Optimization Society Student Paper Prize

2024 Winner(s)

Winning material: The effect of smooth parametrizations on nonconvex optimization landscapes

Purpose of the Award

The INFORMS Optimization Society Student Paper Prize is awarded annually at the INFORMS Annual Meeting to one (or more) students for the most outstanding paper in optimization that is submitted to and received, or published in a refereed professional journal within the three calendar years preceding the year of the award. The prize serves as an esteemed recognition of promising students who are looking for an academic or industrial career.

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Past Awardees

2024
Winner(s)
Eitan Levin, California Institute of Technology
Second Place
Liwei Jiang, Georgia Institute of Technology
Honorable Mention
Sanyou Mei, University of Minnesota
Zikai Xiong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2023
Winner(s)
Wouter Jongeneel, EPFL
Second Place
Miaolan Xie, Cornell University
Honorable Mention
Aras Selvi, Imperial College
2022
Winner(s)
Bahar Taskesen, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Honorable Mention
Haoming Shen, University of Michigan
Sebastián Pérez-Salazar, Georgia Tech
2021
Winner(s)
Alex L Wang, Carnegie Mellon University
Honorable Mention
Shixuan Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology
2020
Winner(s)
Yingjie Bi, Cornell University

Second Place
Digvijay Boob , Georgia Institute of Technology
2019
Winner(s)
Lijun Ding, Cornell University
Second Place
Dabeen Lee, Institute for Basic Science, South Korea
Honorable Mention
Bachir El Khadir, Princeton University
Yiling Zhang, University of Michigan
2018
First Place
Yong Sheng Soh , California Institute of Technology
Second Place
Felix Happach, Technische Universitat Munich
Joey Huchette
Honorable Mention
Brian Bullins , Princeton
Nam Ho-Nguyen, The University of Sydney

Naman Agarwal , Princeton
Yanli Liu, UCLA
2017
Winner(s)
Frans J. C. T. de Ruiter, Tilburg University
Honorable Mention
Will Ma, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2016
Winner(s)
Gonzalo Munoz, Columbia University
Honorable Mention
Hamza Fawzi
2015
Winner(s)
Paul Grigas, UC Berkeley
Honorable Mention
Ruoyu Sun, University of Minnesota
Shimrit Shtern, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
2014
Winner(s)
Damek Davis
2013
Winner(s)
Afonso S. Bandeira
2012
Winner(s)
Diego A. Morán R.
2011
Winner(s)
Daniel Dadush, Georgia Institute of Technology
Juan Pablo Vielma, University of Pittsburgh
Santanu Dey, Purdue University
2010
Winner(s)
Shiqian Ma, Columbia University
2009
Winner(s)
Dan Andrei Iancu, Operations Research Center, MIT