George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award
2012 First Place:
Mazhar Arikan,
Purdue University
Winning material:
The Impact of Airline Flight Schedules on Flight Delays: An Analysis of Block-Time, Delay Propagation, and Schedule Optimization using Stochastic Models
Purpose of the Award
The George B. Dantzig Award is given for the best dissertation in any area of operations research and the management sciences that is innovative and relevant to practice. The criteria used by the Award committee include: Implementation, and relevance to practice; Technical quality and richness of solution approach; Creativity and novelty; Scope and magnitude; and Exposition.
This award has been established to encourage academic research that combines theory and practice and stimulates greater interaction between doctoral students (and their advisors) and the world of practice. The award is given at the INFORMS National Meeting.
All certificates read as follows (First and Second Prizes): for the best dissertation that is innovative and relevant to the practice of operations research and the management sciences.
Past Awardees
| 2012 | First Place Mazhar Arikan, Purdue University |
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| Second Place Andrei Neboian, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management | |
| Third Place Nikolaos K. Trichakis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| 2011 | First Place John Turner, Carnegie Mellon Univeristy |
| Second Place Timothy Carnes, Massachusetts Inctitute of Technology | |
| Xu Andy Sun, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center | |
| 2010 | First Place Minsun Kim, University of Washington |
| Honorable Mention Steffen Rebennack, Colorado School of Mines | |
| Mariel Lavieri, University of British Columbia | |
| Lolke Schakel, University of Groningen | |
| 2009 | First Place Nitin Bakshi, London Business School |
| Second Place Jagpreet Chhatwal, Merck Research Laboratories | |
| Honorable Mention Emmanuel Carrier | |
| Hamid Nazerzadeh | |
| Evren Özkaya, McKinsey & Company | |
| 2008 | First Place Sang-Hyun Kim, University of Pennsylvania |
| Second Place Tobias Achterberg, Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany | |
| Sam K. Hui, Georgia Institute of Technology | |
| Honorable Mention Kyungduck Cha, Georgia Institute of Technology | |
| Pelin Pekgun-Cakmak, Georgia Institute of Technology | |
| 2007 | First Place Timothy Chan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Second Place Pallav Sarma, Stanford University | |
| Honorable Mention Andreea Popescu, Georgia Institute of Technology | |
| 2006 | First Place A. Kevin Tang, Cornell University |
| Second Place Melda Ormeci, Ozyegin University | |
| Honorable Mention Ching-Hua Chen-Ritzo, IBM TJ Watson Research Center | |
| Nan Kong, Purdue University, Biomedical Engineering | |
| Tao Yao, Penn State University | |
| 2005 | First Place Robert W. Day, University of Connecticut |
| Devavrat Shah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Honorable Mention Oguzhan Alagoz, University of Wisconsin-Madison | |
| Susan Budge, University of Alberta | |
| Daniel Quadt, Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt | |
| 2004 |
First Place
Jeffrey Ohlmann,
University of Iowa, Henry B. Tippie College of Business & Management Science |
| Honorable Mention Valdo Durrleman, Stanford University | |
| Xuanming Su, University of California - Berkeley, Haas School of Business | |
| Berkin Toktas, T-Mobile USA | |
| Rodney Wallace, George Washington University | |
| 2003 | First Place Paat Rusmevichientong, Cornell University |
| Honorable Mention Martin Durbin, Decisive Analytics Corporation | |
| Z. Justin Ren, Boston University | |
| Milind Sohoni, Indian School of Business | |
| Matthew S. Thompson, University of Western Ontario | |
| 2002 | First Place Daniela Pucci de Farias, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Honorable Mention Juta Pichitlamken, Kasetsart University, Dept. of Industrial Engineering | |
| John Sniezek, RouteSmart Technologies | |
| Julie L. Swann, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Industrial & Systems Engineering | |
| Hongsheng Zhong, UPS | |
| 2001 | First Place Andrew Armacost, United States Air Force Academy |
| Second Place Stylianos Kavadias, Georgia Institute of Technology | |
| Honorable Mention Vishal Gaur, Cornell University, The Johnson School | |
| Brian Nathanson, OptiStatim LLC | |
| 2000 | First Place Shabbir Ahmed, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Second Place Prashant Fuloria, Stanford University | |
| Honorable Mention Vinayak Deshpande, Purdue University | |
| Terry Taylor , University of California - Berkely | |
| Kirk Yost, Mitre Corporation | |
| 1999 | First Place Justin Boesel, Northwestern University |
| Honorable Mention William D. Hall, CitationShares | |
| Mark E. Lewis, Cornell University | |
| 1998 | First Place Daniel Adelman, University of Chicago |
| Second Place Yunzeng Wang, University of California - Riverside | |
| Honorable Mention Steven F. Baker, US Air Force Academy | |
| 1997 | First Place Alberto Caprara, DEIS - University of Bologna |
| Second Place Sarah Stock Patterson, Duke University | |
| Honorable Mention Stefanos A. Zenios, Stanford University | |
| Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Carnegie Mellon University, Graduate School of Industrial Administration | |
| 1996 | First Place S. Raghavan, University of Maryland, Robert H Smith School of Business |
| Second Place Arthur C. Hsu, United Technologies Research Center | |
| Honorable Mention Geoffrey C. Murray, A.T. Kearney Inc. | |
| Raman K. Nurani | |
| Giuseppe Russo | |
| 1995 | First Place David Lowell, Castilleja School |
| Second Place Karlos Artto | |
| Honorable Mention Venkatesh Ravirala, Neeroh LLC | |
| 1994 | First Place Raymond Cheung, Hong Kong University |
| Second Place Jenny Ming Chen | |
| Honorable Mention Shannon Anderson, Rice University | |
| Teck Ho | |
| David P. Morton, Stanford University |
