SAS Data Mining Best Paper Award

2025 Winner(s)

Winning material: Supervised Clustered Interpretability: A Novel Method Towards Transparent AI with Social Good Implications

Purpose of the Award

The Data Mining (DM) Society of INFORMS announces the DM Best Paper Competition to recognize excellence among its members. The objective of the best paper competition is to recognize excellence among the high-quality research works of DM society members, and brings prestige to DM Society as well as to the recipients.

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Past Awardees

2025
Winner(s)
Meysam Rabiee
Matt Baucum, Oklahoma State University
Runner-Up
Xinwei Deng , Virginia Tech University
Chunlin Ji
Dingwei Gong , Sun Yat-Sen University
Jun S. Liu , Harvard University
Meiying Zhang , Southern University of Science and Technology
Terry Ma , Carnegie Mellon University
Xiaoyu Chen , University at Buffalo
Yujing Huang , University at Buffalo
Yongxiang Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Finalist
Yan Li , Texas A&M University
Guanghui Lan, Georgia Institute of Technology
2024
Winner(s)
Salar Fattahi, University of California, Berkeley
Raed Al Kontar, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Naichen Shi
Runner-Up
Emanuele Borgonovo, Bocconi University
Francesco Cappelli, Bocconi University
Xuefei Lu, SKEMA Business School
Elmar Plischke, Clausthal University of Technology
Cynthia Rudin, Duke University
Finalist
Raul Astudillo, Caltech
Peter Frazier, Princeton University
Yongxiang Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Ziv Scully, Cornell University
Alexander Terenin, Cornell University
Yu Tian, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Jianguo Wu, Virginia Tech
Qian Xiao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Qian Xie, Cornell University
2022
Winner(s)
Hamsa Bastani, University of Pennsylvania
Osbert Bastani, University of Pennsylvania
Park Sinchaisri, Wharton
Runner-Up
Paul Brooks, Virginia Commonwealth University
Nico Van Cleemput
David J. Edwards
Craig E. Larson
Finalist
Bani Mallick
Jon Schneider
Anirban Bhattacharya
Negin Golrezaei
Prateek Jaiswal
Vahideh Manshadi, Yale School of Management
Debdeep Pati
Shreyas Sekar
2020
Winner(s)
N. Bora Keskin, Duke University
Yuexing Li, Duke University
Nur Sunar, University of North Carolina
Runner-Up
Ramin Moghaddas , University of Miami
Yongtao Guan, University of Miami
Finalist
Serhat Simsek , Montclair State University
Ali Dag, Creighton University
Murtaza Nasir, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Asil Oztekin, University of Massachusetts Lowell
2019
Winner(s)
Feng Liu , Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Ren-Cang Li, The University of Texas at Arlington
Yifei Lou, The University of Texas at Dallas
Patrick L. Purdon, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Li Wang, The University of Texas at Arlington
Finalist
Xi Zhang , Peking University
Gah-Yi Ban, University of Maryland
Maxime C. Cohen, McGill University
Juan Du, Georgia Institute of Technology
Kevin Jiao, New York University
N. Bora Keskin, Duke University
Jianjun Shi, Georgia Institute of Technology
Andi Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology
Renyu Zhang, New York University
2016
Winner(s)
Paul Brooks, Virginia Commonwealth University
Xiaolei Fang, Georgia Institute of Technology
Chitta Ranjan, George Institute of Technology
Tuo Zhao, Johns Hopkins University