Koopman Prize
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2021 Winner(s)
- Omkar Thakoor,
University of Southern California
- Jugal Garg,
University of Illinois
- Rakesh Nagi,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Winning material:
Multi-Agent UAV Routing: A Game Theory Analysis with Tight Price of Anarchy Bounds
Purpose of the Award
This Prize was named after Bernard Koopman, a founding father of military operations research. It is awarded for the outstanding publication in military operations research of the previous year. The award is accompanied by a plaque and a $500 honorarium.
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About the Award/Namesake

Bernard Osgood Koopman was a founding member of ORSA and a featured speaker at the society's initial meeting in 1952. He was awarded the Kimball Medal in 1980 in recognition of his dedicated service to the OR profession. His special interest in military OR earned him the 1979 Wander Award of the Military Operations Research Society...
Past Awardees
2021
Winner(s)
Omkar Thakoor,
University of Southern CaliforniaJugal Garg, University of Illinois
Rakesh Nagi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2020
Winner(s)
David Simchi-Levi ,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nikolaos Trichakis, Massachussetts Institute of Technology Peter Y. Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University