Public Sector Operations Research Best Paper Award

2024 Winner(s)

Winning material: Optimizing Health Supply Chains with Decision-Aware Machine Learning

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

2024 Winner(s)
Francis Smart, Government of Sierra Leone - Ministry of Health and Sanitation
 Hamsa Bastani, University of Pennsylvania Jatu Abdulai, Government of Sierra Leone
Lawrence Sandi, Government of Sierra Leone
 Osbert Bastani, University of Pennsylvania
 Patrick Bayoh, Sierra Leone National Medical Supplies
 Tsai-Hsuan (Angel) Chung, University of Pennsylvania
2024 Second Place
Daniel Freund, Cornell University Wentao Weng, MIT
2023 Winner(s)
Auyon Saddiq Jingwei Zhang, University of California, Los Angeles Sheng Liu
2023 Honorable Mention
Claudio Lucarelli, University of Pennsylvania Donatien Ngabo, Ministry of Health, Rwanda Harriet Jeon , The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Hummy Song Jean-Baptiste Mazarati , University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda
2022 Winner(s)
Alan A. Scheller-Wolf, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
 Emily R. Perito, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco John P. Roberts, Division of Transplant Surgery, University of California, San Francisco
 Sridhar Tayur, Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business Yanhan (Savannah) Tang, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
2022 Honorable Mention
Margaret Tobey, 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 Osman Y. Ozaltin, 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 Sherrie Caltagirone, Global Emancipation Network
2021 Winner(s)
Bhavani Shanker Uppari, Singapore Management University Ioana Popescu, INSEAD Rowan P. Clarke, Harvard Business School
 Serguei Netessine, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
2021 Second Place
Christos Hadjicristodoulou, University of Thessaly
 Dimitrios Paraskevis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
 Gkikas Magiorkinis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
 Hamsa Bastani, University of Pennsylvania Jon Vlachogiannis, AgentRisk
 Kimon Drakopoulos, University of Southern California
 Pagona Lagiou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
 Sotirios Tsiodras, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - 4th Department of Internal Medicine
 Vishal Gupta, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2021 Honorable Mention
Emily Wyatt, TellFinder Alliance
 Hamsa Bastani, University of Pennsylvania Pia Ramchandani, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Amine Bennouna, MIT
 Asterios Tsiourvas, MIT David Nze-Ndong, MIT Divya Singhvi Georgia Perakis, MIT/ Sloan School of Management
 Ioannis Spantidakis, MIT Joshua Joseph, MIT
 Leann Thayaparan, MIT Omar Skali Lami, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2020 Winner(s)
Manoj Rajan, Rashtriya e Market Services Private Limited
 Retsef Levi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Somya Singhvi, University of Southern California Yanchong Zheng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2020 Finalist
S. Raghavan, University of Maryland, Robert H Smith School of Business Shubham Akshat, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
 Sommer Gentry, United States Naval Academy
Hamsa Bastani, University of Pennsylvania  Arielle Anderer , University of Pennsylvania
  John Silberholz , University of Michigan 
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 Runner-Up
Christopher Parker, American University
 David Drake, University of Colorado
 Jason Acimovic, Penn State
 Karthik Balasubramanian
2019 Finalist
Andrew Davis, Cornell University Yao Cui, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
Edward H. Kaplan, Yale University Scott Rodilitz, Yale School of Management
2018 Winner(s)
Elisa Long Fernanda Bravo, UCLA
 Taylor Corcoran, UCLA
2018 Runner-Up
Soroush Saghafian, Harvard University Wallace J. Hopp, Dept. of Industrial and Operations Engineering
University of Michigan
2018 Finalist
Daniel Montanera , Georgia State University
 Turgay Ayer, Georgia Institute of Technology Zhaowei She , Georgia Institute of Technology
Alexandre Fréchette, University of British Columbia Anthony Coudert, NCI, Inc. Brian Smith, NCI, Inc. Charles E. Meisch, Jr., Federal Communications Commission Dinesh Menon, Decisive Analytics Corporation Evan Kwerel, Federal Communications Commission Gary Epstein, Federal Communications Commission Ilya Segal, Stanford University James Andrew Costa, NCI, Inc. Jean Kiddoo, Federal Communications Commission Karla L. Hoffman, George Mason University, System Engineering & Operations Research Dept. Kevin Leyton-Brown, University of British Columbia Melissa Dunford, Federal Communications Commission Michael A. Trick, Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business Neil Newman, University of British Columbia Paul Salasznyk, Emprata LLC Rudy Sultana, NCI, Inc. Sasha Javid, Federal Communications Commission Steven Charbonneau, NCI, Inc.
Douglas M. King, University of Illinois
 Rahul Swamy, University of Illinois
 Sheldon H. Jacobson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2017 Winner(s)
Katia Sycara , Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University Ronghuo Zheng , McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin Tinglong Dai, Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University
2017 Second Place
Brian T. Denton, University of Michigan Christine Barnett , University of Michigan David C. Miller , University of Michigan Selin Merdan, University of Michigan  James E. Montie, University of Michigan
2016 First Place
Priyank Arora , University of South Carolina Ravi Subramanian, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Tech
2016 Second Place
Hsin-Tien Tsai Jun Li, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Pnina Feldman
2016 Third Place
Jagpreet Chhatwal, Merck Research Laboratories Qiushi Chen Turgay Ayer, Georgia Institute of Technology
2015 First Place
Ashutosh Sarkar Ganesh Janakiraman Milind Dawande, University of Texas at Dallas Shivam Gupta
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
Julie L. Swann, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Industrial & Systems Engineering Monica Gentili, Universita Di Roma, Italy Nicoleta Serban, Georgia Institute of Technology
2014 Second Place
Alex Mills, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Jonathan Helm, Indiana University Health Yu Wang
2014 Honorable Mention
Brian T. Denton, University of Michigan Siqian Shen, University of Florida Yan Deng, University of Michigan
2013 First Place
Itai Ashlagi , Stanford University Peng Shi, University of Southern California
2013 Second Place
Edieal Pinker Tolga Tezcan
2013 Honorable Mention
Alejandro Toriello Mariel Lavieri, University of Michigan Weihong Hu Xiang Liu
Armagan Bayram, University of Massachusetts Amherst Senay Solak, University of Massachussetts-Amherst
2012 First Place
Jérémie Gallien, London Business School Prashant Yadav Zachary Leung
2012 Second Place
Derya Demirtas Roy H. Kwon Timothy Chan, University of Toronto
2012 Finalist
Francois Giraud-Carrier Krishnan S. Anand, University of Utah
2012 Honorable Mention
Atalay Atasu, INSEAD Beril Toktay, Georgia Institute of Technology Luyi Gui Özlem Ergun, Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Industrial/Systems Engineering
Michael O. Ball Prem Swaroop, University of Maryland
2011 First Place
Carri W. Chan, Columbia University Linda Green, Columbia Business School
 Yina Lu
2011 Second Place
Michael Fry, University of Michigan Muer Yang
2011 Finalist
Kathleen Hendrix, Georgia Institute of Technology
Jessica Heier Stamm, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Industrial & Systems Engineering