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Rail Applications Section Problem Solving Competition

2022 First Place

Arturo Crespo , TU Darmstadt

Winning material: “Real-time Traffic Management Based on a CDCR Approach - London's Elizabeth Line”

Purpose of the Award

The Railway Applications Section of INFORMS has announced a new applied problem-solving competition to introduce participants to the exciting world of operations research in railroading. The competition is open to anyone who is either new to railroading or new to ORMS.

Application Process

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Past Awardees

2022 First Place

Arturo Crespo , TU Darmstadt

2022 Second Place

Xiaodong Luo, Sabre Corporation

2022 Third Place

Mingan Sheng, Hefei University of Technology

2021 First Place

Geordie Roscoe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Jaixi Zhao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2021 Second Place

Zhen Liu, Southwest Jiaotong University Qingsong Ma, Southwest Jiaotong University Qing He, University at Buffalo

2020 First Place

Hui Wang, Tongji University

2020 Second Place

Bijan Taslimi, University of Florida

2020 Third Place

Hongxiang Zhang, Southwest Jiaotong University

2019 First Place

Vahid Dardashti

2019 Second Place

Tsung-Han Wang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

2019 Third Place

Daniel Eduardo Suarez Bayona, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia

2018 First Place

Jørgen Thorlund Haahr, Technical University of Denmark Erik Hellsten, Technical University of Denmark Evelien van der Hurk , Technical University of Denmark

2018 Second Place

Mohammad Amin Nabian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Negin Alemazkoor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Hadi Meidani, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2018 Third Place

Zheming Gao, NC State University Haochen Luo, Texas A&M University Qian Wu, Texas A&M University

2017 First Place

Shiue-Mei Sun, National Cheng Kung University Tai-Chia Huang, National Cheng Kung University Yun-Hsuan Lu, National Cheng Kung University

2017 Second Place

Harshad Khadilkar, TATA Consultancy Services Shripad Salsingikar, Tata Consultancy Services Sudhir Kumar Sinha, TATA Consultancy Services

2016 First Place

François Galea, CEA Sergiu Carpov, CEA Loïc Cudennec, CEA

2016 Second Place

I-Lin Wang, National Cheng Kung University Fu-Yuan Cheng, National Cheng Kung University Sih-Han Fang, National Cheng Kung University

2016 Third Place

Bisheng He, Southwest Jiaotong University Yadong Liu, Southwest Jiaotong University Yongxiang Zhang, Southwest Jiaotong University

2015 First Place

Negin Alemazkoor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Conrad Ruppert, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Hadi Meidani, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2015 Second Place

Iván Cárdenas Gallo , Universidad de Los Andes
Carlos Sarmiento Cardona , Universidad de Los Andes Gilberto Morales Zamora, Universidad de Los Andes

2015 Third Place

Sudhir Kumar Sinha, TATA Consultancy Services Sumit Raut, TATA Consultancy Services Harshad Khadilkar, TATA Consultancy Services

2014 First Place

Richard Martin Lusby, Technical University of Denmark Jørgen Thorlund Haahr, Technical University of Denmark

2014 Second Place

I-Lin Wang Ping-Cheng Lin, National Cheng Kung University Tsai-Ti Huang, National Cheng Kung University

2014 Third Place

Paul Bouman, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Joris Wagenaar, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Lucas Veelenturf, Eindhoven University of Technology

2013 First Place

Hai Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Maokai Lin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jiangang Jin, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

2013 Second Place

Krishna Selvam, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Setareh Borjian Boroujeni,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2013 Third Place

Wenliang Zhou, Central South University Zhao Zhou, Central South University Lianbo Deng, Central South University

2011 First Place

Team Name: Team Koppa

Leonardo Lozano, Clemson University Jaime E. Gonzalez

2011 Second Place

Team Name: Team OR@UNIMI

Fabio Colombo Roberto Cordone Marco Trubian

2011 Third Place

Team Name: Team NCKU

I-Lin Wang Hung-Yi Lee Yu-Ting Liang

2011 Honorable Mention

Team Name: Team RAIL-OPT

Jian Gang Jina Jun Zhaob

2010 First Place

Team Name: TAU-IE

Mor Kaspi Tal Raviv

2010 Second Place

Ed Ramsden

2010 Third Place

Team Name: Halos

Virot Chiraphadhanakul Cristian Figueroa

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