INFORMS News: INFORMS Subdivision Awards

The following INFORMS awards were presented by the respective subdivisions, societies, sections, interest groups, etc. at the 2010 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas, last November.

Applied Probability

2010 Erlang Prize

Sunil Kumar (left) presents award to Jose Blanchet.

Recipients:
Jose Blanchet, Columbia University; Devavrat Shah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Aviation Applications

2010 Best Dissertation Prize

Diego Klabjan (left) presents award to Poornima Balakrishna.

Recipient:
Poornima Balakrishna, George Mason University
Recognized Work:
“Scalable Approximate Dynamic Programming Models”

Computing Society

2010 ICS Prize

Ted Ralphs (far left) and Robert Vanderbei (far right) congratulate ICS Prize winners.

Recipients:
Jesus De Lorea, University of California; Jon Lee, IBM Research; Peter Malkin; Susan Margulies, Rice University; Shmuel Onn, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Recognized Work:
“Hilbert’s Nullstellensatz and an Algorithm for Proving Combinatorial Infeasibility” and “Expressing Combinatorial Optimization Problems by Systems of Polynomial Equations and Hilbert’s Nullstellensatz”

2010 ICS Student Paper Award

Ted Ralphs, Yongqiang Wang and Robert Vanderbei (l-r).

Recipient:
Yongqiang Wang, University of Maryland
Recognized Work:
“A New Stochastic Derivative Estimator for Discontinuous Payoff Functions with Application to Financial Derivatives”

CPMS: Practice Section of INFORMS

The Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research

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Yingdong Lu, Mark Squillante and Mayank Sharma (l-r).

Recipient:
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center: Heng Cao, Jianying Hu, Chen Jiang, Tarun Kumar, Ta-Hsin Li, Yang Liu, Yingdong Lu, Shilpa Mahatma, Aleksandra Mojsilovic, Mayank Sharma, Mark Squillante and Yichong Yu.
Recognized Work:
“OnTheMark: Integrated Stochastic Resource Planning of Human Capital Supply Chains”

Data Mining

Student Paper Award

Paul Brooks and award-winner Jian Guo (l-r).

Recipient:
Jian Guo, University of Michigan
Second Place:
Sangheum Hwang, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Third Place:
Andrew Trapp, University of Pittsburgh

Data Mining Contest

Nan Zhou, Cole Harris and Christopher Hefele (l-r).

First Place:
Cole Harris, Exagen Diagnostics
Second Place:
Christopher Hefele, AT&T
Third Place:
Nan Zhou, University of Pittsburgh

Data Mining Contest

Recipient:
Anuja Kokrady; Sweta Agrawal; Merin Varghese; Mahesh Kumar Tambi, Hewlett-Packard
Recognized Work:
“Not using future information category”

Decision Analysis (DAS)

Frank P. Ramsey Medal

Bob Winkler and Elisabeth Pate-Cornell (l-r).

Recipient:
Elisabeth Pate-Cornell, Stanford University
Recognition:
Distinguished Contributions In Decision Analysis

Practice Award

Eric Bickel and Frank Koch (l-r).

Recipient:
Frank Koch, Larry Neal and Brian Putt, Chevron
Recognized Work:
“The Implementation of Decision Analysis at Chevron: 20 years of building a DA Culture”

Student Paper Award

Karen Jenni, Sam Aflaki and Erin Baker (l-r).

Recipient:
Sam Aflaki, INSEAD
Recognized Work:
“Managing Satisfaction in Relationships over Time”

Publication Award

Recipients:
George Wu, University of Chicago; Alex B. Markle, New York University
Recognized Work:
“An Empirical Test of Gain-Loss Separability in Prospect Theory”

Energy, Natural Resources and the Environment

2010 Student Paper Travel Award

Erin Baker, Li Xu and Tapas Das (l-r).

Recipient:
Li Xu
Recognized Work:
“Carbon Emission Permit Price Volatility Mitigation via Financial Options,” with Shi-Jie Deng and Valerie Thomas

2009 Best Paper in Forestry Sponsored Sessions Award

Recipient:
Matthew Thompson, U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station
Recognized Work:
“Addressing Sources of Uncertainty in Strategic Fire Planning”

2009 Best Paper in Energy Sponsored Sessions Award

Recipient:
Paul R. Kleindorfer, INSEAD
Recognized Work:
“Portfolio Risk Management and Carbon Emissions Valuation in Electric Power”

2010 Best Publication Award in Energy

Tapas Das and Shmuel S. Oren (l-r).

Recipients:
Jian Yao, Ilan Adler and Shmuel S. Oren, University of California, Berkeley
Recognized Work:
“Modeling and Computing Two-Settlement Oligopolistic Equilibrium in a Congested Electricity Network”

2010 Best Publication Award in Forestry

Alastair McNaughton and Tapas Das (l-r).

Recipients:
Alastair McNaughton, University of Auckland; David Ryan, University of Auckland
Recognized Work:
“Adjacency Branches Used To Optimize Forest Harvesting Subject to Area Restrictions on Clearfell”

Financial Services

Best Student Research Paper Award

Aparna Gupta, Michael Padilla, Waraporn Tongprasit and Xiangwei Wan (l-r).

First Place:
Michael Padilla, Stanford University
Second Place:
Xizngwei Wan, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Health Applications Section

Pierskalla Best Paper Award

Mariel Lavieri, award-winner Soroush Saghafian and William Pierskalla (l-r).

Recipients:
Soroush Saghafian, Wallace Hopp, Mark Van Oyen, Jeffrey Desmond and Steven Kronick, University of Michigan
Recognized Work:
“Patient Streaming as a Mechanism for Improving Responsiveness in Emergency Departments”

Seth Bonder Scholarship for Applied Operations Research in Health Services

Gino Lim and Turgay Ayer (l-r).

Recipient:
Gino Lim and Turgay Ayer (l-r).

INFORMS Moving Spirit Awards

Moving Spirit Award

Recipient:
William Carper (Southeastern Chapter)
Recognition:
For his more than 30 years of service to the Southeastern Chapter of INFORMS (and formerly TIMS). Among his contributions, Dr. Carper has served in every officer role and was instrumental in rewriting the chapter’s constitution and bylaws after the merger of ORSA and TIMS.

Moving Spirit Award

John Fowler, Sandra Eksioglu and Burcu Keskin (l-r).

Recipient:
Sandra Eksioglu (Mississippi State University Student Chapter)
Recognition:
For her outstanding efforts to found and advise the Mississippi State University Student Chapter, which has since become active and engaged in the region. Dr. Eksioglu led the chapter’s involvement in helping to organize the 2010 Southern Regional Conference.

Fora Moving Spirit Award

John Fowler, Illya Hicks and Burcu Keskin (l-r).

Recipient:
Illya Hicks (Minority Issues Forum)
Recognition:
For his long-term involvement in the Minority Issues Forum. For more than 10 years, Dr. Hicks has acted as a mentor for minority students, led the effort to bring more minorities to the INFORMS annual meeting and increased their participation in various programs and events.

Judith Liebman Awards

Burcu Keskin, Ambarish Acharya and John Fowler (l-r).

Burcu Keskin, Kory Hedman and John Fowler (l-r).

Burcu Keskin, Hoda Parvin and John Fowler (l-r).

Recipients:
Ambarish Acharya (Mississippi State University Student Chapter), Kory Hedman (University of California-Berkeley Student Chapter) and Hoda Parvin (University of Michigan Student Chapter)
Recognition:
Ambarish Acharya undertook the necessary work to establish the Mississippi State University Student Chapter, focusing on recruiting members and officers from a variety of academic departments. He is co-founder and co-editor of the chapter’s newsletter, STORMS.

Kory Hedman was principally responsible for the reactivation of the University of California-Berkeley Student Chapter. Promoting a sense of community among the students, he organized the regular seminars and social events that his successors have continued after his graduation.

Hoda Parvin reenergized the University of Michigan Student Chapter by organizing such activities as financial planning seminars, networking sessions with professionals at Toyota, and practice talks for students prior to the INFORMS meeting. She reached out to student chapters of IIE and HFES, building strong relationships and increasing networking opportunities for students in her department.

