Student Paper Award

2025 Winner(s)

Winning material: Distributionally Robust Universal Classification: Bypassing the Curse of Dimensionality

2025 Winner(s)

Winning material: The Power of Adaptivity in Experimental Design

Purpose of the Award

The Data Mining (DM) Society of INFORMS announces the DM Best Student Paper Competition to recognize excellence among its student members.

Application process:

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Past Awardees

2025
Winner(s)
David Simchi-Levi , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jiachun Li , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Siyuan Chen , Georgia Institute of Technology
Yunxiao Zhao , Peking University
Weijun Xie, Virginia Tech
Runner-Up
Fan Lai , University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Haoyi Song , University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Ruihan Ji , Peking University
Raed Al Kontar, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Naichen Shi
Finalist
Xiaoyu Fan, NYU Stern
Zhengyuan Zhou, New York University
2024
Winner(s)
Brian Liu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Runner-Up
Jie Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology
Finalist
Dongmin Li, Univeristy of Florida
Aras Selvi, Imperial College
2022
Winner(s)
Simon Mak
Liyan Xie, Georgia Tech
Yao Xie, Georgia Tech
Xiaojun Zheng
Runner-Up
Brendon G. Anderson
Samuel Pfrommer
Somayeh Sojoudi
Finalist
Zhi Chen
Raed Al Kontar, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Cynthia Rudin, Duke University
Margo Seltzer
Takuya Takagi
Rui Xin
Xubo Yue, University of Michigan
Chudi Zhong
2020
Winner(s)
Yongchun Li, Virginia Tech
Weijun Xie, Virginia Tech
Runner-Up
Jialei Chen, Georgia Institute of Technology
Zhehui Chen, Georgia Institute of Technology
C. F. Jeff Wu
Chuck Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology
Finalist
Jie Guo, Tsinghua University
Steven Hoi, Southern Methodist University
Ziyue Li, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Fugee Tsung, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hao Yan
Chen Zhang, Tsinghua University
2019
Winner(s)
Xi Zhang , Peking University
Zhehui Chen, Georgia Institute of Technology
Kaibo Liu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Simon Mak
Di Wang, Peking University
C. F. Jeff Wu
Finalist
Dimitris J. Bertsimas , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management and Operations Research Center
Patrick Jaillet , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Arthur Delarue, MIT Operations Research Center
Gökçe Kahvecioğlu, Northwestern University
Sebastien Martin, MIT Operations Research Center
David Morton, Northwestern University
2015
Winner(s)
Mingdi You, University of Michigan
Finalist
Fulton Wang , MIT
Sam Davanloo Tajbakhsh, Sam Davanloo Tajbakhsh
Murat Yildirim, Georgia Tech
2014
Winner(s)
Hao Yan
Finalist
Jialei Wang
2013
Finalist
Benjamin Letham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chitta Ranjan, George Institute of Technology
Zhaoran Wang, Princeton University
Zhengyi Zhou, Cornell University
2012
First Place
Kaibo Liu, Georgia Tech
Finalist
Yi-Hao Kao, Stanford University
2011
First Place
Kamran Paynabar, University of Michigan
Finalist
Allison Chang, MIT
Chun-An Chou, University of Michigan
Shuai Huang, Arizona State University
2010
First Place
Jian Guo, University of Michigan
Second Place
Sangheum Hwang, Rutgers University
Third Place
Andrew Trapp, University of Pittsburgh
2009
First Place
Michele Samorani, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University