Best Student Research Paper Award

2012 First Place: Qihang Lin

Purpose of the Award

The Financial Services Section is sponsoring a student research paper contest on Management Science in Financial Services.

Cash Awards: $500 First Place, $250 Second Place

Honorable Mention recognition for other top papers

The award will be presented during the FSS business meeting at the INFORMS National meeting

Four finalists will be asked to present the papers at the INFORMS Annual Meeting. All finalists will get an award certificate. All finalists’ papers will be posted on the FSS Section web page.

Past Awardees

2012 First Place Qihang Lin
Second Place Sandun C. Perera
2011 First Place Mehmet Saglam, Columbia Business School
Second Place Haowen Zhong, Columbia University
Konstantin Kalinchenko
2010 First Place Michael Padilla, Stanford University
Second Place Xiangwei Wan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Honorable Mention Waraporn Tongprasit, Stanford University
2009 First Place Ming Liu, Northwestern University
Second Place Romain Deguest, Columbia University Yu Hang Kan, Columbia University
2007 First Place Premal Shah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Second Place Ning Cai, Columbia University
Xin Zhang, University of Tennessee
Honorable Mention Mehmet Saglam, Columbia Business School
Haleh Valian, Rutgers University
2006 First Place Amit Bhandari, Northwestern University
Second Place Nan Chen, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Ashish Jain, Columbia Business School
2005 First Place Peter J. Meindl , Stanford University James A. Primbs, Stanford University
Second Place I-Hsuan Chiang, Boston College
Zhoujuan Zhang, Princeton University
2004 First Place Lepeng Li, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Second Place Aytac Ilhan, The University of Oxford
Xiaodong Xu, Northwestern University
Honorable Mention Tridib Bandyopadhyay, University of Texas at Dallas


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