ENRE Young Researcher Prize

2024 First Place

Winning material: Sequential Pricing of Electricity

Purpose of the Award

The ENRE Young Researcher Prize is awarded annually at the INFORMS Annual Meeting to one or more young researcher(s) for an outstanding paper on the application of OR/MS to an important problem in energy, natural resources, or the environment.  The award serves as an esteemed recognition of promising researchers who are at the beginning of their academic or industrial career.

Application Process

For more information and the application process, please click here.

Past Awardees

2024
First Place
Jacob Mays , Northwestern University
Runner-Up
Beste Basciftci , Georgia Tech
Natalie Randall, University of Iowa
2023
Winner(s)
Bolun Xu, Columbia University
Runner-Up
Christian Kaps, University of Pennsylvania
2022
Winner(s)
Chen Jin, National University of Singapore
Cungen Zhu, NUS
Luyi Yang
2021
Winner(s)
Shourya Bose, University of California, Santa Cruz
Yu Zhang, University of California, Santa Cruz
Runner-Up
Benjamin D. Leibowicz, University of Texas at Austin
2020
Winner(s)
Alessio Trivella, Institute for Transport Planning and Systems, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Danial Mohseni-Taheri, University of Illinois at Chicago
Selvaprabu Nadarajah, University of Illinois at Chicago
2019
Winner(s)
Kwon Gi Mun, Rutgers University
Raza Rafique, Rutgers University
Yao Zhao, Rutgers University
2018
Winner(s)
Soongeol Kwon , Binghamton University, State University of New York
2017
Winner(s)
Arda Yenipazarli, Georgia Southern University
2016
Winner(s)
Daniel Huppmann
Sauleh Siddiqui
2015
Winner(s)
Steffen Rebennack, Colorado School of Mines
2014
Winner(s)
Ho-Yin Mak, University of California-Berkeley
Michael K. Lim
Ying Rong, Lehigh University
Second Place
Ioannis Bellos
Vishal Agrawal , McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
2013
Winner(s)
Alireza Soroudi , Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran