Aviation Applications Dissertation Prize

The Aviation Applications Section of INFORMS awards a prize for the best dissertation in any area related to aviation OR (air traffic management OR and airline OR). The winner will receive a plaque and an honorarium. Finalists will receive an honorable mention and a certificate.

2024 Winner(s)

Winning material: Distributionally Robust Airport Ground Holding Problem under Wasserstein Ambiguity Sets

Purpose of the Award

Application Process

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Past Awardees

2024
Winner(s)
Haochen Wu, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Honorable Mention
Minghao Chen, Columbia University
Thomas Johannes Hagspihl, Technische Universität München
2023
Winner(s)
Jan-Rasmus Künnen, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management
2022
Winner(s)
Max Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2021
Winner(s)
Sebastian Birolini, University of Bergamo
Honorable Mention
Sandeep Badrinath, MIT
2020
Winner(s)
David Sanchez, Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Keji Wei, Dartmouth College
Honorable Mention
Maximilian Pohl, Technical University of Munich
2019
Winner(s)
Nuno Ribeiro
Honorable Mention
Gita Taherkhani, University of Waterloo
2018
Winner(s)
Chiwei Yan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2017
Winner(s)
Heng Chen, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2016
First Place
Virginie Lurkin, University of Liege
Honorable Mention
James Jones, University of Maryland at College Park
2015
Winner(s)
Michael Bloem , Stanford University
2014
Winner(s)
Stephen Maher, University of New South Wales
Honorable Mention
Clayton Tino , Georgia Institute of Technology
2013
First Place
Farshid Azadian , Wayne State University
Honorable Mention
Bo Vaaben , Technical University of Denmark
2012
First Place
Marcial Lapp , University of Michigan
2011
First Place
Douglas Fearing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Honorable Mention
Andrew M. Churchill, University of Maryland
2010
First Place
Poornima Balakrishna, George Mason University
Honorable Mention
Niklaus Eggenberg, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
2009
First Place
Gizem Keysan, Georgia Institute of Technology
Honorable Mention
Pavithra Harsha, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2008
First Place
Mustafa Akan, Carnegie Mellon University
2007
First Place
Anne Mercier, ExPretio Technologies
2006
First Place
Mattias Gronkvist, Jeppesen
2005
First Place
Gregory Coldren, Coldren Choice Consulting Ltd
2004
First Place
Laurie Anne Garrow, Georgia Institute of Technology
2003
First Place
Milind Sohoni, Indian School of Business
Honorable Mention
Amy Mainville Cohn, University of Michigan
Sanne Vincent de Boer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thomas Vossen , University of Colorado - Boulder, Leeds School of Business