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George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award

2022 First Place

Su Jia, Carnegie Mellon University

Purpose of the Award

2023 Committee Co-Chairs

Daniela H Saban

Stanford University

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The George B. Dantzig Award is given for the best dissertation in any area of operations research and the management sciences that is innovative and relevant to practice. This award has been established to encourage academic research that combines theory and practice and stimulates greater interaction between doctoral students (and their advisors) and the world of practice. The award is given at the INFORMS Annual Meeting.

Application Process

The deadline to submit 2023 applications is June 30, 2023. Click below to view more information about eligibility, procedures and deadlines

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About the Award/Namesake

George Dantzig

The son of a mathematician, George Bernard Dantzig was born in Portland, Oregon on November 8, 1914. His father, Tobias Dantzig, had been born in Latvia but, after being caught distributing anti-Tsarist propaganda, fled to Paris, where he studied under Henri Poincaré and met Anja Ourisson, then at the Sorbonne....

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Past Awardees

2022 First Place

Su Jia, Carnegie Mellon University

2022 Honorable Mention

Anish Agarwal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Daniel Rehfeldt, Technische Universitat Berlin Ruihao Zhu, Purdue University

2021 First Place

Somya Singhvi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2021 Second Place

Dennis Shen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2021 Honorable Mention

Katherine Bobroske, University of Cambridge

Carlos Fernández, New York University

Scott Rodilitz, Yale School of Management

2020 First Place

Nikhil Garg, Stanford University

2020 Honorable Mention

Gal Mendelson, Technion

Jean Pauphilet, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2019 Winner(s)

Sebastien Martin, MIT Operations Research Center

2018 Awardee(s)

Daniel Freund, Cornell University

2017 First Place

Negin Golrezaei

2017 Second Place

Ian Osband, Stanford University

2017 Honorable Mention

Mehdi Behroozi, University of Minnesota Álvaro Lorca Rong Yuan, MIT

2016 First Place

Eoin O'Mahony, Cornell University

2016 Second Place

Pooyan Kazemian, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor

2016 Honorable Mention

Nathaniel D. Bastian, The Pennsylvania State University Tugce Martagan, Eindhoven University of Technology Vamsi Kanuri, University of Miami

2015 First Place

Alexandre Jacquillat, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2015 Finalist

Daniela Saban, Stanford University

Yuanhui Zhang, North Carolina State University

2014 First Place

Santiago Balseiro, Duke University

2014 Honorable Mention

Anahita Khojandi, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

2014 Finalist

Robert Hammond, University of Texas at Austin

Major Jesse Pietz, United States Air Force Academy

2013 First Place

Jason Acimovic, Penn State University

2013 Finalist

Jagdish Ramakrishnan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Samah El-Tantawy, University of Toronto

2012 First Place

Mazhar Arikan, Purdue University

2012 Second Place

Andrei Neboian, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management

2012 Third Place

Nikolaos K. Trichakis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2011 First Place

John Turner, University of California, Irvine

2011 Second Place

Timothy Carnes, Massachusetts Inctitute of Technology

Xu Andy Sun, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

2010 First Place

Minsun Kim, University of Washington

2010 Honorable Mention

Steffen Rebennack, Colorado School of Mines

Mariel Lavieri, University of Michigan

Lolke Schakel, University of Groningen

2009 First Place

Nitin Bakshi, London Business School

2009 Second Place

Jagpreet Chhatwal, Merck Research Laboratories

2009 Honorable Mention

Emmanuel Carrier

Hamid Nazerzadeh

Evren Özkaya, McKinsey & Company

2008 First Place

Sang-Hyun Kim, University of Pennsylvania

2008 Second Place

Tobias Achterberg, Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany

Sam K. Hui, Georgia Institute of Technology

2008 Honorable Mention

Kyungduck Cha, Georgia Institute of Technology

Pelin Pekgun, University of South Carolina

2007 First Place

Timothy Chan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2007 Second Place

Pallav Sarma, Stanford University

2007 Honorable Mention

Andreea Popescu, Georgia Institute of Technology

2007 Finalist

Shawndra Hill, University of Pennsylvania

Ioannis Gamvros, The Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland

Shih-Fen Cheng, University of Michigan

2006 First Place

A. Kevin Tang, Cornell University

2006 Second Place

Melda Ormeci, Ozyegin University

2006 Honorable Mention

Ching-Hua Chen-Ritzo, IBM TJ Watson Research Center

Nan Kong, Purdue University, Biomedical Engineering

Tao Yao, Penn State University

2005 First Place

Robert W. Day, University of Connecticut

Devavrat Shah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2005 Honorable Mention

Oguzhan Alagoz, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Susan Budge, University of Alberta

Daniel Quadt, Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt

2004 First Place

Jeffrey Ohlmann, University of Iowa, Henry B. Tippie College of Business & Management Science

2004 Honorable Mention

Valdo Durrleman, Stanford University

Xuanming Su, University of California - Berkeley, Haas School of Business

Berkin Toktas, T-Mobile USA

Rodney Wallace, George Washington University

2003 First Place

Paat Rusmevichientong, Cornell University

2003 Honorable Mention

Martin Durbin, Decisive Analytics Corporation

Z. Justin Ren, Boston University

Milind Sohoni, Indian School of Business

Matthew S. Thompson, University of Western Ontario

2002 First Place

Daniela Pucci de Farias, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2002 Honorable Mention

Juta Pichitlamken, Kasetsart University, Dept. of Industrial Engineering

John Sniezek, RouteSmart Technologies

Julie L. Swann, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Industrial & Systems Engineering

Hongsheng Zhong, UPS

2001 First Place

Andrew Armacost, United States Air Force Academy

2001 Second Place

Stylianos Kavadias, Georgia Institute of Technology

2001 Honorable Mention

Vishal Gaur, Cornell University, The Johnson School

Brian Nathanson, OptiStatim LLC

2000 First Place

Shabbir Ahmed, Georgia Institute of Technology

2000 Second Place

Prashant Fuloria, Stanford University

2000 Honorable Mention

Vinayak Deshpande, Kenan-Flagler Business School, The University of North Carolina

Terry Taylor , University of California - Berkeley

Kirk Yost, Mitre Corporation

1999 First Place

Justin Boesel, Northwestern University

1999 Honorable Mention

William D. Hall, CitationShares

Mark E. Lewis, Cornell University

1998 First Place

Daniel Adelman, University of Chicago

1998 Second Place

Yunzeng Wang, University of California - Riverside

1998 Honorable Mention

Steven F. Baker, US Air Force Academy

1997 First Place

Alberto Caprara, DEIS - University of Bologna

1997 Second Place

Sarah Stock Patterson, Duke University

1997 Honorable Mention

Stefanos A. Zenios, Stanford University

Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1996 First Place

S. Raghavan, University of Maryland, Robert H Smith School of Business

1996 Second Place

Arthur C. Hsu, United Technologies Research Center

1996 Honorable Mention

Geoffrey C. Murray, A.T. Kearney Inc.

Raman K. Nurani

Giuseppe Russo

1995 First Place

David Lowell, Castilleja School

1995 Second Place

Karlos Artto

1995 Honorable Mention

Venkatesh Ravirala, Neeroh LLC

1994 First Place

Raymond Cheung, Hong Kong University

1994 Second Place

Jenny Ming Chen

1994 Honorable Mention

Shannon Anderson, Rice University

Teck Ho

David P. Morton, Stanford University

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