MSOM Student Paper Competition

2025 Winner(s)

Winning material: Optimizing the Path Towards Plastic-Free Oceans

Purpose of the Award

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

Information:

To see the past winning papers, click on the author's name.

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Past Awardees

2025
Winner(s)
Baizhi Song, London Business School
Second Place
Borja Apaolaza, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Lin Zang, University of Rochester
Finalist
Sara Mohammadi, UCL
2024
Winner(s)
Soonbong Lee, Yale University
Second Place
Yuri Resende Fonseca, Columbia University
Finalist
Tsai-Hsuan (Angel) Chung, University of Pennsylvania
Mohamad Sadegh Shirani Faradonbeh, Stanford University
2023
Winner(s)
Alp Sungu, London Business School
Runner-Up
Cagin Uru, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Finalist
Tobias Lieberum, Technical University of Munich
Zhikun Lu, Goizueta Business School, Emory University
Honorable Mention
Leann Thayaparan, MIT
Zhiyu Zeng, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, China
2022
First Place
Pia Ramchandani, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Second Place
Jackie Baek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Finalist
Tianyi Peng, MIT
Alp Sungu, London Business School
Chengcheng Zhai, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Ian Yihang Zhu, National University of Singapore
2021
First Place
Jong Myeong Lim, University of Pennsylvania
Second Place
Achraf Bahamou, Columbia University
Scott Rodilitz, Yale School of Management
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
Second Place
Nikhil Garg, Stanford University
Finalist
Nazli Sonmez, London Business School

Inki Sul, University of Texas at Dallas
Ruoxuan Xiong, Stanford University
2019
Winner(s)
Mila Nambiar, MIT
Second Place
Dmitry Mitrofanov, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University
Finalist
Zhaowei She , Georgia Institute of Technology
Kraig Delana, LBS
Amrita Kundu, LBS
Jiding Zhang, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
2018
First Place
Sajad Modaresi, Duke University
Second Place
Bhavani Shanker Uppari, Singapore Management University
Finalist
Pornpawee Bumpensanti , Georgia Institute of Technology
Taylor Corcoran, UCLA
Baek Jung Kim
Lai Wei
2017
First Place
Can Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology
Second Place
Jiankun Sun, Northwestern University
Finalist
Antoine Desir, Columbia University
Wenqi Hu, Columbia Business School
Guihua Wang, University of Texas at Dallas
Yixin Iris Wang, University of Michigan
2016
First Place
Hamsa Bastani, University of Pennsylvania
Michael Freeman
Finalist
Andrew E. Frazelle
Negin Golrezaei
Guihua Wang, University of Texas at Dallas
Weiming Zhu, University of Navarra
2015
First Place
Ashish Kabra, INSEAD
Second Place
Daniela Saban, Stanford University
Finalist
Fei Gao, University of Pennsylvania
Tugce Martagan, Eindhoven University of Technology
Hummy Song
Safak Yucel, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
2014
First Place
Yonatan Gur, Columbia University
Jónas Oddur Jónasson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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
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
Finalist
Buket Avci, INSEAD
Bar Ifrach, Stanford University
Sang Won Kim, Columbia University
Emre Nadar, Bilkent University
2011
First Place
Jun Li, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Second Place
Turgay Ayer, Georgia Institute of Technology
Finalist
Sam Aflaki, INSEAD
Kenan Arifoglu, Northwestern University

Robert L. Bray, Stanford University
Morvarid Rahmani, Georgia Institute of Technology
2010
First Place
Srikanth Jagabathula, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Second Place
Mazhar Arikan, Purdue University
Finalist
Sam Aflaki, INSEAD
Sripad Devalkar, University of Michigan
Jose Guajardo, University of Pennsylvania
Anicham Kumarasamy, Stanford University
2009
First Place
Denis Saure, University of Pittsburgh
Second Place
Mehmet Begen, University of British Columbia
Finalist
Ali Ekici, Georgia Institute of Technology
Biyu He, Stanford University
Ying Rong, Lehigh University
Onesun Yoo, UCLA
2008
First Place
Jagpreet Chhatwal, Merck Research Laboratories
Second Place
Guoming Lai, Carnegie Mellon University
2007
First Place
Tong Wang, INSEAD
Second Place
Soo-Haeng Cho, Carnegie Mellon University
Honorable Mention
Gongtao (Lucy) Chen, National University of Singapore
Shanshan Hu, University of Michigan Ross School of Business
Richard Lai, Harvard Business School
Pamela Pen-Erh Pei, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2006
First Place
Itai Gurvich, Cornell University
Second Place
Sarang Deo, Indian School of Business
Vivek Farias, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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
Second Place
Guillaume Roels, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Ping Josephine Xu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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
Second Place
Ravi Subramanian, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Tech
Finalist
Gad Allon, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Felipe Caro, UCLA
Holly Lutze, University of Texas
Honorable Mention
Xinxin Hu, University of Michigan
2003
First Place
Amar Sapra, Cornell University
Second Place
Jiri Chod, University of Rochester
Honorable Mention
Victor Martinez de Albeniz, IESE
Aydin Alptekinoglu, UCLA
Li Chen, Stanford University
Gurhan Kok, Duke University
2002
First Place
Xinxin Hu, University of Michigan
Second Place
Xin Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Woonghee Tim Huh, Cornell University
Finalist
Natalia Golovachkina, Cornell University
Justin Ren, Boston University
Jinxin Yi, CMU
2001
First Place
Kevin H. Shang, University of California, Irvine
Second Place
Rene Caldentey, New York University
Gustavo Vulcano, Columbia University
2000
First Place
Jérémie Gallien, London Business School
Second Place
Serguei Netessine, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Finalist
Michael Fry, University of Michigan
Maher Lahmar, University of Minnesota
Sergie Savin, Columbia University
1999
First Place
L. Beril Toktay, MIT
Second Place
Prashant Fuloria, Stanford University
Itir Karaesmen, Columbia University
Honorable Mention
Apurva Jain, Purdue University
James Treharne, Auburn University
1998
First Place
Xiaomei Ding, University of British Columbia
Second Place
Jérémie Gallien, London Business School
Honorable Mention
Carolos Bispo, Carnegie Mellon University
John Hollywood, MIT
1997
First Place
Daniel Adelman, University of Chicago
Second Place
Roman Kapuscinski, University of Michigan Ross School of Business
Honorable Mention
Scott Carr, University of California-Los Angeles
Kaan Katircioglu
1996
First Place
Stefanos A. Zenios, Stanford University
Second Place
Siddharth Mahajan
Finalist
Anand Iyer
Srinagesh Gavirneni
Philip Kaminsky