Best Student Paper
Purpose of the Award
The Quality Statistics and Reliability Section of INFORMS announces the Best Paper Award to recognize excellence among its student members. The awards program brings prestige to the QSR Section as well as to the recipients honored.
Four finalists for the Best Student Paper Award will be selected to make presentations on Monday, November 14th, 2011 in Charlotte at the INFORMS Annual Meeting. The winner will be announced on November 14, 2011 at the QSR business meeting. All finalists will receive an award certificate and 3 years free QSR membership. The winner will also receive a plaque. The Best Student Paper Award is to be presented annually at the QSR Section meeting during the INFORMS Annual Meeting. All finalists’ papers will be posted on the QSR Section webpage.
Past Awardees
| 2012 | Winner Matthew Plumlee, Georgia Institute of Technology |
|---|---|
| Finalist Linkan Bian | |
| Kaibo Liu | |
| Li Wang | |
| 2011 | Finalist Shan Ba |
| Linkan Bian | |
| Shuai Huang, Arizona State University | |
| Zhisheng Ye | |
| 2010 |
Winner
Qiang Zhou ,
University of Wisconsin at Madison |
| 2009 | Winner Lulu Kang, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Finalist Li Zeng, University of Wisconsin-Madison | |
| Omer Beyca | |
| Rensheng Zhou | |
| 2008 | Winner Abhishek K. Shrivastava , Texas A&M University |
| 2007 | Winner Haifeng Heidi Xia, Texas A&M University |
| Finalist Alaa Elwany, Georgia Institute of Technology | |
| Ying Hung, Georgia Institute of Technology | |
| Xuemei Shan, Northwestern University | |
| 2006 | Winner Jing Zhong, University of Michigan |
| Finalist Tirthankar Dasgupta, Georgia Institute of Technology | |
| Lingyan Ruan, Georgia Institute of Technology | |
| Tao Yuan, University of Tennessee | |
| 2005 | Winner Zhiguang Qian, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Finalist Jung Jin Cho, Texas A&M University | |
| Xuelei Ni, Georgia Institute of Technology | |
| Sarintip Satitsatian, University of Washington | |
| 2004 | Winner Abhyuday Mandal, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Finalist Chang-Ho Chin, Texas A&M University | |
| Shwu-Tzy Jiang, University of Oklahoma | |
| Z. Lian, Pennsylvania State University | |
| 2003 | Winner Hong Wan, Northwestern University |
| First Place Haitao Liao, Rutgers University | |
| Finalist Myong K. Jeong, Georgia Institute of Technology | |
| Pansoo Kim, Texas A&M University | |
| 2002 | Winner Wenzhen Huang, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Finalist Jun Bai, Rutgers University | |
| Hyun-Woo Cho, Pohang University of Science and Technology | |
| Carla Vivacqua, University of Wisconsin-Madison | |
| 2001 | Winner Yong Chen, University of Michigan |
| Finalist Roshan Joseph, University of Michigan Rong Pan, Pennsylvania State University Charles Ribardo, The Ohio State University Wenbiao Zhao, Rutgers University |

