Analytics Society
Women in Operations Research – Bayer Scholarship
The scholarship provides three female graduate students interested in the practice of operations research or analytics to attend the INFORMS Annual Meeting. The winner receives $1300 and two honorable-mention candidates receive $700 each.
Winner: Trilce Encarnacion , Deniz Besik , Somayeh Dejbord
Applied Probability Society
Best Publication Award
This award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to applied probability, consists of a plaque
and $1000.
Winner: David Goldberg, Dmitriy Katz-Rogozhnikov, Yingdong Lu, Mayank Sharma, Mark Squillante, Linwei Xin
Best Student Paper Prize
This prize identifies and honors outstanding papers in the field of applied probability that are written primarily by a student.
Winner: Gal Mendelson
Aviation Applications Section
Best Dissertation Award
This prize is awarded for the best dissertation in any area related to aviation O.R. (air traffic management O.R. and airline O.R.). The award includes a plaque and $500 cash prize.
Winner: Nuno Ribeiro
Best Student Presentation Competition
This competition is for undergraduate and graduate students who are members of the INFORMS Aviation Applications Section. A certificate of recognition and a cash prize will be awarded.
Winner: Rachael Tompa
Behavioral Operations Management
Best Working Paper Award
Winner: Michelle Shell and Ryan Buell
Computing Society
INFORMS Computing Society Prize
The ICS Prize is an annual award for best English language paper on the OR/CS interface. The award includes a plaque and cash prize.
Winner: William E. Hart, Carl D. Laird, Jean-Paul Watson, David L. Woodruff, Gabriel A. Hackebeil, Bethany L. Nicholson, John Siirola
Student Paper Award
This award is given annually to the best paper on computing and O.R. by a student author, as judged by a panel of the ICS. The award includes a plaque and $500 cash prize.
Winner: Ryan Cory-Wright and Jean Pauphilet
ICS Harvey J. Greenberg Service Award
Winner: Allen Holder
Data Mining
Best Student Paper Competition
Winner: Di Wang, Xi Zhang, and Kaibo Liu
Best General Paper Competition
Winner: Feng Liu, Li Wang, Yifei Lou, Ren-Cang Li, and Patrick L. Purdon
Decision Analysis Society
Practice Award
The Practice Award is given annually to the best decision analysis application, as judged by a panel of Society members.
Winner: Josephine MacHunter, Libby Rumpff, Tracey Regan, and Nevil Amos
Publication Award
This award is given annually to the best decision analysis article or book published in the second preceding calendar year, as judged by a panel of Society members. The award includes a plaque and $750 cash prize.
Winner: Yael Grushka-Cockayne, Victor Richmond R. Jose, Kenneth C. Lichtendahl Jr.
Student Paper Award
This award is given annually to the best decision analysis paper by a student author, as judged by a panel of Society members. Student papers need not be sole-authored or first-authored. This award includes a plaque and $500 cash prize.
Winner: Yi-Chun Chen
Frank P. Ramsey Medal
The Frank P. Ramsey Medal is the highest award of the DAS. It was created to recognize distinguished contributions to the field of decision analysis. The medal is named in honor of Frank Plumpton Ramsey, a Cambridge University mathematician who was one of the pioneers of decision theory in the 20th century. The Ramsey Medalists are recognized for having made substantial further contributions to that theory and its application to important classes of real decision problems. The medal is accompanied by a $1,000 cash prize.
Winner: Raimo P. Hämäläinen
eBusiness Section
Best Paper Award
Winner: Shengjun (June) Mao, Yi-Jen (Ian) Ho, Sanjeev Dewan
Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment Section
Best Publication in Energy
Winner: Burak Kocuk, Santanu S. Dey, X. Andy Sun
Best Student Paper
Winner: Jacob Mays
Early Career Best Paper Award
Winner: Kwon-gi Mun, Raza A. Rafique, Yao Zhao
Best Publication in Environment & Sustainability
Winner: Dmytro Matsypura, Oleg A. Prokopyev, Aizat Zahar
Best Publication in Natural Resources
Winner: Harrison B. Zeff, Jonathan D. Herman, Patrick M. Reed, Gregory W. Characklis
Section on Finance
Student Paper Competition
The objectives of the section are to provide a continuing, specialized focus within INFORMS on the topic of financial services, with the aim of identifying current and potential problems and contributions to their solutions; to lead in the development, dissemination, and implementation of knowledge, basic and applied research and technologies in the area of finance and financial services.
