Franz Edelman Laureates: Class of 2019

FIRST PLACE
Team:  Louisville Metropolitan Sewer District
Paper: Csoft®: Innovative Solution for the Real-time Control of Sewer Networks
Laureates: 
Angela Akridge, Louisville MSD
Francois Grondin, TetraTech, Inc.
Wolffie Miller, Louisville MSD
Martin Pleau, TetraTech, Inc.
Leslie Shoemaker, TetraTech, Inc.
Diana Tao, TetraTech, Inc.

FINALISTS

Team: Boston Public Schools
Project:  From School Buses to Bell Times: Driving Policy with Optimization
Laureates: 
Dimitris Bertsimas, MIT
Arthur Delarue, MIT
William Eger, BPS
John Hanlon, BPS
Sebastien Martin, MIT

Team:  IBM Services
Project:  Analytics and OR for IBM’s IT Service Deals
Laureates:
Aly Megahed, IBM Research
Taiga Nakamura, IBM Research
Mark Smith , IBM Services
Shubhi Asthana, IBM Research
Michael Rose, IBM Services
Maja Daczkowska , IBM Services
Sandeep Gopisetty, IBM Research

Team:  Microsoft
Project:  Dynamic Customized E-Commerce Fraud Detection System for Profit Optimality
Laureates: 
Jay Nanduri, Microsoft Corporation
Anand Oka, Microsoft Corporation
Yuting Jia, Microsoft Corporation
John Beaver, Microsoft Corporation
Yung-Wen Liu, Microsoft Corporation

Team:  Spanish Aviation Safety & Security Agency (AESA)
Project:  RIMAS: Safer skies in Spain
Laureates: 
Veronica Elvira Olalla, AESA
Francisco Bernal Lozano, AESA
David Rios, Royal Academy of Sciences

Team:  Vattenfall
Project:  Vattenfall Gets Hundreds of Millions in Gains Through the Application of Operations Research for Offshore Wind Farm Design
Laureates:
Martina Fischetti, Vattenfall
Jesper Runge Kristoffersen, Vattenfall
Thomas Hjort, Vattenfall
Michele Monaci, University of Bologna
David Pisinger, Technical University of Denmark