Best Paper Award

2025 Winner(s)

Winning material: From Signal to Noise: How Widespread LLM Usage Transforms Evaluator Behavior in Credit Screening

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

2025
Winner(s)
Paramveer Dhillon, University of Michigan
Yi Gao, Texas Tech University
Tian Lu, Arizona State University
Yingjie Zhang, University of Texas at Dallas
Runner-Up
Jingyan Dai, University of Florida
Lu Fang, Zhejiang University
Shu He, University of Florida
Bowen Lou, University of Connecticut
Liangfei Qiu, University of Florida
Tianshu Sun, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
Qili Wang, University of Florida
Zhe Yuan, Zhejiang University
2024
Runner-Up
Timothy Derdenger , Carnegie Mellon University
Vibhanshu Abhishek , University of California - Irvine
Xiaoning (Gavin) Wang , The University of Texas at Dallas
Jaymo Kim, Carnegie Mellon University
Kannan Srinivasan, Carnegie-Mellon University
Ao Sun, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mi Zhou, The University of British Columbia
2023
Winner(s)
Gaoyang Cai, Northwestern University
Grace Yuan Gu, University of Southern California
Xia Han, Soochow University
Vijay Mookerjee, University of Texas at Dallas
Kai Sun, The University of Texas at Dallas
Wangsheng Zhu, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Runner-Up
Sreekumar Bhaskaran, Southern Methodist University
Sanjiv Erat, University of California, San Diego
Bin Gu, Boston University
Chunxiao Li, University of Science and Technology of China
Chen Liang, University of Connecticut
Rajiv Mukherjee, Texas A&M University
Tong Shen, University of Connecticut
Shuliu Yuan, T3 Chuxing Technology Co.
2022
Winner(s)
Hao Hu, Georgia Institute of Technology
Runner-Up
Xiangjing (Olivia) Chen, Arizona State University
Yi-Jen Ian Ho, Penn State
Shengjun (June) Mao, University of California, Irvine
2021
Winner(s)
Rodrigo Belo, Erasmus University
Zike Cao, Erasmus University
Runner-Up
Mingwen Yang , University of Washington
Bin Gu, Boston University
Yili Kevin Hong, University of Houston
Chen Liang, University of Connecticut
Vijay Mookerjee, University of Texas at Dallas
Jing Peng, University of Connecticut
Kai Sun, The University of Texas at Dallas
2020
Winner(s)
Sinan Aral, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Paramveer Dhillon, University of Michigan
Dean Eckles, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jeremy Yang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Runner-Up
Natasha Zhang Foutz, University of Virginia
Gordon Gao, University of Maryland
Lanfei Shi, University of Virginia
Siva Viswanathan, University of Maryland
Weiguang Wang, University of Rochester
Kunpeng Zhang, University of Maryland
2019
Winner(s)
Sanjeev Dewan, University of California, Irvine
Yi-Jen Ian Ho, Penn State
Shengjun (June) Mao, University of California, Irvine
Runner-Up
Sunghun Chung, Santa Clara University
Keongtae Kim, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Chulho Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Yingda Lu, University of Illinois at Chicago
Xue (Jane) Tan, Indiana University
Yong Tan
2018
Winner(s)
Turgay Ayer, Georgia Institute of Technology
Mehmet Ulvi Saygi Ayvaci, University of Texas at Dallas
Yeongin Kim, University of Texas at Dallas
Srinivasan Raghunathan, University of Texas at Dallas
Runner-Up
Mingwen Yang , University of Washington
Zhiqiang Eric Zheng , University of Texas at Dallas
Anandasivam Gopal, University of Maryland
Dokyun Lee
Dongwon Lee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Vijay Mookerjee, University of Texas at Dallas