Winner: Humoud Alsabah and Shuaijie Qian
Health Applications Society
Pierskalla Award
This award recognizes research excellence in the field of healthcare management science. The award includes an honorarium for the best paper presented in a Health Applications Society sponsored session at the INFORMS Annual Meeting. The award is named after Dr. William Pierskalla to recognize his contribution and dedication to improving health services delivery through operations research.
Winner: Arielle Anderer, Hamsa Bastani, John Silberholz
Information Systems
ISS Distinguished Fellow
Awardee: Chris Forman, Indranil R Bardhan, Alexander Tuzhilin, Param Vir Singh
The Sandy Slaughter Early Career Award
Awardee: Kevin Yili Hong, Beibei Li, Liangfei Qiu, Jui Ramaprasad, Miguel, Godinho de Matos, Lynn L Wu
Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award
Winner: Yingjie Zhang
ISS Management Science Best Paper Award
Winner: Geoffrey Parker and Marshall Van Alstyne
JFIG
JFIG Paper Competition
Winner: Ruiwei Jiang
Manufacturing and Service Operations Management
MSOM Fellows Program
The Distinguished Fellow Award was approved by the MSOM members at the Spring Business Meeting in 1999 in Cincinnati. By the election of a limited number of MSOM Fellows, MSOM recognizes outstanding research and scholarship in operations management. Election as an MSOM Fellow should be considered a rare distinction, comparable with membership in Omega Rho. Teaching and service contributions are not considered in the selection process.
Winner: Charles Corbett, Linda Green, Avishai Mandelbaum
MSOM Journal Best Paper Award
Winner: Long He, Ho-Yin Mak, Ying Rong, Zuo-Jun Max Shen
MSOM Young Scholar Prize
Starting in 2013, the annual MSOM Young Scholar Prize recognizes exceptional young researchers who have made outstanding contributions to scholarship in operations management. Scholars of age 40 years or younger on January 31st of the year in which they are nominated are eligible.
Winner: Carri Chan
MSOM Service Management SIG Best Paper Award
The Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM) Service Management SIG (Special Interest Group) invites nominations for the best published paper(s) on service management.
Winner: Alessandro Arlotto, Andrew E. Frazelle, Yehua Wei
Operations Research Journal Best Paper in Operations Management Award
Winner: Jose Blanchet, Guillermo Gallego, Vineet Goyal
MSOM Responsible Research Award
The purpose of responsible research is to encourage studies contributing knowledge that may have implications for making the world a better place through informing evidence-based, high quality and societally beneficial organizational practices across business, government and non-government organizations.
Winner: Can Zhang , Atalay Atasu , Turgay Ayer, Beril Toktay
MSOM Practice-Based Research Competition
The objectives of the M&SOM Practice-Based Research Competition are to motivate, help develop, reward and highlight high-quality OM research papers with significant practical relevance, and to publish these papers in the M&SOM Journal.
Winner: Christian Mandl and Stefan Minner
MSOM IFORM Best Paper
Winner: Tunay Tunca and Weiming Zhu
Management Science Journal Best Paper in Operations Management Award
Winner: Georgia Perakis, Maxime Cohen, and Ruben Lobel
Society for Marketing Science
2019 Buck Weaver Award
This award is given to recognize lifetime contribution to the advancement of theory and practice in marketing science.
Winner: Michel Wedel
2018 Frank M. Bass Outstanding Dissertation Award
This award is given to the best marketing paper derived from a PhD thesis published in an INFORMS-sponsored journal.
Winner: Raluca Ursu
2018 John D.C. Little Award
This award is given annually to the best marketing paper published in Marketing Science or Management Science.
Winner: Jia Liu and Olivier Toubia
2018 Long Term Impact Award
The INFORMS Society for Marketing Science Long Term Impact Award (LTI Award) is given annually to a marketing paper published in Marketing Science, Management Science, or another INFORMS journal, and viewed to have made a significant long-run impact in the field of marketing.
Winner: Juanjuan Zhang
2018 ISMS Doctoral Dissertation Award
Funded by the Sheth Foundation, this dissertation proposal competition will be held annually and will recognize the best doctoral dissertation proposals on important marketing issues and subjects relevant to marketing science, theory, and practice.
Winner: Hana Choi
2018 Vithala R. and Saroj V. Rao ISMS Doctoral Dissertation Award
This Practice Prize is awarded for an outstanding implementation of marketing science concepts and methods. The methodology used must be sound and appropriate to the problem and organization, and the work should have had significant, verifiable, and, preferably, quantitative impact on the performance of the client organization.
Winner: Minkyung Kim
2018 ISMS Doctoral Dissertation Award
This dissertation proposal competition recognizes the best doctoral dissertation proposals on important marketing issues and subjects.
Winner: Mengxia Zhang
2019 ISMS Fellow Award
This award recognizes cumulative long-term contribution to the mission of ISMS. It recognizes past accomplishments and is an honor, but it is also meant to encourage responsibility. ISMS Fellows are expected to provide leadership and support for the ISMS community.
Winner: Peter E. Rossi and J. Miguel Villas-Boas
Military and Security Society
Koopman Prize
This prize was named after Bernard Koopman, a founding father of military operations research. It is awarded for the outstanding publication in military operations research from the previous year. The award includes a plaque and $500 cash prize.
Winner: Miguel A. Lejeune and François Margot
J. Steinhardt Prize
This prize is awarded for outstanding contributions to military O.R. and is awarded for life work rather than for any particular contribution. The selection committee is composed of previous award winners. The award is accompanied by a plaque and $2,000 honorarium.
Winner: Jeffrey E. Kline
Minority Issues Forum
Doctoral Colloquium Student Sponsorship Award
Winner: Temitayo Ajar and Bukola Bakare
Early Career Award
Winner: Dr. Jamol Pender
Paper Competition
Winner: Shadi Sharif Azedah, Michel Bierlaire, Yousef Maknoon
Student Poster Competition
Winner: Benjamin F. Morrow Jr.
Multiple Criteria Decision Making Section
MCDM Junior Researcher Best Paper Award
The MCDM Junior Researcher Best Paper Award recognizes outstanding papers in the field of multicriteria decision making written by a junior researcher or a team of junior researchers. The award is given every year at the INFORMS Annual Meeting.
Winner: Milosz Kadzinski
Optimization Society
Optimization Society Khachiyan Prize
The Khachiyan Prize of the INFORMS Optimization Society was established in 2010 and is awarded annually at the INFORMS Annual Meeting to an individual or a team for lifetime achievements in the area of optimization. The award recognizes a sustained career of scholarship from nominees who are still active during the year of the nomination. The prize serves as an esteemed recognition of innovativeness and impact in the area of optimization, including theory and applications. Recipients of the INFORMS John von Neumann Theory Prize or the MPS/SIAM Dantzig Prize in prior years are not eligible for the Khachiyan Prize.
Winner: Masakazu Kojima
Optimization Society Farkas Prize
The G. Farkas Prize established in 2006 and is administered by the Optimization Society of INFORMS. The Farkas Prize is awarded for the most significant contribution to the field of optimization by a researcher or a team of researchers. It is awarded bi-annually at the INFORMS Annual Meeting.
Winner: Katya Scheinberg
Optimization Society Student Paper Prize
The Student Paper Prize recognizes the most outstanding paper in optimization that is submitted to and received, or published, in a refereed professional journal no more than three years before the closing date of the nomination.
Winner: Lijun Ding
Optimization Society Young Researchers Prize
This prize, established in 1998 and administered by the Optimization Society of INFORMS, is awarded in even-numbered years at the INFORMS Annual Meeting to one (or more) young researchers for the most outstanding paper in optimization that is submitted to or published in a refereed professional journal. The prize serves as an esteemed recognition of promising colleagues who are at the beginning of their academic or industrial career.
Winner: Damek Davis and Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy
Organization Science Section
Dissertation Proposal Competition
Now in its 26th year, this competition is one of the most prestigious available to doctoral students studying organizations.
Winner: Saerom Lee
Public Sector OR Section
Best Paper Award
The INFORMS Public Sector Operations Research (PSOR) Best Paper Award, sponsored by the PSOR Section, recognizes research judged to be of the best quality in all of the disciplines and application areas represented within PSOR. Through this competition, PSOR seeks to build a tradition of scholarly exchange of knowledge of public policy, programs, safety, service, and needs within the entire INFORMS community.
Winner: Daniel Adelman
Quality, Statistics & Reliability Section
Best Student Paper Award
The Quality Statistics and Reliability (QSR) Section of INFORMS announces the Best Student Paper Award to recognize excellence among its student members. The award program brings prestige to the QSR Section as well as to the recipients honored.
Winner: Zhen Zhong
Best Refereed Paper
Winner: Changyue Song, Kaibo Liu, and Xi Zhang
Data Challenge Award
Winner: Erotokritos Skordilis and Ramin Moghaddas
Railway Applications Section
Railway Applications Section Student Paper Award
This award is given to recognize the best student research paper on analytics and fact-based decision making in railway applications. The First Place paper will be considered for publication in Networks.
Winner: Christopher Szymula
Railway Applications Section Poster Award
Winner: Vahid Dardashti
Railway Applications Problem Solving Competition
Winner: Vahid Dardashti
Railway Applications Section Distinguished Member Award
Winner: Kamalesh Somani
Revenue, Management and Pricing
Section Prize
The INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Prize is awarded for the best contribution to the science of pricing and revenue management published in English.
Winner: Paat Rusmevichientong
Student Paper Prize
Winner: Chen Chen
Practice Award
Winner: Jacob Feldman, Dennis Zhang, Xiaofei Liu and Nannan Zhang
Section on Location Analysis
Best Student Paper Award
The award is planned to be given biennially for student papers judged to be the best in the broad field of facility location. We encourage papers that promote the development of analytical methods, techniques and tools in the tradition of operations research/management science (OR/MS) as applied to the study of facility location.
Service Science
IBM Best Student Paper Competition
Winner: Xiao Lei and Neda Mirzaeian
Best Service Science Paper Award
Winner: Sheldon H. Jacobson
Social Media Analytics Section
Best Student Paper Award
The Social Media Analytics Section of INFORMS announces the Best Student Paper Award to recognize excellence among its student members. The award program brings prestige to the Social Media Analytics Section as well as to the recipients honored. The current prize amount is $200 divided among the winning authors.
Technology, Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship Section (TIMES)
Distinguished Speaker Award
Winner: Vish Krishnan
Best Paper Award
Winner: Nikolaus Franke, Marion K. Poetz, Martin Schreier
Best Working Paper Award
Winner: Soo-Haeng Cho, Xin Wang, Alan A. Scheller-Wolf
Best Dissertation Award
Winner: Daniel BLASEG
Telecommunications and Network Analytics Section
Best Dissertation Award
Dissertations are evaluated based on their specific contributions in the use of quantitative and analytical or O.R. techniques in addressing existing and future problems recognized to be valuable to the field of telecommunications.
Winner: To Be Announced
TST Best Paper Award
Winner: To Be Announced
Transportation Science and Logistics Section
TSL Dissertation Prize
Relevant dissertation topics in the domain of technology management may reflect, but are not limited to, research in science and engineering based organizations; industrial research and development (R&D) laboratories; research units in universities, teaching hospitals, etc.; organizational processes by which technically-oriented activities are integrated into other company goals; innovation processes, and the development of technological innovations for competitive markets. Dissertations may also focus on such topics as the characteristics and behavior of scientist, engineers, and other technical professionals; the flow of technical knowledge; the diffusion of innovations, technological forecasts and policies; and the behavior and management of project teams.
Winner: Sébastien Martin
Robert Herman Lifetime Achievement Award
The Robert Herman Lifetime Achievement Award in Transportation Science is awarded by the INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Section to an individual who throughout his or her professional career has made fundamental and sustained contributions to transportation science and logistics, and has influenced the field through her or his writings, teaching, service, and nurturing of younger professionals.
Winner: Bruce Golden
Best Paper Award
The TSL Best Paper Award is given once a year to an outstanding paper in the field of transportation science and logistics. The paper must have been published in a refereed journal and must present innovative approaches for solving complex problems in transportation and/or logistics, with an emphasis on operations research and quantitative methods.
Winner: Long He, Ho-Yin Mak, Ying Rong, Zuo-Jun Max Shen
Outstanding Paper in Air Transportation
Winner: Alexandre Jacquillat and Vikrant Vaze
Outstanding Paper in Urban Transportation Planning & Modeling
Winner: Longsheng Sun, Mark H. Karwan, Changhyun Kwon
Women in OR/MS Forum (WORMS)
Award for the Advancement of Women in OR/MS
The Women in OR/MS Award celebrates and recognizes a person who has contributed significantly to the advancement and recognition of women in the field of OR/MS.
Winner: Laura Albert and Sharon Arroyo
Doctoral Colloquium Student Sponsorship Award
WORMS will sponsor one student member to attend the Doctoral Student Colloquium at the INFORMS Annual Meeting. The award includes registration to the INFORMS Annual Meeting, the Doctoral Student Colloquium, and a year membership to WORMS.
Winner: Fatemeh Karami
Family Care Travel Award
The award will reimburse recipients for up to $500 in costs associated with care and/or travel for family members whose caregiver is participating in the INFORMS Annual Meeting.
Winner: Sara Saberi, Zohar Strinka, Muge Capan and Gizem Nemutl