MSOM Student Paper Competition

2024 Winner(s)

Winning material: Dynamic Matching with Post-allocation Service and its Application to Refugee Resettlement

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.

Click here for award application information. 

Past Awardees

2024
Winner(s)
Soonbong Lee, Yale University
Second Place
Yuri Resende Fonseca, Columbia University
Finalist
Mohamad Sadegh Shirani Faradonbeh, Stanford University
Tsai-Hsuan (Angel) Chung, University of Pennsylvania
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
Alp Sungu, London Business School
Chengcheng Zhai, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Ian Yihang Zhu, National University of Singapore
Tianyi Peng, MIT
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
Inki Sul, University of Texas at Dallas
Nazli Sonmez, London Business School

Ruoxuan Xiong, Stanford University
2019
Winner(s)
Mila Nambiar, MIT
Second Place
Dmitry Mitrofanov, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University
Finalist
Amrita Kundu, LBS
Jiding Zhang, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Kraig Delana, LBS
Zhaowei She , Georgia Institute of Technology
2018
First Place
Sajad Modaresi, Duke University
Second Place
Bhavani Shanker Uppari, Singapore Management University
Finalist
Baek Jung Kim
Lai Wei
Pornpawee Bumpensanti , Georgia Institute of Technology
Taylor Corcoran, UCLA
2017
First Place
Can Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology
Second Place
Jiankun Sun, Northwestern University
Finalist
Antoine Desir, Columbia University
Guihua Wang, University of Texas at Dallas
Wenqi Hu, Columbia Business School
Yixin Iris Wang, University of Michigan
2016
First Place
Hamsa Bastani, University of Pennsylvania
Michael Freeman
Finalist
Andrew E. Frazelle
Guihua Wang, University of Texas at Dallas
Negin Golrezaei
Weiming Zhu, University of Navarra
2015
First Place
Ashish Kabra, INSEAD
Second Place
Daniela Saban, Stanford University
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
Jónas Oddur Jónasson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yonatan Gur, Columbia University
Finalist
Antoine Desir, Columbia University
Karthik Murali, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Linwei Xin, University of Chicago
Yaron Shaposhnik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2013
First Place
Song-Hee Kim, Columbia University
Xuan Wang, New York University
Finalist
Anyan Qi, University of Michigan
Dragos Ciocan, MIT
John Yao, Columbia University
Nitish Jain, INSEAD
2012
First Place
Soroush Saghafian, Harvard University
Yina Lu
Finalist
Bar Ifrach, Stanford University
Buket Avci, INSEAD
Emre Nadar, Bilkent University
Sang Won Kim, Columbia University
2011
First Place
Jun Li, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Second Place
Turgay Ayer, Georgia Institute of Technology
Finalist
Kenan Arifoglu, Northwestern University

Morvarid Rahmani, Georgia Institute of Technology
Robert L. Bray, Stanford University
Sam Aflaki, INSEAD
2010
First Place
Srikanth Jagabathula, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Second Place
Mazhar Arikan, Purdue University
Finalist
Anicham Kumarasamy, Stanford University
Jose Guajardo, University of Pennsylvania
Sam Aflaki, INSEAD
Sripad Devalkar, University of Michigan
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
Onesun Yoo, UCLA
Ying Rong, Lehigh University
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
Pamela Pen-Erh Pei, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Richard Lai, Harvard Business School
Shanshan Hu, University of Michigan Ross School of Business
2006
First Place
Itai Gurvich, Cornell University
Second Place
Sarang Deo, Indian School of Business
Vivek Farias, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Honorable Mention
Chris P. Lee, University of Pennsylvania
Ozgun Caliskan Demirag, Georgia Institute of Technology
Sang-Hyun Kim, 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
Gigi Yuen, Northwestern University
Qian Liu, Columbia University
Richard Lai, Harvard Business School
2004
First Place
Martin Pal, Cornell University
Retsef Levi, Cornell University
Second Place
Ravi Subramanian, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Tech
Finalist
Felipe Caro, UCLA
Gad Allon, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
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
Aydin Alptekinoglu, UCLA
Gurhan Kok, Duke University
Li Chen, Stanford University
Victor Martinez de Albeniz, IESE
2002
First Place
Xinxin Hu, University of Michigan
Second Place
Woonghee Tim Huh, Cornell University
Xin Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Finalist
Jinxin Yi, CMU
Justin Ren, Boston University
Natalia Golovachkina, Cornell University
2001
First Place
Kevin H. Shang, University of California, Irvine
Second Place
Gustavo Vulcano, Columbia University
Rene Caldentey, New York University
2000
First Place
Jérémie Gallien, London Business School
Second Place
Serguei Netessine, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Finalist
Maher Lahmar, University of Minnesota
Michael Fry, University of Michigan
Sergie Savin, Columbia University
1999
First Place
L. Beril Toktay, MIT
Second Place
Itir Karaesmen, Columbia University
Prashant Fuloria, Stanford 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
Kaan Katircioglu
Scott Carr, University of California-Los Angeles
1996
First Place
Stefanos A. Zenios, Stanford University
Second Place
Siddharth Mahajan
Finalist
Anand Iyer
Philip Kaminsky
Srinagesh Gavirneni