Best Student Paper Award

2025 First Place

Winning material: Reuniting Forcibly Separated Families Through Shared Memories

Purpose of the Award

Four finalists for the Best Student Paper Award will be selected to make presentations at the INFORMS Annual Meeting. The winner will be announced at the Social Media Analytics business meeting later at the conference. All finalists will receive an award certificate and 3 years free Social Media Analytics membership. The winner will also receive a plaque. The Best Student Paper Award is to be presented annually at the Social Media Analytics Section meeting during the INFORMS annual meeting. All finalists’ papers will be posted on the Social Media Analytics Section webpage, unless requested otherwise.

Application process:

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Past Awardees

2025
First Place
Huifeng Su, Yale University
Second Place
Yen-Shao Chen, Yale University
Third Place
Jiayang Ren
Fourth Place
Chen Jing, Boston University
2024
Winner(s)
Jingwen Zhang, Foster School of Business, University of Washington
First Place
Ye Liu, Foster School of Business, University of Washington
Second Place
Yen-Shao Chen, School of Management, Yale University
Third Place
Meilin Gu, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University
Finalist
Yen-Shao Chen, School of Management, Yale University
Meilin Gu, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University
Ye Liu, Foster School of Business, University of Washington
Zikun Ye, Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jingwen Zhang, Foster School of Business, University of Washington
2023
Runner-Up
Abhishek Deshmane, IESE Business School
2022
Winner(s)
Yunduan Lin, University of California, Berkeley
Runner-Up
Yifan Yu, University of Washington
Finalist
Qinyi Chen, MIT
Aida Sanatizadeh, The University of Illinois at Chicago
2019
First Place
Yun Young Hur , Georgia Institute of Technology
Second Place
Theodore T. Allen, The Ohio State University
Enhao Liu, The Ohio State University
Third Place
Sanghoon Cho, University of South Carolina
Ramkumar Janakiraman, University of South Carolina
Pelin Pekgun, University of South Carolina
Jian Wang, RealPage Inc.
2018
Winner(s)
Nicolas Guenon des Mesnards, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Finalist
D. Scott Hunter, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Shuang Li, Georgia Institute of Technology
Yuan Zhang, University of Texas at Arlington
2017
Winner(s)
Parshuram Hotkar
Runner-Up
Zhenhuan Sui
2016
Winner(s)
Christopher E. Marks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Runner-Up
Matthias Bogaert, Ghent University
Finalist
Rostyslav Korolov, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rui Zhang, University of Colorado - Boulder
2015
Winner(s)
Nathan Kallus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology