ICS Student Paper Award
2012 First Place:
Huashuai Qu,
University of Maryland
Winning material:
Simulation Selection with Unknown Correlation Structures
Purpose of the Award
The INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) Student Paper Award is given annually to the best paper on computing and operations research by a student author, as judged by a panel of the ICS. The award is sponsored by the Mica Foundation of Denmark and is accompanied by a plaque and a $500 honorarium. The winner will be invited to briefly present his or her paper in an ICS-sponsored session at the INFORMS Annual Meeting held in the fall, and the award will be presented at the ICS Business Meeting. The winner will also receive free registration to the next ICS Conference. The judging Panel may name Honorable Mentions, if deemed deserving. All students working on topics relating to the interface of OR and computing are encouraged to submit a paper.
Past Awardees
| 2012 | First Place Huashuai Qu, University of Maryland |
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| Runner-Up Martin Takáč, School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, UK | |
| 2011 | First Place Susan Hunter, Virginia Tech |
| 2010 | First Place Yongqiang Wang, University of Maryland |
| Runner-Up Siqian Shen, University of Florida | |
| Necdet Aybat, Columbia University | |
| 2009 | First Place Zaiwen Wen, Columbia University |
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Runner-Up
Mehmet A. Begen,
University of Western Ontario Richard Ivey School of Business Peter Frazier, Princeton University |
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| 2008 | First Place Guanghui Lan, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 2007 | First Place Amit Partani, The University of Texas at Austin |
| Runner-Up Richa Agarwal, Amazon.com | |
| Andrea Bettinelli, University of Milan | |
| 2006 | First Place Geng Deng, University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Runner-Up Laura A. McLay, Virginia Commonwealth University | |
| Jiaquiao Hu, University of Maryland |
