Past Awards
2024
Innovative Applications in Analytics Award:
Second Place
Winning material:
Optimizing Milk Pools at the Rogers Hixon Ontario Human Milk Bank
Data Mining Best Theoretical Paper:
Finalist
Winning material:
Conformal Inverse Optimization
Best Cluster Paper Award:
Finalist
Winning material:
Machine Learning-Augmented Optimization of Large Bilevel and Two-stage Stochastic Programs: Application to Cycling Network Design
2023
M&SOM Practice-based Research Competition :
Finalist
Winning material:
Got (Optimal) Milk? Pooling Donations in Human Milk Banks with Machine Learning and Optimization
Pierskalla Best Paper Award:
Winner(s)
Winning material:
Got (Optimal) Milk? Pooling Donations in Human Milk Banks with Machine Learning and Optimization
2022
Pierskalla Best Paper Award:
Finalist
Winning material:
Drone network design for cardiac arrest response
INFORMS Case Competition:
Winner(s)
Winning material:
For the Case: Moneyball for Murderball: Using Analytics to Construct Lineups in Wheelchair Rugby
2021
Pierskalla Best Paper Award:
Finalist
Winning material:
An Inverse Optimization Approach to Measuring Clinical Pathway Concordance