Student Paper Prize
Purpose
The INFORMS Optimization Society Student Paper Prize was established in 2006 and is awarded annually at the INFORMS Fall National Meeting to one or more student(s) for an outstanding paper in optimization that is submitted to and received or published in a refereed professional journal during the three calendar years preceding the year of the award. Every nominee/applicant must be a student on the first of January of the year of the award. Any co-author(s) not nominated for the award should send a letter indicating that the majority of the nominated work was performed by the nominee(s). The prize serves as an esteemed recognition of promising students who are looking for an academic or industrial career.
The award includes a cash amount of $1,000 and a citation certificate. The award winner(s) will be invited to give a fifteen minute presentation of the winning paper at the INFORMS Fall National Meeting in the year of the award. The winners will be responsible for all travel expenses associated with the presentation of their paper at the INFORMS meeting.
Winners and committee members
| Year | Winner(s) | Committee members |
| 2012 | Diego Morán | Simge Küçükyavuz, Katya Scheinberg (Chair), Renata Sotirov. |
| 2011 | Daniel Dadush | Matthias Koeppe (Chair), Jean-Philippe Richard, Katya Scheinberg |
| 2010 | Shiqian Ma | Miguel Anjos, Alper Atamturk, Sven Leyffer (chair) |
| 2009 | Dan Iancu, MIT | Shabbir Ahmed (chair), Sam Burer, Jon Lee |
| 2007 | Juan Pablo Vielma, Georgia Institute of Technology | Francois Margot, Tom McCormick, Edwin Romeijn, David Shanno, Yinyu Ye (Chair) |
Eligibility
The author(s) and the paper must satisfy the following conditions to be eligible for the prize:
- The paper must be published in, or submitted and received by, a refereed professional journal during the three calendar years prior to the year of the award.
- Every nominee must be a student on the first of January in the year of application/nomination.
- Any co-author(s) not nominated for the award should send a letter indicating that the majority of the nominated work was performed by the nominee(s).
- The topic of the paper must belong to the field of optimization in its broadest sense.
- The prize may be awarded once in a lifetime to any individual.
