We have been incredibly fortunate to receive support from the Seth Bonder Foundation, which allowed us to host competitions such as mini-poster. We hope to continue/upgrade the competition in the upcoming months, so keep an eye out. In Fall 2024, we had 8 high-quality submissions in the undergraduate, master’s and Ph.D. categories. Thank you all for your excellent work and for submitting it to our competition. Candidates were required to design one letter-sized page to communicate their research topic to a broader audience in the OR/MS community. A group of judges chose the winners based on the novelty of the topic, maturity of the content, quality of the information, engagement, and aesthetics.
PhD Category
1st Place
Dan Ni Lin, Texas Tech University
"Heterogeneous Domain Adaptation For Survival Analysis"
2nd Place
Jiannan Xu, University of Maryland
"AI Self-Preferencing In Algorithmic Hiring:Empirical Evidence And Insights"
Honorable Mentions
Wencheng Bao, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
"Risk-Averse Stochastic User Equilibrium On Uncertain Transportation Networks"
Master’s Category
1st Place
Niklas Wolfrum, Technische Universität Dresden
"The Distributed Workforce And Machine Assignment Problem"
2nd Place
Zheng Sun, University of Southampton
"Balancing Access And Burden In HWRC Closure Sequencing: Hampshire Case"
3rd Place
Jinseo Yu, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Analysis Of Diabetes And Hypertension Risk"
Undergraduate Category
1st Place
Michelle Guo, Carnegie Mellon University
"Causal Evaluation Of Public Safety Power Shutoffs For Wildfire Mitigation"
2nd Place
Daniel Hopkins, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
"Integrating Mobility Dynamics Into Facility Location Modeling And Optimization"
Honorable Mention
Zheye "Caroline" Yao, Swarthmore College
"Multi-Objective Optimization Of Healthcare Facility Access Equity And Efficiency Using Cvar-Based Model"
Judges
| PH.D Category | Master’s Category | Undergraduate Category |
| Amira Hijazi | Nicklas Klein | Amir Hossein Moadab |
| Research Faculty, AI4OPT | Final-year PhD, University of Bern (CHE) | Final-year PhD, Washington State University |
Justin Dumouchelle | Philipp Pithan | Austin Saragih |
| Assistant Professor, University of Calgary (CAN) | Final-year PhD, WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management (DEU) | Final-year PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Mini-poster Competition | 1st Place (Ph.D.): Dan Ni Lin (Advisor: Dr. DongPing Du)
Mini-poster Competition | 1st Place (Master’s): Niklas Wolfrum
Mini-poster Competition | 1st Place (Undergraduate): Michelle Guo (Author Acknowledgements: Shixiang Zhu, Shuyi Chen) 36
