Air Transportation Best Paper Award

2025 Winner(s)

Winning material: An optimization approach for the terminal airspace scheduling problem

Purpose of the Award

This award will be given at the INFORMS National Meeting to the author of the best paper submitted by a full-time student in the area of aviation applications. Specific topics include (but are not limited to) passenger and cargo airline operations, pricing, marketing, and yield management; air traffic control; airport planning; aviation financial/economic/policy analysis, aviation forecasting, and aviation human factors. The award is accompanied by a certificate and registration fee to the conference.
 

Application process:

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Past Awardees

2025
Winner(s)
Diana Jorge, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa
Wayne Ng, Singapure University of Technology and Design
Runner-Up
Luigi De Giovanni, Università di Padova
Carlo Lancia, Università di Milano-Bicocca
Guglielmo Lulli, University of Milano-Bicocca
2024
Winner(s)
Kai Wang , Tsinghua University
Alexandre Jacquillat, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Vikrant Vaze, Dartmouth Collge
2023
Winner(s)
Cynthia Barnhart, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Vikrant Vaze, Dartmouth Collge
Chiwei Yan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Runner-Up
Mark Hansen, University of California Berkeley
Ang Li, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Bo Zou, University of Illinois Chicago
2022
Winner(s)
Yael S. Grushka-Cockayne, University of Virginia
Xiaojia Guo, University of Maryland College Park
Bert De Reyck, University College London, Dept. of Management Science & Innovation
2021
Winner(s)
Alexandre Jacquillat, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kai Wang, Carnegie Mellon University
2020
Winner(s)
António Pais Antunes, University of Coimbra
Alexandre Jacquillat, Massachusetts Institute of Technology