INFORMS News: Subdivision Awards

Applied Probability

2011 Best Publication Award

Award-winners David Gamarnik (left) and Dmitriy Katz-Rogozhnikov.

Recipients:
David Gamarnik and Dmitriy Katz-Rogozhnikov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Aviation Applications

2011 Dissertation Prize

Former INFORMS presidents Cindy Barnhart (left) and Karla Hoffman (right) flank aviation award-winner Douglas Fearing.

Recipient:
Douglas Fearing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Recognized work:
“The Case for Coordination: Equity, Efficiency and Passenger Impacts in Air Traffic Flow Management”

Computing Society

2011 ICS Prize

Dorit Hochbaum (left) is congratulated by Pascal van Hentenryck.

Recipient:
Dorit S. Hochbaum

Recognized work:
“Polynomial Time Algorithms for Ratio Regions and a Variant of Normalized Cut IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence”

2011 ICS Student Paper Award

ICS Student Paper Award-winner Susan Hunter.

Recipient:
Susan Hunter, Virginia Tech

Recognized work:
“Optimal Sampling Laws for Stochastically Constrained Simulation Optimization on Finite Sets”

CPMS: Practice Section of INFORMS

The Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research

Intel’s Evan Rash (left) and Karl Kempf.

Recipients:
Karl Kempf, Intel Corporation; Evan Rash, Intel Corporation

Recognized work:
“Product Line Design and Scheduling at Intel”

Data Mining

Student Paper Award

Award finalists Shuai Huang, Allison Chang, M.K. Jeong, Kamran Paynabar (winner) and Chun-An Chou.

Recipient:
Kamran Paynabar, University of Michigan

Finalists:
Shuai Huang, Arizona State University; Allison Chang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Chun-An Chou, University of Michigan

Decision Analysis (DAS)

Frank P. Ramsey Medal

Jim Dyer (left) presents Ramsey Medal to Don Kleinmuntz.

Recipient:
Don N. Kleinmuntz

Recognition:
Distinguished contributions in decision analysis

Practice Award

John Tindle (left) receives congratulations from Bob Bordley.

Recipient:
John Trindle

Recognized work:
“Integrated Decision Analysis: The Decision Support Analysis System (DSAS)”

Student Paper Award

Award-winner Ying He (far right) is joined by Jun Zhuang, Erick Moreno Centeno, Daniel Feiler and Ryan Buell (l-r).

Recipient:
Ying He

Recognized work:
“Utility Functions Representing Preference over Interdependent Attributes”

Publication Award

Greg Parnell, James Matheson and Ali Abbas (l-r).

Recipients:
James E. Matheson, SmartOrg Inc.; Ali Abbas, University of Illinois

Energy, Natural Resources and the Environment

2011 Student Paper Travel Award

Enzo Sauma (left) congratulates Sheng Yu.

Recipient:
Sheng Yu

Recognized work:
“Computing Supply Function Equilibria via Spline Approximations “

2010 Best Publication Award in Energy

Shmuel Oren (left) congratulates John Raffensperger.

Shmuel S. Oren (left) congratulates Carlos Ruiz.

Recipients:
John F. Raffensperger, Mark Mile, Grant Reed

Recognized work:
“A Deterministic Smart Market Model for Groundwater”

Recipients:
Carlos Ruiz, Antonio Conejo

Recognized work:
“Pool Strategy of a Producer with Endogenous Formation of Locational Marginal Prices,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

2011 Best Publication Award in Forestry

Andres Weintraub (left) presents award to Mikael Ronquist.

Recipients:
Mikael Ronnqvist, Linkoping Institute of Technology; Patrick Flisberg; Bertil Liden

Recognized work:
“A Hybrid Method based in Linear Programming and Tabu Search for Routing of Logging Trucks”

Financial Services

Best Student Research Paper Award

Recipient:
Mehmet Saglam, Columbia Business School

Runner-up:
Haowen Zhong, Columbia University; Konstantin Kalinchenko

Health Applications Section

Pierskalla Best Paper Award

Soroush Saghafian, Ebru Bish and William Pierskalla (l-r).

Recipients:
Ebru Bish, Douglas Bish, Shiquang Xie, Anthony Slonim

Recognized Work:
“Optimal Selection of Screening Assays for Infectious Agents in Donated Blood”

Seth Bonder Scholarship for Applied Operations Research in Health Services

Lauren Cipriano and Gino Lim.

Recipient:
Lauren Cipriano, Stanford University

Information Systems Society

CIST Best Reviewer

Anuj Kumar (second from left) receives award check.

Recipient:
Anuj Kumar, University of Florida

CIST Best Student Paper

Vibhanshu Abhishek (left) holds plaque and award check.

Recipient:
Vibhanshu Abhishek, Wharton; co-authored with John Zhang and Kinshuk Jerath

CIST Best Paper

Vijay Mookerjee, Radha Mookerjee and Wael Jabr (l-r).

Recipients:
Vijay Mookerjee, Radha Mookerjee, Wael Jabr, University of Texas at Dallas

INFORMS Moving Spirit Awards

Moving Spirit Award

Recipient:
Sila Çetinkaya (Texas A&M University Student Chapter)

Recognition:
Sila Çetinkaya was honored with a Moving Spirit Award for her years of service as faculty advisor to the Texas A&M University Student Chapter. Under her leadership, the chapter made improvements to its election policies, website, and public relations within and outside the university.

Forum Moving Spirit Award

Feryal Erhun (left) receives congratulations from Mary Magrogan of INFORMS.

Recipient:
Feryal Erhun (Junior Faculty Interest Group)

Recognition:
Feryal Erhun was awarded the Forum Moving Spirit for her involvement in the Junior Faculty Interest Group, including serving as treasurer and president. As one of the original board members for JFIG in 2001,Erhun also helped establish the forum and the reputation of its Paper Competition.

Judith Liebman Awards

Burcu Keskin (left) and Changqing Cheng.

Burcu Keskin (left) and Laila Cure.

Burcu Keskin (left) and Anurag Verma.

Recipients:
Changqing Cheng (Oklahoma State University Student Chapter), Laila Cure (University of South Florida Student Chapter), Anurag Verma (Texas A&M University Student Chapter)

Recognition:
Changqing Cheng served as webmaster, treasurer and president of the Oklahoma State University Student Chapter over the course of three years. He organized field trips to local companies, helping his chapter to win the Cum Laude award for student chapters three times. After stepping down as President, he remained involved by mentoring student officers.

Laila Cure has been involved with the University of South Florida Student Chapter since 2006 in the roles of secretary, president, and newsletter editor. She initiated the chapter’s lecture series and is an active participant in the chapter’s community service program, teaching math and science to low-income children.

Anurag Verma has been involved in the Texas A&M University Student Chapter for three years. During his term as president, the chapter was recognized as Organization of the Year by Texas A&M. He led the chapter in organizing seminars, workshops, panel discussions, service projects, and social events, and grew membership to more than 160 students.

Student Chapter Annual Awards

Burcu Keskin (far left) congratulates members of the University of South Florida Student Chapter (l-r from Keskin) Ludwig Kuznia, Long Zhao, Monica Puertas, Serkan Gunpinar, Oguz Cimenler, Javad Sajjadi, Laila Cure and Fethullah Caliskan.

Recipients:
University of South Florida (Summa Cum Laude); Oklahoma State University, University of Massachusetts and Texas A&M University (Magna Cum Laude); Arizona State University, University of Alabama, University of California-Berkeley, University of Houston, University of Oklahoma, Virginia Tech (Cum Laude)

Recognition:
Outstanding participation and performance during the year of 2010

The University of South Florida was recognized for its overall excellence. Led by a team of dedicated officers, the chapter held regular, varied meetings, published a high-quality newsletter, and participated in community service and educational university events.

INFORM-ED

Case Competition

First place:
Anton Ovchinnikov and Samuel E. Bodily, University of Virginia

Recognized work:
“FLORA (A) and (B)”

Second place:
Samuel E. Bodily and Akshay Mittal, University of Virginia

Recognized work:
“Chandpur Enterprises Limited, Steel Division”

Third place:
Matthew J. Drake, Duquesne University and Ozgun Caliskan Demirag, Georgia Tech

Recognized work:
“Forecasting Offertory Revenue at St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Church”

Junior Faculty Interest Group

JFIG Paper Competition Award

Dionne Aleman (far left) presents award to Vijay V. Desai, Vivek Farias and Ciamac C. Moallemi.

First place:
Ciamac C. Moallemi, Columbia University; Vivek Farias, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Vijay V. Desai, Columbia University

Recognized work:
“Approximate Dynamic Programming via a Smoothes Linear Program”

Second place:
Saravanan Kesavan, University of North Carolina; and Vidya Mani, Pennsylvania State University

Recognized work:
“The Relationship Between Abnormal Inventory Growth and Future Earnings for the U.S. Public Retailers”

Third place:
Karan Girotra, INSEAD; and Elena Belavina, INSEAD

Recognized work:
“The Relational Advantages of Intermediation”

MSOM

Student Paper Competition

Sam Aflaki, Yasin Alan, Kenan Arifogluose, Robert Bray, Morvarid, Turgay Ayer and Jun Li (l-r).

First place:
Jun Li, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Recognized work:
“Are Consumers Strategic? Structural Estimation from The Air-Travel Industry”

Second place:
Turgay Ayer, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Finalists:
Robert L. Bray, Stanford University; Kenan Arifoglu, Northwestern University

Distinguished Service Award

Steve Gilbert (left) and Izak Duenyas.

Recipient:
Izak Duenyas, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

Recognized work:
Meritorious service towards advancing the goals and objectives of the MSOM Society of INFORMS

Distinguished Fellows Award

Steve Gilbert (left) and Gerard P. Cachon.

Recipients:
Gerard P. Cachon, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; and Peter Kolesa, Columbia University, Graduate School of Business

Best Paper Award

Saif Benjaafar (left) and Francis de Vericourt.

Recipients:
Saif Benjaafar, The University of Minnesota; Francis de Vericourt, INSEAD; Jean-Philippe Gayon, Grenoble Institute of Technology

Recognized work:
“Using Imperfect Advance Demand Information in Production-Inventory Systems with Multiple Customer Classes”

Society for Marking Science

2010 John D.C. Little Award

Recipients: K. Sudhir, Jiwoong Shin

2010 Frank M. Bass Dissertation Paper Award

Recipient: Juanjuan Zhang

2011 Long Term Impact Award

Recipient: David Godes, Dina Mayzlin

2011 Fellow Award

Recipient: Scott A. Neslin, Dartmouth College; Gerard J. Tellis, University of Southern California

Military Applications

2010 Koopman Prize

Sang Kim (left, on behalf of Edward Kaplan) and Greg Parlier.

Recipient:
Edward H. Kaplan, Yale University

Seth Bonder Scholarship for Applied Operations Research in Military Applications

Greg Parlier, James F. Morris and Dick Deckro (l-r).

Recipient:
James F. Morris, Air Force Institute of Technology

Omega Rho Distinguished Lecturer

Barry L. Nelson, Northwestern University
“Why Good Simulations Go Bad”

Optimization

Student Paper Prize

Jon Lee, Daniel Dadush and Jean-Philippe Richard (l-r).

Recipients:
Daniel Dadush, Georgia Institute of Technlogy; Santanu Dey, Purdue University; Juan Pablo Vielma, University of Pittsburgh

Recognized work:
“On the Chvátal-Gomory Closure of a Compact Convex Set”

Prize for Young Researchers

Jon Lee, Tobias Achterberg and James Renegar (l-r).

Recipient:
Tobias Achterberg, Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany

Recognized work:
“SCIP: solving constraint integer programs”

Khachiyan Prize

Jon Lee, Jean-Philippe Vial, Kees Roos and George Nemhauser (l-r).

Recipients:
Kees Roos, Jean-Philippe Vial

Farkas Prize of the Optimization Society

Jon Lee, Andrew Goldberg and Gerard Cornuejols (l-r).

Recipient:
Andrew Goldberg

Organization Science

Best Dissertation Proposal Competition

Andreas Schwab, Jessica Kennedy

First place:
Jessica Kennedy, University of California, Berkeley

Second place:
Erin Scott, Washington University in St. Louis

Public Programs, Service & Needs

Best Paper Competition

Yina Lu, Carrie Chan, Linda Green and Michael P. Johnson (l-r).

