Jeff McGill Student Paper Prize

2025 Winner(s)

Winning material: "Learning Safe Strategies for Value Maximizing Buyers in Uniform Price Auctions"

Purpose of the Award

This award is given annually for student papers judged to be the best in the field of revenue management and pricing.

Application process:

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Past Awardees

2025
Winner(s)
Sourav Sahoo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Second Place
Eneko Ciro Clemente, University of Zurich
Mohamad Sadegh Shirani Faradonbeh, Stanford University
Runner-Up
Naimeng Ye, Columbia University
Feng Zhu, MIT
2024
Winner(s)
Akshit Kumar
Rachitesh Kumar, Columbia University
Second Place
Chao Qin, Columbia University
Finalist
Shuo Sun
Feng Zhu, MIT
2023
First Place
Alp Sungu, London Business School
Second Place
Yuri Resende Fonseca, Columbia University
Finalist
Yiming Jiang, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Akshit Kumar
2022
Winner(s)
Tianyi Peng, MIT
Second Place
Abhishek Deshmane, IESE Business School
Finalist
Xiao Lei , Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University
Ayoub Amil, Duke University
Puping (Phil) Jiang, Washington University in St. Louis
Anand Kalvit, Columbia University
Saman Lagzi, University of Toronto
Leann Thayaparan, MIT
Mengxin Wang, University of California, Berkeley
Yunzong Xu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chen Wen Zhai, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2021
Winner(s)
Omar Mouchtaki, Columbia University
Second Place
Hannah Li , Columbia Business School
Honorable Mention
Zhen Lian , Cornell
Jackie Baek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jiashuo Jiang, New York University
Pengyu Qian, Boston University
2020
First Place
Jinglong Zhao , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Second Place
Can Küçükgül, The University of Texas at Dallas
Finalist
Deeksha Sinha, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Zikun Ye, Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2019
First Place
Chen Chen, NYU Shanghai
Second Place
Yi-Chun Chen, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Raghav Singal, Columbia University
Finalist
Jiali Huang, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Minnesota
Gregory Macnamara, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Jiding Zhang, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania