Paper Competition

2024 Winner(s)

Winning material: Interpretable Policies and the Price of Interpretability in Hypertension Treatment Planning

Purpose of the Award

The purpose of the paper competition is to  promote and bring visibility to recent contributions of MIF members in the field of operations research, management science, or information systems.  The paper competition has been in place since 2016.  Submissions must have been accepted or published within the past 2 years of the of the award year and are judged on the basis of the originality of the research, technical rigor, relevance and impact to future theory or applications. 

The first place winner receives a monetary award.  The first place winner and finalists  present their work in a dedicated session at the annual conference.

Application process:

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Past Awardees

2024
Winner(s)
Gian-Gabriel P. Garcia, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
Jeremy Sussman, University of Michigan
Lauren Steimle, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
Wesley J. Marrero, Harvard Medical School
Finalist
Aravind Chandrasekaran, Ohio State University
Daniel M. Walker, Ohio State University
Deepa Goradia, Georgia State University
Heng Zheng, Arizona State University
Mengxin Wang, University of Texas at Dallas
Renyu Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Yingchao Lan, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Yunduan Lin, University of California, Berkeley
Zuo-Jun Max Shen, University of California Berkeley
2023
Winner(s)
Brian T. Denton, University of Michigan
Daniel F. Otero-Leon, University of Michigan
Jeremy Sussman, University of Michigan
Mariel Lavieri, University of Michigan
Rodney A. Hayward, University of Michigan
Vahideh Manshadi, Yale School of Management
Finalist
Megan Price, University of Mary Washington
2022
Winner(s)
Karmel S. Shehadeh, Lehigh University
Finalist
Bo Xing, Salt River Project
Destenie Nock, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Kaitlin M. Daniels, Washington University in Saint Louis
Shuchen Cong, Carnegie Mellon University
Yueming Lucy Qiu, University of Maryland College Park
2021
First Place
Haibing Lu, Santa Clara University
Linda Goler Blount, Black Women's Health Imperative
Michael A. Santoro, Santa Clara University
Michele Samorani, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University
Shannon L. Harris, Virginia Commonwealth University
Finalist
Chamsi Hssaine, Cornell University
Noemie Perivier, Columbia University
Samantha Samaranayake, Cornell University
Siddhartha Banerjee, Cornell University
Tanzid Hasnain, North Carolina State University
2020
Winner(s)
Gian-Gabriel P. Garcia, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
Laurens Debo, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Mariel Lavieri, University of Michigan
Michael A. McCrea, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Ruiwei Jiang, University of Florida
Steven P. Broglio, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Thomas W. McAllister, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
Varun Gupta,  University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
Finalist
Destenie Nock, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Erin Baker, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Hadi Charkhgard, University of Newcastle
Jennifer Mendoza-Alonzo, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
José Zayas-Castro, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Todd Levin, Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, IL
2019
Winner(s)
Michel Bierlaire, École Polytechnique
Shadi Sharif Azadeh, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Yousef Maknoon, Delft University of Technology, Faculty of technology Policy and Management
Runner-Up
Andrew Daw, Cornell University, School of Operations Research and Information Engineering
Jamol Pender, Princeton University
Finalist
Emmanuel des-Bourdes, Wichita State University, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Eyyub Kibis, The College of Saint Rose, Albany, School of Business
Jessye Talley, Morgan State University, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Lauren Davis, North Carolina A&T State University, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Liping Liu, North Carolina A&T State University, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
2018
Winner(s)
Adam Wierman, Carnegie Mellon University
Amy R. Ward, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Ragavendran Gopalakrishnan, Cornell University
Sherwin Doroudi, Carnegie Mellon University
Finalist
Bahar Biller, GE Global Research Center
Burcu B. Keskin, University of Alabama
Canan G. Corlu, Boston University
Evan Myers, Duke University
Fay Cobb Payton, North Carolina State University
Meera Viswanathan, RTI International
Naeem Bajwa, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Sharif H. Melouk, University of Alabama
Sridhar Tayur, Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business
2017
First Place
Lewis Ntaimo, Texas A&M University
Michelle McGaha Alvarado, Texas A&M University Student Chapter
Honorable Mention
Laquanda Leaven, North Carolina A&T State University
Xiuli Qu, North Carolina A&T State University
2016
First Place