Rail Applications Section Problem Solving Competition

2011 - First Place
2011 First Place: Team Koppa Leonardo Lozano ; Jaime E. Gonzalez

Purpose of the Award

The Railway Applications Section of INFORMS has announced a new applied problem-solving competition to introduce participants to the exciting world of operations research in railroading. The competition is open to anyone who is either new to railroading or new to ORMS.

Past Awardees

2011 Team:  Team Koppa First Place Leonardo Lozano Jaime E. Gonzalez
Team:  Team OR@UNIMI Second Place Fabio Colombo Roberto Cordone Marco Trubian
Team:  Team NCKU Third Place I-Lin Wang Hung-Yi Lee Yu-Ting Liang
Team:  Team RAIL-OPT Honorable Mention Jian Gang Jina Jun Zhaob
2010 Team:  TAU-IE First Place Mor Kaspi Tal Raviv
Second Place Ed Ramsden
Team:  Halos Third Place Virot Chiraphadhanakul Cristian Figueroa


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Committee

Homarjun Agrahari (BNSF Railway)
Juan Morales (BNSF Railway)
Kamalesh Somani (CSX Corporation)
Shankara Kuppa (Union Pacific Railroad)
Carl VanDyke (Oliver Wyman)
Erick Wikum (IBM)
Vinay Mendiratta (Norfolk Southern Corporation)
Yanfeng Ouyang (University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign)

The organizing committee would like to thank following individuals for their support and effort in problem ownership.

Clark Cheng (Norfolk Southern Corporation)
Jagadish Jampani (CSX Transporation)
Krishna Jha (Innovative Scheduling Inc.)

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