George Nicholson Student Paper Competition
2012 First Place:
Minjiao Zhang,
Ohio State University
Winning material:
A Polyhedral Study of Multiechelon Lot Sizing with Intermediate Demands
Purpose of the Award
The George Nicholson Student Paper Competition is held each year to identify and honor outstanding papers in the field of operations research and the management sciences written by a student. The prize is given each year at the INFORMS National Meeting, if there is a suitable recipient. Up to six awards (first and second place awards and up to four awards for Honorable Mention) may be given upon recommendation of the selection committee. First place carries a cash award of $600, second place $300, and each honorable mention $100. All of the finalists are also presented with certificates.
Past Awardees
| 2012 | First Place Minjiao Zhang, Ohio State University |
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| Finalist Yuan Zhong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Yu Wu, Stanford University | |
| Emre Nadar, Bilkent University | |
| Chaithanya Bandi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nataly Youssef, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Honorable Mention Yi-Hao Kao, Stanford University | |
| 2011 | First Place Kuang Xu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Second Place Yehua Wei, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Finalist Robert L. Bray, Stanford University | |
| Honorable Mention Chen Chen, Columbia University | |
| Juliane Dunkel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Shiqian Ma, Columbia University | |
| 2010 | First Place Bo Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Second Place Anicham Kumarasamy, Stanford University | |
| Finalist Timothy Carnes, Massachusetts Inctitute of Technology | |
| David A. Goldberg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Lauren A. Hannah, Duke University | |
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Alexander Zadorojniy,
Tel-Aviv University |
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| Honorable Mention Henry Lam, Harvard University | |
| 2009 | First Place Cong Shi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Second Place James Ostrowski, Lehigh University | |
| Finalist Ye Lu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Spyridon Schismenos, Cornell University Neil Walton, University of Cambridge Theophane Weber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Xiang Yan, Stanford University | |
| Honorable Mention Ilias Diakonikolas, Columbia University | |
| 2008 | First Place Erick Delage, Stanford University |
| Second Place Guanghui Lan, Georgia Institute of Technology | |
| Finalist Dmitriy Katz-Rogozhnikov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Tri-Dung Nguyen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Brad Null, Stanford University | |
| Jiheng Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology | |
| Honorable Mention Ning Cai, Columbia University | |
| Anke van Zuylen, Cornell University | |
| 2007 | First Place Santanu Dey, Purdue University |
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Nelson A. Uhan ,
Purdue University School of Industrial Engineering |
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| Honorable Mention | |
| Amit Partani, The University of Texas at Austin | |
| 2006 | First Place Josh Reed, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Second Place Alexandre Belloni, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Honorable Mention Mustafa Akan, Northwestern University | |
| Stephen Shum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| 2005 | First Place Emre Erdogan, Columbia University |
| Second Place Wai Kin (Victor) Chan, University of California - Berkeley | |
| David B. Brown, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Honorable Mention Zhaosong Lu, Georgia Institute of Technology | |
| Muhong Zhang, University of California - Berkeley | |
| 2004 | First Place Yuval Nov, Stanford University |
| Second Place Melvyn Sim, National University of Singapore | |
| Honorable Mention Ali K. Parlakturk, Stanford University | |
| 2003 | First Place Aurelie Thiele, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Ramesh Johari, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Second Place Sanne Vincent de Boer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Honorable Mention Karthik Natarajan, Singapore MIT Alliance, National University of Singapore | |
| Victor Martinez de Albeniz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| 2002 | First Place Savas Dayanik, Columbia University |
| Second Place Melvyn Sim, National University of Singapore | |
| Honorable Mention Xin Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Xuanming Su, University of California - Berkeley, Haas School of Business | |
| 2001 | First Place Alp Muharremoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Second Place Teresa H. Chu, University of Michigan | |
| Sanjeeb Dash, Princeton University | |
| Gustavo Vulcano, Columbia University | |
| Honorable Mention Nam Kyoo Boots, Vrije University | |
| 2000 | First Place Erica Plambeck, Stanford University |
| Second Place Marina Epelman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Honorable Mention Jay Sethuraman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| 1999 | First Place Bertrand Guenin, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Second Place Constantinos Maglaras, Columbia University | |
| Honorable Mention Wen Zhao, University of Pennsylvania | |
| 1998 | First Place Tito Homem-de-Mello |
| Second Place Lisa Fleischer | |
| Honorable Mention | |
| 1997 | First Place Stefanos A. Zenios, Stanford University |
| Second Place Ioannis Paschalidis, Boston University | |
| 1996 | First Place Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Carnegie Mellon University, Graduate School of Industrial Administration |
| Second Place Georgia Mourtzinou, Operations Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| 1995 | First Place Noah Gans, Columbia University |
| 1994 | First Place David P. Morton, Stanford University |
| Second Place Julie Bowers Lassiter, Clemson University | |
| 1993 | First Place Athanassios N. Avramidis, School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University |
| 1992 |
First Place
Julien Bramel,
School of Engineering and Applied Science Columbia University |
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Second Place
Marvin K. Nakayama,
Operations Research Department Stanford University |
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| 1991 | First Place Vien Nguyen, Stanford University |
| Second Place Kalyan T. Talluri, University Pompeu Fabra, Dept. of Economics & Business | |
| 1990 |
First Place
Perwez Shahabuddin,
Department of Operations Research Stanford University |
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Second Place
Michel X. Goemans,
Operations Research Center Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| 1989 | First Place Dimitris J. Bertsimas , Applied Mathematics Dept., Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Second Place Paul Glasserman, Columbia University | |
| 1988 | First Place Arthur T. Benjamin, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, Johns Hopkins University |
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Second Place
Lawrence M. Wein,
Stanford University, Graduate School of Business |
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| 1987 | First Place Karl Sigman, SORIE, Cornell University |
| Second Place Michael A. Trick, Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business | |
| 1986 | First Place In-Soo Lee, Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA |
| Second Place Sanjay Mehotra, Columbia University, IEOR Dept. | |
| 1985 |
First Place
Wallace J. Hopp,
Dept. of Industrial and Operations Engineering University of Michigan |
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Second Place
Paul Tseng,
Operation Research Center Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| 1984 | First Place Robin Roundy, Cornell University, School of Operations Research & Industrial Engineering |
| Second Place Michael Schneider, Northwestern University | |
| 1983 | First Place David D. W. Yao, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto |
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Second Place
Patrick T. Harker,
Dept. of Civil and Urban Engineering University of Pennsylvania |
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| 1982 | First Place K. Sridhar Moorthy, Stanford Business School |
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Second Place
Uday Apte,
The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania |
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| 1981 | First Place H. L. Ong, University of Waterloo |
| Second Place Mostafa H. Ammar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| 1980 | First Place Robert C. Leachman, University of California - Berkeley |
| Second Place Gur Huberman, Yale School of Organization and Management | |
| 1979 |
First Place
T. S. Wee,
Dept. of Management Science University of Waterloo |
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Second Place
R. Jaikumar,
Wharton School University of Pennsylvania |
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| 1978 | First Place John Bartholdi, Georgia Institute of Technology James Orlin, Dept. of Operations Research, Stanford University |
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Second Place
Paul Dixon,
Dept. of Management Sciences University of Waterloo |
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| 1977 | First Place Paul H. Zipkin, Duke University, Fuqua School of Business |
| Second Place Osman Oguz, University of Waterloo | |
| 1976 | First Place Peter Orkenyi, Stanford University |
| Second Place M. A. Greene, Carnegie-Mellon University | |
| 1975 | First Place Ron S. Dembo, University of Waterloo |
| Second Place Richard Feldman, Northwestern University |
