Air Transportation Best Student Presentation Competition

2025 Winner(s)

  • Marcus Koh, Singapore University of Technology and Design
Winning material: Towards Efficient Aircraft Turnaround: A Mesoscopic Model for Equipment Routing and Scheduling

Purpose of the Award

The Air Transportation Section of INFORMS awards a prize for the best student presentation within the ATS cluster during the INFORMS annual meeting. The winner will receive a certificate and an honorarium. Finalists will receive an honorable mention and a certificate.

Application process:

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Past Awardees

2025
Winner(s)
Marcus Koh, Singapore University of Technology and Design
Runner-Up
Jimin Choi, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ethan Kolby, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2022
Winner(s)
Gianmarco Andreana, University of Bergamo
Honorable Mention
Kevin K Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2021
Winner(s)
Lu Dai, University of California, Berkeley
Honorable Mention
Fotios Katsigiannis, Lancaster University
Fanruiqi Zeng, Georgia Institute of Technology
2020
Winner(s)
Max Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Honorable Mention
Jing Gao , University of Minnesota
2019
Winner(s)
Rachael Tompa, Stanford University
Honorable Mention
Junhong Guo, University of Michigan
2017
Winner(s)
Behrooz Pourghannad , University of Minnesota
Runner-Up
Nuno Ribeiro
2016
Winner(s)
Michael Wittman, MIT
Honorable Mention
Reed Harder, Dartmouth
2015
Winner(s)
Chiwei Yan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Honorable Mention
Lei Kang, University of California, Berkeley
2014
Winner(s)
Heng Chen, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Honorable Mention
James Jones, University of Maryland at College Park
2013
Winner(s)
Alexandre Jacquillat, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Honorable Mention
Yi Liu, University of California-Berkeley