DAS Student Paper Award

2012 Winner: Mehmet Ayvaci
Winning material: A Strong Dual for Conic Mixed-Integer Programs

Purpose of the Award

DAS gives the Student Paper Award annually to the best decision analysis paper by a student author, as judged by a panel of members of the Society. The award is accompanied by a plaque and a $500 honorarium.

Past Awardees

2012 Winner Mehmet Ayvaci
Finalist Jennifer Mason Xiaojun Shan Zhengwei Sun Chen Wang Haewon Yoon
Jennifer Mason Xiaojun Shan Zhengwei Sun Chen Wang Haewon Yoon
2011 Winner Ying He
Finalist Erick Moreno Centeno
Philip Fernbach
Daniel Feiler
Ryan Buell
Turgay Ayer, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2010 First Place Sam Aflaki, INSEAD
Finalist Tianyang Wang, University of Texas, Austin
2009 First Place Albert E. Mannes
Finalist Victor Richmond R. Jose, Georgetown University
H. Dharma Kwon, University of Illinois at U-C
Tianyang Wang, University of Texas, Austin
Christian Wernz, Virginia Tech
2008 Winner Jagpreet Chhatwal, Merck Research Laboratories
Finalist Dinah A. Vernik, Duke University
Wenjie Tang, INSEAD
Javad Nasiry, INSEAD
Victor Richmond R. Jose, Georgetown University
2007 Winner Canan Ulu, University of Texas at Austin
Honorable Mention Soo-Haeng Cho, UCLA
Xianchi Dai, University of Chicago
Peter Frazier, Princeton University
Kenneth C. Lichtendahl Jr. , Darden School of Business
Burhaneddin Sandikci, University of Pittsburgh
2006 Winner Michael Braun, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Honorable Mention Joel Brynielsson
Ivy Li
Steven Shechter, University of Pittsburgh
Antonio Villasis
Jun Zhuang
2005 Winner Janne Gustafsson, Helsinki University of Technology
Honorable Mention Chris P. Lee, University of Pennsylvania
Suzanne Shu
Jesus Rios
Gerald C. Kobylski
James R. Wolf
2004 Winner Warren J. Hahn, University of Texas at Austin
2003 Winner Franz H. Heukamp, IESE Business School, Barcelona
Honorable Mention Erin Baker, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
2002 Winner Veronika Köbberling, Maastricht University
Honorable Mention Ilia Tsetlin, Duke University
2001 Winner Manel Baucells, IESE Business School, Barcelona
Honorable Mention Richard M. Anderson, Johns Hopkins University
2000 Winner Cade Massey, University of Chicago
1999 Winner Kara M. Morgan, Carnegie Mellon University
1998 Winner Neil A. Stiber, Carnegie Mellon University
1997 Winner Osvaldo F. Morera, University of Illinois-Chicago
1996 Winner Concha Bielza, Technical University of Madrid (project clients: General University Hospital Gregorio Marañón at Madrid)
1995 Winner G. Mark Brown, University of Southern California
1994 Winner Jianmin Jia, University of Texas, Austin
1993 Winner Zvi Covaliu, University of California - Berkeley
1992 Winner Craig R. M. McKenzie, University of Chicago
1991 Winner Patricia Reagan-Cirincione, SUNY-Albany
1990 Winner David Heckerman, Stanford University
1989 Winner Jayant Kalagnanam, Carnegie-Mellon University
1988 Winner Richard D. Rennie, University of Alberta
1987 Winner Joao Becker, UCLA
1986 Winner Kathryn Blackmond Laskey, Carnegie Mellon University


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Committee

Léa Deleris
Research Staff Member and Manager
IBM Technology Center, Dublin, Ireland
Email: lea.deleris@ie.ibm.com

Jun Zhuang
Assistant Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Email: jzhuang@buffalo.edu

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