TSL Dissertation Prize
2012 First Place:
Jon Petersen,
Georgia Institute of Technology
Winning material:
Large-Scale Mixed Integer Optimization Approaches for Scheduling Airline Operations under Irregularity
Purpose of the Award
This is the oldest and most prestigious honor for doctoral dissertations in the transportation science and logistics area. Eligible doctoral dissertations are those completed and submitted June 1 of the year previous to the award and May 31 in the award year, in the general area of transportation science and logistics. The award is accompanied by a $500 honorarium. In addition, the winner and the recipient of an honorable mention (if any) each receives a commemorative plaque.
Past Awardees
| 2012 | First Place Jon Petersen, Georgia Institute of Technology |
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| 2011 |
First Place
Jessica Heier Stamm,
Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Industrial & Systems Engineering |
| Honorable Mention Ilaria Vacca, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne | |
| 2010 | First Place Irina Dolinskaya, University of Michigan |
| 2009 | First Place Gitakrishnan Ramadurai, RPI |
| Honorable Mention Pavithra Harsha, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Adrian Lee, University of Illimois at Urbana-Champaign | |
| 2008 | First Place Emma Frejinger, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne |
| 2007 | First Place Juan Carlos Morales, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Honorable Mention Zhou Xu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | |
| 2006 | First Place Christian Liebchen, Technical University of Berlin |
| Honorable Mention Anne Goodchild, University of California at Berkeley | |
| 2005 | First Place Luigi Moccia, Universita della Calabria, Italy |
| Honorable Mention Song Gao , Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| 2004 | First Place Lawrence Snyder , Northwestern University |
| Honorable Mention Miguel Figliozzi , University of Maryland | |
| 2003 | First Place Thomas Vossen , University of Colorado - Boulder, Leeds School of Business |
| Honorable Mention Tomer Toledo , Massachusetts Institute Of Technology | |
| 2002 | First Place Iris F.A. Vis , Erasmus Universiteit |
| Alvin C. Lim, Johns Hopkins University | |
| 2001 | First Place Alan Erera , Georgia Institute of Technology School of Industrial & Systems Eng |
| Joan Walker , Boston University | |
| Honorable Mention Andrew Armacost, United States Air Force Academy | |
| Jon Bottom, MIT | |
| 2000 | First Place Diego Klabjan , Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Hillel Bar-Gera, University of Illinois at Chicago | |
| 1999 | First Place Padma Ramanujan |
| Honorable Mention William D. Hall, CitationShares | |
| Nicola Secomandi, University of Houston | |
| 1998 | First Place Gianpaolo Ghiani |
| Honorable Mention Robert Hoffman | |
| 1997 | First Place Gregory Glockner , Dwaffler |
| Sarah Stock Patterson, Duke University | |
| Honorable Mention Kalidas Ashok | |
| 1996 | First Place Tassio Carvalho, Princeton University |
| Honorable Mention Chris Caplice, MIT | |
| Kerry Malone, MIT | |
| Erik Verhoef | |
| 1995 | First Place Bernard Gendron , Universite de Montreal |
| 1994 | First Place Srinivas Peeta , Purdue University |
| 1993 | Honorable Mention Raymond Cheung, Hong Kong University Rekha Pellai |
| 1992 |
Awardee
Julien Bramel,
School of Engineering and Applied Science Columbia University |
| 1991 | Awardee Linos Frantzeskakis |
| 1989 | Awardee Jeffrey McGill, Queen's University |
| 1988 | Awardee Dimitris J. Bertsimas , Applied Mathematics Dept., Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1987 | Awardee Matteo Fischetti |
| 1986 | Awardee Shoshana Anily, Tel Aviv University |
| 1985 | Awardee Patrick Jaillet , Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1984 | Awardee Anataram Balakrishnan |
| 1983 | Awardee Siriphong (Toi) Lawphongpanich |
| 1982 | Awardee Charles Aikens |
| 1981 | Awardee James B. Orlin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Warren Powell, Princeton University | |
| 1980 | Awardee Christian Lardinois |
| 1979 | Awardee Tom Sexton |
| Honorable Mention H. Aashtiani F. Soumis | |
| 1978 | Awardee Harilaos Psaraftis, Dynamic Programming Algorithms for Sequencing and Routing Problems in Transportation |
| Honorable Mention Yosef Sheffi | |
| 1977 | Awardee David Stein |
| Honorable Mention S.E. Erikson S.Rao | |
| 1976 | Awardee Roger Dear |
| Honorable Mention Bruce L. Golden, University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business | |
| 1975 | Honorable Mention Phillip E. Taylor Alan Black |
| 1974 | Awardee Timothy J. Tardiff |
| 1973 | Awardee Robert Richardson |
| 1971 | Awardee Slobodan Mitric |
| Honorable Mention Kent L. Groninger Theodore E. Keeler | |
| 1970 | Awardee Nathan Gartner |
| Honorable Mention Eduardo Aldana-Valdes, Universidad de Los Andes |
