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MSOM Student Paper Competition

2022 First Place

Pia Ramchandani, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Winning material: Unmasking human trafficking risk in commercial sex supply chains with machine learning

Purpose of the Award

This award is given annually for papers judged to be the best in the field of Operations Management.

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Past Awardees

2022 First Place

Pia Ramchandani, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

2022 Second Place

Jackie Baek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2022 Finalist

Tianyi Peng, MIT

Alp Sungu, London

Chengcheng Zhai, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University

Ian Yihang Zhu, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto

2021 First Place

Jong Myeong Lim, University of Pennsylvania

2021 Second Place

Achraf Bahamou, Columbia University Scott Rodilitz, Yale School of Management

2021 Finalist

Esmaeil Keyvanshokooh , Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Manqi Li, University of Michigan Nian Si, Stanford University

2020 First Place

Arielle Anderer , University of Pennsylvania

2020 Second Place

Nikhil Garg, Stanford University

2020 Finalist

Ruoxuan Xiong, Stanford University

Nazli Sonmez, London Business School

Inki Sul, University of Texas at Dallas

2019 Winner(s)

Mila Nambiar, MIT

2019 Second Place

Dmitry Mitrofanov, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University

2019 Finalist

Kraig Delana, LBS

Jiding Zhang, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Amrita Kundu, LBS

Zhaowei She , Georgia Institute of Technology

2018 First Place

Sajad Modaresi, Duke University

2018 Second Place

Bhavani Shanker Uppari

2018 Finalist

Taylor Corcoran, UCLA

Baek Jung Kim

Pornpawee Bumpensanti , Georgia Institute of Technology

Lai Wei

2017 First Place

Can Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology

2017 Second Place

Jiankun Sun, Northwestern University

2017 Finalist

Yixin Iris Wang, University of Michigan

Guihua Wang, University of Texas at Dallas

Wenqi Hu, Columbia Business School

Antoine Desir, Columbia University

2016 First Place

Michael Freeman

Hamsa Bastani, University of Pennsylvania

2016 Finalist

Negin Golrezaei

Weiming Zhu, University of Navarra

Guihua Wang, University of Texas at Dallas

Andrew E. Frazelle

2015 First Place

Ashish Kabra, INSEAD

2015 Second Place

Daniela Saban, Stanford University

2015 Finalist

Fei Gao, University of Pennsylvania

Hummy Song

Safak Yucel, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University

Tugce Martagan, Eindhoven University of Technology

2014 First Place

Yonatan Gur, Columbia University

Jónas Oddur Jónasson, London Business School

2014 Finalist

Antoine Desir, Columbia University

Karthik Murali, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Yaron Shaposhnik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Linwei Xin, University of Chicago

2013 First Place

Song-Hee Kim, Columbia University

Xuan Wang, New York University

2013 Finalist

Dragos Ciocan, MIT

Nitish Jain, INSEAD

Anyan Qi, University of Michigan

John Yao, Columbia University

2012 First Place

Yina Lu

Soroush Saghafian, Harvard University

2012 Finalist

Sang Won Kim, Columbia University

Buket Avci, INSEAD

Emre Nadar, Bilkent University

Bar Ifrach, Stanford University

2011 First Place

Jun Li, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

2011 Second Place

Turgay Ayer, Georgia Institute of Technology

2011 Finalist

Robert L. Bray, Stanford University

Kenan Arifoglu, Northwestern University

Morvarid Rahmani, Anderson School of Management, UCLA

Sam Aflaki, INSEAD

2010 First Place

Srikanth Jagabathula, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2010 Second Place

Mazhar Arikan, Purdue University

2010 Finalist

Jose Guajardo, University of Pennsylvania Sripad Devalkar, University of Michigan Sam Aflaki, INSEAD Anicham Kumarasamy, Stanford University

2009 First Place

Denis Saure, University of Pittsburgh

2009 Second Place

Mehmet Begen, University of British Columbia

2009 Finalist

Onesun Yoo, UCLA

Ying Rong, Lehigh University

Biyu He, Stanford University

Ali Ekici, Georgia Institute of Technology

2008 First Place

Jagpreet Chhatwal, Merck Research Laboratories

2008 Second Place

Guoming Lai, Carnegie Mellon University

2007 First Place

Tong Wang, INSEAD

2007 Second Place

Soo-Haeng Cho, Carnegie Mellon University

2007 Honorable Mention

Gongtao (Lucy) Chen, National University of Singapore

Richard Lai, Harvard Business School

Pamela Pen-Erh Pei, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Shanshan Hu, University of Michigan Ross School of Business

2006 First Place

Itai Gurvich, Cornell University

2006 Second Place

Vivek Farias, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sarang Deo, Indian School of Business

2006 Honorable Mention

Ozgun Caliskan Demirag, Georgia Institute of Technology

Sang-Hyun Kim, University of Pennsylvania

Chris P. Lee, University of Pennsylvania

2005 First Place

Owen Wu, Indiana University

2005 Second Place

Guillaume Roels, UCLA Anderson School of Management

Ping Josephine Xu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2005 Honorable Mention

Richard Lai, Harvard Business School

Qian Liu, Columbia University

Gigi Yuen, Northwestern University

2004 First Place

Retsef Levi, Cornell University Martin Pal, Cornell University

2004 Second Place

Ravi Subramanian, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Tech

2004 Honorable Mention

Xinxin Hu, University of Michigan

2004 Finalist

Gad Allon, Northwestern University

Felipe Caro, UCLA

Holly Lutze, University of Texas

2003 First Place

Amar Sapra, Cornell University

2003 Second Place

Jiri Chod, University of Rochester

2003 Honorable Mention

Aydin Alptekinoglu, UCLA

Li Chen, Stanford University

Gurhan Kok, Duke University

Victor Martinez de Albeniz, IESE

2002 First Place

Xinxin Hu, University of Michigan

2002 Second Place

Xin Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Woonghee Tim Huh, Cornell University

2002 Finalist

Natalia Golovachkina, Cornell University

Justin Ren, Boston University

Jinxin Yi, CMU

2001 First Place

Kevin H. Shang, University of California, Irvine

2001 Second Place

Gustavo Vulcano, Columbia University

Rene Caldentey, New York University

2000 First Place

Jeremie Gallien, MIT

2000 Second Place

Serguei Netessine, INSEAD

2000 Finalist

Michael Fry, University of Michigan Maher Lahmar, University of Minnesota Sergie Savin, Columbia University

1999 First Place

L. Beril Toktay, MIT

1999 Second Place

Prashant Fuloria, Stanford University

Itir Karaesmen, Columbia University

1999 Honorable Mention

Apurva Jain, Purdue University

James Treharne, Auburn University

1998 First Place

Xiaomei Ding, University of British Columbia

1998 Second Place

Jeremie Gallien, MIT

1998 Honorable Mention

Carolos Bispo, Carnegie Mellon University John Hollywood, MIT

1997 First Place

Daniel Adelman, University of Chicago

1997 Second Place

Roman Kapuscinski, University of Michigan Ross School of Business

1997 Honorable Mention

Scott Carr, University of California-Los Angeles
Kaan Katircioglu

Kaan Katircioglu

1996 First Place

Stefanos A. Zenios, Stanford University

1996 Second Place

Siddharth Mahajan

1996 Finalist

Philip Kaminsky Anand Iyer Srinagesh Gavirneni

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