2024 First Place
- Chengcheng Zhai, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
- Rodney Parker,                                         
Indiana University
 
- Kurt Bretthauer,                                         
Indiana University
 
- Alfonso Pedraza-Martinez, Indiana University
- Jorge Mejia,                                         
Indiana University
 
                            Winning material:
                                                                Keep the Water Flowing: The Hidden Crisis of Rural Water Management
                                                                    
                                                    
                                                                                                2024 First Place
- Zhe Liu,                                         
Imperial College London
 
- Yiwen Shen, Columbia University
- Yanwei Sun,                                         
Imperial College London
 
                            Winning material:
                                                                Operating Three-sided Marketplace: Pricing and Spatial Staffing in Food Delivery Systems
                                                                    
                                                    
                                                                                        
            Purpose of the Award
This award is a competitive award, started in 2013, which is based on the best papers submitted to the Section's sponsored cluster at the INFORMS Annual Meeting.
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Past Awardees
                                2024
                            
                                                            
                                    First Place
                                
                                                                                                                                            
                                        Kurt Bretthauer, 
Indiana University
                                    
                                                                                                                                            
                                        Zhe Liu, 
Imperial College London
                                    
                                                                                                                                            
                                        Jorge Mejia, 
Indiana University
                                    
                                                                                                                                            
                                        Rodney Parker, 
Indiana University
                                    
                                                                                                                                            
                                        Alfonso Pedraza-Martinez, 
Indiana University                                    
                                                                                                                                            
                                        Yiwen Shen, 
Columbia University                                    
                                                                                                                                            
                                        Yanwei Sun, 
Imperial College London
                                    
                                                                                                                                            
                                        Chengcheng Zhai, 
Kelley School of Business, Indiana University                                    
                                                                                            
                                    Third Place
                                
                                                                                                                                            
                                        Xinyu Cao, 
New York University                                    
                                                                                                                                            
                                        Chenshan Hu, 
University of Washington St. Louis                                    
                                                                                                                                            
                                        Jiankun Sun, 
Imperial College                                    
                                                                                                                                            
                                        Shixin Wang, 
The Chinese University of Hong Kong                                    
                                                                                                                                            
                                        Dennis Zhang, 
University of Washington St. Louis                                    
                                                                                            
                                    Finalist
                                
                                                                                                                                            
                                        Mahyar Eftekhar , 
Arizona State University
                                    
                                                                                                                                            
                                        Yi-Chun Akchen, 
UCL
                                    
                                                                                                                                            
                                        Amine Bennouna, 
MIT
                                    
                                                                                                                                            
                                        Junyu Cao, 
Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley
                                    
                                                                                                                                            
                                        Timothy Chan, 
University of Toronto
                                    
                                                                                                                                            
                                        Omar Skali Lami, 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
                                    
                                                                                                                                            
                                        Bo Lin, 
University of Toronto
                                    
                                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                            
                                        Dmitry Mitrofanov, 
Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University
                                    
                                                                                                                                            
                                        Dessislava Pachamanova, 
Babson College                                     
                                                                                                                                            
                                        Georgia Perakis, 
MIT/ Sloan School of Management
                                    
                                                                                                                                            
                                        Shoshanna Saxe, 
University of Toronto
                                    
                                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                            
                                        Chao Wu, 
Wayne State University