INFORMS Computing Society Prize

2024 Winner(s)

Purpose of the Award

The INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) Prize is an annual award for the best English language paper or group of related papers dealing with the Operations Research/Computer Science interface. 

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Past Awardees

2024
Winner(s)
Antony Man-Cho So, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jiaxiang Li, University of Minnesota
Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, University of California, Davis
Shiqian Ma, Columbia University
Shixiang Chen, University of Science and Technology of China
Tong Zhang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2023
Winner(s)
Aida Khajavirad, Carnegie Mellon University
Alberto Del Pia, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2022
Winner(s)
Guanghui Lan, Georgia Institute of Technology
Hongchao Zhang, Lousiana State University
Saeed Ghadimi, University of Florida
2021
Winner(s)
Adolfo R. Escobedo, Arizona State University
Christopher Lourenco, Texas A&M University
Erick Moreno Centeno, Texas A&M University
Timothy Alden Davis , Texas A&M University
2020
Winner(s)
Renato D.C. Monteiro, Georgia Institute of Technology
Samuel Burer, University of Iowa
2019
Winner(s)
Bethany L. Nicholson, Sandia National Labs
Carl D. Laird, Sandia National Labs
David L. Woodruff, University of California - Davis
Gabriel A. Hackebeil, Deepfield
Jean-Paul Watson, Sandia National Labs
John Siirola, Sandia National Labs
William E. Hart, Sandia National Labs
2018
Winner(s)
Adrian S. Lewis, Cornell University
Frank E. Curtis, Lehigh University
James V. Burke, University of Washington
Michael L. Overton, New York University
2017
Winner(s)
George Nemhauser , Georgia Institute of Technology
Juan Pablo Vielma, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Shabbir Ahmed , Georgia Institute of Technology
2016
First Place
Iain Dunning
Joey Huchette
Miles Lubin
2015
First Place
Dinakar Gade, Sabre
Hanif D. Sherali, Virginia Tech
Julia Higle, University of Southern California
Lewis Ntaimo, Texas A&M University
Simge Kucukyavuz, Ohio State University
Suvrajeet Sen, University of Southern California
2014
First Place
Fabrizio Rossi
James Ostrowski, Lehigh University
Jeff Linderoth, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Stefano Smriglio
2013
First Place
John Gunnar Carlsson, University of Minnesota
2012
First Place
A. A. Ahmadi
A. Olshevsky
John N. Tsitsiklis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
P. A. Parrilo
2011
First Place
Dorit S. Hochbaum
2010
First Place
Jesus De Lorea, University of California
Jon Lee, IBM Research
Peter Malkin
Shmuel Onn, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Susan Margulies, Rice University
2009
First Place
Andreas Wachter, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Lorenz T. Beigler, Carnegie Mellon University
2008
First Place
Robert W. Day, University of Connecticut
S. Raghavan, University of Maryland, Robert H Smith School of Business
2007
First Place
Claire Kenyon, Brown University
David S. Johnson, AT&T Bell Labs
James B. Orlin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Janos Csirik, AT&T Laboratories
Peter W. Shor, AT&T Labs
Richard R. Weber, Cambridge University
2006
First Place
Andrew G. Glen, United States Military Academy
Diane L. Evans, College of William and Mary
John Drew
Lawrence Leemis, College of William and Mary
2005
First Place
Bruce L. Golden, University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business
Edward A. Wasil, American University
S. Raghavan, University of Maryland, Robert H Smith School of Business
Shreevardhan Lele, University of Maryland
Zhiwei Fu, University of Maryland
2004
First Place
Mohit Tawarmalani, Purdue University
Nikolaos V. Sahinidis, Carnegie Mellon University, Dept. of Chemical Engineering
2003
First Place
Ignacio Grossman, Carnegie Mellon University
2002
First Place
Pascal Van Hentenryck, Brown University
2001
First Place
Renato D.C. Monteiro, Georgia Institute of Technology
Yin Zhang, Rice University
2000
First Place
János D. Pintér, Ozyegin University
1999
First Place
Stavros A. Zenios, University of Cyprus
Yair Censor
1998
First Place
Ding-Zhu Du
Frank K. Hwang
1997
First Place
Dimitri P. Bertsekas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John N. Tsitsiklis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1996
First Place
Hanif D. Sherali, Virginia Tech
Warren P. Adams, Clemson University, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences
1995
First Place
Donald Goldfarb, Columbia University
John Forrest, IBM
1994
First Place
Fred W. Glover, OptTek Systems, Inc.
1993
First Place
Brian Kernighan
David Gay
Robert Fourer, Northwestern University
1992
First Place
Akiko Yoshise, University of Tsukuba, Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering
David Shanno, Rutgers University
Irvin Lustig, Princeton Consultants
Masakazu Kojima, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mathematics & Computer Science
Nimrod Megiddo, IBM
Roy Marsten, Emcien Corporation
Toshihito Noma, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Dept. of Information Sciences
1991
First Place
John Hooker, Carnegie Mellon University
1988
First Place
Alexander Meeraus , GAMS Development Corporation
1987
First Place
Darwin Klingman, University of Austin - Texas
Fred W. Glover, OptTek Systems, Inc.
Marcel Neuts, University of Arizona
1986
First Place
Harvey Greenberg, University of Colorado Denver (Emeritus)