Student Chapter Annual Awards

Summa Cum Laude (Arizona State University): Yasaman Khodadadegan, Burcu Keskin, Wandaliz Torres-Garcia, Liangjie Xue, Ryan Panos and John Fowler (l-r).

Recipients:
Arizona State University (Summa Cum Laude); University of Massachusetts and University of South Florida (Magna Cum Laude); Florida International University, North Carolina State University, Oklahoma State University, Texas A&M University, University of Alabama, University of California-Berkeley, University of Illinois-Chicago (Cum Laude)
Recognition:
Outstanding participation and performance during the year of 2009.

INFORM-ED

Case Competition

First Place:
Tim Kraft, Stanford University
Recognized Work:
“Key Electronics”
Second Place:
Kenneth Lichtendahl, University of Virginia
Recognized Work:
“PriceMax”
Third Place:
Monica Villareal, Georgia Tech
Recognized Work:
“Home Depot”

Junior Faculty Interest Group

JFIG Paper Competition Award

Felipe Caro, Hayriye Ayhan (prize chair) and Victor Martinez-de-Albeniz (l-r).

First Place:
Felipe Caro, University of California-Los Angeles, and Victor Martinez-de-Albeniz, IESE Business School, Spain
Recognized Work:
“Product and Price Competition with Satiation Effects”
Second Place:
Ying-Ju Chen, University of California-Berkeley
Recognized Work:
“Optimal Dynamic Auctions for Display Advertising”
Third Place:
Achal Bassamboo, Northwestern University and Ramandeep Randhawa, University of Southern California
Recognized Work:
“On the Accuracy of Fluid Models for Capacity Sizing in Queueing Systems with Impatient Customers”

Location Analysis (SOLA)

Chuck ReVelle Rising Star Award

Z. Max Shen, Larry Snyder and Oded Berman (l-r).

Recipient:
Larry Snyder, Lehigh University

MSOM

Student Paper Competition

Anicham Kumarasamy, Sripad Devalkar, Mazhar Arikan, Li Chen, Srikanth Jagabathula, Sam Afleki and Jose Guajardo (l-r).

First Place:
Srikanth Jagabathula, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Recognized Work:
“A New Approach to Modeling Choice”
Second Place:
Mazhar Arikan, Purdue University
Finalists:
Anicham Kumarasamy, Stanford University; Jose Guajardo, University of Pennsylvania; Sripad Devalkar, University of Michigan; Sam Aflaki, INSEAD

Distinguished Service Award

Jeannette Song and Tava Lennon Olsen (l-r).

Recipient:
Tava Lennon Olsen, University of Auckland Business School
Recognition:
For meritorious service towards advancing the goals and objectives of the MSOM Society of INFORMS

Distinguished Fellows Award

Distinguished Fellow Steven Nahmias.

Recipient:
Steve Nahmias, Santa Clara University

Best Paper Award

Tava Lennon Olsen and Xuanming Su (l-r).

Recipient:
Xuanming Su, University of California, Berkeley
Recognized Work:
“Bounded Rationality in Newsvendor Models” (M&SOM 10(4), 2008, pp. 566-589).

Society for Marketing Science

2009 John D.C. Little Award

Recipient:
Brett R. Gordon, Columbia University

2009 Frank M. Bass Dissertation Paper Award

Recipient:
Kenneth C. Wilbur, Duke University

2010 Long-Term Impact Award

Recipient:
Peter E. Rossi, University of Chicago; Greg M. Allenby

2009 Practice Award

Recipient:
Marc Fisher, University of Passau; Sonke Albers

2010 Fellow Award

Recipients:
Jehoshua Eliashberg, Wharton School-University of Pennsylvania; Dominique M. Hanssens, Anderson School of Management-UCLA; Roland T. Rust, Robert H. Smith School of Business-University of Maryland

Military Applications

2009 Koopman Prize

Greg Parlier, Moshe Kress, Roberto Szechtman, Ed Pohl and Pat Driscoll (l-r).

Recipients:
Moshe Kress, Naval Postgraduate School; Roberto Szechtman, Naval Postgraduate School

Seth Bonder Scholarship for Applied Operations Research in Military Applications

Greg Parlier, David Myers, Seth Bonder, Mark Karwan, Ed Pohl and Pat Driscoll (l-r).

Recipient:
David Myers

2009 J. Steinhardt Prize

Greg Parlier, Alan R. Washburn, Warren Sutton, Ed Pohl and Pat Driscoll (l-r).

Recipients:
Alan R. Washburn, Naval Postgraduate School; Wayne P. Hughes Jr.

Omega Rho Distinguished Lecturer

Honoree:
John Birge, University of Chicago
Presentation:
“ORMS and Risk Management Failures: What are we doing wrong?”

Optimization

Student Paper Prize

Miguel Anjos, Sven Leyffer, Shiqian Ma and Nick Sahinidis (l-r).

Recipient:
Shiqian Ma, Columbia University
Recognized Work:
“Fast Multiple Splitting Algorithms for Convex Optimization”

Prize for Young Researchers

Nick Sahinidis and Antony Man-Cho So (l-r).

Recipient:
Antony Man-Cho So, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Recognized Work:
“Moment Inequalities for Sums of Random Matrices and Their Applications in Optimization”

Khachiyan Prize

George L. Nemhauser (on the screen), Tamas Terlaky and Nick Sahinidis (l-r).

Recipient:
George L. Nemhauser, Georgia Institute of Technology

Farkas Prize of the Optimization Society

Nick Sahinidis and Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo (l-r).

Recipient:
Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo, University of Minnesota

Organization Science

Best Dissertation Proposal Competition

First Place:
Jennifer Petriglieri, INSEAD
Recognized Work:
“Under Threat: Responses to and consequences of threat to individual’s work identities”
Second Place:
Mary Kate Stimmler, University of California, Berkeley

Quality, Statistics & Reliability

Best Student Paper

Shiyu Zhou, Qiang Zhou and Qiang Huang (l-r).

Recipient:
Qiang Zhou, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Railroad Applications

Problem Solving Competition

First Place:
Tal Raviv, Mor Kaspi
Second Place:
Ed Ramsden
Third Place:
Virot Chiraphadhanakul and Christian Figueroa

Student Research in Management Science in Railway Applications

First Place:
Twan Dollevoet, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Second Place:
Lingyun Meng, Beijing Jiaotong University

Revenue Management

Section Prize

Huseyin Topaloglu and John Quillinan (l-r).

Recipient:
Huseyin Topaloglu, Cornell University
Recognized Work:
“Using Lagrangian Relaxation to Compute Capacity-Dependent Bid Prices in Network Revenue Management,” Operations Research, Vol. 57, No. 3, June 2009, pp. 637-649.

Service Science

Best Paper Competition

Murat Kurt and Sheneeta White (l-r).

First Place:
Murat Kurt, University of Pittsburgh
Co-authors:
Brian T. Denton, Andrew J. Schaefer, Nilay D. Shah, Steven A. Smith
Recognized Work:
“Optimal Statin Initiation Guidelines for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes”
Second Place:
Roland Rust, University of Maryland; Ming-Hui Huang, National Taiwan University
Finalist:
LiYing Cui, Penn State University

Technology Management

Distinguished Speaker Award

Recipient:
Michael L. Tushman, Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942, Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Recognized Work:
“Innovation Streams, Paradoxical Organization Architectures, and Organizational Evolution”

Transportation Science & Logistics

Dissertation Prize

R. Jayakrishnan, Irina Dolinskaya and Teodor Crainic (l-r).

Recipient:
Irina Dolinskaya, University of Michigan

Best Paper Award

Hugo P. Simao, Jeff Day, Warren Powell, Anton Kleywegt and Teodor Crainic (l-r).

Recipients:
Abraham George, Princeton University; Hugo Simao, Princeton University; John Nienow, Schneider National; Jeff Day, Schneider National; Ted Gifford, Schneider National; Warren Powell, Princeton University
Recognized Work:
“An Approximate Dynamic Programming Algorithm for Large-Scale Fleet Management: A Case Application”

Women in ORMS

Advancement of Women in OR/MS

Candace Yano, Brenda Dietrich and Sadan Kulturel-Konak (l-r).

Recipient:
Dr. Brenda Dietrich, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center