Best Student Paper

2012 - Winner
2012 Winner: Matthew Plumlee, Georgia Institute of Technology
Winning material: Tractable Functional Response Modeling using Nonstationary Covariance Functions

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


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Committee

2011 Committee Chair
Haitao Liao
e-mail: hiliao4@utk.edu

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