Michael H. Rothkopf Junior Researcher Paper Prize

2024 First Place

Winning material: Dynamic Matching with Post-Allocation Service and its Application to Refugee Resettlement

Purpose of the Award

The prize recognizes the best paper by a young researcher in the area of Auctions and Market Design, with a particular focus on the use of Operations Research and/or Management Science techniques in the design or analysis of markets.

Application process:

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Past Awardees

2024
First Place
Soonbong Lee, Yale University
Second Place
Akshit Kumar
Third Place
Johannes Knörr , Technical University of Munich
2023
First Place
J. Massey Cashore, Cornell University
Second Place
Yiding Feng, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Third Place
Rachitesh Kumar, Columbia University
2022
First Place
Haihao (Sean) Lu, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
Second Place
Raghav Singal, Columbia University
Third Place
Jacob Mays , Northwestern University
2021
First Place
Rad Niazadeh, Cornell University
Second Place
Will Ma, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Third Place
Alexander Wei, Designing Approximately Optimal Search on Matching Platforms
2020
First Place
Yannai Gonczarowski, Microsoft Research
Second Place
Irene Lo, Stanford University
Third Place
Scott Rodilitz, Yale School of Management