Best Student Paper Award

2025 Winner(s)

Winning material: Adaptive Robust Optimization with Data-Driven Uncertainty for Enhancing Distribution System Resilience

Purpose of the Award

This award is given annually to the best paper dealing with energy, environmental, or natural resource issues by a student author who is presenting at the INFORMS Annual Meeting, as judged by a panel of the Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment Section. Award finalists will present their submitted papers in the ENRE award session at the INFORMS Annual Meeting. This award was formerly also known as "Student Travel Award" and "Student Paper Award".

Application Process

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

Past Awardees

2025
Winner(s)
Shuyi Chen, Carnegie Mellon University
Ramteen Sioshansi, Carnegie Mellon University
Shixiang Zhu, Carnegie Mellon University
2024
First Place
Felipe Cordera, MIT
Rodrigo Moreno, University of Chile
Fernando Ordóñez, Universidad de Chile
2023
Winner(s)
Heraldo Rozas, Georgia Institute of Technology
2022
Winner(s)
Dirk Lauinger, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
2021
Winner(s)
Cristóbal Pais Martínez, University of California, Berkeley
2020
Winner(s)
Julie Mulvaney-Kemp, University of California, Berkeley
2019
Winner(s)
Jacob Mays , Northwestern University
2018
Winner(s)
Beste Basciftci , Georgia Tech
2017
Winner(s)
Abdul Quddus, Mississippi State University
2016
Winner(s)
Mehdi Behroozi, University of Minnesota
Runner-Up
Álvaro Lorca
Bhavani Shanker Uppari, Singapore Management University
2015
Winner(s)
Safak Yucel, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
2014
Winner(s)
Mahyar Movahed Nejad
2013
First Place
Rowan Wang
2012
First Place
Sheng Yu, George Washington University
2011
First Place
Sheng Yu, George Washington University
2010
First Place
Li Xu
2009
First Place
Paul Enders, Carnegie Mellon University
2008
First Place
Ekundayo Shittu, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2007
First Place
Mulan X. Wang, Carnegie Mellon University
2006
First Place
Augusto Ruperez Micola, London Business School
Honorable Mention
Emre Celebi, University of Waterloo
2005
First Place
Jesse Rush O’Hanley, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University Center for the Environment
Honorable Mention
Sandor Toth, University of Washington-Seattle
2004
First Place
Yihsu Chen, Johns Hopkins University
(with Ben Hobbs)
Second Place
Jordi Cabero, Universidad Pontificia Comillas
(with Álvaro Baíllo, Santiago Cerisola and Mariano Ventosa)
Jian Yao, University of California - Berkeley
(with Shmuel S. Oren and Ilan Adler)
Honorable Mention
Ravi Subramanian, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Tech
Yicheng Wang, University of Illinois
(with Hayri Önal)
2003
Awardee(s)
Matt Thompson