TSL Dissertation Prize

2025 Winner(s)

Winning material: Machine Learning for Sequential Decisions in Logistics

Purpose of the Award

This award is the oldest and most prestigious honor for doctoral dissertations in the transportation science and logistics area. 

Application Process

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Past Awardees

2025
Winner(s)
Fabian Akkerman, University of Twente
Runner-Up
Bo Lin, University of Toronto
Finalist
Kai Jungel, Technical University Munich
Youngseo Kim, Cornell University
Gal Neria, Tel Aviv University
Sushil Varma, Georgia Institute of Technology
Xin Wang, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University
2024
Winner(s)
Xingmin Wang, University of Michigan
Honorable Mention
Patrick S. Klein, Technical University of Munich
2023
Winner(s)
Luying Sun, Virginia Tech
Honorable Mention
Jingwei Zhang, University of California, Los Angeles
2022
Winner(s)
Matthias Soppert, Universität der Bundeswehr München
Honorable Mention
Rolf N. van Lieshout, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Sara Reed
2021
First Place
Zhengtian Xu, University of Michigan
Honorable Mention
Sandeep Badrinath, MIT
2020
Winner(s)
Ohad Eisenhandler, Tel Aviv University
Honorable Mention
Alexandre de Macedo Florio, University of Vienna
2019
First Place
Sebastien Martin, MIT Operations Research Center
Honorable Mention
Anirudh Subramanyam, Carnegie Mellon University
2018
Winner(s)
Maximilian Schiffer , RWTH Aachen
Honorable Mention
Chiwei Yan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2017
Winner(s)
Mehdi Behroozi, University of Minnesota
Honorable Mention
Jelmer Pier van der Gaast, Erasmus University
Marlin Ulmer, Technische Universitat Braunschweig
2016
First Place
Christian Vad Karsten, Technical University of Denmark
Anh Tien Mai, University of Montreal
2015
First Place
Alexandre Jacquillat, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2014
First Place
Samiul Hasan, Purdue University
Honorable Mention
Frank Fischer, Chemnitz University of Technology
2013
First Place
Max Klimm, Technische Universität Berlin
Honorable Mention
Dimitri Papageorgiou, Georgia Institute of Technology
2012
First Place
Jon Petersen, Georgia Institute of Technology
2011
First Place
Jessica Heier Stamm, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Honorable Mention
Ilaria Vacca, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
2010
First Place
Irina Dolinskaya, University of Michigan
2009
First Place
Gitakrishnan Ramadurai, RPI
Honorable Mention
Pavithra Harsha, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Adrian Lee, University of Illimois at Urbana-Champaign
2008
First Place
Emma Frejinger, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
2007
First Place
Juan Carlos Morales, Georgia Institute of Technology
Honorable Mention
Zhou Xu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
2006
First Place
Christian Liebchen, Technical University of Berlin
Honorable Mention
Anne Goodchild, University of California at Berkeley
2005
First Place
Luigi Moccia, Universita della Calabria, Italy
Honorable Mention
Song Gao , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2004
First Place
Lawrence Snyder , Northwestern University
Honorable Mention
Miguel Figliozzi , University of Maryland
2003
First Place
Thomas Vossen , University of Colorado - Boulder, Leeds School of Business
Honorable Mention
Tomer Toledo , Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
2002
First Place
Iris F.A. Vis , Erasmus Universiteit
Alvin C. Lim, Johns Hopkins University
2001
First Place
Alan Erera , Georgia Institute of Technology School of Industrial & Systems Eng
Joan Walker , Boston University
Honorable Mention
Andrew Armacost, United States Air Force Academy
Jon Bottom, MIT
2000
First Place
Diego Klabjan , Georgia Institute of Technology
Hillel Bar-Gera, University of Illinois at Chicago
1999
First Place
Padma Ramanujan
Honorable Mention
William D. Hall, CitationShares
Nicola Secomandi, University of Houston
1998
First Place
Gianpaolo Ghiani
Honorable Mention
Robert Hoffman
1997
First Place
Gregory Glockner , Dwaffler
Sarah Stock Patterson, Duke University
Honorable Mention
Kalidas Ashok
1996
First Place
Tassio Carvalho, Princeton University
Honorable Mention
Chris Caplice, MIT
Kerry Malone, MIT
Erik Verhoef
1995
First Place
Bernard Gendron , Universite de Montreal
1994
First Place
Srinivas Peeta , Purdue University
1993
Honorable Mention
Raymond Cheung, Hong Kong University
Rekha Pellai
1992
Awardee(s)
Julien Bramel, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Columbia University
1991
Awardee(s)
Linos Frantzeskakis
1989
Awardee(s)
Jeffrey McGill, Queen's University
1988
Awardee(s)
Dimitris J. Bertsimas , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management and Operations Research Center
1987
Awardee(s)
Matteo Fischetti
1986
Awardee(s)
Shoshana Anily, Tel Aviv University
1985
Awardee(s)
Patrick Jaillet , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1984
Awardee(s)
Anataram Balakrishnan
1983
Awardee(s)
Siriphong (Toi) Lawphongpanich
1982
Awardee(s)
Charles Aikens
1981
Awardee(s)
James B. Orlin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Warren Powell, Princeton University
1980
Awardee(s)
Christian Lardinois
1979
Awardee(s)
Tom Sexton
Honorable Mention
H. Aashtiani
F. Soumis
1978
Awardee(s)
Harilaos Psaraftis, Dynamic Programming Algorithms for Sequencing and Routing Problems in Transportation
Honorable Mention
Yosef Sheffi
1977
Awardee(s)
David Stein
Honorable Mention
S.E. Erikson
S.Rao
1976
Awardee(s)
Roger Dear
Honorable Mention
Bruce L. Golden, University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business
1975
Honorable Mention
Alan Black
Phillip E. Taylor
1974
Awardee(s)
Timothy J. Tardiff
1973
Awardee(s)
Robert Richardson
Honorable Mention
Moshe Ben-Akiva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1971
Awardee(s)
Slobodan Mitric
Honorable Mention
Kent L. Groninger
Theodore E. Keeler
1970
Awardee(s)
Nathan Gartner
Honorable Mention
Eduardo Aldana-Valdes, Universidad de Los Andes