Aviation Applications Dissertation Prize

2012 First Place: Marcial Lapp , University of Michigan
Winning material: Methods for Improving Robustness and Recovery in Aviation Planning

Purpose of the Award

The Aviation Applications Section of INFORMS awards a prize for the best dissertation in any area related to aviation OR (air traffic management OR and airline OR). The winner will receive a plaque and an honorarium of five hundred dollars. Finalists will receive an honorable mention and a certificate.

Past Awardees

2012 First Place Marcial Lapp , University of Michigan
2011 First Place Douglas Fearing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Honorable Mention Andrew M. Churchill, University of Maryland
2010 First Place Poornima Balakrishna, George Mason University
Honorable Mention Niklaus Eggenberg, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
2009 First Place Gizem Keysan, Georgia Institute of Technology
Honorable Mention Pavithra Harsha, MIT
2008 First Place Mustafa Akan, Northwestern University
2007 First Place Anne Mercier, ExPretio Technologies
2006 First Place Mattias Gronkvist, Jeppesen
2005 First Place Gregory Coldren, Coldren Choice Consulting Ltd
2004 First Place Laurie Anne Garrow, Georgia Institute of Technology
2003 First Place Milind Sohoni, Indian School of Business
Honorable Mention Amy Mainville Cohn, University of Michigan
Sanne Vincent de Boer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thomas Vossen , University of Colorado - Boulder, Leeds School of Business


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Committee

2012 Committee Chair:
Rajesh Ganesan
George Mason University
rganesan@gmu.edu

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