Best Dissertation Award
Purpose of the Award
The Dissertation Award is sponsored by the Robert H. School of Business at the University of Maryland and recognizes outstanding scholarly achievements of young people in the field. The award consists of a plaque and a $1,000 cash prize. The INFORMS Section on Telecommunications provides a forum in which researchers exchange experiences and ideas for innovative network planning, operation and management. From a methodological perspective, research reported by the membership uses a variety of optimization, simulation and stochastic models. The biggest strength of the INFORMS Telecommunications Section is its membership. It has an ideal representation from both industry and academia. Consequently, the group reflects both practical, as well as theoretical interests, thus making it a vibrant OR forum for application. The winner will be awarded $1000, to be presented at the Telecommunications Conference.
Past Awardees
| 2010 | First Place Fabio D'Andreagiovanni, Sapienza - Università di Roma |
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| 2009 | First Place Brian Fifarek, Carnegie Mellon University |
| Second Place Philipp Tuertscher | |
| 2008 | First Place Andreas Bley, Technical University Berlin |
| Johan S.H. van Leeuwaarden, Eindhoven University of Technology | |
| Honorable Mention Adam Wierman, Carnegie Mellon University | |
| 2006 | First Place Ramesh Johari, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Honorable Mention Tolga Bektas, Bilkent University | |
| Deepak Rajan, IBM TJ Watson Research Center | |
| Kevin Ross, Stanford University | |
| Shekhar Srivastava, University of Missouri, Kansas City | |
| Nicolas E. Stier-Moses, Columbia University | |
| 2004 | First Place Alexander Hall, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich |
| Honorable Mention María Belén Melián Batista, Universidad de La Laguna | |
| Sean P. Gorman, George Mason University | |
| 2002 | First Place Andreas Eisenblätter, Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum (KZZ) für Informationstechnik in Berlin, Germany |
| Fan Zhang, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department, Columbia University | |
| Honorable Mention Andrew Ross, Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at Lehigh University |
