L. Erera, and Alejandro Toriello<\/b><\/p> <h3>TSL Outstanding SIG Paper Award<\/h3> <b>Winner: John Gunnar Carlsson, Sheng Liu, Nooshin Salari, Han Yu, Guodong Lyu, Wang Chi Cheung, Chung-Piaw Teo, and Hai Wang<br><\/b> <b>\u00a0<\/b>\n<h3>Stella Dafermos Achievement Award<\/h3> The Stella Dafermos Achievement Award in Transportation Science is awarded by the INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society (TSL) to a mid-career scholar who has made fundamental scientific contributions to transportation science and logistics. To be eligible for the award, an individual must be within 10 and 20 years of having finished their Ph.D. on December 31 of the year that they are nominated. Other considerations when evaluating a nominee for the award include: the impact of their work on practice, their service to TSL, and their involvement in diversity and inclusion-related activities. <br><b>Winner: Alejandro Toriello<\/b> <b>\u00a0<\/b>\n<h3>TSL Best Student Paper Award<\/h3> <p>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.<br><strong>Winner: Bo Lin<\/strong><\/p> <h3>Transportation Science Journal Paper of the Year Award<\/h3> <p><strong>Winner: \u00d6mer Burak K\u0131nay, Fatma Gzara, Sibel A. Alumur, Lu Zhen, Zheyi Tan, Ren\u00e9 de Koster, Shuaian Wang, Jiaohong Xie, Yang Liu, Nan Chen, Shakiba Enayati, Haitao Li, James F. Campbell, and Deng Pan<\/strong><\/p> <h3>Robert Herman Lifetime Achievement Award<\/h3> <p>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.<br><strong>Winner: Martin Savelsbergh<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0\n<h2>Women in OR\/MS Forum (WORMS)<\/h2> <h3>Doctoral Colloquium Student Sponsorship Award<\/h3> <p>WORMS will sponsor one student member to attend the Doctoral Student Colloquium at the INFORMS Annual Meeting. 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