2025 First Place
- Vamsee Krishna Batchu, Ford Motor Company
- Omar Makke, Ford Motor Company
- Oleg Gusikhin, Ford Motor Company
- Vasiliy Krivtsov, Ford Motor Company
- Erica Klampfl, Ford Motor Company
- Vicky Svidenko, Ford Motor Company
- Rodney Cooper, Ford Motor Company
- Mare K Shayrin, Ford Motor Company
Purpose of the Award
The purpose of the Innovative Applications in Analytics Award is to recognize the creative and unique application of analytical techniques. The prize promotes the creative combination of analytics techniques in innovative applications to provide novel insights and creates economic or social value.
Applicants can submit proposals that span applications of descriptive, predictive and/or prescriptive analytics, as well as data creation, collection and dissemination which support or enable original analytical methods.
Descriptive innovation could include novel measures, visualization methods, or creative approaches to the analytics process improvement, among others. Predictive innovation might be statistical applications, text analytics or simulation, among others. Prescriptive innovation might include game theory or optimization. New sources of data creation and collection, and new avenues for dissemination of analytical approaches can also help demonstrate the innovativeness of the submission. The lists above are not meant to be exhaustive, but rather illustrative examples of areas of innovation.
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Application Process
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Committee
Juan R. Jaramillo, PhD
2026 IAAA Chair
Associate Professor of Data Science
Department of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Long Island University
Pallav Chhaochhria, PhD
2026 IAAA CoChair
President - Ingenuity Trading Inc
Jiaxi Zhu
2026 IAAA Co-Chair
Head of Analytics
Google