Management Science in Railroad Applications: Student Paper Research Contest
Purpose of the Award
RAS (Railway Applications Section), a section of INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and Management Science), is sponsoring a student research paper contest on Management Science in Railroad Applications.
- Cash award of $500 First Place, $250 Second Place
- Possible Honorable Mention recognition for other top papers
Authors of First Place, Second Place, and Honorable Mention papers must be available to present the papers at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Charlotte, NC. RASIG will cover the conference registration fees for all primary authors who are asked to present their papers.
RAS provides a forum for bringing together practitioners, consultants and academics interested in applying OR/MS techniques to the railroad industry. RASIG activities include roundtables, paper sessions at INFORMS national meetings, workshops, and focus groups. Roundtables provide attendees with a unique opportunity to explore, in-depth, topics ranging from eBusiness to simulation to network modeling together with a panel of experts. Paper sessions feature the latest in OR/MS research pertaining to the rail industry.
Past Awardees
| 2012 | First Place Xiaoyan Si , University of Texas at Austin |
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| 2011 | First Place Yazhe Feng, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
| Second Place Conrado Borraz-Sanchez, Northwestern University | |
| Third Place Fan Peng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | |
| Honorable Mention Mor Kaspi | |
| 2010 | First Place Twan Dollevoet, Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| Second Place Lingyun Meng, Beijing Jiaotong University | |
| 2009 | First Place Endong Zhu, University of Montreal |
| Second Place Ashish Nemani, University of Florida | |
| Honorable Mention Rodrigo Acuna Agost | |
| 2008 | First Place Lars Kjær Nielsen, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| Second Place Daniel Potthoff, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam | |
| Honorable Mention Muhammad Babar Khan, Southwest Jiaotong University, P.R. China | |
| 2007 | First Place Andrea D'Ariano, Delft University Francesco Corman, Delft University |
| Second Place Ashish Nemani, University of Florida | |
| 2005 | First Place Pieter Vansteenwegen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
| Second Place Johanna Törnquist, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden | |
| Honorable Mention Soheil Sibdari, University of Massachusetts | |
| 2004 | First Place Michiel J. Vromans, Rotterdam School of Management |
| Second Place Guvenc Sahin, University of Florida | |
| Honorable Mention Amar Kumar Narisetty, Amar Kumar Narisetty | |
| Balachandran Vaidyanathan | |
| 2003 | First Place Krishna C. Jha, University of Florida |
| Second Place Xuesong Zhou, University of Maryland Ming Zhong, University of Maryland | |
| Honorable Mention Jian Liu, University of Florida | |
| Steven Harrod, University of Cincinnati | |
| 2002 | First Place Jian Liu, University of Florida |
| Ramon M. Lentink, Erasmus University Dennis Huisman, Erasmus University | |
| Second Place Jodelson Sabino, Federal University of Espirito Santo |
