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