Best Student Paper Award

An award of the Section on Location Analysis

2025 Winner(s)

Winning material: Deposit-Refund System Policy and Reverse Supply Chain Design

Purpose of the Award

This award is given biennially for student papers judged to be the best in the broad field of facility location. We encourage papers that promote the development of analytical methods, techniques and tools in the tradition of operations research/management science (OR/MS) as applied to the study of facility location.

Application process:

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Past Awardees

2025
Winner(s)
Austin Saragih, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Finalist
Meghan Meredith, Georgia Institute of Technology
Martha Sabogal De La Pava, Clemson University
Vishrut Rana, University of Pennsylvania
2024
Winner(s)
Ömer Burak Kınay, University of Waterloo
Jingwei Zhang, University of California, Los Angeles
2023
Winner(s)
Weiliang Liu, National University of Singapore
2021
Winner(s)
Sheng Liu, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto 
Finalist
Aditya Malik, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University
Gita Taherkhani, University of Waterloo
2019
Winner(s)
Jessica Rodríguez‐Pereira, Technical University of Catalonia
Runner-Up
Xufei Liu, University of South Florida
Gita Taherkhani, University of Waterloo