Best Cluster Paper Award

2024 First Place

Winning material: Keep the Water Flowing: The Hidden Crisis of Rural Water Management

2024 First Place

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.

Application process:

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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
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
2023
First Place
Miao Bai, University of Connecticut
Dongwook Shin, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Second Place
Morvarid Rahmani, Georgia Institute of Technology
Guillaume Roels, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Finalist
Cheng Hua, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Youngsoo Kim, University of Alabama
Serguei Netessine, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Wen Zhang, Baylor University
2021
First Place
Qiuping Yu, Georgia Institute of Technology
Third Place
Finalist
Nitin Bakshi, London Business School
Yao Cui, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
Zhenzhen Jia, Fudan University
Warut Khern-am-nuai, McGill University
Wenhao Li, City University of Hong Kong
Zhimei Ren, Stanford University
Yiwen Shen, Columbia University
Bhavani Shanker Uppari, Singapore Management University
Aditya Vedantam, University at Buffalo
Seokjun Youn, University of Arizona
Ruihao Zhu, Purdue University
2018
Winner(s)
Maxime C. Cohen, McGill University
Georgia Perakis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Runner-Up
Christine Barnett , University of Michigan
Brian T. Denton, University of Michigan
Selin Merdan, University of Michigan
David C. Miller , University of Michigan
 James E. Montie, University of Michigan
Finalist
Terry Taylor , University of California - Berkeley
Saif Benjaafar, University of Michigan
Adam Elmachtoub, Columbia
Vishal Gupta, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ming Hu, University of Toronto
Guangwen Kong, University of Minnesota
Aly Megahed, IBM Research
Chelliah Sriskandarajah, University of Texas at Dallas
2017
Winner(s)
Team Name: Anna Papush, Georgia Perakis, and Pavithra Harsha
2016
Winner(s)
Maxime C. Cohen, McGill University
Georgia Perakis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology