The INFORMS Optimization Society Prize for Young Researchers
Purpose
The INFORMS Optimization Society Prize for Young Researchers was established in 1998 and is awarded annually at the INFORMS Fall National Meeting to one or more young researcher(s) for an outstanding paper in optimization that is submitted to and accepted, or published in a refereed professional journal within the four calendar years preceding the year of the award. All authors must have been awarded their terminal degree within eight calendar years preceding the year of award. The prize serves as an esteemed recognition of promising colleagues who are at the beginning of their academic or industrial career.
The award includes a cash amount of $1,000 and a citation certificate. The winner(s) will be invited to give a fifteen minute presentation of the winning paper at the Optimization Society Business Meeting held during the INFORMS Fall National Meeting in the year the award is made. The winner(s) 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 | Sergei Chubanov, University of Siegen | Shabbir Ahmed, Alper Atamtürk, Endre Boros (Chair), Bob Vanderbei |
| 2011 | Tobias Achterberg, IBM | Dan Bienstock, Endre Boros, Tom McCormick, Jim Renegar (Chair) |
| 2010 | Anthony Man-Cho So | Nick Sahinidis (chair), Alper Yildirim, Jiawei Zhang |
| 2008 | Retsef Levi (MIT), Ganesh Janakiraman (NYU), and Mahesh Nagarajan (UBC) | John Birge (chair), Robert Freund, Jon Lee, Stephen Vavasis |
| 2006 | Alper Yildirim, Bilkent University, Turkey | John Birge (chair), Sven Leyffer, Nick Sahinidis |
| 2005 | Illya Hicks, Texas A&M University | |
| 2004 | Jiawei Zhang, New York University | Andrzej Ruszczynski, Nick Sahinidis, Richard Tapia, Eva Tardos, Tamas Terlaky (chair) |
| 2003 | Tim Roughgarden, Stanford | Daniel Bienstock (chair), Christodoulos A. Floudas, Andrzej Ruszczynski, Yinyu Ye |
| 2002 | Sam Burer, University of Iowa | Michael Ferris, Renato Monteiro, Franz Rendl (chair), Andreas Shultz, Henry Wolkowicz |
| 2001 | Kamal Jain, Microsoft Research | Jonathan Eckstein, Rob Freund (chair), Mike Todd, David Williamson, Steve Wright |
| 2000 | Kevin Wayne, Princeton | Sebastian Ceria, Bill Cook, Kees Roos, Suvrajeet Sen, Bob Vanderbei (chair) |
| 1999 | Francois Oustry, INRIA | John Birge, Gerard Cornuejols (chair), Michel Goemans, Jong-Shi Pang, Mike Todd |
Eligibility
The author(s) and the work must satisfy the following conditions to be eligible for the prize:
- The paper must be published in, or submitted to and accepted by, a refereed professional journal during the four calendar years preceding the year of the award.
- All authors must have been awarded their terminal degree within the eight calendar years preceding the year of award.
- 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.