Recipients:
Yina Lu, Carrie Chan, Linda Green

Recognized work:
“Triage of Burn-Injured Patients in a Catastrophic Scenario”

Second place:
Michael Fry, Muer Yang

Finalists:
Jessica Heier Stamm, Kathleen Hendrix

Quality, Statistics & Reliability

Best Student Paper

Recipient:
Shan Ba

Recognized work:
“Multi-Layer Designs for Computer Experiments”

Best Poster Award

Recipient:
Chia-Jung Chang

Recognized work:
“Model Calibration through Minimal Adjustments”

Second place:
Shuai Huang

Recognized work:
“Mining of Neuroimaging Data for Alzheimer’s Disease study by Novel Statistical Methods”

Railroad Applications

Problem Solving Competition

Fabio Colombo, Roberto Cordone, Marco Trubian, Homarjun Agrahari, Leonardo Lozano, Jaime E. Gonzales and I-Ling Wang (l-r).

Recipients:
Team Koppa: Leonardo Lozano, Jaime E. Gonzales, Advisor: Andres L. Medaglia

Recognized work:
“Excellent solution approach, results and technical report”

Second place:
Team OR@UNIM: Fabio Colombo, Roberto Cordone, Marco Trubian

Third place:
Team NCKU: I-Lin Wang, Hung-Yi Lee, Yu-Ting Liang

Honorable mention:
Team RAIL-OPT: Jian Gang Jin, Jun Zhao

Management Science in Railway Applications: Student Paper Contest

Juan Morales, Yazhe Feng, Conrado Borraz-Sanchez and Fan Peng (l-r).

Recipient:
Yazhe Feng, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Second place:
Conrado Borraz-Sanchez, Northwestern University

Third place:
Fan Peng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Honorable mention:
Mor Kaspi

Revenue Management

Historical Prize

Yuri Levin (left) and Garrett van Ryzin.

Recipients:
Guillermo Gallego, Columbia University; Garrett van Ryzin

Recognized work:
“Optimal Dynamic Pricing of Inventories with Stochastic Demand over Finite Horizons” and “A Multiproduct Dynamic Pricing Problem and Its Applications to Network Yield Management”

Service Science

Best Paper Competition

Yingdong Lu, Murat Kurt and Roland Rust (l-r).

Recipients:
Murat Kurt, Andrew J. Schaefer, M. Utku Unver, Mark S. Roberts

Recognized work:
“Valuing Prearranged Paired Kidney Exchanges: A stochastic game approach”

Second place:
Wei Sun, Georgia Perakis

Recognized work:
“Congestion Pricing for Service Industries”

Third place:
Jun Li, Nelson Granados, Serguei Netassine

Recognized work:
“Are Consumers Strategic? Structural estimation for the air-travel industry”

Honorable mention:
Ioannis Bellos, Stylianos Kavadias

Recognized work:
“Designing Experiential Services”

Technology Management

Distinguished Speaker Award

Janice Carrillo (left) and Linda Argote.

Recipient:
Linda Argote, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University

Best Dissertation Award

Juliana Hsuan (left) and Claudio Wolter.

Recipient:
Claudio Wolter, Carnegie Mellon University

Recognized work:
“Technological Competences and Firm Boundaries: An Empirical and Conceptual Investigation of Diversification, Vertical Integration and Profitability”

Second place:
Jianxi Luo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Recognized work:
“Hierarchy in Industry Architecture: Transaction Strategy under Technological Constraints”

Transportation Science & Logistics

Dissertation Prize

Huseyin Topaloglu, Patrick Jaillet and Jessica Heier Stamm (l-r).

Recipient:
Jessica Heier Stamm

Best Paper Award

Patrick Jaillet, Aristide Mingozzi and Janny Leung (l-r).

Recipient:
Roberto Baldacci, Aristide Mingozzi

Robert Herman Lifetime Achievement Award

Lifetime Achievement Award winner Nathan Gartner.

Recipient:
Nathan Gartner

Women in ORMS

Advancement of Women in OR/MS

Recipient:
Dr. Berna Dengiz, Baskent University, Turkey