Past Awards
2025
Donald P. Gaver, Jr. Early Career Award:
Winner(s)
Citation:
For outstanding contributions to operations research in the development of innovative models and algorithms for data-driven optimization and decision-making in diverse applications ranging from air transportation and urban mobility, to logistics and supply chains, especially those affecting social good; and for outstanding contributions to educate and mentor students.
2024
Air Transportation Best Paper Award:
Winner(s)
Winning material:
Vertiport Planning for Urban Air Mobility: An Adaptive Discretization Approach
2023
ICS Harvey J. Greenberg Research Award:
Winner(s)
Winning material:
Routing Optimization with Vehicle-Customer Coordination
Best Transportation Science Paper Award:
Winner(s)
Winning material:
Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics Toward Passenger-Centric Ground Delay Programs
2021
Best Paper Award:
Winner(s)
Winning material:
A Stochastic Integer Programming Approach to Air Traffic Scheduling and Operations
Air Transportation Best Paper Award:
Winner(s)
Winning material:
A stochastic integer programming approach to air traffic scheduling and operations
2020
Pierskalla Best Paper Award:
Winner(s)
Winning material:
From predictions to prescriptions: A data-driven response to COVID-19
Data Mining Best Applied Paper:
Winner(s)
Winning material:
From Classification to Optimization: A Scenario-based Robust Optimization Approach
Air Transportation Best Paper Award:
Winner(s)
Winning material:
A Large-Scale Neighborhood Search Approach to Airport Slot Allocation
2019
(SIG) Outstanding Paper in Air Transportation:
Winner(s)
Winning material:
Interairline Equity in Airport Scheduling Interventions
2017
Best Paper Award:
Winner(s)
2015
George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award:
First Place
Winning material:
Integrated Allocation and Utilization of Airport Capacity to Mitigate Air Traffic Congestion
TSL Dissertation Prize:
First Place
Winning material:
Integrated Allocation and Utilization of Airport Capacity to Mitigate Air Traffic Congestion
2013
Air Transportation Best Student Presentation Competition:
Winner(s)
Winning material:
Airport Congestion Mitigation through Schedule Coordination: An Integrated Approach