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Public Sector Operations Research Best Paper Award

Public Sector Operations Research Best Paper Award

2023 Winner(s)

Sheng Liu
Auyon Saddiq
Jingwei Zhang, University of California, Los Angeles

Winning material: Planning Bike Lanes With Data: Ridership, Congestion, and Path Selection

Purpose of the Award

The INFORMS Public Sector Operations Research Best Paper Award, sponsored by the PSOR Section, recognizes research judged to be of the best quality in all of the disciplines and application areas represented within PSOR. Through this competition, PSOR seeks to build a tradition of scholarly exchange of knowledge of public policy, programs, safety, service, and needs within the entire INFORMS community.

Application Process

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Past Awardees

2023 Winner(s)

Sheng Liu Auyon Saddiq Jingwei Zhang, University of California, Los Angeles

2023 Honorable Mention

Harriet Jeon , The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Claudio Lucarelli, University of Pennsylvania Jean-Baptiste Mazarati , University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda Donatien Ngabo, Ministry of Health, Rwanda Hummy Song

2022 Winner(s)

Yanhan (Savannah) Tang, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University

Alan A. Scheller-Wolf, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
Sridhar Tayur, Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business Emily R. Perito, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco John P. Roberts, Division of Transplant Surgery, University of California, San Francisco

2022 Honorable Mention

Margaret Tobey, Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, North Carolina State University Ruoting Li, Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, North Carolina State University Osman Y. Ozaltin, Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, North Carolina State University Maria E. Mayorga, Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, North Carolina State University Sherrie Caltagirone, Global Emancipation Network

2021 Winner(s)

Serguei Netessine, INSEAD Ioana Popescu, INSEAD Rowan P. Clarke, Harvard Business School
Bhavani Shanker Uppari

2021 Second Place

Hamsa Bastani, University of Pennsylvania Kimon Drakopoulos, University of Southern California
Vishal Gupta, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dimitrios Paraskevis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Sotirios Tsiodras, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - 4th Department of Internal Medicine
Jon Vlachogiannis, AgentRisk
Christos Hadjicristodoulou, University of Thessaly
Pagona Lagiou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Gkikas Magiorkinis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

2021 Honorable Mention

Georgia Perakis, MIT/ Sloan School of Management
Amine Bennouna, MIT
Joshua Joseph, MIT
David Nze-Ndong, MIT Divya Singhvi Omar Skali Lami, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ioannis Spantidakis, MIT Leann Thayaparan, MIT Asterios Tsiourvas, MIT

Pia Ramchandani, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Hamsa Bastani, University of Pennsylvania Emily Wyatt, TellFinder Alliance

2020 Winner(s)

Somya Singhvi, University of Southern California Retsef Levi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Manoj Rajan, Rashtriya e Market Services Private Limited
Yanchong Zheng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2020 Finalist

Arielle Anderer , University of Pennsylvania
Hamsa Bastani, University of Pennsylvania John Silberholz , University of Michigan

Shubham Akshat, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
Sommer Gentry, United States Naval Academy S. Raghavan, University of Maryland, Robert H Smith School of Business

Scott Rodilitz, Yale School of Management
Vahideh Manshadi, Yale School of Management

2019 Winner(s)

Daniel Adelman, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

2019 Finalist

Edward H. Kaplan, Yale University Scott Rodilitz, Yale School of Management

Yao Cui, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
Andrew Davis

2019 Runner-Up

Jason Acimovic, Penn State
Christopher Parker, American University
David Drake, University of Colorado
Karthik Balasubramanian

2018 Winner(s)

Taylor Corcoran, UCLA
Fernanda Bravo, UCLA
Elisa Long

2018 Finalist

Rahul Swamy, University of Illinois
Douglas M. King, University of Illinois
Sheldon H. Jacobson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Jean Kiddoo, Federal Communications Commission Evan Kwerel, Federal Communications Commission Sasha Javid, Federal Communications Commission Melissa Dunford, Federal Communications Commission Gary Epstein, Federal Communications Commission Charles E. Meisch, Jr., Federal Communications Commission Karla L. Hoffman, George Mason University, System Engineering & Operations Research Dept. Brian Smith, NCI, Inc. Anthony Coudert, NCI, Inc. Rudy Sultana, NCI, Inc. James Andrew Costa, NCI, Inc. Steven Charbonneau, NCI, Inc. Michael A. Trick, Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business Ilya Segal, Stanford University Kevin Leyton-Brown, University of British Columbia Alexandre Fréchette, University of British Columbia Neil Newman, University of British Columbia Dinesh Menon, Decisive Analytics Corporation Paul Salasznyk, Emprata LLC

Zhaowei She , Georgia Institute of Technology
Turgay Ayer, Georgia Institute of Technology Daniel Montanera , Georgia State University

2018 Runner-Up

Soroush Saghafian, Harvard University Wallace J. Hopp, Dept. of Industrial and Operations Engineering
University of Michigan

2017 Winner(s)

Ronghuo Zheng , McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin Tinglong Dai, Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University Katia Sycara , Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

2017 Second Place

Selin Merdan, University of Michigan Christine Barnett , University of Michigan Brian T. Denton, University of Michigan James E. Montie, University of Michigan David C. Miller , University of Michigan

2016 First Place

Priyank Arora , Scheller College of Business, Georgia Tech Ravi Subramanian, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Tech

2016 Second Place

Hsin-Tien Tsai Pnina Feldman Jun Li, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

2016 Third Place

Qiushi Chen Jagpreet Chhatwal, Merck Research Laboratories Turgay Ayer, Georgia Institute of Technology

2015 First Place

Shivam Gupta Milind Dawande, University of Texas at Dallas Ganesh Janakiraman Ashutosh Sarkar

2015 Second Place

Eike Nohdurft Elisa Long Stefan Spinler, WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management

2015 Honorable Mention

Na Li Nan Kong, Purdue University, Biomedical Engineering Quanlin Li Zhibin Jiang

2014 First Place

Monica Gentili, Universita Di Roma, Italy Nicoleta Serban, Georgia Institute of Technology Julie L. Swann, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Industrial & Systems Engineering

2014 Second Place

Alex Mills, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Jonathan Helm, Indiana University Yu Wang

2014 Honorable Mention

Yan Deng, University of Michigan Siqian Shen, University of Florida Brian T. Denton, University of Michigan

2013 First Place

Itai Ashlagi , MIT Peng Shi, University of Southern California

2013 Second Place

Edieal Pinker Tolga Tezcan

2013 Honorable Mention

Senay Solak, University of Massachussetts-Amherst Armagan Bayram, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Weihong Hu Alejandro Toriello Xiang Liu Mariel Lavieri, University of Michigan

2012 First Place

Jeremie Gallien, MIT Zachary Leung Prashant Yadav

2012 Second Place

Timothy Chan, University of Toronto Derya Demirtas Roy H. Kwon

2012 Honorable Mention

Prem Swaroop, University of Maryland Michael O. Ball

Özlem Ergun, Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Industrial/Systems Engineering
Luyi Gui Atalay Atasu, INSEAD Beril Toktay, Georgia Institute of Technology

2012 Finalist

Krishnan S. Anand, University of Utah Francois Giraud-Carrier

2011 First Place

Yina Lu Linda Green, Columbia Business School
Carri W. Chan, Columbia University

2011 Second Place

Michael Fry, University of Michigan Muer Yang

2011 Finalist

Jessica Heier Stamm, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Industrial & Systems Engineering

Kathleen Hendrix, Georgia Institute of Technology

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