Best Paper Award

Purpose of the Award

The e-Business section of the INFORMS annual conference selects the best paper award and two runner-up awards from all the submissions to the e-Business cluster. The award is given annually in recognition of research excellence in the field of Information Systems and e-Business, as judged by the award selection committee. 

Application process:

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Past Awardees

2024
Runner-Up
Ao Sun, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jaymo Kim, Carnegie Mellon University
Kannan Srinivasan, Carnegie-Mellon University
Mi Zhou, The University of British Columbia
Timothy Derdenger , Carnegie Mellon University
Vibhanshu Abhishek , University of California - Irvine
Xiaoning (Gavin) Wang , The University of Texas at Dallas
2023
Winner(s)
Gaoyang Cai, Northwestern University
Grace Yuan Gu, University of Southern California
Kai Sun, The University of Texas at Dallas
Vijay Mookerjee, University of Texas at Dallas
Wangsheng Zhu, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Xia Han, Soochow University
Runner-Up
Bin Gu, Boston University
Chen Liang, University of Connecticut
Chunxiao Li, University of Science and Technology of China
Rajiv Mukherjee, Texas A&M University
Sanjiv Erat, University of California, San Diego
Shuliu Yuan, T3 Chuxing Technology Co.
Sreekumar Bhaskaran, Southern Methodist University
Tong Shen, University of Connecticut
2022
Winner(s)
Hao Hu, Georgia Institute of Technology
Runner-Up
Shengjun (June) Mao, University of California, Irvine
Xiangjing (Olivia) Chen, Arizona State University
Yi-Jen Ian Ho, Penn State
2021
Winner(s)
Rodrigo Belo, Erasmus University
Zike Cao, Erasmus University
Runner-Up
Bin Gu, Boston University
Chen Liang, University of Connecticut
Jing Peng, University of Connecticut
Kai Sun, The University of Texas at Dallas
Mingwen Yang , University of Washington
Vijay Mookerjee, University of Texas at Dallas
Yili Kevin Hong, University of Houston
2020
Winner(s)
Dean Eckles, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jeremy Yang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Paramveer Dhillon, University of Michigan
Sinan Aral, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Runner-Up
Gordon Gao, University of Maryland
Kunpeng Zhang, University of Maryland
Lanfei Shi, University of Virginia
Natasha Zhang Foutz, University of Virginia
Siva Viswanathan, University of Maryland
Weiguang Wang, University of Rochester
2019
Winner(s)
Sanjeev Dewan, University of California, Irvine
Shengjun (June) Mao, University of California, Irvine
Yi-Jen Ian Ho, Penn State
Runner-Up
Chulho Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Keongtae Kim, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Sunghun Chung, Santa Clara University
Xue (Jane) Tan, Indiana University
Yingda Lu, University of Illinois at Chicago
Yong Tan
2018
Winner(s)
Mehmet Ulvi Saygi Ayvaci, University of Texas at Dallas
Srinivasan Raghunathan, University of Texas at Dallas
Turgay Ayer, Georgia Institute of Technology
Yeongin Kim, University of Texas at Dallas
Runner-Up
Anandasivam Gopal, University of Maryland
Dokyun Lee
Dongwon Lee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Mingwen Yang , University of Washington
Vijay Mookerjee, University of Texas at Dallas
Zhiqiang Eric Zheng , University of Texas at Dallas