Junior Faculty Forum Paper Competition
Submission Deadline: June 15, 2012
Winning material:
Stochastic First- and Zeroth-order Methods for Nonconvex Stochastic Programming
Purpose of the Award
The Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) Forum invites submissions to the JFIG paper competition. JFIG Forum was created in 2001 to promote the career development of tenure-track faculty in INFORMS. The goals of the paper competition are to encourage research among junior faculty and to increase the visibility of research conducted by junior faculty within the fields of operations research and management science.
The entries will be judged and up to six finalists will be selected by the award committee. The papers submitted for the competition will be evaluated based on the importance of the topic, appropriateness of the research approach, and the significance of research contribution.
For the 2012 competition, first place carries a cash award of $500, second place $250, and the remaining finalists $100 each. Winners will be announced at the INFORMS Annual Meeting, where all finalists will present their research at a JFIG sponsored session.
Past Awardees
| 2012 | First Place Guanghui Lan, University of Florida Saeed Ghadimi, University of Florida |
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| Second Place Carri W. Chan, Columbia University Galit Yom-Tov, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Gabriel Escobar, Kaiser Permanente Northern California | |
| Finalist Henry Lam, Boston University | |
| James Luedtke, University of Wisconsin-Madison | |
| Santanu S. Dey, Georgia Institute of Technology Diego A. Morán, Georgia Institute of Technology | |
| Sujin Kim, National University of Singapore Yibo Ji, National University of Singapore Dali Zhang, Sing Health | |
| 2011 | First Place Vivek Farias, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ciamac C. Moallemi, Columbia University Vijay V. Desai, Columbia University |
| Second Place Saravanan Kesavan, University of North Carolina Vidya Mani, Pennsylvania State University | |
| Third Place Karan Girotra, INSEAD, France Elena Belavina, INSEAD, France | |
| 2010 | First Place Felipe Caro, UCLA Victor Martinez de Albeniz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Second Place Ying-Ju Chen, University of California-Berkeley | |
| Third Place Achal Bassamboo, Northwestern University Ramandeep Randhawa, University of Southern California | |
| Finalist Jiaqiao Hu, State University of New York-Stony Brook | |
| Jose Blanchet, Columbia University Jingchen Liu, Columbia University | |
| Daniel Dadush, Georgia Institute of Technology Santanu Dey, Purdue University Juan Pablo Vielma, University of Pittsburgh | |
| 2009 | First Place Qi Feng, University of Texas-Austin Lauren Xiaoyuan Lu, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill |
| Second Place Vivek Farias, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Denis Saure, Columbia University Gabriel Weintraub, Columbia University | |
| Third Place Simge Kucukyavuz, Ohio State University | |
| Finalist Goker Aydin, Indiana University Bloomington Serhan Ziya, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill | |
| Nicolas E. Stier-Moses, Columbia University Jose R. Correa, Universidad de Chile Nicolas Figueroa, Universidad de Chile | |
| Anton Ovchinnikov, University of Virginia | |
| Senthil Veeraraghavan, University of Pennsylvania Krishnan S. Anand, University of Utah Mehmet Fazil Pac, University of Pennsylvania | |
| 2008 | First Place Raghu Pasupathy, Virginia Tech |
| Second Place Oguzhan Alagoz, University of Wisconsin-Madison | |
| Finalist Xin Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Wei-yu Kevin Chiang, City University of Hong Kong | |
| Kartik Hosanagar, University of Pennsylvania | |
| 2007 | First Place David B. Brown, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Melvyn Sim, National University of Singapore |
| Second Place L. Jeff Hong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | |
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Finalist
Ozlem Ergun,
Georgia Institute of Technology School of Industrial/Systems Engineering Richa Agarwal, Amazon.com |
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| Nicolas E. Stier-Moses, Columbia University Patrick Maille | |
| Eva Regnier, Naval Postgraduate School | |
| Senthil Veeraraghavan, University of Pennsylvania Laurens Debo, Carnegie Mellon University | |
| 2006 | First Place Mor Armony, NYU Itay Gurvick, Columbia Business School |
| Second Place Justin Ren, Boston University Yong-Pin Zhou, University of Washington | |
| Finalist Greys Sosic, University of Southern California | |
| Manu Goyal, University of Maryland Serguei Netessine, University of Pennsylvania | |
| Honorable Mention Xuanming Su, University of California - Berkeley, Haas School of Business Fuqiang Zhang, University of California, Irvine | |
| Paat Rusmevichientong, Cornell University Tim Huh, Columbia University | |
| 2005 | First Place Savas Dayanik, Columbia University Semih O. Sezer, Princeton University |
| Second Place Ismael Regis de Farias, Jr., State University of New York at Buffalo | |
| Honorable Mention Mohit Tawarmalani, Purdue University | |
| A. Gürhan Kök Kevin H. Shang, University of California, Irvine | |
| 2004 | First Place Ebru Bish Qiong Wang, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
| 2003 | First Place I. Popescu, An SDP approach to moment bounds for distributions with convex properties |
| Second Place R. Berger S. Raghavan, University of Maryland, Robert H Smith School of Business | |
| Honorable Mention E. Plambeck T. Taylor | |
| J.C. Smith A. Schaefer J. Yen |
