INFORMS Computing Society Prize

2025 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

2025
Winner(s)
Jason Altschuler, University of Pennsylvania
Alper Atamturk, University of California - Berkeley
Andres Gomez, University of Pittsburgh
Shaoning Han, National University of Singapore
Pablo Parrilo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Honorable Mention
Shabbir Ahmed , Georgia Institute of Technology
Yongpei Guan, University of Florida
Ruiwei Jiang, University of Florida
Weijun Xie, Virginia Tech
2024
Winner(s)
Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, University of California, Davis
Shixiang Chen, University of Science and Technology of China
Jiaxiang Li, University of Minnesota
Shiqian Ma, Columbia University
Antony Man-Cho So, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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)
Saeed Ghadimi, University of Florida
Guanghui Lan, Georgia Institute of Technology
Hongchao Zhang, Lousiana State University
2021
Winner(s)
Timothy Alden Davis , Texas A&M University
Erick Moreno Centeno, Texas A&M University
Adolfo R. Escobedo, Arizona State University
Christopher Lourenco, Texas A&M University
2020
Winner(s)
Samuel Burer, University of Iowa
Renato D.C. Monteiro, Georgia Institute of Technology
2019
Winner(s)
Gabriel A. Hackebeil, Deepfield
William E. Hart, Sandia National Labs
Carl D. Laird, Sandia National Labs
Bethany L. Nicholson, Sandia National Labs
John Siirola, Sandia National Labs
Jean-Paul Watson, Sandia National Labs
David L. Woodruff, University of California - Davis
2018
Winner(s)
James V. Burke, University of Washington
Frank E. Curtis, Lehigh University
Adrian S. Lewis, Cornell University
Michael L. Overton, New York University
2017
Winner(s)
George Nemhauser , Georgia Institute of Technology
Shabbir Ahmed , Georgia Institute of Technology
Juan Pablo Vielma, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2016
First Place
Iain Dunning
Joey Huchette
Miles Lubin
2015
First Place
Dinakar Gade, Sabre
Julia Higle, University of Southern California
Simge Kucukyavuz, Ohio State University
Lewis Ntaimo, Texas A&M University
Suvrajeet Sen, University of Southern California
Hanif D. Sherali, Virginia Tech
2014
First Place
Jeff Linderoth, University of Wisconsin-Madison
James Ostrowski, Lehigh University
Fabrizio Rossi
Stefano Smriglio
2013
First Place
John Gunnar Carlsson, University of Minnesota
2012
First Place
A. A. Ahmadi
A. Olshevsky
P. A. Parrilo
John N. Tsitsiklis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2011
First Place
Dorit S. Hochbaum
2010
First Place
Jon Lee, IBM Research
Jesus De Lorea, University of California
Peter Malkin
Susan Margulies, Rice University
Shmuel Onn, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
2009
First Place
Lorenz T. Beigler, Carnegie Mellon University
Andreas Wachter, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
2008
First Place
Robert W. Day, University of Connecticut
Subramanian Raghavan, University of Maryland, Robert H Smith School of Business
2007
First Place
Janos Csirik, AT&T Laboratories
David S. Johnson, AT&T Bell Labs
Claire Kenyon, Brown University
James B. Orlin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peter W. Shor, AT&T Labs
Richard R. Weber, Cambridge University
2006
First Place
John Drew
Diane L. Evans, College of William and Mary
Andrew G. Glen, United States Military Academy
Lawrence Leemis, College of William and Mary
2005
First Place
Zhiwei Fu, University of Maryland
Bruce L. Golden, University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business
Shreevardhan Lele, University of Maryland
Subramanian Raghavan, University of Maryland, Robert H Smith School of Business
Edward A. Wasil, American University
2004
First Place
Nikolaos V. Sahinidis, Carnegie Mellon University, Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Mohit Tawarmalani, Purdue University
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
Yair Censor
Stavros A. Zenios, University of Cyprus
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
Warren P. Adams, Clemson University, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences
Hanif D. Sherali, Virginia Tech
1995
First Place
John Forrest, IBM
Donald Goldfarb, Columbia University
1994
First Place
Fred W. Glover, OptTek Systems, Inc.
1993
First Place
Robert Fourer, Northwestern University
David Gay
Brian Kernighan
1992
First Place
Masakazu Kojima, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mathematics & Computer Science
Irvin Lustig, Princeton Consultants
Roy Marsten, Emcien Corporation
Nimrod Megiddo, IBM
Toshihito Noma, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Dept. of Information Sciences
David Shanno, Rutgers University
Akiko Yoshise, University of Tsukuba, Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering
1991
First Place
John Hooker, Carnegie Mellon University
1988
First Place
Alexander Meeraus , GAMS Development Corporation
1987
First Place
Fred W. Glover, OptTek Systems, Inc.
Darwin Klingman, University of Austin - Texas
Marcel Neuts, University of Arizona
1986
First Place
Harvey Greenberg, University of Colorado Denver (Emeritus)