Best Cluster Paper Award

2025 First Place

Winning material: Information Provision in Platform Competition

2025 First Place

  • Zhiyu Zeng, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, China
  • Zhiqi Zhang, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis
  • Tat Chan, Washington University in St. Louis
  • Dennis Zhang, University of Washington St. Louis
Winning material: The Impact of Recommender Systems on Content Consumption and Production: Evidence from Field Experiments and Structural Modeling

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

2025
First Place
Kostas Bimpikis, Stanford University
Tat Chan, Washington University in St. Louis
Yiangos Papanastasiou, University of California Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Zhiyu Zeng, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, China
Dennis Zhang, University of Washington St. Louis
Wenchang Zhang, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Zhiqi Zhang, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis
Third Place
Xiaotong Guan, university of Texas at Dallas, Naveen Jindal School of Management
Anyan Qi, University of Michigan
Shouqiang Wang, The University of Texas at Dallas
Finalist
Himanshu Arha, Indian School of Business
Kashish Arora, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - CUHK Business School
Raja Gopalakrishnan, Centre for Railway Information Systems
Milind Sohoni, Indian School of Business
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, University of Utah
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